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Duke Dawg:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on January 02, 2017, 10:16:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: YSUGO on January 02, 2017, 09:28:20 PM ---I was at all the championship games. The 91 game my guess there was 500-700 of us. I have the same picture that Strollo has that was taken and we were lost in a sea of green. But I have to believe the 3 years in Marshall we sent more than 1k. It seems when we went in 97 and 99 there was at least 2k? Am I wrong?
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I was at all of them. The Villanova game had more people than the final game in Huntington, kind of odd. Then again, 1/2 of Ytown comes from Philly area. I still think we had the most back in 1994. It looked like we had around 4k-to 5k, but I also think that could have been an illusion because Boise had very few people there. The tailgating in Georgia was fantastic ...it was a sea of red, but the game was certainly not. This year is very similar to that. The team caught everyone by surprise back then people did not know what to do. I was pretty young back in 1979, but that seems to be the biggest final crowd that I remember.
Take those JMU numbers with a grain of salt as well. As I understand from my two calls, they took more opening day tickets that we did, but neither team used all of their 3k paper tickets and neither team ordered a second set beyond team and student seats, which are fixed at 125 on top of the two per player. I am also told that the player seats are not complimentary as it would be considered compensation? I do not buy that. Can any former players shed some light on how family tickets work?
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nope. not true. we sold 7,000 tickets through the school. our estimates of 10,000 will be pretty accurate.
Duke Dawg:
--- Quote from: supermario21 on January 02, 2017, 10:56:15 PM ---I wonder if we could put in a FOIA for how much YSU bid for playoff games. JMU almost always loses bids to their home playoff games. Heck, it's likely most schools outside of NDSU end up whiffing on the bids. I would think the band should be there, I believe each school gets up to 350 band tickets. JMU can't bring there whole band for the seats but like Jacksonville State last year they may be able to be seated elsewhere.
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we've only been outbid once. ever.
that was when EKU had the OVC kick in a ton of money to help with their bid.
Guinfan1990:
--- Quote from: Duke Dawg on January 03, 2017, 10:56:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: supermario21 on January 02, 2017, 10:56:15 PM ---I wonder if we could put in a FOIA for how much YSU bid for playoff games. JMU almost always loses bids to their home playoff games. Heck, it's likely most schools outside of NDSU end up whiffing on the bids. I would think the band should be there, I believe each school gets up to 350 band tickets. JMU can't bring there whole band for the seats but like Jacksonville State last year they may be able to be seated elsewhere.
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we've only been outbid once. ever.
that was when EKU had the OVC kick in a ton of money to help with their bid.
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what are you talking about ? YSU outbid you in 06.
Duke Dawg:
no. you guys were seeded 4th
that's why JMU fans were so ticked. We were basically 5th and they sent us to play you guys due to their stupid geography rules.
because you were seeded, the game had to be at your place. bids never came into play.
here is the bracket:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_NCAA_Division_I_FCS_football_season
supermario21:
--- Quote from: Duke Dawg on January 03, 2017, 10:56:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: supermario21 on January 02, 2017, 10:56:15 PM ---I wonder if we could put in a FOIA for how much YSU bid for playoff games. JMU almost always loses bids to their home playoff games. Heck, it's likely most schools outside of NDSU end up whiffing on the bids. I would think the band should be there, I believe each school gets up to 350 band tickets. JMU can't bring there whole band for the seats but like Jacksonville State last year they may be able to be seated elsewhere.
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we've only been outbid once. ever.
that was when EKU had the OVC kick in a ton of money to help with their bid.
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My bad for wording that poorly. I meant to say that JMU usually loses money on its bids, but since the EKU debacle they don't care. A concession is that private funds have been available to fill in the gaps, but it still stands that JMU will bid at all costs. I read an article about the 2014 game with Liberty. The school placed a bid contingent upon an attendance of 23,000. Didn't get it, but school still said the bid was worth it. I was just using that to make a point about how just because a school may lose money on a playoff game that shouldn't deter the school from requesting as many championship game tickets as possible.
https://jamesmadison.rivals.com/news/final-tally-dukes-lose-126k-on-playoff-game
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