10-03-2011, 01:05 PM
(10-03-2011, 12:35 PM)Farm93 link Wrote:I was there as a Frosh, the small crowd had nothing to do with the earthquake.Â
I don't think you can make such a sweeping statement. You can say that your decision about whether to attend that game had nothing to do with the earthquake. But for some people, the decision had a lot to do with the earthquake. Sure, rain contributed to holding the attendance down. But we've played other games in the rain, and we've never had attendance as low as we did for that Utah game. The rainiest games I can remember all drew at least 10K or 15K more than that Utah game. That Utah game had the lowest attendance of any Stanford home game in the last 39 years, by a substantial margin (that's as far back as the attendance figures go). You can't explain the attendance at the Utah game solely by the rain. The earthquake had to be the deciding factor for a lot of people.