2025 Week 5: Southern Utah @ UC Davis He claims there was no way 17k people were at that game.. — davisguy52
Their coach said that Davis "lied...told a fib" about the attendance. He went on to say that schools inflate their attendance so that it will help with recruiting because kids want to play in front of big crowds and the big attendance numbers also help with getting corporate sponsors. He thought we had around 9000 and the host of the show thought it was 11,000...not sure why their estimates are more "factual" than ours...
It was really interesting to hear their right guard and the coach talk about the battle in the trenches and how it is much, much more about various techniques and "hand violence" than pure power straight ahead. That conversation starts around the 20 minute mark of the video.