Cowboydawg wrote:underdawg wrote:siudawgs wrote:Season ticket sales in Carbondale would have seen a similar spike if Mullins had been brought in to replace a certain polarizing media darling.
Might or might not happened--but I just did a Pearson correlation matching number of wins and attendance for the last 28 years of Saluki Basketball;
There is a +.73 correlation between average attendance and number of wins in a season/ I then did one using percentage of capacity and wins (SIU has had a 10,000 seat version and now an 8400 version so using % of capacity might be more representative). That correlation was a bit lower (+.63) but still significant. winning correlates with attendance not (in the long run) coaching hires. You might get a one or two year uptick but that's it--you have to win. Mullins is no exception.
Can you boil that down to 1 short informative sentence for this old timer.
A lot of people say winning--especially against what they believe is a weak schedule---does not attract fans. I suppose there are some fans who will say "hey winning against a weak schedule is not really 'winning' so I'm not going if my team wins 20 plus games (for example).
But this shows most casual fans will go to see a winning team rather than a losing one. That's all the stats say----I know that seems like an obvious thing--but I thought I'd see if the stats back it up. They did in the case of 28 years of Saluki Ball at least. But who knows, maybe that has changed for the future and fans will will be more picky---sorry I couldn't do this in one sentence
As far as Loyola picking up fans because they won big this year, average attendance could go up a bit but they won all year and only had one really large crowd. Apparently there are other factors that determine attendance at a school like Loyola--maybe because of their commuter school (even at 14,000 enrollment) profile, or maybe students have other things to do??