Business Journal: Gopher Football without fans tempers expectations for campus-area businesses

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The day before the Big Ten’s reversal, global credit rating agency DBRS Morningstar issued a report highlighting the risk to hotels from canceled college football seasons, noting the loss of revenue from fan and team bookings would exacerbate their struggles during the pandemic. It reported that TCF Bank Stadium, which seats over 50,000 in its normal configuration, drew an average of 46,190 attendees to home games in the 2019 season.

The University’s attendance plan means just a tiny fraction of those seats will be filled during the football Gophers’ four home games this fall. And area hotels won’t get the game day bookings their used to seeing.

“We are typically a full hotel on the weekends for football games, especially last year. They were so good last year,” said Vern Heitzenrader, general manager of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel near the U of M campus. The hotel is within walking distance of TCF Bank Stadium.


Go Gophers!!
 

Don't need to go to the Carlson school of management to figure this out.
 

Was a reason issued regarding the ban on socially distanced fans?
 


PMWinSTP said:
Not sure exactly what you mean by ban? StP Saints allowed up to 1500 at home games.
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The conference is banning fans at games, even if state laws allow limited fans.

The state of Minnesota allows the Gophers to have up to 1.5k fans; the Big Ten does not.
 


GoGophersUMN said:
The conference is banning fans at games, even if state laws allow limited fans.

The state of Minnesota allows the Gophers to have up to 1.5k fans; the Big Ten does not.
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Can I ask ...where do you get this information?
 

I think it's probably to give the most chance that player's families can come to the game. Just think, each roster is 85 players, so that could be as low as 170 family members per game (2 family members per student) or as many as maybe 340 (4 family members per player).

Then factor in the marching band at each school (which is still up in the air, but lets say they have them there to help amp up the players on the home team) that's another roughly 300.

SO we're up to about 640 fans out of 1.5k, how do you distribute the last 1k tickets? That's a tough question, and nobody will be happy with how you do it. Plus, it's ripe for people to just turn around and try to sell the tickets for an insane profit.

The easiest solution is no fans, other than maybe family members and maybe the home school marching band.
 

GoGophersUMN said:
The conference is banning fans at games, even if state laws allow limited fans.

The state of Minnesota allows the Gophers to have up to 1.5k fans; the Big Ten does not.
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They are not selling tickets. I am a season ticket holder and already have tickets.
 

So is this article just predicting that the whopping four (at least it's doubled now) hotels on/near campus won't be full on game days this year?

At least that Days Inn doesn't have the M painted in Michigan colors anymore.
 



harley_gopher said:
Can I ask ...where do you get this information?
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Here's a tweet about the Big Ten's restriction. No public tickets but families may be allowed in on some campuses.


This is Minnesota's guidance on seated entertainment. For outdoor seated entertainment venues, the limit is 250 fans per section, with up to 6 separate sections per venue.

So even though Notre Dame had 15k fans last weekend and the state was okay with it, Indiana and Purdue won't be allowed to have fans, just family of players and staff.
 

I think it makes sense. The last this the conference wants is a ton of fans at a game in 1 state derailing the entire conference.
 


Gaslighting 101. Prof: PE

Syllabus: Why do you think there should be a final? Should your grade be determined by a single test? Where is the research that supports that?
 



Is there evidence sufficiently spaced, masked, outdoors or otherwise well ventilated individuals transmit coronavirus? Perhaps the strongest evidence and largest fear of Big Ten infectious disease experts is the fecal plume threat as demonstrated by the Amoy Gardens incident?

Considering the rickety condition of athletic department finances and precarious state of Olympic sports an effort to generate a party million or two would have been nice, with reduced risk.
 

Piddly money, at best. Not worth the risk. Not worth the pissed off fans that would be guaranteed, no matter how they allocated the tix.

Agree with their decision.
 



Contacted my Gopher Ticket person....see what he says now that we have the schedule out.
 

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