(12-15-2014 01:06 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Cajuns ticket sales are at 11,000 thru the university ticket office right now.

Thanks Cajun. Any idea of how many tickets Nevada has sold?

I hope USA wins their bowl but can't put butts in the seats so I can further vent my frustration with the camellia bowl.

(12-15-2014 01:20 PM)JTApps1 Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:06 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Cajuns ticket sales are at 11,000 thru the university ticket office right now. That's lower than previous years but we do have until Thursday to add sales. I've seen feedback from a number of fans that the 10am start time is an issue along with hotels requiring a two night minimum due to the Saints hosting the Falcons on Sunday. With the early Saturday game a number of folks would have gone in on Friday and left after the game. I'm hoping we can get up to about 16K by the end of the week. I'm hoping with the local ticket sales and company promotion in the area that we'll still wind up with 40K total for the game.

Is it the early kick time or the lower than expected results to the season that are slowing sells? The fan base expected to fight for a Big 6 bowl, but ended up 8-4 with another trip to NO. Sometimes fans get spoiled. That isn't a knock on ULL as we saw some of our fans gets spoiled after the 2005-2007 run.

I think it's a culmination of things, a season below expectations, 10am kickoff, saints are at home that causing hotels prices to jump a bit, more fans each year are going through ticketmaster than through the school, price of oil below $60 a barrel has lots of people here nervous.... On top of doing something 4 years in a row, I think there will still be a good crowd but we are gonna break the record for the 4th year in a row.

(12-15-2014 01:24 PM)Louisiana99 Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:20 PM)JTApps1 Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:06 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Cajuns ticket sales are at 11,000 thru the university ticket office right now. That's lower than previous years but we do have until Thursday to add sales. I've seen feedback from a number of fans that the 10am start time is an issue along with hotels requiring a two night minimum due to the Saints hosting the Falcons on Sunday. With the early Saturday game a number of folks would have gone in on Friday and left after the game. I'm hoping we can get up to about 16K by the end of the week. I'm hoping with the local ticket sales and company promotion in the area that we'll still wind up with 40K total for the game.

Is it the early kick time or the lower than expected results to the season that are slowing sells? The fan base expected to fight for a Big 6 bowl, but ended up 8-4 with another trip to NO. Sometimes fans get spoiled. That isn't a knock on ULL as we saw some of our fans gets spoiled after the 2005-2007 run.

I think it's a culmination of things, a season below expectations, 10am kickoff, saints are at home that causing hotels prices to jump a bit, more fans each year are going through ticketmaster than through the school, price of oil below $60 a barrel has lots of people here nervous.... On top of doing something 4 years in a row, I think there will still be a good crowd but we are gonna break the record for the 4th year in a row.

Yes there lots of factors I know ticket masters on NAS Belle Chasse has sold over 1000 tickets to military folks and they are only $11 each.

(12-15-2014 01:01 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  USA will bus the team up, will stay in the host hotel for a couple of days and will husband resources. USA don't play 'baller'. Its sitting on a 500 million dollar endowment and still plays in a 61 year old off campus stadium. And there's no immediate plan to build one. Football needs to pay its own way. Hence the 25 dollar tickets versus the 10 dollar tickets from BGSU.

You 100% missed the point of that post. USA was just the example because they were being discussed.

To put another way... Substitute stAte for USA. Or the Cajuns. Or us next year. Or Georgia Southern, or App... Or Idaho/NMSU/Troy/ULM/Georgia State.

The point being, if team X decides to go "Baller" on a bowl, does that still get counted in for profitability?

I have to admit that 10AM kickoff is a big turnoff.

That's just way too early for college football.

(12-15-2014 01:35 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:01 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  USA will bus the team up, will stay in the host hotel for a couple of days and will husband resources. USA don't play 'baller'. Its sitting on a 500 million dollar endowment and still plays in a 61 year old off campus stadium. And there's no immediate plan to build one. Football needs to pay its own way. Hence the 25 dollar tickets versus the 10 dollar tickets from BGSU.

You 100% missed the point of that post. USA was just the example because they were being discussed.

To put another way... Substitute stAte for USA. Or the Cajuns. Or us next year. Or Georgia Southern, or App... Or Idaho/NMSU/Troy/ULM/Georgia State.

The point being, if team X decides to go "Baller" on a bowl, does that still get counted in for profitability?

I don't think the specifics of how the league apportions the bowl money has ever been made public from the time it was enacted in 2012. One would hope the teams individual spending is considered.

The amount listed as being paid for by the bowl comes in the form of tickets which is then dependent on the chosen team selling them. I would hope that the max a team would get would be their bowl payout (ticket allotment). That way its a fixed amount maximum. My worry with this amount is if you need 10K tickets sold and only sell 1K. I guess if that happens you won't be on the preferred team list of the bowls very often since the wins/losses are only part of the equation.

(12-15-2014 01:23 PM)MobileBama Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:06 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Cajuns ticket sales are at 11,000 thru the university ticket office right now.

Thanks Cajun. Any idea of how many tickets Nevada has sold?

6, perhaps 7 as of this PM.

(12-15-2014 01:06 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Cajuns ticket sales are at 11,000 thru the university ticket office right now. That's lower than previous years but we do have until Thursday to add sales. I've seen feedback from a number of fans that the 10am start time is an issue along with hotels requiring a two night minimum due to the Saints hosting the Falcons on Sunday. With the early Saturday game a number of folks would have gone in on Friday and left after the game. I'm hoping we can get up to about 16K by the end of the week. I'm hoping with the local ticket sales and company promotion in the area that we'll still wind up with 40K total for the game.

Is that confirmed, or are you guys under reporting again on those figures?

(12-15-2014 03:35 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:06 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Cajuns ticket sales are at 11,000 thru the university ticket office right now. That's lower than previous years but we do have until Thursday to add sales. I've seen feedback from a number of fans that the 10am start time is an issue along with hotels requiring a two night minimum due to the Saints hosting the Falcons on Sunday. With the early Saturday game a number of folks would have gone in on Friday and left after the game. I'm hoping we can get up to about 16K by the end of the week. I'm hoping with the local ticket sales and company promotion in the area that we'll still wind up with 40K total for the game.

Is that confirmed, or are you guys under reporting again on those figures?

That's confirmed, afte last year, a lot of lower level donors are choosing to go through ticketmaster in order to get better seats...but it will be a down year overall. We don't to keep the money anymore so as long as we break even, I guess I don't really care. This will probably the worst attendance of our 4 years there but will still be the 4th best attended Nola bowl.

(12-15-2014 01:24 PM)Godzilla Wrote:  I hope USA wins their bowl but can't put butts in the seats so I can further vent my frustration with the camellia bowl.

No you don't. It doesn't make any of us look good. Stadium seats 21,000. We'll bring 5000 measurable and really bring around 7000, or a third of the stadium. If the people in Montgomery cant put 10000 in the stands, it looks bad for them.

I don't think Texas State would have sent 5000. Not because you suck - you don't - but because its not consistent with your attendance records.

USA will bring more fans to the stadium than WKU, CMU, WMU, Rutgers, Toledo, Fresno State, Rice, Bowling Green, or Nevada.

(12-15-2014 04:22 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:24 PM)Godzilla Wrote:  I hope USA wins their bowl but can't put butts in the seats so I can further vent my frustration with the camellia bowl.

No you don't. It doesn't make any of us look good. Stadium seats 21,000. We'll bring 5000 measurable and really bring around 7000, or a third of the stadium. If the people in Montgomery cant put 10000 in the stands, it looks bad for them.

I don't think Texas State would have sent 5000. Not because you suck - you don't - but because its not consistent with your attendance records.

USA will bring more fans to the stadium than WKU, CMU, WMU, Rutgers, Toledo, Fresno State, Rice, Bowling Green, or Nevada.

I think you vastly underestimate the Bobcat faithful, especially on such a historic occasion as a first bowl game.

I think we'd hit 5,000, and probably more. But... There's no way to prove nor disprove that. I can point to how well we traveled on previous firsts (we sent almost 3k to Missoula when we went to the playoffs up there, and that was on similar notice, in FCS). But that's not a guarantee of what we would do for a bowl game. Similarly, you can't count attendance to USA game as it's regular season.

It's a moot point for us though, as we aren't in the bowl. I just think 5-7k for a bowl under 200 miles away is not what I would call a good showing.

(12-15-2014 05:08 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 04:22 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 01:24 PM)Godzilla Wrote:  I hope USA wins their bowl but can't put butts in the seats so I can further vent my frustration with the camellia bowl.

No you don't. It doesn't make any of us look good. Stadium seats 21,000. We'll bring 5000 measurable and really bring around 7000, or a third of the stadium. If the people in Montgomery cant put 10000 in the stands, it looks bad for them.

I don't think Texas State would have sent 5000. Not because you suck - you don't - but because its not consistent with your attendance records.

USA will bring more fans to the stadium than WKU, CMU, WMU, Rutgers, Toledo, Fresno State, Rice, Bowling Green, or Nevada.

I think you vastly underestimate the Bobcat faithful, especially on such a historic occasion as a first bowl game.

I think we'd hit 5,000, and probably more. But... There's no way to prove nor disprove that. I can point to how well we traveled on previous firsts (we sent almost 3k to Missoula when we went to the playoffs up there, and that was on similar notice, in FCS). But that's not a guarantee of what we would do for a bowl game. Similarly, you can't count attendance to USA game as it's regular season.

It's a moot point for us though, as we aren't in the bowl. I just think 5-7k for a bowl under 200 miles away is not what I would call a good showing.

Tickets sold, or actual fans at the game?

I could potentially see 5K for Texas State, but many of those will have tickets bought from sources outside Texas State.

(12-15-2014 05:12 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Tickets sold, or actual fans at the game?

I could potentially see 5K for Texas State, but many of those will have tickets bought from sources outside Texas State.

Given the inherent laziness of our fanbase, I'd wager the lion's share of tickets bought would be through the University. That's been the norm for us with away games, anyway.

(12-14-2014 05:37 PM)MobileBama Wrote:  How are ULL and ASU doing in bowl ticket sales?

I've heard USA has sold around 3,300 tickets out of 4,000. I think some USA fans are buying through Bowling Green since their tickets are $10 and South's are $25

Montgomery isn't doing much to support the bowl. As of today, around 11,500 tickets have been sold. Stadium seats 21,000.

Montgomery is doing everything they can. They are constantly publicizing the upcoming game everyday. Living in Troy, they talk a lot about it. I know quite a few Troy people who are going to support the jags. There are 10 of us heading up Saturday. Stadium isnt that bad, I have been in and played in a lot worse.

(12-15-2014 05:20 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(12-15-2014 05:12 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Tickets sold, or actual fans at the game?

I could potentially see 5K for Texas State, but many of those will have tickets bought from sources outside Texas State.

Given the inherent laziness of our fanbase, I'd wager the lion's share of tickets bought would be through the University. That's been the norm for us with away games, anyway.

Its an interesting thought because the biggest detractor from AState and ULL's ticket sales in bowls has been that you can get tickets through ticket master or the bowl directly much cheaper than you can the school.

Texas State's administration would have to be very proactive about insisting fans buy through the school, because its the only way to ensure money goes to the school.

For clarification, the Camellia Bowl presented USA with 2,500 tickets in the initial allotment and USA asked for more right off the bat So they gave us 4,500 and those are confirmed to be sold out. We've asked for additional tickets and received additional tickets.

(12-14-2014 08:55 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-14-2014 08:48 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(12-14-2014 08:33 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-14-2014 07:59 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  What yard line are the seats you buy through the university?

Go Daddy just keeps giving us tickets on the visitors side, and as a school we give out the best tickets to the biggest donors until a certain point, then its every fan for himself.

That makes sense. App has a point system that rewards donors as calculated by years of giving and giving levels. We used that system for the national title tickets and money games. Hopefully we'll get a chance to use it again next year.

You guys playing for the national title next year? Please don't tell Georgia Southern......they'll run out of appeals.

Yep

Sorry to inform certain fan bases hoping we wouldn't sell any tickets,it looks like we actually have fans at the game Saturday.

We have sold our original and the second allotment. Requested and received a 3rd allotment and have very few of those remaining. Jag fans will be well represented.

http://usajaguars.com/watch/?Archive=222

(12-15-2014 07:20 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  For clarification, the Camellia Bowl presented USA with 2,500 tickets in the initial allotment and USA asked for more right off the bat So they gave us 4,500 and those are confirmed to be sold out. We've asked for additional tickets and received additional tickets.

Great to hear. Good luck Jags!