MAC fans within a 2 hour drive need to get to the MACC.
(11-26-2012 11:39 AM)BobL Wrote: [ -> ]MAC fans within a 2 hour drive need to get to the MACC.
Our fans should realize that attending a championship game with so much at stake is a festive occasion even if one doesn't have a rooting interest.
After all, how many at the Super Bowl are fans of either participant?
It would be nice if there were other things such as things of general interest (maybe a post game concert) or maybe at half time having awards for the MVP of each MAC team.
As I suggested above with the Super Bowl, one can take a game and embellish it to the natural limit of the particular game.
It might be nice to do things like have a drawing for a free one year lease of a car or maybe two opening game baseball tickets to a Midwest MLB team of the winner's choice.
Or two season tickets for a MAC team of the winner's choice.
Or maybe two nights stay at the Motor City Casino Hotel (if permissible per NCAA). That Casino Hotel is owned by Mrs. Ilitch, the Tigers' owner's wife.
Drawings for say a dozen Little Caeser's pizzas.
The idea being is that it is good to spend say 25 - 50K on prizes and other things which fans REALLY want to win.
How about a drawing at each television time out? (sure makes those 2 minutes fun again).
(11-26-2012 11:50 AM)cmadler Wrote: [ -> ]Tickets are listed at $10 to $20 via Ticketmaster, and are on Stubhub as low as $4 (though you'll then pay $15+ for shipping).
I plan to make the 2.75 hour drive to Detroit Friday, and I am a neutral MAC fan. It is good for the conference. I would also go to the Orange Bowl to see a MAC team play if I had not already booked a 4 week trip to Vegas and Mesquite.
The endzone seats are $10 I believe, but since there will be lots of empty seats I'm sure you can easily move to a better spot from there.
(11-26-2012 12:16 PM)DICK Wrote: [ -> ] (11-26-2012 11:50 AM)cmadler Wrote: [ -> ]Tickets are listed at $10 to $20 via Ticketmaster, and are on Stubhub as low as $4 (though you'll then pay $15+ for shipping).
I plan to make the 2.75 hour drive to Detroit Friday, and I am a neutral MAC fan. It is good for the conference. I would also go to the Orange Bowl to see a MAC team play if I had not already booked a 4 week trip to Vegas and Mesquite.
I'd be glad to go to the Orange Bowl as a MAC fan.
(11-26-2012 12:16 PM)DICK Wrote: [ -> ] (11-26-2012 11:50 AM)cmadler Wrote: [ -> ]Tickets are listed at $10 to $20 via Ticketmaster, and are on Stubhub as low as $4 (though you'll then pay $15+ for shipping).
I plan to make the 2.75 hour drive to Detroit Friday, and I am a neutral MAC fan. It is good for the conference. I would also go to the Orange Bowl to see a MAC team play if I had not already booked a 4 week trip to Vegas and Mesquite.
With no "local" MAC team in the MACC, with all the excitement regarding the BCS is a crowd of 20K plus a realistic prospect?
I won't be going. I've been to all the MACC that Ohio has played in recently, and I'd be there again this year if they were in. I'll be cheering for Kent to win, but I'm considering going to Ohio's basketball game Saturday in Pittsburgh. If I was only 2 hours away, I'd probably go even though Ohio isn't playing.
(11-26-2012 12:40 PM)exCincy Kid Wrote: [ -> ]With no "local" MAC team in the MACC, with all the excitement regarding the BCS is a crowd of 20K plus a realistic prospect?
Don't want to disrespect either team, but could you imagine if say CMU or Toledo or BG were one of the participants and they had won 11 games!
CMU could bring say 25K+.
UT similar. BG maybe 15K.
That would be sweet.
The Detroit newspapers should be promoting the hell out of this. Unfortunately they are so far up the Big TenFour I doubt they can see the light that should be shining right in the middle of their much maligned city this Friday evening.
(11-26-2012 01:09 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: [ -> ]The Detroit newspapers should be promoting the hell out of this.
So should every Ohio paper (except maybe Cincy area). ZSU is done for the year, time to focus on teams that are still eligible to play.
This Toledo fan will be there
Newspapers should promote an event? No....the conference should promote it. The media should cover it...the build up etc... But suggesting they should take an active role in creating interest isn't realistic or appropriate.
(11-26-2012 01:17 PM)El Grande Flippero Wrote: [ -> ]Newspapers should promote an event? No....the conference should promote it. The media should cover it...the build up etc... But suggesting they should take an active role in creating interest isn't realistic or appropriate.
OK, maybe PROMOTE wasn't the correct word. You know damn well what I mean. The Free Press and Detroit News cover U-M and MSU football every freaking day of the year.
Now where's that online thesaurus?
The conference won't promote this as actively as they should because the people in the MAC office are a joke.
Ok, how about "covering" the event. Instead of ignoring it. That would be nice.
(11-26-2012 01:56 PM)The Optimist Wrote: [ -> ]The conference won't promote this as actively as they should because the people in the MAC office are a joke.
Why? Is that really what the MAC presidents and ADs want?
Missing on a BCS game is a loss of millions. Literally.
Right now the lead story at mac-sports.com is yet another CMU coach headed to Cincinnati. Are you kidding me??? Quick, someone teach them how to design a splash page.
I just checked and the lead stories are football and basketball players of the week and the polls.