Pregame: Illinois vs Western Illinois, Friday, August 29th, 6:30pm CT, Peacock
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The line at ESPN BET is now -48.5
Game is just too chaotic to bet. WIU had a ton of transfers and I don't think we're the kind of team to randomly go off for 50 points.
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
Who else is going to be lit by kickoff?
DraftKings, FanDuel, and BetMGM all -48.5
(Caesar’s -48)
(Caesar’s -48)
FINAL Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch for the Western Illinois game:
Ticket sales the last few days have been very strong. I think my projection is higher than any other I've heard or seen, but I been good about it. Yesterday Derrick Burson (Illinois SID) was on Brian Barnhart's Penny for Your Thoughts radio show and said they were expecting a crowd in the "low to mid 50s" tonight. I think that is too low. My official guess for announced attendance tonight: 58,213
Ticket sales the last few days have been very strong. I think my projection is higher than any other I've heard or seen, but I been good about it. Yesterday Derrick Burson (Illinois SID) was on Brian Barnhart's Penny for Your Thoughts radio show and said they were expecting a crowd in the "low to mid 50s" tonight. I think that is too low. My official guess for announced attendance tonight: 58,213
A troll is a troll is a troll. The ignore button is your friend. I don't even care or need to see this take based on others' responses.
Great guess. Vegas has the odds at -110 for Illinois -48.5
Is Western Illinois that bad? As a scared Illinois fan my first thought is to hammer Western to cover that
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
Don't mind if we don't cover, as long as that means we storm out to a big lead and run the clock out to stay healthy and move onto next week. However, lets leave no doubt that we are a great team tonight!
hooraybeer
- Peoria, IL
the absolutely gorgeous weather forecast for this evening is likely fueling late ticket sales
DB11Headband
- Chicago Burbs
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Good article. As I used to live in Macomb (moved to New Canaan, CT 6 years ago) and am a friend of Paul Bubb, I think Paul has the right approach to how WIU should approach its football schedule. I had season Illinois football and basketball tickets for over 50 years when I lived in Macomb (Illinois Law School Grad 1970) and made the drive to and from Champaign for both football and basketball games. Also went to WIU games and saw some good teams when Don Patterson and Randy Ball were coaches. After that the times became bad to terrible. They are now becoming more competent under their new coaching staff.
$500,000 pay day on tap for underdog Leathernecks
Western Illinois AD: “To be honest, if we were in a situation where we were selling 12,000 tickets to every home game and had that as a consistent revenue source,www.news-gazette.com
When talking about attendance, I assume the SID is trying to guess actual butts in seats? If we draw low to mid 50s on a Friday night against WIU, I'd be pretty happy!
It's a troll coment as a means to hijacking discussion and replies. All things considered, at worst case Illinois should win by at least 4 touchdowns... and even that is off the backs of resting your top guys late.
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Isn't the WIU mascot a dog? Does he really need a ticket?$500,000 pay day on tap for underdog Leathernecks
Western Illinois AD: “To be honest, if we were in a situation where we were selling 12,000 tickets to every home game and had that as a consistent revenue source,
They won zero games through two years in '21 and '22 (0-22), but did win four games last year under a first year head coach.
TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
0/10 ragebait
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
It's always tickets sold. We had this conversation a few pages back (IIRC), but "butts in the seats" statistics are not publicly available and nearly impossible to track (let alone estimate ahead of time based on the tickets website). Also, there was an article a few years ago that said only 49k tickets were scanned for our primetime sellout (i.e., 60,670 tickets sold...) vs. North Carolina in 2016. If you are telling me that 60,670 sold tickets only translates to 49,000 people there, but THIS is what only 80% "actual" capacity looks like...
... then I doubt we have ever *actually* had over 60k fans in attendance practically ever and it's kind of a pointless distinction. In other words, that picture looks like the crowd is jampacked, and it CERTAINLY doesn't look like over 20% of seats are empty ... so I don't think it's worth it for folks to try to make this distinction other than really rare occurrences (e.g., a year where our Senior Day home game vs. Northwestern takes place in a blizzard and only a few thousand fans actually show up).
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
SO pumped Illini Football is back, and I am bummed we cannot be there in person! Here's to a full season of an electric tailgating scene, full crowds and a whole bunch of wins!!
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