So you’re the decider of attendance, not the actual organization that distributes the tickets? JFC you’re unhinged
IU buying out next year's Louisville game
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You could also tell how many fans that were there were Ohio state fans? All from your couch?
For those of us that were there
Announced attanedance (tickets sold) was 50K
Given the few bald spots and the generally loose seating, I would put the actual at 45K.
12K were students
8-10K were Ahia assholes. (20K lol)
25K IU non student fans (not good)
My post shows 16-20% of the crowd i think that is close. Ahia travels better than any other visitor by a long shot. While their numbers are nowhere near what they were 15 years ago, they still bring a lot of annoying wannabes.
no way was there more than 40,000 tops actual attendance. (not the purely fictional administration numbers that are always quite inflated).
anyone who watched the tv broadcast could see no way was the stadium more than 4/5ths full, and highly doubtful it was even that.
this board reminds me of a Cris Collinsworth quote.
"people want to hear the truth.
they just don't want to hear the truth about their own team".
Pretty close. I've been to a lot of OSU games in Btown and there are always more OSU fans than you think.
They were the first fans I remember to consistently start showing up on Thursdays in RVs. It wasn't uncommon to find the urinals at Memorial stadium full of Buckeyes. They don't travel like they once did, but still better than any other B10 program.
Maybe, but Indianapolis is an easy drive from Louisville. I don’t know that it’s a true “neutral” location, but it’s not bad for fans of either program.
Don't disagree, I just don't think people are all that interested.
There were a few years they had close to 20K but nothing like that in the last decade plus.
Even at 8K they are still obnoxious.
One problem with your analysis
What you can tell at the game that you cannot on TV is the "loose" seating, meaning that instead of the tight side by side everyone gets a few extra inches to spread out because less seats are filled. Can't really see that on tv if there aren't gaps.
They're not interested because we have scorched the earth for the past two seasons. The biggest crowd I may have ever seen at Memorial was the 2021 Cincinnati game.
Logistical question...I haven't purchased my tickets yet, how do you know which side is the Indiana side? Thanks!
So you'd rather beat a good out of conference team than go to a bowl? I would say you are in the minority on this one. Beating, lets say a top 20 team the first game of the season, but not going to a bowl would not be a great or entertaining season to me. To me a successful and enjoyable season is playing some "meaningful" games outside of September. And the only way to do that is to beat inferior teams to start the year. IU needs to build the program by getting some confidence and momentum. You do that by playing in bowls. I don't care if it's the K-Mart Bowl. Bowls baby!
Bowl games don’t mean what they used to, especially those not on Jan 1. They come a dime a dozen, just not for IU. In the history of college football IU has been in just 12 bowl games, losing 9 of those. We haven’t won a bowl game in 32 years. Let that sink in when you turn out the light and close your eyes tonight. Think slowly to yourself “32 *****ng years!” Only then can you truly appreciate how ridiculously long that’s been.
They’re meaningful from the standpoint of extra practices, as well as a showcase for on campus recruits.
Well, the kick was good so there is that.
Bowls are definitely divided by the haves and have nots. The have not bowls give is added practice time and an opportunity to foster relationships with alumni. A party weekend in a warm town is a great way to connect with alumni.
It absolutely made us better. You don't learn how to win by getting your ass kicked every week. We completed passes against a team that we didn't practice against. We found out our special teams aren't special. Hopefully we are mich better this week.
We got to put together drives. Jackson gained confidence. Another game against OSU would not have made us better.
any non idiot could just go to a balanced conference sched, and still have 7 home games a yr including home and homes with other non conf schools from other major conferences.
this isn't about scheduling what's best for the fans, students, and alums.
it's about the B10 schools owing the media rights to games, and home and homes with major non conf schools mean the other school has those media rights half the time for that home and home.
every decision IU and the B10 makes, they make for one, and only one reason.
They have the coach they have always wanted, the great Brohmbardi. Lots of excitement. IU is waiting out an buyout.
Great start to be sure.
Indiana travels well to bowls and they are great for fundraising.
Winning some would be a bonus.
IU fans will never travel to a bowl game as well as they did in 1967-68…the Rose Bowl. We lost that one, too, 14-3. Traveled over 2,000 miles and didn’t see a TD scored in red. At least we got the Rose Bowl monkey off our backs. It was a long time coming. Sadly, the “Katzenjammer Kids” never lived up to expectations following the sophomore years of our BIG three, Butcher, Isenbarger and Gonso.
Just a bit before my time but other bowls i have attended (outside of CA) have been good. Over 20,000 in Jax and that was a blast for two days right up until five minutes to go.
I think my last bowl game attended was the Peach Bowl in ‘88 on NYD. We got down 21-3 to Tennessee early in the second quarter then took our first lead 22-21 in the 4th Q. Tenn. scored the go ahead TD with 2 min, left. It was a heartbreaker. We had David Schnell at QB and Anthony Thompson at half-back. IU had a big crowd and it was a mostly sunny day with 58K+ total attendance.
It has been a long time and I was young but I remember sitting at (that)? game in FCS looking up and barely being able to see the upper deck due to the fog and dark.
Am I confusing another bowl?
I don’t recall that degree of gloom and doom. Maybe the weather was “iffy” at first but as the game progressed the sun peaked thru the clouds and was decent for
Jan 1 in Georgia.
It was rainy and chilly, just as it was when we played there several years later against Auburn. And it was actually January 2nd, as there was a large Rose Bowl watch party the day before in the official IU hotel.
In the days of Lee Corso, the “we‘re going to be good schedule“ was LSU USC and Nebraska …
Then, UK was an SEC doormat slightly better than Vandy.
It‘s not the doormat it once was. Stoops has seen to that.
Stoops seems content to stay in Lexington.
Scheduling UK may have a lot of emotional appeal, but is no longer practicable …
UK dropped IU to schedule a cupcake … like NKU, WKU, Murray St.
WKU moved up to FBS and became less attractive.
Political factions in KY, forced UK to schedule UL
Traditional rival UTenn has gotten over their slump.
Dropping a cupcake for IU means fewer bowl trips for UK: can’t happen.
IU needs the cupcake with the 9 game Big Schedule.
No doubt about it.
Yes good tickets are pricey enough … 18 bucks student activity fee for a season pass when I was a student.
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