45,601 tickets have been sold for the Gophers vs. Ohio State game this weekend

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Makes me sick we can't even come close to selling out for a game this big. I would understand if the weather was "historically" bad. But 20 degrees, no wind, and a little snow is nothing to even sniffle over.
 



I only have to remember as far back as 2003 to find a team that won 10 games with wins over Wisconsin and Oregon and what should have been a 6-2 (fml Michigan game from hell) or better conference record and Rose Bowl berth.
 

bottlebass said:
Last time we beat both Iowa and Michigan in the same year to own the Jug and Iowa? 47 years ago ~ 50 years.
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Beating Iowa/Michigan in a single year doesn't make it the best team in 50 years. Yes, that is rare, but if Mich and Iowa were ranked and we beat them, then maybe.
 


RailBaronYarr said:
I only have to remember as far back as 2003 to find a team that won 10 games with wins over Wisconsin and Oregon and what should have been a 6-2 (fml Michigan game from hell) or better conference record and Rose Bowl berth.
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This season isn't over yet.
 

Discussion can be anwered in the next three weeks.
 


RailBaronYarr said:
I only have to remember as far back as 2003 to find a team that won 10 games with wins over Wisconsin and Oregon and what should have been a 6-2 (fml Michigan game from hell) or better conference record and Rose Bowl berth.
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Let's hope we don't go 6-2 and lose the division or we'll be talking about the Illinois game from hell for the next 10 years. I'd rather go 5-3 than have to have that hanging over our heads for the next decade.
 



What?

afurry91 said:
Let's hope we don't go 6-2 and lose the division or we'll be talking about the Illinois game from hell for the next 10 years. I'd rather go 5-3 than have to have that hanging over our heads for the next decade.
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This is just plain silly and one of the dumber things I've read in quite some time.
 

LesBolstad said:
This is just plain silly and one of the dumber things I've read in quite some time.
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Joking. I'll take every win.

But I'd really not like the Illinois game to become an infamous choke game in history. I don't need another 2003 Michigan.
 

afurry91 said:
Joking. I'll take every win.

But I'd really not like the Illinois game to become an infamous choke game in history. I don't need another 2003 Michigan.
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Nothing could ever be another 2003 Michigan game. That Illinois game sucked, but not anywhere near as bad as that one.
 

theTurning said:
This isn't even remotely true, and the students know it.
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50% of the students know absolutely nothing about football, 25% know basic information but nothing too crazy, and 25% are huge fans.

But the last 25% doesn't matter because they are always there regardless. It's about the other 75% AND whether they invite their friends.
 



bottlebass said:
Last time we beat both Iowa and Michigan in the same year to own the Jug and Iowa? 47 years ago ~ 50 years.
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You know it, I know it, and everyone on Gopherhole knows it.

The problem is the following: NO MARKETING, PROMOTION, or ANYTHING to educate the public.

Most people (Vikings fans included) are shocked when I tell them how reasonably priced Gopher Season Tickets are. People have NO CLUE other than word of mouth. I'm not talking BTN Commercials "Season Tickets on Sale Now". I'm talking commercials on KSTP, WCCO, KARE, and outstate stations. They did those advertisements all the time in the early 80's.

The promotions / marketing Department is an absolute joke.
 

Buck_Buchanan said:
I'm talking commercials on KSTP, WCCO, KARE, and outstate stations. They did those advertisements all the time in the early 80's.
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That 80s marketing staff totally knew how to do it. It was genius of them to ignore the internet and focus on network tv.
 

Hollinsanity said:
50% of the students know absolutely nothing about football, 25% know basic information but nothing too crazy, and 25% are huge fans.

But the last 25% doesn't matter because they are always there regardless. It's about the other 75% AND whether they invite their friends.
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While I agree with what you are saying, your numbers are off base. There are roughly 52k undergrad students at the U TC campus. If 25% were always there that would equate to 13,000 students and we are lucky to get half of that. We wouldn't be having this conversation if we could get 13,000 students interested in going to every home game.
 

"According to the College Board, as of July 2012 there are 34,812 undergraduates at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. Out of that number, 5,368 are first-time degree seeking freshmen. There are 17,745 graduate students."
 



IAGopherfan said:
From the University Website.

Enrollment: 52,557 on the Twin Cities campus

http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/campus-facts/

Edit: that might include both undergrad and grad?? Either-way a lot of students.
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Yeah, if you add the 17,745 grads to the 34,812 undergrads you get 52,557. The number your were talking about in the first point. You just had the "split" wrong, not the number and oh, yeah that's a lot of students.:)
 

What makes me sick is listening to Iowa and Wisconsin fans talk about how we can't fill a stadium, which holds way less than their own. Plus we have a larger student population.
 

IAGopherfan said:
What makes me sick is listening to Iowa and Wisconsin fans talk about how we can't fill a stadium, which holds way less than their own. Plus we have a larger student population.
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Amazing that they can ignore all the other wonderful and entertaining things to do in Iowa City and Madison to go to football games. Why there are places to eat, lots of drinking and …..???
 

Iceland12 said:
Amazing that they can ignore all the other wonderful and entertaining things to do in Iowa City and Madison to go to football games. Why there are places to eat, lots of drinking and …..???
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Lets say I am not jealous of them, it just makes me sick. Maybe I just get sick talking to them in general?
 

Iceland12 said:
Amazing that they can ignore all the other wonderful and entertaining things to do in Iowa City and Madison to go to football games. Why there are places to eat, lots of drinking and …..???
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What else do people in Minnesota do on a Saturday afternoon that they can't do in Madison?
 

I have 2 tickets to the game I have been trying to give away since I can't make it. I can't even give them away. They are decent seats too. I thought somebody would grab them right away.

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afurry91 said:
What else do people in Minnesota do on a Saturday afternoon that they can't do in Madison?
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Don't except the premise. Don't think that when people are planning on how to spend their time and money for the weekend they break it out that way. Do you? That said, the U of W has done a great job getting people to fill that stadium. They've even got the students to make it a priority to spend at least and hour and a half of those Saturday afternoons inside of Camp Randall.

Good for them.
 


Hates Monikers said:
I think it's as simple as that, but I would change it to "if your football team has been good for a generation, then people like it."

I'm almost 50. I grew up with the Vikings going to Super Bowls and the Gophers being mediocre to bad. It's not very hard to figure out why this is an NFL town. The Vikings have been mostly mediocre since the 80s, but the've popped up and gone to NFC championship games once a decade, just enoug to keep fans in the fold. Now, my friends want the Gophers to win, sure, but their football commitment is focused on Sunday. When I bring a friend to a Gopheor game, they have a good time ... but they're not ready to go all in.

I do think there's another generational issue: people got used to the comfort of the dome. I'm with those who believe that if the weather was the same this weekend as last, the stadium would be full. I'll be interested to see what happens for Viking games at the end of December.
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agree 100%
 

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