🏈 Interesting - UK reported vs actual ticket sales.

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http://ukfootball.bloginky.com/2012/11/07/actual-attendance-figures-for-uk-football/

Kentucky’s announced attendance figure of 44,902 for the Vanderbilt game raised some eyebrows at Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday. I checked with UK officials about getting the actual scanned attendance figure for the game (each person who enters the venue has a ticket or pass scanned), but they said those numbers were unavailable at the time and had never been requested previously.


So we filed an open-records request to get the actual scanned attendance for games this season and last season. This season’s numbers are below, but Kentucky said it does not have the numbers available for the 2011 season.


I might do a longer piece this week about how attendance is figured at UK and throughout the country (there is no industry standard, apparently), but I wanted to put the numbers out there as promised.

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[TD="width: 135, bgcolor: transparent"]Game[/TD]
[TD="width: 75, bgcolor: transparent"]Announced[/TD]
[TD="width: 75, bgcolor: transparent"]Actual*[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Kent State[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]48,346[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]37,000[/TD]
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[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Western Kentucky[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]53,980[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]43,174[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]South Carolina[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]49,810[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]35,086[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Miss State[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]49,498[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]29,927[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Georgia[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]54,553[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]33,420[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="bgcolor: transparent"]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Vanderbilt[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]44,902[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]18,885[/TD]
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</tbody>[/TABLE]

* UK’s response includes the mention that these “actual” numbers are of scanned ticket sales through Ticketmaster, but that “these numbers do not include players, media, workers, etc., who were also in attendance during the games and do not use the scanned ticket procedure.”