Folks, the fans put on a GREAT show today. Can't imagine this will be the last visit from ESPN. So proud to be a Duke!

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Admin, all campus workers, and students did one heck of a job !!! ESPN and Game day LOVE this place !!! How can they NOT ??? Rowdy crowd, great signs, streamers, beauty of campus and the Valley .... it doesn't get any better than this .... Game Day loves the hell out of us !!!!! Such a great broadcast !!!!! Kudos JMU !!!!

Now .... kick some 'Nova ass ........

Agreed. They've learned from 2015 and did a great job organizing and leveraging this opportunity.

Great job. I didn't see all of it, but you all put on a good showing.

Fantastic gameday crowd, good football game against a tough defense. Lee Fitting was at the game with his family.

Crowd was quiet on offense, and loud on 3rd/4th downs. Most of the crowd stayed until the final interception for a TD that sealed it.

Nice MRD performance and good weather too. Just about a perfect day overall.

(10-14-2017 08:03 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  Fantastic gameday crowd, good football game against a tough defense. Lee Fitting was at the game with his family.

Crowd was quiet on offense, and loud on 3rd/4th downs. Most of the crowd stayed until the final interception for a TD that sealed it.

Nice MRD performance and good weather too. Just about a perfect day overall.

The pizza winning the race leading to 1 dollar slices was gravy to that just about perfect day overall too.

Do we know what the crowd sizes were, both for Gameday and in the stadium?

Both looked great on TV!

(10-14-2017 08:30 PM)madizoned-level2004 Wrote:  Do we know what the crowd sizes were, both for Gameday and in the stadium?

Both looked great on TV!

The number of tickets accounted for in BFS is listed at 25,993 - 2nd highest ever. Looked like we had a lot of middle- and high-school kids filling up sections 413, 414, & 415. Lots of their buses were over at Festival today. Great to see us fill up the stadium with kids and their sponsors/chaperones - hope they had a great, fun day at JMU. You never know which of those kids might be a future Duke one day.

(10-14-2017 08:07 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  

(10-14-2017 08:03 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  Fantastic gameday crowd, good football game against a tough defense. Lee Fitting was at the game with his family.

Crowd was quiet on offense, and loud on 3rd/4th downs. Most of the crowd stayed until the final interception for a TD that sealed it.

Nice MRD performance and good weather too. Just about a perfect day overall.

The pizza winning the race leading to 1 dollar slices was gravy to that just about perfect day overall too.

I think I was the only person not happy about pizza winning. About 3 mins before the race I bought two slices of pizza. GRR.

So when Lobster wins, does that mean something like $1 lobster rolls?

(10-15-2017 02:55 PM)NH/JMU Saxkow Wrote:  So when Lobster wins, does that mean something like $1 lobster rolls?

Probably will only happen when we're playing Maine or Family/Homecoming weekends when Aramark can plan for it. I think they were $2-3 when he/she won the weekend we were playing Maine.

Wait, JMU's got lobster rolls???

Lobster won during the Maine game and they had lobster rolls, think they were $3 or $4. Do not remember. Seemed to be very popular also!!

Was great to see Lobster finally win!!

Yesterday my younger daughter asked if Cheeseburger had ever won. I did not recall, anyone know? If not, time to start a Cheeseburger chant!!

Brian

(10-15-2017 05:06 PM)HyperDuke Wrote:  Wait, JMU's got lobster rolls???

Yes - $3 and they were fantastic

Apparently, they always have the lobster rolls; you just have to ask for them. They are not on any menus. They are usually $6, I think. I've never had them.

(10-14-2017 08:36 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  

(10-14-2017 08:30 PM)madizoned-level2004 Wrote:  Do we know what the crowd sizes were, both for Gameday and in the stadium?

Both looked great on TV!

The number of tickets accounted for in BFS is listed at 25,993 - 2nd highest ever. Looked like we had a lot of middle- and high-school kids filling up sections 413, 414, & 415. Lots of their buses were over at Festival today. Great to see us fill up the stadium with kids and their sponsors/chaperones - hope they had a great, fun day at JMU. You never know which of those kids might be a future Duke one day.

There was a large school group in 401 upper level as well. They seemed to be enjoying it. The teachers/leaders were gathering unused bam bams from the other sections for them.

(10-16-2017 10:11 AM)Diver24 Wrote:  

(10-14-2017 08:36 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  

(10-14-2017 08:30 PM)madizoned-level2004 Wrote:  Do we know what the crowd sizes were, both for Gameday and in the stadium?

Both looked great on TV!

The number of tickets accounted for in BFS is listed at 25,993 - 2nd highest ever. Looked like we had a lot of middle- and high-school kids filling up sections 413, 414, & 415. Lots of their buses were over at Festival today. Great to see us fill up the stadium with kids and their sponsors/chaperones - hope they had a great, fun day at JMU. You never know which of those kids might be a future Duke one day.

There was a large school group in 401 upper level as well. They seemed to be enjoying it. The teachers/leaders were gathering unused bam bams from the other sections for them.

Suspect those school visits were set up in advance months ago. Once gameday became likely, any remaining seats vanished. Hope we had some some top recruits (athletic and academic) visiting.