buy some frozen pizzas and get free gophers tickets
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Didn't Iowa State have a promotion similar to that some years ago?
I don’t see a downside. Fans can get cheap tickets (and cheap pizza), Red Baron gets the pub, MN gets the ticket revenue via sponsor subsidy and fans in the stands.
Don't know, but the gophs have done this before.....
I guess. Hopefully our program will never be in the position of being so desperate to need to have give away to put buts in the seats.....
The loss of self-respect?
Heard a couple nation guys on Fox Sports radio think Minnesota could be kind of decent this year.
why?
Minneapolis has the Big 4 Pro Sports. Attendance would be an issue for anybody in that environment.
why?
Minneapolis has the Big 4 Pro Sports. Attendance would be an issue for anybody in that environment.
Well, we are talking about the gophs after all. A team who chants "who hates Iowa, we hate Iowa" when they're playing other teams. When someones that deep in your sub conscience, you have issues.....
Used to be that redbaron was in bars all over the United States with these little pizza ovens. Probably gave the bar the oven free if they sell the pizzas. We had them here in TX in bars.
Yes and No.
1. While there's some overlap, college and NFL fan bases tend to be different.
2. There are more people within an hour of the Gophers' stadium than in the entire state of Iowa, and there are two P4 teams in Iowa.
3. The Gophers drew very well before they moved off-campus to Metrodump. That had a negative affect, they undercut an entire generation of fans and screwed themselves.
4. Minnesota sports fans in general are some of the most cynical I've ever come in contact with.
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Self respect was bargained away to some extent when they scheduled home games against Eastern Illinois and Akron.
I mean, most B10 teams schedule a non-conference cupcake or two for the W but those two teams won’t appeal to the GP ……unless you tempt their fat asses with greasy pizzas.
of all the big ten wrestling fans….. theirs are the biggest aholes….. I’ve gone to numerous BIG and National tournaments and interacted in bars with fans from all over…… they’re aholes
never recall regardless of where they play them having many fans show up
I do know they celebrate first downs like they’re touchdowns
and I’ve sat in their stadium while we’re kicking their *** with college age girls chirping at me asking if I’m a pig farmer like that’s some kind of insult and walked their sidewalks with random strangers saying “we hate Iowa” while we’re spending our money in their hotels bars and restaurants
fock the Rodents
Yeah, MSP pro sports - talk about a tradition of championships.
Any kind of success should draw fans to Gopher sports. The problem is that they haven’t had a whole lot of it, either.
Is there many college teams that draw well that also compete against the big 4 sports?
you have to win a lot to draw a lot in those communities.
Off the top of my head, the best program similarities to Minn in that regard are Stanford/Cal, UCLA, Ariz St, TCU, Houston, Northwestern, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Rutgers, Maryland, Georgia Tech. Those programs all have fan draw very closely related to team success.
Washington is one of the few schools located in a “pro sports city” that consistently draws extremely well, with Michigan being perhaps considered just outside a metro area. USC and Miami are generally among top 25 in attendance, with the draw being very good against rivals and when the team is good.
Minnesota might have challenges, but the fans are there when they’re good (that just doesn’t happen very much). I doubt there are too many people agonizing over whether they want to get Gopher or Minnesota Wild season tickets…
Most P4 schools are college towns, not major cities. You listed most of those that are. I'd throw in Colorado as well.
While the ones you listed all have pro teams nearby, they also have a sh*tload more people. Boston, Miami, New York, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, LA have plenty of people and money. There are only so many seats in an NFL stadium. If the college product is good, people will come.
As mentioned before, there are 3.7M people within an hours drive of the Gophers' stadium. That's more than the entire state of Iowa which manages to support 2 P4 programs. No excuses.
Yep, MN fans (mainly at the college level) are generally bandwagon fans. I lived there many years and saw it first hand.
Yep, MN gopher fans have deep envy of Iowa’s general sports success over many of their programs, including football.of all the big ten wrestling fans….. theirs are the biggest aholes….. I’ve gone to numerous BIG and National tournaments and interacted in bars with fans from all over…… they’re aholes
never recall regardless of where they play them having many fans show up
I do know they celebrate first downs like they’re touchdowns
and I’ve sat in their stadium while we’re kicking their *** with college age girls chirping at me asking if I’m a pig farmer like that’s some kind of insult and walked their sidewalks with random strangers saying “we hate Iowa” while we’re spending our money in their hotels bars and restaurants
fock the Rodents
Yeah, that was pretty much exactly the point/goal.
I don't disagree with any of this, especially the part about how big cities have a lot of people.
But it's obvious from the discussion that most major colleges in "pro cities" have a hard time consistently filling their stadiums with 50K+ fans every Saturday, despite the large population to draw from; it's not just a Minnesota problem.
Not new though. They've done this before other seasons as well under Fleck.....Someone has sunk to an absolute new low … next up a free car for Gopher fans
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