Shooter: Gophers home football attendance ranked 10th in the Big Ten

per Shooter:

The Gophers’ regular-season home football attendance averages of 43,814 — 86.2 percent of stadium capacity — ranked 10th in the Big Ten, ahead of just Indiana, Maryland, Northwestern and Purdue.

Rutgers, where former Gophers coach Jerry Kill is the new offensive coordinator, drew more spectators than Minnesota, averaging 44,798.

Kill’s $600,000 first-year salary, with annual raises of $25,000 each for the next two years, is a record contract for a Rutgers assistant, NJ.com reports.

Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle, when he was AD at Boise State, hired Bryan Harsin at age 38 as head football coach in 2014. Through this season, Harsin’s Boise State teams are 31-8, averaging more than 10 victories a season.

Harsin’s contract, reportedly worth $1.25 million a season, runs through 2019. Coyle also hired Dino Babers at Syracuse, which this season was 4-8 in his first year.

Kill’s contract, which he walked away from at Minnesota, was $2.5 million annually. Current Gophers coach Tracy Claeys’ contract averages $1.5 million a year through 2018.

http://www.twincities.com/2016/12/2...pold-enjoying-the-ride-with-high-flying-wild/

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Yet another Twin Cities sports columnist with a firm grasp of the obvious. What a surprise.

Rutgers, where former Gophers coach Jerry Kill is the new offensive coordinator, drew more spectators than Minnesota, averaging 44,798

Now that is sad.

Wrong link.

PMWinSTP said:

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You have to scroll about a quarter way down the webpage to read the referenced article.

Waters is the Sid Hartman of the PP which explains why the info tends to be obvious to the more diehard Gopher fans btw.

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Harsin’s contract, reportedly worth $1.25 million a season, runs through 2019. Coyle also hired Dino Babers at Syracuse, which this season was 4-8 in his first year.

Kill’s contract, which he walked away from at Minnesota, was $2.5 million annually. Current Gophers coach Tracy Claeys’ contract averages $1.5 million a year through 2018...


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BleedGopher said:

per Shooter:

The Gophers’ regular-season home football attendance averages of 43,814 — 86.2 percent of stadium capacity — ranked 10th in the Big Ten, ahead of just Indiana, Maryland, Northwestern and Purdue.

Rutgers, where former Gophers coach Jerry Kill is the new offensive coordinator, drew more spectators than Minnesota, averaging 44,798.

Kill’s $600,000 first-year salary, with annual raises of $25,000 each for the next two years, is a record contract for a Rutgers assistant, NJ.com reports.

Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle, when he was AD at Boise State, hired Bryan Harsin at age 38 as head football coach in 2014. Through this season, Harsin’s Boise State teams are 31-8, averaging more than 10 victories a season.

Harsin’s contract, reportedly worth $1.25 million a season, runs through 2019. Coyle also hired Dino Babers at Syracuse, which this season was 4-8 in his first year.

Kill’s contract, which he walked away from at Minnesota, was $2.5 million annually. Current Gophers coach Tracy Claeys’ contract averages $1.5 million a year through 2018.

http://www.twincities.com/2016/12/2...pold-enjoying-the-ride-with-high-flying-wild/

Go Gophers!!

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So is our percentage of the stadium filled 10th or is it the average number of tickets sold? Even that is a bit misleading because we all know the announced crowd often differs quite a bit from the actual butts in the seats. Still would be interesting to know the percentages since we could be selling out every game and we are still going to be down on this list because we don't have the stadium capacity of a lot of teams in the conference.