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[Jaguar 88]

Still don't get it. There are simply not that many alums to buy those tickets. There are only about 65K undergrad alumni (student body has gone from about 6k to 8K over that time but some are 5 year and people die so average of about 1600 per year) over the last 40 years total and probably less than half stay in the Chicago area. Plus most were not really fans while in school (especially with our history including dark ages) We are also not the state school so we do not have much in the way of other affiliations. Pretty hard to get that much of a season ticket or fan base out of that.

Compare that with state schools such as IL, Mich, dOSU etc. They graduate 10-12K per year or more (and likely more stay in state) and they have the affiliations of being the state school and they don't have our history. Reality is that their fan base is at least 10-20 times as large as ours with the more successful programs like PSU, OSU, UM etc even more.

Oh and by the way, this year those tickets including donations were $1700 for the two tickets and $200 each for games against dOSU and IL

I am glad some folks in here understand the real score. CFB is all about the money anymore, which means who is going to bring in not only the fans in the stands, but those that watch from who knows where around the globe, either at a sports bar, or at home. According to an older B1G Facebook page, there are only about 14-15 counties in B1G country that are majority Cat fans. CFB is a business first and foremost. Yeah, it does suck, but that is the way it is. It seems NU has a pack of nerds in the administration. A few more years of this and the program might very well be kaput in terms of getting back to the 2015-18 level. Can't compete with bigger schools that really utilize the portal and NIL while you don't. Hundreds of millions would have been wasted in the new facilities if NU just sinks back down to the 70's level. Doesn't somebody in the administration have a plan?

 

[hdhntr1]

I am glad some folks in here understands the real score. CFB is all about the money anymore, which means who is going to bring in not only the fans in the stands, but those that watch from who knows where around the globe, either at a sports bar, or at home. According to an older B1G Facebook page, there are only about 14-15 counties in B1G country that are majority Cat fans. CFB is a business first and foremost. Yeah, it does suck, but that is the way it is. It seems NU has a pack of nerds in the administration. A few more years of this and the program might very well be kaput in terms of getting back to the 2015-18 level. Can't compete with bigger schools that really utilize the portal and NIL while you don't. Hundreds of millions would have been wasted in the new facilities if NU just sinks back down to the 70's level. Doesn't somebody in the administration have a plan?

Early 70s was a high point that. 2nd in BIG 70 and 71 I believe. Second half of the 70s was beginning of Dark Ages

 

[Gatabowl]

Never seen a worse on. Generally you try to pick a game against an opponent that you can potentially beat. And you don't have it where events are spread out like this. Being at the Wrigley game last year against IA, it was pretty obvious what the crowd would be like, 90-10 dOSU. For homecoming that is just an embarrassment. It was a BS move by the administration.

It was the earliest guaranteed game to be in a reasonable location. Seat Geek would have been so much worse.

 

[Gatabowl]

I am glad some folks in here understand the real score. CFB is all about the money anymore, which means who is going to bring in not only the fans in the stands, but those that watch from who knows where around the globe, either at a sports bar, or at home. According to an older B1G Facebook page, there are only about 14-15 counties in B1G country that are majority Cat fans. CFB is a business first and foremost. Yeah, it does suck, but that is the way it is. It seems NU has a pack of nerds in the administration. A few more years of this and the program might very well be kaput in terms of getting back to the 2015-18 level. Can't compete with bigger schools that really utilize the portal and NIL while you don't. Hundreds of millions would have been wasted in the new facilities if NU just sinks back down to the 70's level. Doesn't somebody in the administration have a plan?

We need fans that aren’t alumni. Thats the issue.

To do that we need to win more.