Recent content by IlliniInBuckeyeState

Updated Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch for the Oregon game. This game was in sellout territory but tickets have understandably moved slowly the last few weeks and never got the momentum needed to officially sell it out. My official attendance guess: 58,400

Updated Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch for Purdue and remaining home games: As I mentioned the other day, the Purdue will be an announced sellout before gametime Saturday. The ticket availability is extremely low and I'm sort of surprised they haven't announced sellout quite yet. That will...

I don't have the Gies Memorial Sellout Watch tracker updated to show, but this game will be an announced sellout before kickoff on Saturday. The 9th in the last 16 home games.

My official attendance guess has now been updated! 😎

Final Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch for Southern Illinois. This one is about as close as they let it get without being an announced sellout. Should be a good crowd if the rain stays away. My official attendance guess: 59,500

Updated Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch for Southern Illinois. Not far of from sellout territory, but I bet we don't quite get there.

Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch update for the Duke game: First, a review of my UAB prediction: I guessed 52,000 and actual announced crowd was 52,673. There of course weren't that many people in the stadium, but it was still a good turnout for late, hot Thursday night. Compare it to our...

Final Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch for UAB: We're tracking to have about 4,000 less tickets sold than Week 1 last year (Saturday game). The Western Illinois game had paid attendance of just over 56k. I think we get up to about 52k. So that's my official attendance guess: 52,000

The tickets website is down (for me). Issue appears to be with Paciolan (ticketing vendor) - I tried Minnesota and Purdue and got the same error.

Updated GMS Sellout Watch for UAB. A few hundred more tickets have moved in the last few days. I noticed the DIA said in a recent email that "less than 2,500 tickets remain" for the Duke game. Using that as a barometer, I think it's likely my estimates are light by a couple thousand. So I'm...

Here is the first Gies Memorial Stadium Sellout Watch of the 2026 season. The tickets website it up to its usual shenanigans; I'm currently working to analyze and dial in my assumptions. It feels like the tickets sold estimates for some of the conference games are especially light. That said...

Just because there are not season tickets in the Horseshoe available for sale doesn't mean we sell end zone seats better than the sidelines. They deliberately cut off season ticket sales in the end zone to allow availability of single game seats at multiple price points.

My understanding is that the original plan was to have speakers/sound projected throughout the stadium, but I've heard recently they aren't doing that now. I've also noted it being absent as a listed upcoming improvement in any recent press releases or public comments. As someone who sits in...

Within the press release, there are details about the other boards. A "super ribbon" to go above the student section in the north endzone that will measure 12.5 ft by 180 feet. That is approximately 3x the height of our current ribbon boards, and pretty much confirms that it will be used...

69’ tall…you must be talking about the SEZ board. No chance they are putting one that big over the student section. I have yet to see anywhere official confirm what is or is not being put in the NEZ. A while back somebody shared the clipping below from a press release in June. It just says “new...