Most of the crowd is not current students. If you assume that a third of the crowd is there for the visiting team, that still leaves a Stanford crowd that is 1.75 times the entire student population. I doubt even half of the student population at any level goes to the games regularly. That means most of the crowd is alumni, employees, family, friends or unaffiliated.
With a current undergraduate student population of 7,000, the total number of undergraduate alumni are going to be less than 70,000. Even if the alumni that come bring the whole family, 10% of all undergraduate alumni would have to be at each game to fill out the rest of the crowd. Seems unlikely given the dispersal of alumni.
Although graduate alumni probably have a much lower attendance rate than undergraduate alumni, there's more of them. There are more current graduate students and a lot of the programs turn over in less than 4 year.Â
I'm guessing that a big part of the ticket sales involves corporate accounts at silicon valley companies. Those are probably arranged by executives who are alumni. Are those more likely to be undergrad or grad alumni?
With a current undergraduate student population of 7,000, the total number of undergraduate alumni are going to be less than 70,000. Even if the alumni that come bring the whole family, 10% of all undergraduate alumni would have to be at each game to fill out the rest of the crowd. Seems unlikely given the dispersal of alumni.
Although graduate alumni probably have a much lower attendance rate than undergraduate alumni, there's more of them. There are more current graduate students and a lot of the programs turn over in less than 4 year.Â
I'm guessing that a big part of the ticket sales involves corporate accounts at silicon valley companies. Those are probably arranged by executives who are alumni. Are those more likely to be undergrad or grad alumni?