Student ticket sales increased from 2,000 to 3,100

[GopherInPittsburgh]

What exactly is the agenda of the Star Tribune in constantly bringing up or reporting Student season ticket sales for Gopher Football. Why do they continue to pound this "drum" of negativity unless they are trying to help create this perception that Gopher football is boring or always has a "half empty stadium". What is the objective? Are they reporting on the news or looking to create "News". Where was this spotlight on student season ticket sales pre-TCF stadium. Can we have another article on beer sales at TCF?
I really have to ask because this has wound people up pretty tight and there are even rubes taking pot shots on comment sections for other articles and cracking jokes about it.
Have they reported on Gopher basketball season ticket sales for both the Mens and Womens basketball team? Have they reported on Gopher Hockey student season ticket sales. We get it, everyone or at least this newspaper want's to make a big deal out of Student football season ticket sales or lack there of because of the subsidy the State put into build the stadium (A much smaller contribution) I might add then they did for the Twins or Vikings stadiums. What really is the point are they still peeved that they are missing out on parking revenue generated from the Gophers not playing at the Metrodome. This has as much to do with it as any need to keep bringing it up.
It's funny but all of the pundits like Reusse are going to keep beating this dead horse. We get it the Students at the U don't care about Gopher football because they preceive we will still suck or lose. Is the $84 bucks really that much money? I have seen students pee loan funds away, and grants on reidiculous stuff like gambling at a Poker room or playing blackjack, I just don't get the constant droan about lack of student ticket sales for Gopher football.
Where is the equal coverage for Vikings games, and there reduction in Season tickets. I'm sure going 3-13 they took a hit on there season ticket fan base. The Vikings are not sold out for Sundays game against Jacksonville and they have been papering the market with free ticket give aways on the radio and such, but you do not here the incesent reporting about the downturn in Vikings ticket sales at this time. What's good for the Gophers should be good for the Star Tribune to report about the Vikings, they can deny it all they want but there are just as many people not showing up to Twins games and Vikings games because the teams suck as they are not showing up to Gopher football games.

It just seems like hating on the U is the "cool" thing to do around here. One of my friends said he bought tickets and sarcastically said he can't wait to see our crap team lose a bunch of games. The culture here is just so.. pathetic.

 

[GoAUpher]

It has been a mixed bag. There's been some really good articles. Then there's harping on the student ticket sales, and in particular, creating the appearance that the student ticket sales situation is worse than it really is.

Basically they just need to stop handing Kaszuba any more assignments on the topic. It's not hard to write a story that highlights the very real problem while placing it in an accurate context. Fuller already did it once for the PiPress.

 

[Ski U Mah 55]

It just seems like hating on the U is the "cool" thing to do around here. One of my friends said he bought tickets and sarcastically said he can't wait to see our crap team lose a bunch of games. The culture here is just so.. pathetic.

The culture was created by the University failing for decades in football.

 

[disco]

Hating on the U has been the cool thing to do since I was in high school 20-some years ago. It was always cool to wear Michigan, USC, Florida, Miami stuff. It was never cool to wear Gopher gear.

 

[station19]

i was going to pose these same questions regarding the vikings, twins, etc. where is the constant coverage on their difficulties in selling tickets? where is it? oh...wait.....that's right.....the star tribune is trying to get the vikings to buy a bunch of parking lots and unused buildings from them when the new pro stadium in this town is build. can't go making them upset now can we star tribune?! dick wads.

the hack journalists and tabloid writers at the star tribune are a freaking joke. nothing but a bunch of sensationalism and cheap-shot stories on various topics. with completely misleading and false headlines to boot. nothing but a lame attempt to generate as many "hits" on website stories as possible. so they can run to their advertisers and say "see, look how many clicks we get at startribune.com every month".

and to the media apologists who posts here.......save it. i don't want to hear about how your heroes reusse, souhan, mike max, randy shaver, barreiro and tom powers are "just telling it like it is". no they are not. they are selectively and strategically deciding when, and if ever, they want to actually tell the whole story and provide actual context to their diatribes against the U of M. it is cheap-shot journalism and a tabloid culture that has taken over much of the media in this town.

Who me?

I'm sure if you were to submit a resume they would bend over backwards to bring you 'on board'.

Your insightful and and in depth opinions have for sure caught their attention.