It was like this all season? Why did we just start caring today?
Those are the outdoor club seats so they may have been there but they have access inside.
I am worried about next years attendance with only 1 worthy game- iowa
The scholarship seating program, wrecked the Gopher football fan base. The U denies it but they have never recovered the fans that dropped season tickets.
The scholarship seating program, wrecked the Gopher football season ticket fan base. The U denies it but they have never recovered the fans that dropped season tickets. Many of those folks have moved on and will never be back.
It is Mega-tongue's doing.
Funny thing with so many no-shows is on StubHub still needed $125/ticket minimum (4 together). I considered not missing my first MN-WI game in a decade, but that made it easy. Not sure who would have bought those.
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We can blame it on Megatongue, but the truth is that the product is why attendance is down. It's not a Kill/Claeys/Fleck thing, the fan base is fickle. The program looked to be on the right track, then kind of stalled out (which is exactly what should happen per Fleck's fake graph of no data, but neither here nor there). People get bored with it, and "hey look, the Twins and T-Wolves are cool again, and the Vikings are winning, and the Wild are getting underway....reroute the bandwagon." I wouldn't be surprised if there were even a few people who opted to stay home and check out number 14 Gopher's Basketball in a top 25 matchup with Alabama this afternoon.
In this market, with all of the options, you have to put out a better product. By "better product," I mean play well and win games. Not necessarily "Greatest Show on Turf," but competent football. A program like Wisconsin, who plays a relatively boring brand but wins at a high level consistently, would kill it here in terms of ticket sales.
Another thing of note, the scoreboard/programming/music and basically the whole atmosphere in general is pretty weak. Maybe that comes with success, but it was a snooze fest in there this year.
Considering how Fleck is talking, it sounds like he has no plans for the team to be good next year and that it will be another year of learning. With how high ticket prices, can you really expect casual fans to show up and see the Gophers learn? Who wants to pay big money to see their team get destroyed out in the cold?
The scholarship seating program, wrecked the Gopher football season ticket fan base. The U denies it but they have never recovered the fans that dropped season tickets. Many of those folks have moved on and will never be back.
The record for the smallest TCF crowd is 38K for last year’s NW game. We may break that record next year.....several times.
The scholarship seating started to crack the foundation. PJ just ripped up the whole floor.
I was one of them
Ditto for me- I will never go back to season tickets after dropping them after
10 plus years