knapplc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 3 minutes ago, Dewiz said: He goes to school with a bunch of kids who like the Hawkeyes. We need to report this school. That's not right. 1 Quote Link to comment
Gage County Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 7 hours ago, knapplc said: We need to report this school. That's not right. We need to stop blaming schools for poor parenting. 4 Quote Link to comment
Red Five Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, Landlord said: I don't think that's true. If it was, the attendance numbers from every home game would be remarkably close/similar, because every game has the same amount of tickets sold and every game has roughly the same amount of opposing players/coaches, security workers, concession workers, etc. Yet our attendance numbers vary from 89,000 through 91,000 It varies because I believe they count sold tickets plus everyone else in the stadium (media, players, team staff, etc). Do you think there were 90k people there for the Northwestern or Iowa games last year? Edited April 19, 2018 by Red Five Quote Link to comment
jsneb83 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 4 minutes ago, Red Five said: It varies because I believe they count sold tickets plus everyone else in the stadium (media, players, team staff, etc). Do you think there were 90k people there for the Northwestern or Iowa games last year? I believe the opposing team ticket sales is the biggest variable Quote Link to comment
jaws Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 15 hours ago, ScottyIce said: This year? Ohio State didn’t sell out It was a Nebraska style sell out. The game time change and threat of bad weather kept people away. https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2018/04/92405/tickets-sold-out-for-saturdays-ohio-state-spring-game 1 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 27 minutes ago, jaws said: It was a Nebraska style sell out Intended slur misses mark. Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 If the Spring Game is used as a recruiting tool, I wonder what our recruiting rankings would be if fans didn't show up in droves like they have year after year. Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 3 hours ago, Red Five said: It varies because I believe they count sold tickets plus everyone else in the stadium (media, players, team staff, etc). Do you think there were 90k people there for the Northwestern or Iowa games last year? What I'm saying is that the sold ticket number is the same for every game (if we sell them all out, right?), and the number of non-ticketed people there (media, players, team staff, etc.) does not vary by 1,000+ from game to game. I don't venture to say if the Northwestern game did or didn't have 90k people, but per this picture and this video I don't have any reason to doubt that the attendance reported was an accurate count of people present: Quote Link to comment
yort2000 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 23 minutes ago, Landlord said: What I'm saying is that the sold ticket number is the same for every game (if we sell them all out, right?), and the number of non-ticketed people there (media, players, team staff, etc.) does not vary by 1,000+ from game to game. I don't venture to say if the Northwestern game did or didn't have 90k people, but per this picture and this video I don't have any reason to doubt that the attendance reported was an accurate count of people present: Well, per the OWH article by Sam in Feb. there were around 9,000 less scanned tickets for the NW game in comparison to the Wisconsin game, however both of the reported attendances were around 89,000. So, I don't think the amount of non-ticketed attendance varies by 9,000. Quote Link to comment
Gage County Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 4 hours ago, StPaulHusker said: If the Spring Game is used as a recruiting tool, I wonder what our recruiting rankings would be if fans didn't show up in droves like they have year after year. I'd be surprised if it means anything as far as recruiting. This is it's true value: Quote Link to comment
Redux Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 I can't believe Mike Riley holds two of the top 5 most attended spring games as coach.... Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 14 minutes ago, Redux said: I can't believe Mike Riley holds two of the top 5 most attended spring games as coach.... It doesn't really surprise me. They tried to use it as a recruiting tool and it has become a "thing" to brag about attendance over the last several years among other schools. Husker fans don't like to be beat in fandom contests. Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 12 minutes ago, StPaulHusker said: It doesn't really surprise me. They tried to use it as a recruiting tool and it has become a "thing" to brag about attendance over the last several years among other schools. Husker fans don't like to be beat in fandom contests. That's because we're competitors and don't like losing to anyone for anything. Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 24 minutes ago, Making Chimichangas said: That's because we're competitors and don't like losing to anyone for anything. I figured that was implied by my comment Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 5 minutes ago, StPaulHusker said: I figured that was implied by my comment It was also implied by the tone that it is dumb. Maybe it is. Quote Link to comment
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