I know that you when you go to Columbia to watch the Tigers you hear a lot of negative things about the empty seats at Memorial Stadium. Well that got me wandering. I was on TigerBoard and one poster pointed out that Mizzou finished 2011 ranked 25th in average attendance. I was surprised. I thought that with the underwhelming outcome at the Texas game and Tech game that we surely wouldn't rank that high, but we did. I then decided to do some further investigation and look up the numbers from past years. The latest data at NCAA.com was 2005. I thought that would be a good starting place because that was the Senior Year of Brad Smith. Let's look at the Data.
| Year | Rank | Avg Attendance | Capacity | Percentage |
| 2005 | 36 | 53364 | 68349 | 78.08% |
| 2006 | 33 | 55918 | 68349 | 81.81% |
| 2007 | 31 | 60232 | 68349 | 88.12% |
| 2008 | 26 | 64520 | 68349 | 94.40% |
| 2009 | 28 | 64120 | 71004 | 90.30% |
| 2010 | 26 | 61540 | 71004 | 86.67% |
| 2011 | 25 | 62095 | 71004 | 87.45% |
As you can see from the chart, MU has been moving up the rankings in the last seven years. I just wanted to show you how the program has been improving and the fans have been coming out for the games. After Chase Daniel left the program to go to the NFL, the seating capacity in the stadium was expanded to 71,004. We have dropped a few thousand in numbers but I think we are beginning to gain that back. Next year I predict we will have 66,000+ in average attendance
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