Well we lost our spring game record
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We'll need to add on if were gonna top that.
Overland Park Husker
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Just a bunch of bandwagon fans down there.
strigori
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:yeah
When they dont win the SEC next year, or ever make the champ game, there will be grumblings. They are still waiting for Bear Bryant to return from the dead.
BIGREDIOWAN
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We would have packed our house if the tickets were free to our spring game........ <_<
HuskerJosh82
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BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA
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Yep. I believe the free tickets were a big factor.
DaveH
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Possibly, but the tickets are only 8 bucks.
I am sure the lure of seeing the new coach helped more..
BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA
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hack
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a bunch of *demanding* diehards. they want wins and they want them *last season*.
what's the average lifespan of a bama coach's career? about 3.5 years, isn't it?
bhamHusker
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8 bucks is a weeks wages in Bama.
Cost of living here is about 4.5% higher than Omaha
The new coach along with all the associated changes are what drove the interest in the spring game. Virtually all of the people that I know who went to the game were going to attend whether the tickets were free or not.
Always a husker
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Even if we did have a free game our stadium dosnt quite hold that much.
i agree, good luck to you guys, we know how it feels to have some "off years" and you guys had a storied program as we did too. both teams/schools trying to get back to that highly competitive level.Cost of living here is about 4.5% higher than Omaha8 bucks is a weeks wages in Bama.
The new coach along with all the associated changes are what drove the interest in the spring game. Virtually all of the people that I know who went to the game were going to attend whether the tickets were free or not.
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Well Ohio State drew 75,301 for some damn reason (I was at Lowe's with everyone else in town), and they didn't even open the ugly metal stands in the South end zone:
Commentary
Numbers don't lie: 75,301 say spring game really matters
Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:08 AM
By bob hunter
I don't know how you determine which city deserves to be called the college football capital of the world.
Maybe there's an American Idol-type television show that lists phone numbers to call in your vote, a show on which a Simon Cowell-wannabe is berating Bloomington, Ind., and Starkville, Miss., but probably not.
So we're left with the usual means to settle what has been an ongoing dispute for years, pointing out the flaws of other cities who claim the title (Does anybody actually live in Lincoln, Neb.?), citing arcane statistics (Columbus sells twice as many No. 1 foam fingers as does South Bend, Ind.) and finally, just trying to drown out the other guys.
But now there's also this: 75,301.
That's the number of people who were willing to pay what seems an exorbitantly high price -- $5 plus the incalculable cost of a beautiful spring Saturday afternoon -- to watch an offseason football scrimmage yesterday in Ohio Stadium.
"It just reminds me of why I came here," junior flanker Brian Robiskie said. "I was driving over this morning through campus and I just kind of soaked it in. There were some people tailgating and it's nine o'clock in the morning. They were getting ready for the spring game."
That kind of thing isn't done in a lot of places where college football is considered very, very important. Southern California drew 15,000 to its spring game this year. Tennessee had a crowd of 17,409. LSU drew 14,375. West Virginia, which had the misfortune of having its game in a snowstorm, counted 3,000.
The only place that outdrew Ohio State this spring was Alabama, which put 92,138 in the stands yesterday to finally get a look at Nick Saban, the coach the Crimson Tide is paying $4 million a year to save the program. And there's another side to that story that also bears repeating: Admission was free.
Personally, I have never understood this. The Scarlet-Gray scrimmage doesn't seem like even a distant cousin to one of those Ohio State-Michigan games that are about as good as it gets in any sport. To compare real college football to this is like comparing the NCAA men's basketball finals to a pickup game in your driveway.
But to have more than 75,000 people pay $5 to see it says a lot about how much people care about college football around here, and yes, maybe just a little about their sanity.
Last year, the spring game drew 64,000, which was the most ever. But last year, the Buckeyes returned Troy Smith and Ted Ginn Jr., were coming off a win over Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl and were already being billed as the likely preseason No. 1.
Logically, the crowd this year should have been smaller. A 41-14 loss to Florida in the national championship game left Ohio State fans with a football hangover that they were still feeling when the Buckeyes lost to the Gators again three weeks ago in the men's basketball final.
Yet the fans still streamed through the stadium gates, apparently eager to see for themselves which of the three green quarterbacks -- Todd Boeckman, Rob Schoenhoft and Antonio Henton -- they think should replace Smith and why.
But is a chance to tell your pal at the office water cooler or the gang on the Internet message boards who you think should start really worth saying goodbye to a beautiful spring Saturday? Probably only in places in the running to be called college football's capital.
Lincoln, Neb., is one and it showed why again, drawing what had been the biggest spring crowd this year before yesterday, 54,288. But that figure is down from past years, maybe because Lincoln hotels require a two-night minimum on spring game weekend.
Conversely, Columbus' "capital" stock is up. In the past dozen years or so, Ohio State football has been riding a tsunami of momentum and interest seems to be increasing proportionately.
Sure, the Buckeyes got drubbed by the Gators for the national title, but there's always this:
Florida's spring game drew only 47,000.
Commentary
Numbers don't lie: 75,301 say spring game really matters
Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:08 AM
By bob hunter
I don't know how you determine which city deserves to be called the college football capital of the world.
Maybe there's an American Idol-type television show that lists phone numbers to call in your vote, a show on which a Simon Cowell-wannabe is berating Bloomington, Ind., and Starkville, Miss., but probably not.
So we're left with the usual means to settle what has been an ongoing dispute for years, pointing out the flaws of other cities who claim the title (Does anybody actually live in Lincoln, Neb.?), citing arcane statistics (Columbus sells twice as many No. 1 foam fingers as does South Bend, Ind.) and finally, just trying to drown out the other guys.
But now there's also this: 75,301.
That's the number of people who were willing to pay what seems an exorbitantly high price -- $5 plus the incalculable cost of a beautiful spring Saturday afternoon -- to watch an offseason football scrimmage yesterday in Ohio Stadium.
"It just reminds me of why I came here," junior flanker Brian Robiskie said. "I was driving over this morning through campus and I just kind of soaked it in. There were some people tailgating and it's nine o'clock in the morning. They were getting ready for the spring game."
That kind of thing isn't done in a lot of places where college football is considered very, very important. Southern California drew 15,000 to its spring game this year. Tennessee had a crowd of 17,409. LSU drew 14,375. West Virginia, which had the misfortune of having its game in a snowstorm, counted 3,000.
The only place that outdrew Ohio State this spring was Alabama, which put 92,138 in the stands yesterday to finally get a look at Nick Saban, the coach the Crimson Tide is paying $4 million a year to save the program. And there's another side to that story that also bears repeating: Admission was free.
Personally, I have never understood this. The Scarlet-Gray scrimmage doesn't seem like even a distant cousin to one of those Ohio State-Michigan games that are about as good as it gets in any sport. To compare real college football to this is like comparing the NCAA men's basketball finals to a pickup game in your driveway.
But to have more than 75,000 people pay $5 to see it says a lot about how much people care about college football around here, and yes, maybe just a little about their sanity.
Last year, the spring game drew 64,000, which was the most ever. But last year, the Buckeyes returned Troy Smith and Ted Ginn Jr., were coming off a win over Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl and were already being billed as the likely preseason No. 1.
Logically, the crowd this year should have been smaller. A 41-14 loss to Florida in the national championship game left Ohio State fans with a football hangover that they were still feeling when the Buckeyes lost to the Gators again three weeks ago in the men's basketball final.
Yet the fans still streamed through the stadium gates, apparently eager to see for themselves which of the three green quarterbacks -- Todd Boeckman, Rob Schoenhoft and Antonio Henton -- they think should replace Smith and why.
But is a chance to tell your pal at the office water cooler or the gang on the Internet message boards who you think should start really worth saying goodbye to a beautiful spring Saturday? Probably only in places in the running to be called college football's capital.
Lincoln, Neb., is one and it showed why again, drawing what had been the biggest spring crowd this year before yesterday, 54,288. But that figure is down from past years, maybe because Lincoln hotels require a two-night minimum on spring game weekend.
Conversely, Columbus' "capital" stock is up. In the past dozen years or so, Ohio State football has been riding a tsunami of momentum and interest seems to be increasing proportionately.
Sure, the Buckeyes got drubbed by the Gators for the national title, but there's always this:
Florida's spring game drew only 47,000.
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