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Baxter48_rivals204143

All-Conference
Sep 22, 2010
8,892
2,089
0
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mgbreeze

All-Conference
Dec 16, 2004
10,148
3,636
113
I didn't go to a game this year until we were 0-6 hosting Minnesota. I was curious if I would see empty seats. Nope. Completely 100% packed.
 
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F5Tornado

All-Conference
Jul 19, 2018
2,157
1,468
0
Ne-Hawk said:
75,009 scanned tickets for the Golden Gophers and 89,272 announced attendance... so probably looked at least 84% full!!
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What the fu-hk do you care? Oh, that's right, iowa still sucks and is a team that all of America outside iowa doesn't care about. iowa is a team where if they played in the National Title game, it would draw the smallest audience by far of any NC game that's ever been played.

You're a fan of a team that has never won anything of substance, and NEVER will. You're a fan of a team that most people turn the channel to watch swimming or bicycling. You're a fan of a team that has less notoriety than Northern Iowa, and you're over here, because you know that even when Nebraska is down, they get more publicity than iowa ever will, and you can't stand it so you try to be part of it. What a pathetic loser you are.
 
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SkerInCo

All-Conference
Apr 26, 2004
5,270
1,285
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Truehuskerfan

All-Conference
May 1, 2003
15,270
3,020
0
Are there some people that really don't get this? It's a sellout streak-not a filled to capacity streak. The number of scanned tickets used has absolutely nothing to do with the sellout streak. If somebody has a ticket but does not use it, it still counts as being sold.
 
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Cornicator

Hall of Famer
Feb 27, 2009
58,464
203,714
113
Truehuskerfan said:
Are there some people that really don't get this? It's a sellout streak-not a filled to capacity streak. The number of scanned tickets used has absolutely nothing to do with the sellout streak. If somebody has a ticket but does not use it, it still counts as being sold.
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So let me get this straight. This upcoming Sunday I have tickets and a Parking Pass to the Ravens @ Chiefs game in Arrowhead. I purchased those tickets and the pass two months ago.

So you're saying if I don't attend the game, the Chiefs won't send me my money back?
 
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Mack In Motion

All-Conference
Jun 20, 2001
6,000
3,537
113
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Ne-Hawk_rivals292215

Redshirt
Nov 7, 2003
683
12
0
No, actually a NU season ticket holder...section 36B which might be the worst section in the stadium to get into your seats, and the big screen is behind you!! My seats 25 years ago in the south stadium were way easier to get to aI just find in humorous that we still tout the attendance figures... we need to widen the seats, especially in 36B, get the actual seats down to around 75-80,000 from the 85,000 seats now, and the really fill the place up!!
 
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cecilB

Junior
Nov 1, 2001
6,601
321
0
Truehuskerfan said:
Are there some people that really don't get this? It's a sellout streak-not a filled to capacity streak. The number of scanned tickets used has absolutely nothing to do with the sellout streak. If somebody has a ticket but does not use it, it still counts as being sold.
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Yes, people don’t get it. There is a significant group buy from large businesses, and the secondary markets(stub hubs). The businesses are loyalists that value ‘the streak’ as much as posters in this forum. Mine has purchased 24 for decades- the university asks periodically for us to buy more when the ‘streak’ is in jeopardy- we politely tell them to pound sand. Obviously many re-up or more are sold tho the secondary markets.

The upside is, if anyone has any connections in this state the ‘free ticket’ is almost in unlimited supply.

At the end of the day- the streak is there for those that value it, and the game day environment has few rivals.
 
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mgbreeze

All-Conference
Dec 16, 2004
10,148
3,636
113
Ne-Hawk said:
just find in humorous that we still tout the attendance figures
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Except.... we don't. As pointed out above, it's a sellout streak. Not the same as attendance. I don't give a dump as it's a dumb thing to tout and easy to poke fun at. But if you're going to criticize at least get your facts straight.
 
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LBremser_rivals78367

Senior
Feb 17, 2008
1,938
410
0
cecilB said:
Yes, people don’t get it. There is a significant group buy from large businesses, and the secondary markets(stub hubs). The businesses are loyalists that value ‘the streak’ as much as posters in this forum. Mine has purchased 24 for decades- the university asks periodically for us to buy more when the ‘streak’ is in jeopardy- we politely tell them to pound sand. Obviously many re-up or more are sold tho the secondary markets.

The upside is, if anyone has any connections in this state the ‘free ticket’ is almost in unlimited supply.

At the end of the day- the streak is there for those that value it, and the game day environment has few rivals.
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The number of seats that are not sold to season ticket holders, faculty, students and reserved for visitors is very few. The remaining tickets are sold on a per-game basis and many of those are gone before the season starts. If you would have looked at available seats for, say the Illinois game, during the week of the game, there were fewer than 50 seats available. Not sure why people want to perpetuate the myth that there are thousands of tickets that would not be sold if boosters didn't buy them up and give them away.
 
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redfanusa

All-Conference
Feb 6, 2009
4,892
1,607
0
Like it or not, the sellout streak is a proxy for attendance. The AD touts it to recruits as a way of establishing Memorial Stadium as a packed house for every game going back to 1962. If the stadium only has 60,000 attending, it isn't a packed house no matter how you spin it. I'm pretty sure recruits looking up at all those empty seats won't be impressed that the AD got money for them.

Remember when Colorado sold tickets to fake fans to claim a sell-out? We mocked them for being such huge losers. Well, let's not be Colorado, okay? Nebraska's attendance sucked this year, and the streak is dead no matter how many discounted tickets they threw in the recycle bin.
 
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K_Y_E

Junior
Sep 9, 2018
1,469
267
0
kwicasso said:
Is Frost not coming back either?
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You wish. You guys see the writing on the wall. When we were lengendary status, I was only concerned with teams that were a potential threat and that’s how you Iowa fans act towards us. Nice recruiting class by the way.
 
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cecilB

Junior
Nov 1, 2001
6,601
321
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LBremser said:
The number of seats that are not sold to season ticket holders, faculty, students and reserved for visitors is very few. The remaining tickets are sold on a per-game basis and many of those are gone before the season starts. If you would have looked at available seats for, say the Illinois game, during the week of the game, there were fewer than 50 seats available. Not sure why people want to perpetuate the myth that there are thousands of tickets that would not be sold if boosters didn't buy them up and give them away.
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It’s not a myth, they ask us. Jack Pierce and other AD officials since him have sat in my office and asked us to buy more for the explicit reason of the streak. Is this in the 10s of thousands- unlikely. In the thousands, certainly...and we are among the entities they tried to extort for the purposes of the streak. It’s reasonable to assume these friendly calls occur after the secondary mkt buy.

As for that- it’s new phenomenon that ADs sell to this mkt(not just NU, and the magnitude at NU is unknown by me) ...but, the tickets are sold, thus they they count in a sell out goal- at that point it is dependent on the purchaser to sell. I do not know what discount the secondary mkt buyers get, but stub hub, seat geek etc are for profits, it’s reasonable to assume a negotiation occurs.

Who the EFF really cares. But the myth perpetuating is by those not fully understanding or if the do, disclosing the realities of a ticket market.

As previously stated- the atmosphere at Nebraska games is second to none, AND access to tickets is unlimited if one has business connections in NE with the right businesses
 
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frankluv

All-Conference
Oct 7, 2005
4,851
1,867
0
All sports are going to suffer this with all of the ways that you can see almost every game in your home. We still buy the tickets, tht is what counts. imo
 
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Truehuskerfan

All-Conference
May 1, 2003
15,270
3,020
0
redfanusa said:
Like it or not, the sellout streak is a proxy for attendance. The AD touts it to recruits as a way of establishing Memorial Stadium as a packed house for every game going back to 1962. If the stadium only has 60,000 attending, it isn't a packed house no matter how you spin it. I'm pretty sure recruits looking up at all those empty seats won't be impressed that the AD got money for them.

Remember when Colorado sold tickets to fake fans to claim a sell-out? We mocked them for being such huge losers. Well, let's not be Colorado, okay? Nebraska's attendance sucked this year, and the streak is dead no matter how many discounted tickets they threw in the recycle bin.
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Attendance didn't "suck" this year. It was even better then recent years until weather and early starting times lowered it.
 
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TheBeav815

All-American
Feb 19, 2007
18,955
5,101
0
Once again:

If the team wins a lot, games will sell out.

If the team sucks a lot, expect empty seats.

Apply this to pretty much every team in every sport with very few exceptions.
 
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Truehuskerfan

All-Conference
May 1, 2003
15,270
3,020
0
TheBeav815 said:
Once again:

If the team wins a lot, games will sell out.

If the team sucks a lot, expect empty seats.

Apply this to pretty much every team in every sport with very few exceptions.
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That's true, but the reasons for the drop in attendance in this case was only indirectly related to how we were playing. Attendance was still good for the Minnesota game when we were 0-6-it was the 2nd highest attended game of the season(not counting the Akron game which was canceled). Unfortunately just as we started playing well, the weather got bad. Now, our play over the course of the season probably contributed to us having 11 AM start times for the last 3 games, and the early start times contributed to the lower attendance, so there is a connection, but it wasn't that people weren't showing up because the team wasn't playing well. The combination of early start times and poor weather really hurt the last two games-attendance at the Minnesota game suggests that with better weather and a later start time, attendance would have been much better for those games.
 
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B1G RED RULES

All-Conference
Sep 7, 2013
4,154
1,132
0
TheBeav815 said:
Once again:

If the team wins a lot, games will sell out.

If the team sucks a lot, expect empty seats.

Apply this to pretty much every team in every sport with very few exceptions.
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Mostly true, except Iowa could not manage to sell our their little arena for the entire year of 2015 when they went undefeated in the regular season. I suppose you could assume their fans knew they were not a great team, just had a weak schedule - as the Rose Bowl and Stanford eventually showed the nation. They did earn the title of the Fake ID of college football, so there is that.RollingLaugh
 
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kwicasso_rivals334262

Sophomore
Mar 6, 2018
434
127
0
K_Y_E said:
You wish. You guys see the writing on the wall. When we were lengendary status, I was only concerned with teams that were a potential threat and that’s how you Iowa fans act towards us. Nice recruiting class by the way.
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No, we don't. I believe in Iowa's approach to mopping the floor with Lil Frosty. Only wishing is done by UN-L for Frosty to pan out. Long ways to go.
 
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timnsun

All-American
Jan 25, 2008
13,815
7,519
3
kwicasso said:
No, we don't. I believe in Iowa's approach to mopping the floor with Lil Frosty. Only wishing is done by UN-L for Frosty to pan out. Long ways to go.
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This actually is funnier than what you said before.

Mopping the floor to the tune of a 3 point win on the last play of the game? At home? Long ways to go?

I guess that means you have a long ways to go as well since you needed every second of the game to eke out a victory. Statistically, the game was even in just about every way.

So if we have a long ways to go after Frost’s first year, what is your excuse with Ferentz after his 20th year?
 
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Truehuskerfan

All-Conference
May 1, 2003
15,270
3,020
0
kwicasso said:
No, we don't. I believe in Iowa's approach to mopping the floor with Lil Frosty. Only wishing is done by UN-L for Frosty to pan out. Long ways to go.
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Generally, I ignore the mindless drivel coming from you people. But I find this constant drumbeat from you people about how you're just so sure that Frost isn't going to amount to anything laughable at best. You apparently can't see past your own wishcasting. You're so sure because you want it to be that way. Or maybe you really feel differently, but you can't say it out loud. Either way, it goes against the opinions of multiple college football analysts who aren't blinded by hatred of us who think Frost is building something special. I'll take those opinions over you who is so sure he isn't because you desperately want it to be that way.
 
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ZJSARENOTFREE

All-Conference
Oct 16, 2017
1,718
1,986
113
timnsun said:
This actually is funnier than what you said before.

Mopping the floor to the tune of a 3 point win on the last play of the game? At home? Long ways to go?

I guess that means you have a long ways to go as well since you needed every second of the game to eke out a victory. Statistically, the game was even in just about every way.

So if we have a long ways to go after Frost’s first year, what is your excuse with Ferentz after his 20th year?
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But but but if Kirk converts that touchdown, they win going away. Side note, I don't think it would have been as close as it ended if that happens, but that is football. At this point they can talk all they want. They won the game, and have for four years, but it is laughable to think Frost isn't showing signs of turning the program around already.
 
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Mack In Motion

All-Conference
Jun 20, 2001
6,000
3,537
113
Lol.

Herkie "floor mopping" is 3 point fg as time expires.

Herkie "undefeated season" included a 2 game losing streak.

Not sure what else we should expect from a douche that obsesses day after day on another teams' board.
 
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