What else is there to do in West Lafayette Indiana?
Hey man.
I consider a bowl season (six wins) a special season. We haven't had many of those. If we win on the road at Maryland, I'll be happy to concede that I probably underestimated the team, as I think we're then looking north of 6. None of us really knows how good (or not) this team really is, given the schedule to date. Yesterday's game was great but this Saturday's game will tell us a lot more, I think.
Very disappointing for sure. The noon start certainly didn't help, but I think people are still skeptical. Until we prove we can beat somebody legit and make bowl games a lot of people are not going to invest.
It’s a funny joke until you realize most fans drive from Indy or Chicago. The same areas that IU fans decide not to drive from to go to an IU game.
I'm not going to lie, because of the time of year I rarely am able to attend football games. Judging from radio or TV, there almost always seems to be a lack of juice from the crowd at the noon games compared to the 3:30 games.
Those numbers are tickets sold, not necessarily butts in seats. Nobody here is claiming otherwise.
are the people who don’t go in students, locals or who? I can not imagine driving there from more than a few miles away just to park and tailgate and never go to the game. I know people like there tailgating and that is fine but it would be interesting to know where the people are from that are coming to the parking lot but not coming to the game.
Thank you. I do not get that but I am a grumpy old man. I guess I am supposed to say get off my lawn now. Haha.
I don't understand it either. Save $20 and sit in your driveway.
Yes it’s negative thing because just ask yourself is it easier to get fans into stands from a couple hundred yards away or from a living room couch? Mistake has been not finding way to positively play off unique tailgating scene. At one time it was pretty special. Still decent but not what it was. As for the question why PU had so many more fans for similar homecoming game, they advertised $15 via social, radio, etc right up to game day. IU lowered to $30 for a couple days a week ago. A whopping 30% or something. Much greater effort on PUs part.
Most NFL and some colleges forbid people to remain in the parking lots tailgating after kickoff. Too many people who require some level of supervision, so they sweep the lots and send them on their way or make those with tickets go inside. And almost no venue permits pass out privileges anymore as it’s universally viewed as a security issue that stadiums want to mitigate. I don’t think IU really cares if people come in or not since they’ve never done anything about it and they probably don’t want to upset people who don’t care about seeing the game.
You have to try something having a reported 15,000 fans outside an empty stadium is not a good thing either.
Don’t disagree at all! Certainly bigger factors. No one single answer, usually a bunch of things added up to get full picture.
The difference in my opinion is the number of people that actually leave a tailgate and watch the game. There are those that leave the game early to return to their tailgate. To many, it doesn't matter if we are up 30 or down 30. In tight games against MSU or OSU, some that never leave our tailgate show up in their seats. I don't get why people come to the game and sit in the parking lot listening to music,.
Yep even could be a sellout if a decent day and a 3:30 kickoff. But one game at a time. #LEO
This though also points out the missed potential as despite this record, we have had a tremendous tailgating scene and good hard core group. IU is fortunate to have the hard core base it’s had. Problem is there isn’t a new gen being developed so it will die out eventually
