I think of the Florida State - Northern Illinois matchup. For NIU, that's huge for them. BCS bowl for a MAC team that is used to bowls in the Little Ceasar's tier - they'll sell a ton. Florida State, what's their incentive? Strong history, huge fanbase, but absolutely no excitement behind the game.
ISU requesting more tickets!!!!!!
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Although it is in Florida. That alone should be enough to put tens of thousands in the seats.
I've said it here before. Conference bowl tie ins are stupid.
Variety and match-ups make for good bowl games, and encourage people to attend. When bowls lock in with specific conferences, they are pretty often locking in the same teams year after year, which can lead to fan apathy and poor attendance.
Bowl game selections should be done in such a way that the committees can choose any two teams they like. Order of choice would be by the size of the purse. This would encourage the committees to trim the fat and pay the teams better in order to earn a higher choice, rather than extorting athletic departments by requiring ticket purchases and lining their own pockets. It would virtually guarantee the best two teams on the board at any given time being matched up in a game. And it would probably make half a dozen bowl games seriously consider whether their game is worth the effort, which is definitely a discussion that should be held.
Maybe once the playoff begins to take into account strength of schedule and computer rankings people will become more comfortable with an idea like this. We need more good games in the bowl season, especially if a small handful of games will be deemed the only "relevant" ones (the playoff.)
Variety and match-ups make for good bowl games, and encourage people to attend. When bowls lock in with specific conferences, they are pretty often locking in the same teams year after year, which can lead to fan apathy and poor attendance.
Bowl game selections should be done in such a way that the committees can choose any two teams they like. Order of choice would be by the size of the purse. This would encourage the committees to trim the fat and pay the teams better in order to earn a higher choice, rather than extorting athletic departments by requiring ticket purchases and lining their own pockets. It would virtually guarantee the best two teams on the board at any given time being matched up in a game. And it would probably make half a dozen bowl games seriously consider whether their game is worth the effort, which is definitely a discussion that should be held.
Maybe once the playoff begins to take into account strength of schedule and computer rankings people will become more comfortable with an idea like this. We need more good games in the bowl season, especially if a small handful of games will be deemed the only "relevant" ones (the playoff.)
I wouldn't be going to Dallas because of work. This game i can. I know several others in that boat.
Doesn't surprise me. Notre Dame has been waiting for this game for a long time. They have a loyal and rich fan base.
Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD
Only need 17 more students to purchase bowl tix in order to top 2,000 students. Best $60,000 we have ever spent subsidizing student tix!
Only need 17 more students to purchase bowl tix in order to top 2,000 students. Best $60,000 we have ever spent subsidizing student tix!
Translation of Big Ten bowl ticket sales...they know the PAIN is coming, especially from the whole conference moving two places up. Iowa may actually be better off staying at home vs the inflated bowl they'd have been blown out of.
But I'm sure their bowl win % will go up when Maryland and Rutgers barely get to 6 wins so they can face the second and third place teams from conferences that are good at football.
KidSilverhair
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The bowls did that to themselves. Remember back in the late 1970s, bowls got in such competition with each other that they would extend bids in early November, or sometimes even in October, just so they could grab what looked to be a hot team away from the other bowl games. Many times, that team would respond to their bowl invite by losing their last three games, making the bowl look stupid and much less attractive for TV. So all these low-level tie-ins are the bowls agreeing with each other to not do stupid stuff like that any more.
Got a chuckle out of this statement, reminds me of my youthfulness at the age of 20 when the Big 8 champion was an automatic bid to the Orange Bowl and we would throw oranges on the field at the end of big conference wins. We never went to the Orange Bowl. Nice to see your optimism and don't want to rain on your parade but chances of ISU playing in a National Championship are remote and a repeat would be equal to getting hit by lightning twice.
Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD That did not take long...power of social media. Students are now over 2,000. Congrats to Charles Hollis, I am paying for your ticket!
Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD
just told the tix office I am personally paying for the tix of the 2,000th student to purchase a tix. Act quickly and you may be the ONE!
Greatest AD ever!
Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD
just told the tix office I am personally paying for the tix of the 2,000th student to purchase a tix. Act quickly and you may be the ONE!
Greatest AD ever!
Exactly! They just don't have a football fanbase. Yeah, I've seen about 100 more people wearing NIU gear the past 2 weeks, which is up about 100 people, but of those I have asked if they are going to the game, they've all responded with a definitive "No!"
I met a couple at Bowling on Saturday night and had this exact conversation with them. I thougth to myself, "You have to be kidding me. If ISU was ever in the Orange bowl, you couldn't keep me from going." It's what makes this the most frustrating to me. You have a once in a lifetime chance and no one gives a ****.
