Fans watch the Chippewas take on Oklahoma State on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Audited numbers for the 2015-16 Central Michigan football season show the university is in compliance with NCAA Division I attendance requirements — a rule Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said he feels is “unneeded.”
“There’s this arbitrary number that’s out there. Why? What does it do?” he said. “Shouldn’t we just be able to play football if we want with no one in (the stadium)? I don’t care. Now, we’ve been forced to develop ways to meet that.”
CMU averaged 15,065 people in the stands at Kelly/Shorts Stadium this season, though that stadium has a capacity of 30,255.