Penn State White Out

[Courtsensetwo]

white out created by hanging tee shirts over empty blue seats. They can just leave them there and do this every game.

 

[Univee2]

white out created by hanging tee shirts over empty blue seats. They can just leave them there and do this every game.

I hope they have some more, for all the people leaving this "game" early ....

 

[VanPastorMan]

white out created by hanging tee shirts over empty blue seats. They can just leave them there and do this every game.

It is a football school. I'd go to a football game if someone had a ticket. On tv it looks like an exciting atmosphere. IU football looks more like a Penn State basketball game, though as I said before because of it my wife and I had the best basketball seats we have ever had. We were to the left of the IU bench and about five rows above where the IU team came out. I was so close I gave Coach some tips for the game, but the dreaded band started playing when I was about to speak. So Rude. LoL.

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

It is a football school. I'd go to a football game if someone had a ticket. On tv it looks like an exciting atmosphere. IU football looks more like a Penn State basketball game, though as I said before because of it my wife and I had the best basketball seats we have ever had. We were to the left of the IU bench and about five rows above where the IU team came out. I was so close I gave Coach some tips for the game, but the dreaded band started playing when I was about to speak. So Rude. LoL.

There are a few schools (like IU and Penn State) who haven’t quite figured out how master two sports. Other “football schools” do it quite well. Michigan and Michigan State are the gold standard in the conference. Neither have any trouble turning it on for both sports. Wisconsin is in the same mode.

 

[travlinhoosier]

I'd go to a football game if someone had a ticket. On tv it looks like an exciting atmosphere

If it's broadcast it's boring. You sit and sit while they do commercials. It was a lot more fun before the BTN when most of IU's football games weren't televised. Of course the money's nice.

 

[WiskyHoosier]

There are a few schools (like IU and Penn State) who haven’t quite figured out how master two sports. Other “football schools” do it quite well. Michigan and Michigan State are the gold standard in the conference. Neither have any trouble turning it on for both sports. Wisconsin is in the same mode.

Wisconsin was in that discussion, not anymore. I’d argue for Ohio State long before Wisconsin.

 

[IUgradman]

There are a few schools (like IU and Penn State) who haven’t quite figured out how master two sports. Other “football schools” do it quite well. Michigan and Michigan State are the gold standard in the conference. Neither have any trouble turning it on for both sports. Wisconsin is in the same mode.

We haven’t mastered either of the two sports lately.

 

[kmathum]

There are a few schools (like IU and Penn State) who haven’t quite figured out how master two sports. Other “football schools” do it quite well. Michigan and Michigan State are the gold standard in the conference. Neither have any trouble turning it on for both sports. Wisconsin is in the same mode.

how does bama do in that regard?

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

how does bama do in that regard?

They haven’t quite mastered it but you’d be surprised.

Alabama had $174 million in 2017 revenue with $108 million coming from football.

They had $15 million in revenue from men’s basketball, good for #20 nationally. IU was #5 nationally at $24.5 million.

Alabama’s football program generated more by itself than all of IU’s sports combined. IU was just over $100 million in total revenue for 2017.

Surely you know how the economic model works for FBS success?

Basketball revenue is chump change.

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Wisconsin was in that discussion, not anymore. I’d argue for Ohio State long before Wisconsin.

I was referring to attendance, not necessarily wins and losses.
I was looking at fan engagement in both sports. Wisconsin has taken a dip on the court, no doubt. However, their attendance for basketball games last year was reported as the top in the conference at an average of 17,286 per game. IU was 16,363 per game, below Maryland at 16,628.

 

[WiskyHoosier]

I was referring to attendance, not necessarily wins and losses.
I was looking at fan engagement in both sports. Wisconsin has taken a dip on the court, no doubt. However, their attendance for basketball games last year was reported as the top in the conference at an average of 17,286 per game. IU was 16,363 per game, below Maryland at 16,628.

Fair enough on the attendance. One thing that makes a huge difference in that regard is that Wisconsin is a wet campus. Having spent four years in Wisconsin, alcohol is a near necessity at any event.

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Fair enough on the attendance. One thing that makes a huge difference in that regard is that Wisconsin is a wet campus. Having spent four years in Wisconsin, alcohol is a near necessity at any event.

That and it doesn’t hurt a bit when you are the only FBS school in the entire state and your campus is in Madison.

IU is hurt on both fronts.

 

[VanPastorMan]

Fair enough on the attendance. One thing that makes a huge difference in that regard is that Wisconsin is a wet campus. Having spent four years in Wisconsin, alcohol is a near necessity at any event.

If only the Wisconsin basketball team had gotten liquored up before games then maybe we would have won more.

 

[ufo33]

how does bama do in that regard?

Alabama has always been a football school.