Iowa is easily the biggest home game of the year, and we're still in the West race.
You mean the every game indoor tailgate they offer adjacent to the stadium? Or are you just going to ignore that the stuff you want may already exist?
I had a blast. Group of 8 in front of us had 5 kids. Ages 8-13. Kids wouldn’t leave. Said leaving early means “you’re not a true fan” so we stuck it out with them. Didn’t want an 11 year old trash talking us.
Left after the Evans touchdown. Kid has a burst!
Honestly it felt like the hard core fans of old at that you would find at games vs Northwestern 10 years ago.
There was a recent push by the U to hire off-duty Mpls cops to have extra patrols in Dinkytown, so maybe they are there?
Right.
$82...$7 service fee.
Below zero windchills next Saturday. But Iowa. What do you think it will look like?
I agree with this but... the student section has been really, really good this year. Yesterday's game attendance was not good at all, and the students really didn't come out this time. But this was a 1-8 opponent (or something like that). A non-rival. In pretty cold weather. Students decided they had better things to do than freeze their cans off watching a game that we clearly had under control. Iowa crowd will be better for sure. The game means a bit more, it's a rival, and even in the cold weather, the place will be pretty full.
Fair point on the Students. They have been good this year and I would have picked a kegger over yesterday’s game when I was in college too. I stand by my post, but that wasn’t a great example.
Did you see what you did there?
That was before I knew the cheapest tickets left were $75. I don't think any casual person is paying that to freeze to watch two unranked teams.
Oh yeah. Probably to cover the costs of printing and mailing out tickets.
They were playing a one-win team on an eight game losing streak. Again, it comes back to success. The football team has not shown to be able to get over the hump to win the division and go to the title game, a few times per decade. If NW can, Gophs certainly can. Say all you want about the "logistics", if you want to show up a little before gametime and then expect to park and get to the stadium, that's on you. Same for leaving. I met up with my bro at Malcohm Yards around 12:30, had a few beverages, walked the six/eight minutes to the stadium to tailgate around 1:15. Tailgated for about 45 minutes then went into the stadium. Caught the train back to MY about 10 minutes after the game, had a beverage or two, watched some highlights of other games, then caught the train to where we parked over by 280. Cold but fun saturday enjoying college football. It's just not that hard to enjoy.
Right but you care, you are a diehard. For you many of the factors that would keep others from going don't play in. The pluses outweigh any perceived or real minuses. It is apples and oranges. I say the same thing, but even my friends that like going to games can easily find excuses not to no matter how good or bad the team is because they just aren't that invested.
I feel like you glossed over my second, third, and fourth sentences. Gophs have everything they need from a facilities standpoint to surplant WI and IA in the division. They also went after, got, and paid for the HC the AD wanted. Gophers need to grow the core fanbase. In this town (seriously compete for other sports and entertainment $$ options), that means winning consistently, winning the big games, and winning your division and making the conference championship game a few times in a decade.
