I read on the UConn board they are confident they can sell their allotment of 8,000 seats, but they know a majority of those won't make the trip, they'll buy donation tickets.
Thats about right, and unless Marshall fans make up 15K butts in the seats, there will be a ton of empty chairs
Last years attendance was 6557 to watch ODU play Tulsa. I'd say this game will top that easily.
If UConn brings 2,500, we bring 6,000, and 1,500 sponsor ticket folks show up that would be 10,000... I think we can get to that number for sure. If its a good weather day we might be able to do a little better, but I would guess 50-60 percent full stadium.
This is where Myrtle Beach should capitalize on its demographics... There are plenty of retirees in Myrtle/Conway that would come out for some football (on a good weather day) if you tossed in some shrimp dinner coupons, a pre-game pancake breakfast, etc.
I know a few of those retirees who have moved down to MB (from West Virgina).
I bought two through Herdzone previously but found out this morning that my parents want to come along, I jumped on Stubhub and bought two in the second deck for $20 each... Looks now like the cheapest tickets are $32 on there... Im fairly confident that even if the game "sells out" the actual attendance will not be anywhere near capacity (UConn people buying tickets but not actually coming to the game), so you should be able to sit around other MU people.
EVERY loss is a fiasco if you are not someone, like yourself, who accepts mediocrity. Describing the team’s mid season failures by any other name is delusional.
They weren’t the champs when we played them and we didn’t even push our scoring to double digits. I still consider that a “ fiasco.”
Damn, it’s like you are watching my every move through the gramps cam. 😁
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'll just offer a different perspective. In 1994 when YSU played Boise in the 1AA Championship game, the attendance was 27K and change. Do you think it was because it was a national title game that Huntingtonians came out to watch? Because I cant imagine Boise bringing very many or Youngstown bringing more that 6k or so. I would be very wrong though. I'm just curious as to what you think.
The ANNOUNCED attendance was 27K. Back in the I-AA era, the championship game ticket was included in season ticket packages, no choice and no matter if MU played in it or not. That is how it worked. For the playoffs, every week, you had to go down to the ticket office and shell out money for a ticket, but the championship ticket you bought pre-season as a part of the season ticket package.
IIRC, Marshall fans had to buy a package of tickets, which included the NCG. I can't imagine that I would have bought a ticket and driven 2 hours to watch a game that didn't involve MU after having gone to Boise the previous week. But I could be wrong.
Sure, being the only game on Monday matters…if it wasn’t 2:00pm EST. So the game will end just after 5pm eastern/ 2 pacific. outside of Marshall and UConn fans (all 100,000) of us are going to skip work to watch this!?
I agree the time slot sucks, but the other two options available to us weren't any better... The Lending Tree Bowl is on a Saturday, which is great, but do you want to play 5-7 CUSA foe Rice in a wilting old south city that no fans are going to go to?
May have been 8-9 k at most in the stadium for that game. I was one of them.
The good news is the flight time is all of about an hour and 20 mins... No worse than being on a bus.
Yeah, I don't either and I was there as well. Several shots show East side packed. I remember the West being the same.
There’s Actually video of the entire cbs broadcast of the game on you tube and the crowd looks pretty large to me. Definitely way more than 8 or 9 K
