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Anybody have an idea on how we are doing on ticket sales? Hopefully there will be another big, loud 11 AM crowd!
 

884 tickets left on Stub Hub down from over 1400 last week. Gophersports ticket map has 3 green sections in the north west corner and a bunch of blue in the upper bowl. Will be interesting to watch over the week as I am sure with homecoming and our record it will fill in pretty nicely. In the past I have been able to just call the ticket office and they tell me exactly how many seats are left for sale.
 

Quick look on gophersports.com, seems we're behind where we were for last week's game. Still a lot of seats available. Hopefully we can get a push and get to 50k sold by Saturday!
 

Hopefully the crowd brings the same energy level again like last week! Thought we did a pretty good job.
 

Perhaps the students could show up prior to kick off and welcome the team to the field?
 


Swaggerson said:
Perhaps the students could show up prior to kick off and welcome the team to the field?
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Students across the conference don't show up prior to kickoff. Heck, this is even a national issue. The only exception might be aTm.
 

Too many distractions for students to be tied down to a football game that has so many TV time outs.

The game can hold the attention for a couple hours but when the pace of the game slows down and changes momentum with the TV guys dictating when they can play.

I am all for commercials for those on TV but why stop the game? keep it rolling and force people to go to the games to see the full game. that would help attendance across the country. maybe put pressure on the networks to reduce the halftime commentary and get the commercials in then
 

DoubleB said:
Too many distractions for students to be tied down to a football game that has so many TV time outs.

The game can hold the attention for a couple hours but when the pace of the game slows down and changes momentum with the TV guys dictating when they can play.

I am all for commercials for those on TV but why stop the game? keep it rolling and force people to go to the games to see the full game. that would help attendance across the country. maybe put pressure on the networks to reduce the halftime commentary and get the commercials in then
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Is this a serious post?
 

DoubleB said:
Too many distractions for students to be tied down to a football game that has so many TV time outs.

The game can hold the attention for a couple hours but when the pace of the game slows down and changes momentum with the TV guys dictating when they can play.

I am all for commercials for those on TV but why stop the game? keep it rolling and force people to go to the games to see the full game. that would help attendance across the country. maybe put pressure on the networks to reduce the halftime commentary and get the commercials in then
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While I don't think anyone likes the tv timeouts, this has to be down at the bottom of the list alongside "bad wifi" for reasons that students don't show up.
 



While I would like a packed house to cheer the team out and I am there for that always-why do journalists nationally obsess about what crowds look like *before* a game starts?

If attendance is really an issue, surely a photo of the crowd an hour in will make that point won't it? And if you must exaggerate for effect, maybe just maybe it isn't a story? Have seen national criticism of what the college football and pro hockey crowds in Miami looked like this weekend. And the proof in each case was a photo taken before either game started! How is that a helpful time to show what the crowd looks like? Of course it looks empty? I just don't get it.

Local media did that (as always) at the Gophs game this Saturday. The pre-game crowd was disappointing. But do you know what was really way more disappointing, that the upper corners weren't used during the actual game! Those are truly great places to watch the game and can be had for pretty reasonable to watch our most promising team in years play in a very important game! If the crowd is a story, is it too much to ask a lazy pre-written narrative "journalist" to at least have it be the actual crowd during the game that is the story?
 

golden boy said:
While I would like a packed house to cheer the team out and I am there for that always-why do journalists nationally obsess about what crowds look like *before* a game starts?

If attendance is really an issue, surely a photo of the crowd an hour in will make that point won't it? And if you must exaggerate for effect, maybe just maybe it isn't a story? Have seen national criticism of what the college football and pro hockey crowds in Miami looked like this weekend. And the proof in each case was a photo taken before either game started! How is that a helpful time to show what the crowd looks like? Of course it looks empty? I just don't get it.

Local media did that (as always) at the Gophs game this Saturday. The pre-game crowd was disappointing. But do you know what was really way more disappointing, that the upper corners weren't used during the actual game! Those are truly great places to watch the game and can be had for pretty reasonable to watch our most promising team in years play in a very important game! If the crowd is a story, is it too much to ask a lazy pre-written narrative "journalist" to at least have it be the actual crowd during the game that is the story?
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I thought the pre-game crowd was good. I have been to games when the band comes out the place is practically empty.

Go Gophers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 


Swaggerson said:
Perhaps the students could show up prior to kick off and welcome the team to the field?
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This. Pretty easy to pre-game before 11. I realize it's an issue across much of the nation but still. Shouldn't be that hard to make it to an 11am kickoff.
 



Homecoming. Is that perhaps worth a few more people in attendance over the NW game?

I prefer later games but I have grown to tolerate (even like?) 11:00 AM starts. It is fun to crack open the tailgate and decompress from the game while the traffic clears. Much more likely to do that with an early game.
 

Busky said:
This. Pretty easy to pre-game before 11. I realize it's an issue across much of the nation but still. Shouldn't be that hard to make it to an 11am kickoff.
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One thing to remember - U of M doesn't have the only stadium where the students tend to show up right at kickoff (which is, technically, "on time"), and from what I hear it's a huge traffic jam and the lines move slowly. This is particularly true of early kickoffs. It's not surprising that the students get jammed at the gates of old stadiums, where they didn't have the luxury of modern designs that should have alleviated these kinds of issues. Alas, sounds like it's the same problem most of the rest of the nations student sections tend to have.
 





We need to FORCE people to show up on time. Any suggestions on how we do this?
 




CP Gopher said:
We need to FORCE people to show up on time. Any suggestions on how we do this?
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This one always baffles me. Why can't/or don't people get to the game on time? The upper deck away side between the 30's (210/211, I think those are correct) has been less than half full at KO all season. What else are people doing when they know they have a game to get to?? Mowing the lawn, walking the dog, or sleeping in? I know there are always first timers who have no idea where to park or even where TCF is actually located or their GPS leads them astray. Same with leaving the game early to "beat the crowd." Sorry, but I don't get it.

A bunch of Slackers if you ask me, and it makes me wonder how they can keep a job.

Students? OK, they want to get 15 minutes more of sack time then rush off to TCF. I can buy that one.
 

The Babu Index shows interest in tickets is on the rise.

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CP Gopher said:
We need to FORCE people to show up on time. Any suggestions on how we do this?
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Tell everyone the game starts 30 minutes before it actually does. This will probably only work once or twice, though.

:p
 

Squeezing in one last beer or hot dog at the tailgate from what I have seen.

Bayfieldgopher said:
This one always baffles me. Why can't/or don't people get to the game on time? The upper deck away side between the 30's (210/211, I think those are correct) has been less than half full at KO all season. What else are people doing when they know they have a game to get to?? Mowing the lawn, walking the dog, or sleeping in? I know there are always first timers who have no idea where to park or even where TCF is actually located or their GPS leads them astray. Same with leaving the game early to "beat the crowd." Sorry, but I don't get it.

A bunch of Slackers if you ask me, and it makes me wonder how they can keep a job.

Students? OK, they want to get 15 minutes more of sack time then rush off to TCF. I can buy that one.
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Granted I have only been late to kickoff twice in the last 5 years since we have been in the bank but from what I have seen there are quite a few tailgate groups in St Paul that are still eating and drinking and playing bean bag toss up until about 10:45 AM. Then they make a quick clean up and make there way over to the shuttle busses. There has been a huge walk up to the shuttle busses at 10 minutes to 11:00 AM the two times I have been late and both times I arrived late, parked late because I had appointments that made me run late car related.
I like the Pre-game festivities and think the Gophers have one of the best Pre-game arrangements on the field with the Band, Goldy and the cheer squad and dance team before kick off, if you are missing it you are missing something nobody else in the Big 10 does as well as the Gophers.
The St Paul tailgators seem to have gotten in to a routine where they show up at 10 minutes to 11:00 AM for the shuttle over at least that is my observation.
 

CP Gopher said:
We need to FORCE people to show up on time. Any suggestions on how we do this?
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Shame them with the Mr Hand Spicoli video from Fast times at Ridgemont high where Spicoli is always late and Mr Hand calls him on it.
I jest but that is a funny scene.
 

For the second week in a row, our whole group of 22 are coming to the game, and many are looking for multiple extra tickets. Always a good sign.
 

I just ordered tickets, and there wasn't much to choose from. Hope that's a good sign. Win the next 2 and the Iowa and Ohio State games certainly should have a good chance be sellouts.
 

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