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Maybe in another thread but wondering about ticket status. Still reasonable tix on Stubhub. Maybe Friday game keeping Huskers fans away?
 

Swaggerson said:
Maybe in another thread but wondering about ticket status. Still reasonable tix on Stubhub. Maybe Friday game keeping Huskers fans away?
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I got chair back seats at 15 yard line on my Gopher pass. Usually a sign that lots of tickets are available when I get seats that good.
 



The McCartney show as well as a large percentage of the population traveling Out State or Out of State for MEA weekend are also challenging.
 



DarrenTheGreek said:
Good amount left on gophersports.com. As others have said, the university doesn't price to sellout.
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I was surprised to see that same thing when I looked earlier this morning. Lots of tickets available directly from the U. Nosebleed corners at $100 will tend to leave some unsold ticket reality.
 

Gold Vision said:
I’m thinking of getting a couple Gopher Passes next year. What are your thoughts on the value?
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I'm trying to talk my sister-in-law to doing that, or getting the cheapest season tickets (They start around $300 in spots where there are no required donations, right?)

On one hand I think they are worth it when you consider my Sister-in-law is dropping more total $$ to see fewer games right now.

On the other hand, for just a few more bucks you can be an "official" season ticket holder with seniority, access to parking options, etc. etc.
 

DarrenTheGreek said:
Good amount left on gophersports.com. As others have said, the university doesn't price to sellout.
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this. they don't price to sellout any sport, which is impressively dumb. Selling atmosphere makes people want to come to school here, donate, etc. Instead they, like multiple other schools, have tried raising ticket prices to balance their fucking up the budget and murdered in person attendance across multiple sports (the BC games for hockey were embarrassing this weekend)
 



I think there will be a "respectable" amount of Husker fans, But I'd be shocked if it more that like 5k. Friday games is a stretch and a lot of people used their travel for other places. Game 1 Arrowhead. 10-12k showed up to the Maryland game shockingly. I know quite a few were aiming for UCLA and Penn State (when we thought it would be a top 5 opponent.) So I dont think any huge Nebraska fanbase will be pouring into town.
 

Ope3 said:
The McCartney show as well as a large percentage of the population traveling Out State or Out of State for MEA weekend are also challenging.
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There is always an excuse. I'll be there tonight cheering them on!

End of the day it is not a big ticket here. Its embarrassing that we cant fill a 50K stadium playing a top 25 opponent in great fall weather in our new on campus stadium.
 

SkerzFan said:
I think there will be a "respectable" amount of Husker fans, But I'd be shocked if it more that like 5k. Friday games is a stretch and a lot of people used their travel for other places. Game 1 Arrowhead. 10-12k showed up to the Maryland game shockingly. I know quite a few were aiming for UCLA and Penn State (when we thought it would be a top 5 opponent.) So I dont think any huge Nebraska fanbase will be pouring into town.
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Our Husker fans on Mrs. Billd's side just could not pull off a Friday night game for this one. They've been to all the Minneapolis games save one since Nebbie joined the conference.

Oh, the Husker hubby and missus just came home from a 2 week jaunt to Peru so I'm guessing that's a factor too. Their life is good. Ski U Early-Retirement.
 

Washington had a lot of empty seats last Friday night against Rutgers. I know the Mariners were playing at the same time but it was still pretty empty.
 



gopherbadgerman said:
There is always an excuse. I'll be there tonight cheering them on!

End of the day it is not a big ticket here. Its embarrassing that we cant fill a 50K stadium playing a top 25 opponent in great fall weather in our new on campus stadium.
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Do we still get to call the stadium new after 15 years?
 

Gold Vision said:
I’m thinking of getting a couple Gopher Passes next year. What are your thoughts on the value?
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I had it a couple of years ago. Thought it was a pretty good deal (They've raised prices since then). Kind of nice to be able to try out different seats in the place. I think there's some luck with timing involved. For example, the best available seats for us for the Louisiana (I think it was ULL) game were about 20 rows up the the upper deck. However, for the Illinois game later that year, we got seats in like row 10 in the lower level on the 30 yard line.
 


I tried looking on Gophersports loking for the green dots but not super tech savvy to scroll through all the sections. My guess there was less than a thousand left. Tickets are selling pretty good on stubhub in the last day but there was no value when trying to sell my Lot 37 passes. Market isn't what I thought would be for this game.

My group did not want to go since they live outstate so we sold all of ours.....to Gopher fans.
 

minnyrules11 said:
I tried looking on Gophersports loking for the green dots but not super tech savvy to scroll through all the sections. My guess there was less than a thousand left. Tickets are selling pretty good on stubhub in the last day but there was no value when trying to sell my Lot 37 passes. Market isn't what I thought would be for this game.

My group did not want to go since they live outstate so we sold all of ours.....to Gopher fans.
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there are probably a couple thousand there. the problem is there are multiple thousand tickets also available on stubhub, tickpick, etc. so will be interesting to see what the butts in seats actually are. Weather looks solid though breezy.
 



gopherbadgerman said:
They sold 64K tickets though, but you are correct, 6 k short of a sellout.
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Fair but they also played in the National Championship just two years ago.

The costs keep going up, a lot of teams are having a hard time filling their stadiums. As others have pointed out, it seems the U and many other schools aren't trying to fill the stadiums with the way they price the tickets.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Fair but they also played in the National Championship just two years ago.

The costs keep going up, a lot of teams are having a hard time filling their stadiums. As others have pointed out, it seems the U and many other schools aren't trying to fill the stadiums with the way they price the tickets.
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I don't disagree on that. My "embarrassment" is more along the lines of the comments made earlier about MEA weekend and a concert as an excuse. Every weekend there seems to be an excuse why the Gophers don't sell more tickets - going to the cabin, Labor Day weekend, MEA, Thanksgiving, etc...the gophers rarely sell out one of the smaller stadiums in the B10 (16th or 17th I believe, and Washington is round 8th or 9th).

Washington drew 64k vs Rutgers, MN drew 46K.

Seattle metro and MPLS St Paul metro are pretty close in population and Seattle has plenty of other attractions as well.
 

Gophers1992 said:
Sure, I'd call it disappointing more than embarrassing personally. I don't get too bent out of shape if other people don't want to join me at the stadium.
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Thats a fair assessment. My embarrassing comment was more towards all the excuses regarding why they dont draw. Always an excuse. Should have worded it better...
 

Gold Vision said:
I’m thinking of getting a couple Gopher Passes next year. What are your thoughts on the value?
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It's great if you don't mind having different seats every game. Usually bleachers but occasionally chair backs.
 

I used to waste a lot of emotion and energy being upset at the lack of attendance but I've come to grips with it. I've had season tix since the last year of Jim Wacker. I enjoy going to the games so why would I let the fact that others don't impact me? If it ever changes that I enjoy going then I'll give them up. There's been a few times I've been close to throwing in the towel.
 

The Friday night thing is a joke. Addressing attendance, the only way the Gophers get more butts in the seats are Saturday night games. We may break 45k, but that will be it, the weekday campus traffic will swallow anyone else up.

It is also sad that the B1G thinks they need more TV money by having these Friday night games. They already the 5 minute commercials between any break in the action resulting in 4 hour games. The SEC isn't playing on Friday nights, neither should the B1G.
 

Gilthorp57 said:
The Friday night thing is a joke. Addressing attendance, the only way the Gophers get more butts in the seats are Saturday night games. We may break 45k, but that will be it, the weekday campus traffic will swallow anyone else up.

It is also sad that the B1G thinks they need more TV money by having these Friday night games. They already the 5 minute commercials between any break in the action resulting in 4 hour games. The SEC isn't playing on Friday nights, neither should the B1G.
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The amount of commercials and stoppages in football is ridiculous. No way should games take much over 3 hours. It was killing baseball but they alleviated that to some degree by rule changes. Football seems to be going the opposite direction. I know a lot of people here don't love soccer but at least there are no commercials.
 

DarrenTheGreek said:
Good amount left on gophersports.com. As others have said, the university doesn't price to sellout.
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They do when they really want the sellout AND they don’t believe the visiting fanbase will pad the bottom line. I believe they ran pretty aggressive ticket deals for the first 3 home games? IMO, they keep nosebleed corners at $100 some weeks b/c they believe some Nebraska, Iowa, or OSU fan will pay that.
 


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