IUFB vs Charlotte - Saturday, 09.21.24 @ Noon on BTN

[Demo 19,577]

6 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

I looked at Northwestern this morning, just out of curiosity. Get-in price is about $150 and you can be down basically on the field for about $250. I think that place will kinda look like SoFi Stadium did yesterday when Niners fans took it over (at about 5% the size).

Wow, seriously on that price? Given what a unique experience that would be may have to give a weekend in Chicago some serious thought.

[Hovadipo 54,937]

1 minute ago, Demo said:

Wow, seriously on that price? Given what a unique experience that would be may have to give a weekend in Chicago some serious thought.

[HoosierX 1,521]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

I looked at Northwestern this morning, just out of curiosity. Get-in price is about $150 and you can be down basically on the field for about $250. I think that place will kinda look like SoFi Stadium did yesterday when Niners fans took it over (at about 5% the size).

I just hope it's at 11 AM. I have a wedding later that day (conveniently in Chicago).

[Hovadipo 54,937]

1 minute ago, HoosierX said:

I just hope it's at 11 AM. I have a wedding later that day (conveniently in Chicago).

I have extraordinarily bad news for you.

[Scotty R 2,127]

On 9/23/2024 at 9:22 AM, Hovadipo said:

Students don’t need a special game experience or whatever, they just need it to be:

-Worth watching. We’ve checked this one off on our end, now we’ll have teams coming to town worth watching too. If the UCLA game was at home it would’ve been a sellout.

-Convenient for them.

-What everyone else/their friends are doing.

Not a thing IU or any other school that struggles to fill its student section (against bad teams on million degree days) can do about it. I don’t think it’s very complicated. Most if not all schools have been dealing with fickle student attendance for a long time.

On the other hand, I think the attendance shaming is getting annoying. It isn’t happening here, but anyone that looks at IUFB twitter sees it. I want the place to be sold out and rocking, but 1) I understand that that isn’t gonna happen against friggin’ Charlotte and 2) I understand that you won’t ever shame people into it.

Don Fischer did it on the radio Monday