big house sell out streak to end?

[HuskerinBig10]

Nebraska would still sell out every game if there were 100,000 seats. So you can toss that argument down the drain.

I will be the devil's advocate. I think Nebraska has reached its maximum capacity for selling out. The blue/grey hairs are dying out, and the young folk don't care enough.

I am not sure if my brethren remember during the Callahan era, fans DID stay away to force the firing of Callahan and if not for the purchasing power of two corporate sponsors to absorb 4,000 tickets or so, the sellout streak would have ended. As I recall, ConAgra was one of the corporations, the other one might have been Union Pacific but it could have been Keiwit. I know it was not Warren Buffett as Berkshire Hathaway, he likes baseball.

Like all schools, the unsold visiting team tickets are counted as SOLD even though only ten of their fans showed up. Usually, those seats could be sold to some games, but with some of the visitors being horrendous on the field, even the Nebraska faithful wouldn't buy.

 

[Blackshirt]

In the 60s? Unlikely. BTW, you should preface your arguments with "because I say so".

The 1960's is when our sell out streak started.

(Because I say so) Nebraska would have sold out with 100 k seats in the 70's/80's/90's due to sheer utter dominance over the sport for those decades.

Happy butt hurt bitch?

 

[boxedlunch]

Average home attendance since 1963:

Nebraska 75469.40
Michigan 100006.61

Congrats on manufacturing a bragging point.

 

[boxedlunch]

I will be the devil's advocate. I think Nebraska has reached its maximum capacity for selling out. The blue/grey hairs are dying out, and the young folk don't care enough.

I am not sure if my brethren remember during the Callahan era, fans DID stay away to force the firing of Callahan and if not for the purchasing power of two corporate sponsors to absorb 4,000 tickets or so, the sellout streak would have ended. As I recall, ConAgra was one of the corporations, the other one might have been Union Pacific but it could have been Keiwit. I know it was not Warren Buffett as Berkshire Hathaway, he likes baseball.

Like all schools, the unsold visiting team tickets are counted as SOLD even though only ten of their fans showed up. Usually, those seats could be sold to some games, but with some of the visitors being horrendous on the field, even the Nebraska faithful wouldn't buy.

All schools are artificially inflating the attendance total. I'm in doubt that the Michigan streak will end just because they will find a way to bloat the figures. That's why these sort of bragging points are silly and I have to laugh when Nebraska fans brag about a sell out streak. I'm not sure why they can't point out how hard a ticket is to get, or the year of waiting to get season tickets are. Nebraska's support has been amazing, particularly when you consider location. Why thump your chest over "sell out streak" when so many factors go into "sell outs"?

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Congratulations on having a sell out streak including games with little over 30,000 in attendance. Michigan has sold over 100,000 tickets in hundreds of games. Nebraska's streak is zero.

Well boxedlunch, back in the early 1980s and before, when Memorial Stadium was full it was the second largest city in Nebraska.

When it was over 30,000 that was like 5% of the State Population. Name one other state that has 5% of the state population at a game. Wyoming with 550,000 population would have to average 27,500 now, but they get something like 20,000.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Average home attendance since 1963:

Nebraska 75469.40
Michigan 100006.61

Congrats on manufacturing a bragging point.

Congrats on Michigan having 5 times the population of Nebraska but only pulling in 1.3 times the football crowd size.

 

[GoBlueNavyNuke]

Congrats on Michigan having 5 times the population of Nebraska but only pulling in 1.3 times the football crowd size.

You are ignoring the population of the state is pretty evenly divided between MSU and Michigan in terms of fanbase. Nice try, so close but yet so far.

Maybe if Nebraska was able to support more than one quality program..............ouch, that hurt (admitting MSU is a quality program)

 

[Bandwagonbo2]

I've always found if you put a quality product on the field that they will show up. Maybe this is the problem

 

[Camfantasy]

The shitty Nebraska fans on this board sure do make the good ones look like shit.

 

[HuskerCradle2Grave]

Average home attendance since 1963:

Nebraska 75469.40
Michigan 100006.61

Congrats on manufacturing a bragging point.

Average population of the state since 1960.

Nebraska 1,582,264
Michigan 9,212,346

Want to guess which team has a higher percentage of the populace attending games?

 

[HuskerCradle2Grave]

You are ignoring the population of the state is pretty evenly divided between MSU and Michigan in terms of fanbase. Nice try, so close but yet so far.

Maybe if Nebraska was able to support more than one quality program..............ouch, that hurt (admitting MSU is a quality program)

Divide Michigan's populace in half and Nebraska still has a better attendance percentage...

 

[HuskerCradle2Grave]

The shitty Nebraska fans on this board sure do make the good ones look like shit.

I thought this was the point of sports message boards. Having ridiculous arguments about inconsequential shit...

 

[broncosmitty]

Well boxedlunch, back in the early 1980s and before, when Memorial Stadium was full it was the second largest city in Nebraska.

When it was over 30,000 that was like 5% of the State Population. Name one other state that has 5% of the state population at a game. Wyoming with 550,000 population would have to average 27,500 now, but they get something like 20,000.

Have you ever worked for the Census Bureau?

 

[TexasExes98]

All schools are artificially inflating the attendance total. I'm in doubt that the Michigan streak will end just because they will find a way to bloat the figures. That's why these sort of bragging points are silly and I have to laugh when Nebraska fans brag about a sell out streak. I'm not sure why they can't point out how hard a ticket is to get, or the year of waiting to get season tickets are. Nebraska's support has been amazing, particularly when you consider location. Why thump your chest over "sell out streak" when there isn't shit else to do or watch for entertainment in the state of Nebraska?

FIFY.....

 

[TexasExes98]

Average population of the state since 1960.

Nebraska 1,582,264
Michigan 9,212,346

Want to guess which team has a higher percentage of the populace attending games?

College teams and professional sports teams to watch and games you can attend in the state of Michigan:

Michigan Wolverines
MSU Spartans
Central Michigan
Wastern Michigan
Detroit Lions
Detroit Tigers
Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Pistons

College teams and professional sports teams to watch and games you can attend in the state of Nebraska:

Nebraska Cornhuskers


Doesn't matter what the population sizes are, there isn't jackshit to watch in Nebraska, other than the Corn Fuckers, pretty simple to sell out every game for 100 years straight, hell till eternity.....

 

[Camfantasy]

Swear to god i almost was the 1st post on this thread last night and was going to say "inb4 the Nebraska fans show up to turn this thread into a we are still relevant thread"

 

[Blackshirt]

Swear to god i almost was the 1st post on this thread last night and was going to say "inb4 the Nebraska fans show up to turn this thread into a we are still relevant thread"

Says the Virginia Tech fan...

 

[Camfantasy]

Says the Virginia Tech fan...

where are the VT "we are relevant please look at us threads?"

 

[Bandwagonbo2]

where are the VT "we are relevant please look at us threads?"

You would have to have been relevant at one time first

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

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I'm not sure we have a "sell out streak" but we do have a streak of games over 100,000 people. I can't imagine it will end any time soon. If it's even a potential, that AD will find some donor or give the tickets to some group to fill the seats. They used to do something similar in the 70's called "band day" where they'd invite a bunch of local HS bands to the stadium to fill seats and play at halftime.

With that said, based on the spamming I'm seeing from the Athletic Department about buying tickets, they're struggling this year. And they should given the schedule they agreed to and the teams they let into the big ten. It's not shocking that fewer people want to pay $80 to see App State play Michigan than they did when it was only $50.