BOL Round Table

78,000+ is the reported number. Very good BAMA fans who could attend. You did good today!

Gross overstatement

The fact that we still draw over 70,000 people for a spring game 6 years after that first spring under Saban is as impressive or more than the 92K that we drew in 2007.

If people came just to support the team and because they didn't have anything better to do on a spring day, then 30-40K would show up now like they did pre-Saban and the way most other programs still do. However, the reason we still get that extra 30-50K on top of that is because we DID set a standard and most people (including me) come just to be a part of that legacy that we created. Let's face it, A-day games are boring and there's no suspense about who's going to win (because who cares). The fact that we've drawn over 70,000 people for our spring game for 6 years in a row now is impressive and something to be proud of. JMO.

Let's pretend that the lower bowl was at max capacity. That's 62,000. The west upperdeck might have been 70% capacity. Add another 8,000 for a maximum of 70,000. If there were another 8,000 in the rest of the upper decks, I'm Elvis.

Now, that being said - the lower bowl was easily a few thousand short of being full. There is just no logical way to conclude that we had 78K there. I know that's not what you folks want to hear, but it looked a whole lot closer to 70K than 80K.

And I know the actual number really isn't all that important. Just trying to prove a point.

RTR

ETA: Just read that Eli Gold estimated that there were about 50,000 people there. Eli wears glasses, but he isn't blind.

Let it go.