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I have to guess it's Pardon. Esch was great, but when I was watching him the opponents' triple teams limited his success to a small degree.

palbeans said:

$65 each for our tickets in Washington this season and a decent sideline view from the upper deck, certainly better than $80 in our north end zone.

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Supply and demand, my good man.

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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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$65 each for our tickets in Washington this season and a decent sideline view from the upper deck, certainly better than $80 in our north 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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I would disagree with the administration trying to operate like a modern football team. It is time for them to realize that an All American FB player graduating with a 2.0 is more valuable than a lot of geeks graduating with a 3.5 or better.

Rodenthater said:

wow...amazing how quickly a subpar D1 fb program can become so good so fast! Is it because of the 23 portal tranfers?

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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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When the new Welsh-Ryan opened, many of our fans had similar complaints about increased prices, required donations, parking, etc., and declared that the stadium would forever be half-empty or full of visiting fans because real NU fans were chased away by this hostility. And for the first few years, that's exactly what it was. Then the team got good and exciting and now it's almost all purple for conference games.

People will pay to see exciting, entertaining, winning teams, and people would do that for the current football team except the current football team isn't good and plays the most boring variety of football imaginable. Nobody except for legacy programs can sell out their buildings for bad teams without significant help from visiting fans.

mickbula said:

So the Maryland game this week is a Friday 7pm kickoff start night game?? On fox or what? It is a must win game to save the season and get a win streak going. Away game right? Is it a 6pm central start?

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8 ET/7 CT. Yes, it is at Maryland. It will either be on FOX or FS1 depending on the outcomes of the MLB playoffs. Will have all this in my schedule post tomorrow.

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hdhntr1 said:

Are you talking this season (starting in about a month) or next season (25/26)?

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He has to be talking about this upcoming season. We lose Berry, Nicholson, Leach and Barnhizer at end of this season.

For 2025-26 we're currently looking at Martinelli, Hunger, Smith, Ciavarino and Windham... some guys like Mullins, Barkley and Clayton... plus the incoming freshmen and transfers. (at first glance thats a bit grim, but lets see how Ciavarino and Windham play as freshmen)

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I'll be curious to see if Indiana can keep it up. I think this new coach has brought in an offensive system that has caught a lot of (somewhat mediocre) teams off guard. We'll see what some of the coaching staffs at the bigger programs they will play can do with several games now on tape.

As for their defense, I was not impressed at all. I think they will give up a lot of points against better teams. I wouldn't be surprised if our offensive outburst last Saturday was something of a mirage because Indiana's defense isn't very good. We'll see......

Rodenthater said:

wow...amazing how quickly a subpar D1 fb program can become so good so fast! Is it because of the 23 portal tranfers?

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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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