[Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

[Steve Kauf]

Been to a major conference championship game 
hat wasn't a sell-out?  Of course
not.

I went to the 2009  Big 12 Championship game  ... major enough?... that was not a sellout.  76211 in a stadium that holds 100,000 with an  in state team in a brand new stadium people were dying to see. If you can't sell that out - not sure what would???  I agree with Mike - selling out a first round travel game in a 3 or4 game progression for even NE would be tough in early  to mid December.


Steve Kauf 
A husker fan deep in South Texas 
       
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Not the Goal but the Game 
In the Deed the Glory



-----Original Message-----
From: David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
To: husker at romaine.tssi.com; Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 8:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS



 From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
> Just curious...have you ever
 traveled to a postseason game?  Have you priced out
 last-minute airfare, or keep in mind that the ticket prices
 will probably start at $100 each?  There's a reason
 why many bowl games are played in converted baseball
 stadiums that only hold 40k fans; that's all the market
 can bear for games where the matchup is only known a couple
 of weeks in advance.
 
 Fans will bust open the bank to attend the national
 championship game...but for the preliminaries, no. 
 They'll save the $2k to $3k they'd spend (and the
 vacation time they'd have to burn) and hope their team
 makes it to the big one.
 
Yes, Mike, I've been to many post-season games. Most recently the ChickFilA Bowl 
n Atlanta and Big 12 championship game in Dallas.  Last season to the Liberty 
owl in Memphis, the year before that to the Gator Bowl in JAX.  Lots more...so 
hat's your point?  But I'm curious too...have you ever traveled to a post 
eason game?  Cause if you think the quarter and semis of a national 
hampionship tournament won't sell out, then it might be from inexperience cause 
rother they will sell out like hell, and not in any converted baseball stadium 
ither.  But of course, this is all hypothetical.  We really have nothing to 
ompare it to.  Trying to compare it to bowl games is ridiculous since comparing 
he importance of a bowl game, any bowl game, to a tournament game would be 
idiculous. How far in advance are conference championship games known in 
dvance?  Sometimes quite short. Been to a major conference championship game 
hat wasn't a sell-out?  Of course
not. I'll agree to disagree, it's cool.  We won't know anytime soon that is 
ertain.
Dave

     
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