Take note that the new stadium is principally a music venue. As many mega concerts a year as football games and many more smaller entertainment events. Pricing strategy for football is max revenue. Luxury boxes are the priority. Visiting fans have more inelastic demand curves and pricing will be geared to them (i.e., it will be high).

After having tix since 1996, I refused to pay up for this year’s product (echo the comment above on bad site lines) and am likely to defer next season ticket package purchase until post-B1G era in a few years, if I return then. Sad demise of my fandom. It was a good run.

Secho99 said:

My guess is our current starting center

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Ding! Ding! Ding!

NUera said:

Only 10% of revenue is put toward salary. They need both.

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The WNBA loses a boatload of money annually

CoralSpringsCat said:

Just like WSU and OSU didn’t get kicked out of the PAC12.

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Yes, but this is apples and oranges. There is no entity with several times as much money as the Big Ten to bolt to. Wazzou and Oregon State were left with hundreds of millions, as owners of BTN any remaining schools in the big ten would inherit incredible resources. Like, build yourself a new stadium resources. And the cost of leaving it all the leaving schools would be massive.

I could see the numbers working out for 4-6 blue chips leaving and forming a 16-24 team super league with the elite teams, but I can’t see how the economics work out if it’s most of the teams in the conference trying to leave. And if Ohio State and Michigan and Oregon and a couple others leave and we’re left playing Big Ten football
Against Iowa and Rutgers and Illinois… I can think of worse fates.

PurpleWhiteBoy said:

The rules were ignored on that TD sneak.
Yes it was pretty obvious that the QB scored a touchdown, based on where his helmet went (into the endzone by a couple feet)
However, the refs ruled him short because they couldn't see thru the 22 players piled up near the ball.

"There must be indisputable video evidence for an on-field call to be changed by the Instant Replay Official."

Replay had no such evidence. No camera could see the ball relative to the goal line. The replay officials merely ASSUMED the ball had crossed the goalline and reversed the call.

Thats not what the rules say. Call should have stood.

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Don’t really agree. They combined multiple camera angles. You couldn’t see the ball but you could see his arms and you could see where his waist and legs were. Given that his arms were still tight to him, it was impossible for the ball to be lower than in his gut, he was bent at a 90% angle, and his entire body to the waist and the front of his legs got in the end zone.

gocatsgo2003 said:

NU fans have no idea how goddamn cheap NU football tickets and parking have been for decades. Now that the administration is trying to operate like a modern college football team, those same fans riot.

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100% this. $85 for a college football game in an intimate stadium is cheap, full stop. Cheaper tickets isn’t going to make NU fans, and hasn’t before.

What people SHOULD be getting is a better operations and ticket office experience. The fact that a group of STHs who are pausing for the new stadium but may come back couldn’t get a call back from the ticket office for a Wrigley group is infuriating.

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hoosboot said:

I think the new coach has as much to do with that as anything. A new coach typically brings a bunch of transfer churn with them. It would be a concern if NU's coach was bringing in 23 portal transfer every year.

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No but when we had a mass exodus like we have had over the last couple years, we need more than 5 or six

Big knicks fan love it. Hopefully he can stick with the Knockerbockers. Thibodeau loves players like Boo who are gritty and hard working

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DaCat said:

The culture is different at the Dakota schools apparently.

Cornfields, frozen beef and the FCS stars who spurned big-time transfer offers

NDSU tackle Grey Zabel and South Dakota State QB Mark Gronowski could have moved up to play at a power conference this year. But they stayed put and are looking to pull big upsets in Week 1.

www.espn.com

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That’s why it’s called “recruiting”. Guys like Braun, Smith and Lujan need to change that mindset.

CoralSpringsCat said:

Whatever the actual number; 9 of them followed their HC from JMU. Far cry from Braun and Lujan bringing not one transfer from their respective programs.

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The culture is different at the Dakota schools apparently.

sprinkler2 said:

Just got in my home after 18 month rebuild from Ian. Got flooded by Helene (minor). Now nervously watch this storm. I have more gray hair these days.

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Hope you stay safe and please consider a move north!

Just got in my home after 18 month rebuild from Ian. Got flooded by Helene (minor). Now nervously watch this storm. I have more gray hair these days.

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My guess is our current starting center

Places where building a home is a bad idea
1) Gulf Coast shore or Mid-Atlantic barrier islands
2) Pretty much any river floodplain
3) California coastal cliff
4) Central Street

NUera said:

Only 10% of revenue is put toward salary. They need both.

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Hard to put more into salary when your revenue puts you in the red.

Tell me about it..

My brother is on Siesta Key and right now they have a bull's eye on them. They're heading inland tomorrow.

They're still cleaning up from Helene.