- I can't imagine how anyone could say that TCF offers a substantially lower gameday experience than Target Field. Target Field has a great selection of food and beer. TCF has a great selection of food (slightly less upscale), and now beer. There are no bad seats in TCF. Both are outdoor venues that have games in great weather and some in not so great weather. Both have great architecture that are unique to their institutions. Both address the city of Minneapolis gorgeously. Both have amazing video boards. Been to many games at both and can say I am not a bigger fan of either.
- I'd say Brewster's one year with 7 wins was no better than last year with Kill. Brewster also never beat a rival, while Kill has.
One - Many people feel that Target Field offers a better experience and for the price difference it should. Felt irritated when so many people made the unfavorable and unfair comparison after Target Field opened. Spent a lot of time pointing it out to people. You didn't hear any of that? Good for you.
Two - Brewster's 7 Win year? That was in
2008, at the Dome. The post was about
2009 the first year at TCF. Sorry that wasn't clear. They were 4-3 at TCF, just like Kill. That year did include the Air Force Home Opener and the Michigan State games. Most people had those wins listed as their favorite moments at TCF. The end lame "victory" against SDS left a bad taste in people's mouth for sure. Coming after the very winnable 35-32 loss at TCF to Illinois made it worse, but until the gun at the end of that game people felt that they could win it.
The thing is TCF was full, the weather was usually great and yes, the two wins mentioned were listed as "highlight" games for nearly everybody who saw them. None of that applied last year. Now throw in the fact that the 2009 team could score and last year's team
couldn't so yes, the 2009 team felt way more competitive at TCF.
Neither team could stop anybody once the Big Ten Season started. Once the 2012 team got behind somebody by more than a touchdown though it was over. Starting with the 2nd Half of the Syracuse game the Offense had no chance to beat anybody at Home. It didn't feel like that in 2009.
That's another reason why tickets were sold in 2009 and again in 2010. The fall-off in sales started in 2011, but the fall-off in crowds started in 2010 when they were brutal for nearly the entire season but, again, that wasn't the point of the thread or the post.
The thread was about Student Ticket sales. The point was about the ease of selling them in 2009 versus 2012 and how now they are having to work harder now. A lot of that was necessary because of Brewster's failure as a Head Coach. Kill didn't fill it up last year either. It's hard to think that the excitement or competitiveness at TCF were the same in those two years though.
My fault probably. Just mentioning Brewster's name was sure to bring out somebody who would want to go after him no matter what the point, and I should have been clearer and you to be fair, should have read it a little more carefully. Yeah, I know, now you got to expect some REAL idiot to take this as a chance to change the thread to "Brewster! Why he was the worst Head Coach ever! Why he's a.......
You know, there's a thread or 400 were those thoughts can be posted.
