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Id expect a bunch to sell in the morning. Current count 7373.

looking ahead:
Rutgers 6897
Northwestern 12402
Iowa 8564
 

Prices are just ridiculously high on the Gopher website. Be a shame if these games don't sell out with a great product on the field.
 


Speaking of Purdue...we should probably have a thread talking about the actual game. Matchups, strengths, weaknesses, outlook, injuries, importance of taking care of business.
Seems it always close ... without looking it up?
 

Prices are just ridiculously high on the Gopher website. Be a shame if these games don't sell out with a great product on the field.
I completely get that all people’s disposable incomes have shrunk in the last 12 months, but we are getting a premium on field product and as such, the prices are going to reflect that. My season tickets are I believe less than 1/3 of what similar seats would cost me for the Vikings.
 



Haven’t been to a home game since 2015, are tickets all electronic? Is there still scalpers around anymore? May take a stab at going to the Purdue game but won’t likely buy until game time.
 

Haven’t been to a home game since 2015, are tickets all electronic? Is there still scalpers around anymore? May take a stab at going to the Purdue game but won’t likely buy until game time.
Tickets are electronic. Scalping ("secondary market") is all done electronically. StubHub etc.
 

They might have to add some extra colors to the "stripe out" this weekend. "Bench" and "seatback" colors could be added to the existing maroon and gold stripes.

I have spent a lot of unnecessary time fretting over attendance over the years and it was around 2019 I just decided to let that go. If the U is okay with empty seats, so be it. If people don't understand college football or have been removed from it for so long that they don't care enough to go to a game when the team is on a historic upswing, so be it. If there is some economic model that says 8K empty overpriced seats is better for the U than 0 empty seats priced lower, so be it.

I would still love to see the stadium full, but I am doing my best not to worry about it when it isn't. It is crazy though to see U.S. Bank Stadium packed with tens of thousands of rednecks willing to pay considerably more to watch a team that will at best be on the playoff bubble again. I mean, I have always been the type of person that feels wearing a jersey is something for kids. I always dress in team colors/gear to show support, but jerseys just seem weird to me for anyone above the age of 18-20. And yet, I watch a Viking game on TV and the stands are not only full of 40 year olds in jerseys, but lots of face paint and goofy outfits too ("I'm gonna git myself on TV!!!").
 



They might have to add some extra colors to the "stripe out" this weekend. "Bench" and "seatback" colors could be added to the existing maroon and gold stripes.

I have spent a lot of unnecessary time fretting over attendance over the years and it was around 2019 I just decided to let that go. If the U is okay with empty seats, so be it. If people don't understand college football or have been removed from it for so long that they don't care enough to go to a game when the team is on a historic upswing, so be it. If there is some economic model that says 8K empty overpriced seats is better for the U than 0 empty seats priced lower, so be it.

I would still love to see the stadium full, but I am doing my best not to worry about it when it isn't. It is crazy though to see U.S. Bank Stadium packed with tens of thousands of rednecks willing to pay considerably more to watch a team that will at best be on the playoff bubble again. I mean, I have always been the type of person that feels wearing a jersey is something for kids. I always dress in team colors/gear to show support, but jerseys just seem weird to me for anyone above the age of 18-20. And yet, I watch a Viking game on TV and the stands are not only full of 40 year olds in jerseys, but lots of face paint and goofy outfits too ("I'm gonna git myself on TV!!!").
I'm with you. I think it's important to fill the stadium even if it means lowering the price. You need to get people there to experience game day so they may be return customers or potential future season ticket holders.
 

They might have to add some extra colors to the "stripe out" this weekend. "Bench" and "seatback" colors could be added to the existing maroon and gold stripes.

I have spent a lot of unnecessary time fretting over attendance over the years and it was around 2019 I just decided to let that go. If the U is okay with empty seats, so be it. If people don't understand college football or have been removed from it for so long that they don't care enough to go to a game when the team is on a historic upswing, so be it. If there is some economic model that says 8K empty overpriced seats is better for the U than 0 empty seats priced lower, so be it.

I would still love to see the stadium full, but I am doing my best not to worry about it when it isn't. It is crazy though to see U.S. Bank Stadium packed with tens of thousands of rednecks willing to pay considerably more to watch a team that will at best be on the playoff bubble again. I mean, I have always been the type of person that feels wearing a jersey is something for kids. I always dress in team colors/gear to show support, but jerseys just seem weird to me for anyone above the age of 18-20. And yet, I watch a Viking game on TV and the stands are not only full of 40 year olds in jerseys, but lots of face paint and goofy outfits too ("I'm gonna git myself on TV!!!").
that's part of NFL culture around the country for whatever reason and has been marketed as such. Though i'm certainly in the camp that it feels odd to me but for a lot of people it's their "thing"
 

They might have to add some extra colors to the "stripe out" this weekend. "Bench" and "seatback" colors could be added to the existing maroon and gold stripes.

I have spent a lot of unnecessary time fretting over attendance over the years and it was around 2019 I just decided to let that go. If the U is okay with empty seats, so be it. If people don't understand college football or have been removed from it for so long that they don't care enough to go to a game when the team is on a historic upswing, so be it. If there is some economic model that says 8K empty overpriced seats is better for the U than 0 empty seats priced lower, so be it.

I would still love to see the stadium full, but I am doing my best not to worry about it when it isn't. It is crazy though to see U.S. Bank Stadium packed with tens of thousands of rednecks willing to pay considerably more to watch a team that will at best be on the playoff bubble again. I mean, I have always been the type of person that feels wearing a jersey is something for kids. I always dress in team colors/gear to show support, but jerseys just seem weird to me for anyone above the age of 18-20. And yet, I watch a Viking game on TV and the stands are not only full of 40 year olds in jerseys, but lots of face paint and goofy outfits too ("I'm gonna git myself on TV!!!").
Looking back to 2019, there have been a handful of sellouts for big games.

Penn State, wisco, Ohio St, wisco…I think some others as well. 2020 changed things. Broke habits. If the gophers nearly sell out purdue but 5k don’t show up—you can’t really blame the school.

As far as the “thousands of rednecks” I’m not really sure why you believe it’s a massively different fan base. Because they show up in droves and wear jerseys? Because they choose to spend their disposable income on a team that isn’t your team?
 

Looking back to 2019, there have been a handful of sellouts for big games.

Penn State, wisco, Ohio St, wisco…I think some others as well. 2020 changed things. Broke habits. If the gophers nearly sell out purdue but 5k don’t show up—you can’t really blame the school.

As far as the “thousands of rednecks” I’m not really sure why you believe it’s a massively different fan base. Because they show up in droves and wear jerseys? Because they choose to spend their disposable income on a team that isn’t your team?
I hear what Schnauzer is saying. It's been a while since I've been to a Vikings game but from my experience it's a very different crowd (and from what I hear from friends with season tickets, that's the way it still is). I think the Gophers crowd is way more family-friendly. Vikings crowd is rowdy and more drunk.

And I'm a Vikings fan. I don't have ill-will towards them like some here seem to have. I just would never pay for a Vikings ticket and will always just watch on TV.
 



I hear what Schnauzer is saying. It's been a while since I've been to a Vikings game but from my experience it's a very different crowd (and from what I hear from friends with season tickets, that's the way it still is). I think the Gophers crowd is way more family-friendly. Vikings crowd is rowdy and more drunk.

And I'm a Vikings fan. I don't have ill-will towards them like some here seem to have. I just would never pay for a Vikings ticket and will always just watch on TV.
I go to a couple Vikings games a year. I think there are a lower % of kids for sure but it’s not a hostile or threatening place. There’s idiots in every crowd. Plenty of really really not family friendly stuff at Gopher games.

Tickets being way cheaper and less games plus no meaningless preseason tickets to pay for make gopher season tickets more attractive to me
 

I'm a current Vikings season ticket holder and former Gopher season ticket holder. I don't consider myself a redneck. Norwood Teague blew it for me and my group as Gopher football customers. We've not gone back since the infamous ticket donation hike. I'd never go back to being a Gopher season ticket holder since I can't sell the games I can't go to. For NFL games there are always takers no matter the game. Both products can co-exist, I like both, always have always will.
 

Haven’t been to a home game since 2015, are tickets all electronic? Is there still scalpers around anymore? May take a stab at going to the Purdue game but won’t likely buy until game time.
i saw one scalper outside of colorado game, not sure how he was selling tickets TBH unless he reqeusted a bunch printed....
 

Id expect a bunch to sell in the morning. Current count 7373.

looking ahead:
Rutgers 6897
Northwestern 12402
Iowa 8564
I assume this does not include the away team allotment?
 

i saw one scalper outside of colorado game, not sure how he was selling tickets TBH unless he reqeusted a bunch printed....
The guy always by Stub and Herb's? He's always there but I'm not sure how many tickets he really has to offer at any given moment.
 

The guy always by Stub and Herb's? He's always there but I'm not sure how many tickets he really has to offer at any given moment.
thats the one


just curious how he operates now, but not curious enough to go talk to him
 


I'm a Vikings fan too (albeit way less passionate than my gopher fandom), but I don't think anyone can deny that for a long time a lot of Vikings fans and media members have turned their noses up at our local college football team. The NFL reaches a broader fan base at least here in the midwest, and with that comes more "unsophisticated" fans. . I don't think that's a totally controversial take.
 

I used to attend a fair number of Vikings games. That frequency started to decline after I got Gopher season tickets and started to really enjoy the college game.

From my viewpoint, back in the 80's and 90's the "type" of people that attended Gopher and Viking games generally felt about the same. Things really changed on the Viking side in the late 90's and has maintained ever since, while the crowds at Gopher games feel about the same.

It really stuck out to me because when I did attend my most recent rare Viking game, the atmosphere was vastly different than the one I had become used to in the 80's and 90's. Way more face paint. Younger. Lots of younger couples with two drinks in each hand, guzzling booze. Way more obscenities and yelling at each other. All in all, it felt like a roadhouse compared to the "old days".

I don't doubt that this happens to some extent at Gopher games, but I can emphatically say it doesn't happen AT ALL in our section, or anywhere within my viewpoint. But, admittedly I don't move around the stadium much. I tend to go from the tailgate directly to our seats, and with the exception of an occasional trip to the bathroom, I just sit in our seats until the game is over.
 

I used to attend a fair number of Vikings games. That frequency started to decline after I got Gopher season tickets and started to really enjoy the college game.

From my viewpoint, back in the 80's and 90's the "type" of people that attended Gopher and Viking games generally felt about the same. Things really changed on the Viking side in the late 90's and has maintained ever since, while the crowds at Gopher games feel about the same.

It really stuck out to me because when I did attend my most recent rare Viking game, the atmosphere was vastly different than the one I had become used to in the 80's and 90's. Way more face paint. Younger. Lots of younger couples with two drinks in each hand, guzzling booze. Way more obscenities and yelling at each other. All in all, it felt like a roadhouse compared to the "old days".

I don't doubt that this happens to some extent at Gopher games, but I can emphatically say it doesn't happen AT ALL in our section, or anywhere within my viewpoint. But, admittedly I don't move around the stadium much. I tend to go from the tailgate directly to our seats, and with the exception of an occasional trip to the bathroom, I just sit in our seats until the game is over.
At every Viking game I've been to, I've seen at least some sort of minor argument/scuffle/trash talk, and a couple of outright fist fights. I have never seen one at a gopher game, and I've been to many more gopher games than Vikings games. Like you said I have no doubt that things happen at gopher games, but I'd bet anything it's far less common, and I bet that's the case more most NFL vs CFB teams.
 

I used to attend a fair number of Vikings games. That frequency started to decline after I got Gopher season tickets and started to really enjoy the college game.

From my viewpoint, back in the 80's and 90's the "type" of people that attended Gopher and Viking games generally felt about the same. Things really changed on the Viking side in the late 90's and has maintained ever since, while the crowds at Gopher games feel about the same.

It really stuck out to me because when I did attend my most recent rare Viking game, the atmosphere was vastly different than the one I had become used to in the 80's and 90's. Way more face paint. Younger. Lots of younger couples with two drinks in each hand, guzzling booze. Way more obscenities and yelling at each other. All in all, it felt like a roadhouse compared to the "old days".

I don't doubt that this happens to some extent at Gopher games, but I can emphatically say it doesn't happen AT ALL in our section, or anywhere within my viewpoint. But, admittedly I don't move around the stadium much. I tend to go from the tailgate directly to our seats, and with the exception of an occasional trip to the bathroom, I just sit in our seats until the game is over.
Agree completely. I do move around a lot with different seats (I have the Gopher pass) and it has been extremely rare for me to see obnoxious behavior at a Gopher game, especially since we moved back to campus.
 



Those seats should be 30-40 bucks in the upper corners. Hope they all sell.
Then the U is "ripping off" their season ticket holders who pay $310 for those seats. That being said, I'd still buy mine at that price if it meant selling out the stadium.
 

I'm a current Vikings season ticket holder and former Gopher season ticket holder. I don't consider myself a redneck. Norwood Teague blew it for me and my group as Gopher football customers. We've not gone back since the infamous ticket donation hike. I'd never go back to being a Gopher season ticket holder since I can't sell the games I can't go to. For NFL games there are always takers no matter the game. Both products can co-exist, I like both, always have always will.
You can pin it on Teague if you want and by all means the dollar amounts and the messaging was no doubt lacking, but that donation program was coming regardless of him and I am sure was the plan all along once TCF Bank opened.

Note, Coyle didn't roll it back, though he did freeze it to the 2nd level of 3 donations.
 

You can pin it on Teague if you want and by all means the dollar amounts and the messaging was no doubt lacking, but that donation program was coming regardless of him and I am sure was the plan all along once TCF Bank opened.

Note, Coyle didn't roll it back, though he did freeze it to the 2nd level of 3 donations.
I really don't care who was responsible, our group of 8 didn't like the doubling of the total ticket expense (we took a vote) and that was it, we left. Usually try to get down to a game each year but scheduling hasn't worked out, we'll see if it happens this week (or later this year).
 

I really don't care who was responsible, our group of 8 didn't like the doubling of the total ticket expense (we took a vote) and that was it, we left. Usually try to get down to a game each year but scheduling hasn't worked out, we'll see if it happens this week (or later this year).
And that was (is) a completely reasonable response, to either walk or seek out a cheaper ticket option with presumably a less desirable seat location then you had enjoyed.

It was also a response the Athletic Department considered, yet did it anyway to maximize revenue.
 




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