Been a season ticket holder for over a decade but had to let them go this year for personal finance reasons, so this is the first game at the Bank that I did not attend. If you are following the math, you can deduct that I scalped some singles for the first three games. Anyway, I attended service at church on Saturday evening and spoke with someone I know who also went the U. Actually, her husband (who I knew for many years) was at the game and she spoke about how well the hockey team was doing ... and that she enjoyed hockey ... and well, did not like watching basketball or football.
Born in '73, I am solidly in the Gen-X group; hence, the 'rents are winding down their careers and down-sizing their quarters meaning they purchased an area condo. When I visited them a couple weeks ago, I noticed that a few of their neighbors (pushing their '80s) would talk about Gopher football and basketball. This is a precarious situation for me (mid-thirties) as I found myself relating more closely with octagenarians then my peers. Is this reality indicative of a more substantive encumbrance to our success? Are dollars and athleticism squandered on a sport of marginal importance to most (myself included) college sports fans? Did Wisconsin rectify this influence during the nineties?
Our opponents today faced a decade of tribulation after Tom Osbourne retired and their support never wavered (witness sellouts under Solich and Callahan). Meanwhile, our University (almost 500K+ alumni wi/ an hour's drive) could not get 50K to the Indiana game in Nov-99 after toppling #2 PSU. As an unemployed alumnus of the U and the Carlson MBA; I networked with fellow alums who spoke about cancelling their Gopher fb tickets so they may have the financial wherewithal to purchase Vikings & Twins tickets -- more power to ya this year, pal! Oh yeah, thanks for not getting back in touch with your fellow alumnus...
Born in '73, I am solidly in the Gen-X group; hence, the 'rents are winding down their careers and down-sizing their quarters meaning they purchased an area condo. When I visited them a couple weeks ago, I noticed that a few of their neighbors (pushing their '80s) would talk about Gopher football and basketball. This is a precarious situation for me (mid-thirties) as I found myself relating more closely with octagenarians then my peers. Is this reality indicative of a more substantive encumbrance to our success? Are dollars and athleticism squandered on a sport of marginal importance to most (myself included) college sports fans? Did Wisconsin rectify this influence during the nineties?
Our opponents today faced a decade of tribulation after Tom Osbourne retired and their support never wavered (witness sellouts under Solich and Callahan). Meanwhile, our University (almost 500K+ alumni wi/ an hour's drive) could not get 50K to the Indiana game in Nov-99 after toppling #2 PSU. As an unemployed alumnus of the U and the Carlson MBA; I networked with fellow alums who spoke about cancelling their Gopher fb tickets so they may have the financial wherewithal to purchase Vikings & Twins tickets -- more power to ya this year, pal! Oh yeah, thanks for not getting back in touch with your fellow alumnus...
