Zach Kaddatz

The Texas State football team faces many challenges this year as it prepares to move to the Western Athletic Conference. And, as Zach Kaddatz (KAD-ITZ) tells us in this Bobcat Update, one of those challenges is boosting attendance at home games.

The Football Bowl Subdivision requires that institutions average at least 15-thousand in actual or paid attendance for home football games during a rolling two-year period. The Bobcats averaged close to 13 thousand two years ago and a little over 15 thousand last year for each home game.
Joe Verschueren(VER-SURE-IN), Director of Ticket Sales and Operations, says he does not see the attendance requirement being an issue.
SB: Joe Verschueren: "I don't think its much of a concern for us going into this year as it has been in the past. We expect to have at least 30 thousand people at the first game of the season and of course more than 15 thousand people of course for the rest of the games."
Texas State is doing a number of things to fill the newly updated 30-thousand seat stadium including sending out a mailer to 12-thousand people who are associated with the university in some sort of way.
SB: Joe Verschueren: "We'll try to reach as many people as we can to help promote everything that's going on with the new stadium playing Texas Tech in the first game our first season playing in the WAC so a lot of for people to be excited about."
Getting students to be passionate about Texas State football has been a major issue for university in the past. Verschueren says while the university is working with students to promote the games more, it is on the students to follow through.
SB:Joe Verschueren "I think in the athletic department there isn't a lot we can do to tell students you need to be prideful in your university you need to come to the football games it's got to be you know students helping to encourage other students hey we go to Texas State we're all in this together and we need to be prideful about the direction our university is going in."
Season Tickets are on sale now for the upcoming season. For Bobcat Update Im Zach Kaddatz.