College Football: Week 1

[corn poffi]

Haha I just paid $60 for a non-conference game. And I thought that was a good deal. Tickets can be ridiculous. $200 for a crappy student section seat is not unheard of.

[scarlett09]

Haha I just paid $60 for a non-conference game. And I thought that was a good deal. Tickets can be ridiculous. $200 for a crappy student section seat is not unheard of.

Whoa. That is mighty expensive for a student section seat. Is that a StubHub price or a demand-inflated price? I still haven't adjusted to ticket prices for "big time" college football. In 2006, I paid $75 for season tickets. For this year, I just paid $350 and, for the first time, there is a price differential in non-conference ($40) and conference ($55) games. A parking pass is $120 and that is what I paid to park my car on campus for the ENTIRE academic year in 2005! I really feel like the average person and family are priced out of college football. If I bought another season ticket for DH, plus the parking pass, and then add the various expenses of gas, tolls, tailgating, etc., it's well over $1K. When we have kids, I would love to bring them to games, but not if I'm going to pay $350 for a seat that a toddler will never sit in.

I digress. Watched a lot of the Oregon-LSU game last night. Oregon looked flat and had a lot of turnovers that LSU capitalized on for TDs. I feel for JaneDoe, I hope she still enjoyed the game and her trip!!

Oh, and I was also rooting against ND. Their opponent yesterday is in our conference, so it made us look good. USF is going to have another great season (so much so that I will probably have to drink heavily prior to their home game against us to numb the pain of our inevitable loss). ND is always overhyped in the pre-season and then doesn't deliver.

[SuzySunshine]

I love that ND got beat by Lou Holtz's son!

[JaneDoe]

The game was a total let down for us. We sucked! I feel that the Ducks team that we know just didn't show up to play. I have to add that some of the LSU fans we encountered were the nastiest fans I've met. I know there are Duck fans out there that are obnoxious, but the LSU fans were just mean. A LSU fan down the row and behind us talked loudly about how "nerdy" Duck fans are and then said "see, look at the the pimples on the guy in front of us. (Pointing to a young college kid or high school kid. Not sure his age exactly) They proceeded to flick stuff at them and spill beer. This Duck fan and his family was quiet and from where I sat, it didn't seem they provoked them. Security arrived eventually, and I don't know exactly what happened after that, but some of them left.

We had a great time in Dallas. The people here are great although this place is a little too hot for me. Hopefully, the the rest of the Ducks' season will be waaaaaay better.

[SoonerTexan]

LSU fans we encountered were the nastiest fans I've met.

Totally cant confirm this, but I heard the President of LSU had to issue an apology to OU the last time OU played in Baton Rouge.

[bokelley]

St you guys may come to the ou vs mizz game?

[SoonerTexan]

That's the plan...the downside is we are trying to go up with my parents and siblings and my mother cannot make up her mind!

You going to be there?

[Cinderella]

So the two big games for our area last Saturday 9/3 were the Ducks vs. Tigers and the Oregon State vs. Sacramento State in Corvallis. I guess both Oregon teams took a loss.

Next up is September 10th for Oregon State Beavers vs. Wisconsin and The University of Oregon Ducks vs. Nevada.

[HouseofWool]

I don't understand non-conference games that are David vs. Goliath. Who benefits from this? It is humiliating for the team that loses and an empty win for the victor. Stupid-ass system.

[Vanquisher]

I don't understand non-conference games that are David vs. Goliath. Who benefits from this? It is humiliating for the team that loses and an empty win for the victor. Stupid-ass system.

Both teams, actually. This is how the SEC does it for the most part. If you are the big school, the benefits are you get a mostly definite win. And, you can only have 1 or fewer losses to be a national title contender. You also have less of a chance of sustaining injuries in your best players, and your second and third strings can simetimes get some play time depending on the score. Losing to a decent team who is a non-conference opponent looks bad! Furthermore, the small schools always travel, so the big schools dont have to. For smaller schools, it boosts revenue for that game, their strength of schedule (for bowl games) which also mean $$$, and if you happen to win??? Woohoo!


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[HouseofWool]

I dunno - I would still rather have the Badgers go up against a team where we don't end up winning by 40 points even with our first stringers benched. It makes for a very boring game and I end up feeling bad for the kids who lose.

How does it boost revenue for the smaller school?

[Vanquisher]

Didn't say the fans win. It boosts revenue for the smaller school because they get a percentage of ticket sales, and their fans are more likely to travel from Podunk U North to Big School U than to Podunk U South. Plus, big schools are more likely to be televised, and they get to share television money too.


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[HouseofWool]

I guess that makes sense... I would love to see the Badgers go up against someone in the SEC just to see if we can hold our own. Typically we are near the top of our own conference, but I would love to get a taste of what a bowl game would be like at the start of the season. *shrug*

[scarlett09]

Didn't say the fans win. It boosts revenue for the smaller school because they get a percentage of ticket sales, and their fans are more likely to travel from Podunk U North to Big School U than to Podunk U South. Plus, big schools are more likely to be televised, and they get to share television money too.


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Plus, smaller schools usually accept a payout from the larger school to play them. It helps to defray the travel and lodging costs for the smaller school, taking less out of their smaller athletic budgets. Sometimes larger schools will schedule non-conference games against other larger school/well-know programs. Usually to really up the ticket revenue - I know we have a home-and-home scheduled with Penn State in about 3-4 years, the ticket demand for both games will be through the roof!

[Vanquisher]

Besides, I don't consider Oregon State small. They are in a major conference and have been ranked in the last decade. Whine when you play Southern North Dakota Polytechnic.


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