Quote:Yikes. At $68, i'm not sure i'll be able to justify going, even if it is a once-in-a-lifetime moment. Buying a house and paying for a wedding at the same time = not fun.
Yikes. I'd tell the girl to go to Vegas for the wedding! Much cheaper and makes room for the MSU @WMU game!
The four confirmed games (two of the six home games) thus far are:
MSU - Friday, September 4
@Georgia Southern - Saturday, September 12
Murray State (CommUniversity) - Saturday, September 19
@Ohio State - Saturday, September 26
I'm definitely debating on season tickets... the only bad weeks for us at this point are mid-October, so might have to skip a game (or two, if I get unlucky with the final schedule) there.
Any chance MSU doesn't sell out their allotment of 7,000 tickets? I know MSU fans are used to paying $68 (if not more) for a ticket, but will there be enough Spartans fans willing to pay that much to come to Waldo? I think they'll sell out their allotment, but how quickly it happens (assuming it happens) may say a lot.
Quote:Any chance MSU doesn't sell out their allotment of 7,000 tickets?
I highly doubt it. They may not sell them super-fast as it's the first game of the season and all -- but as soon as Sept 1st hits, they'll be selling out Quick of the ones remaining.
Quote:but will there be enough Spartans fans willing to pay that much to come to Waldo?
Yeah, I do think so. It's a Friday Night which opens up availability, too. MSU alumni living in W Michigan will want to go. Many from the MSU campus area will want to go. But, then again, MSU fans have been noted to leave their stadium early and not fill 'er up -- so who knows. At $68 that may be a bit too much. I would have priced them at $49 the first 2 weeks, then $69 after that.
Quote:They have 80000 people who go to their games im sure they get 7000 to come to Waldo. But if there is a total of 32000 broncos it will be okay with me.
We'll then need 1,000 random street walkers to buy tickets and fill in the rest of the green grass area to make it an even 40,000 fans.
Nawww. I think if we sucked horribly and still had Cubit running the show (duck! Oh wait, DB isn't here - phew) -- I think we'd see more of that. However, I would say it'll be 67/33.
If MSU is rolling over us, starting the 2nd half it may get to be around 50/50.
But I see a decent chance of us keeping it competitive for a while.
Well there should be 7000 WMU students plus another 15k season ticket owners and hopefully they bring another 5k in bronco fans. Bringing the ratio 27k broncos and 13k in msu fans.
(02-24-2015 07:47 PM)New School Bronco Wrote: Well there should be 7000 WMU students plus another 15k season ticket owners and hopefully they bring another 5k in bronco fans. Bringing the ratio 27k broncos and 13k in msu fans.
You're talking 40k total. Unless they bring in portable seats they cant squeeze ten thousand on the hill.
(02-24-2015 08:51 PM)New School Bronco Wrote: We had 37k versus Indiana StatE without using most of the hills. I would be very surprised if they don't hit 40k
Understand the Comm U game is corporate tickets, i.e. tons of free tickets that include free food and drink before the game. This is a $70 ticket. It will sell out, but I don't see 40k even with the hills.
CMU brought in portable seats. Not sure we have the set up in the corners to put portable seats in.
They did something similar for the VA Tech game for students. We had to actually redeem tickets if I remember correctly. It was fairly packed in the student section but not full for everyone else.
(02-24-2015 11:17 PM)ITalian83i Wrote: They did something similar for the VA Tech game...It was fairly packed in the student section but not full for everyone else.
IIRC the Va Tech game at Waldo drew around 27K. Certainly not a bad crowd - and it was definitely a very loud crowd - but it was also disappointing that Va Tech was, I believe, #5 in the country at the time and we didn't sell out. I remember some in the community being upset at that time because the athletic department raised the ticket prices for that game, but I'm pretty sure the price hike wasn't all that steep (certainly not compared to the difference between a typical 2015 home ticket and $68 for the MSU game).
Here's the TV broadcast of the VT-WMU game at Waldo. Watch the first five minutes of the broadcast, and you get a pretty good idea of what the crowd was like. (If you watch from 2:45 to 4:15, that minute and 30 seconds will show both sideline views and one of the end zones.)
I remember the end zones filling up for the most part as the game went along, but there were still some open seats.
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