Because of COVID there were 2 classes of students that have never went to a game. My experience is Freshman seemed to be more willing to buy season tickets, so you had double “freshman”, which explains the increase in tickets
This could be the simple explanation, I would hope they took it into account when they came up with the number, but who knows maybe the DIA will take a win wherever they can get it in football.
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Can’t speak to logistics, but I can speak to atmosphere. GG is SUPER correlated with the weather, point in the season (recordwise) and opponent. Against Iowa on the second weekend in October, it will be WELL worth it and will show the potential Memorial Stadium has to be a “tailgating destination” within the Big Ten.
Grange Grove can be fantastic and is very easy to get to and set up. You are allowed to drive right up next to it to drop stuff off. Just make sure you get there as early as possible and have everything on wheels and/or lots of people to transport. That game should have a great atmosphere. There are plenty of things for kids to do, including bouncy houses, face painting, etc. I‘m betting there will be a ton of Squawkeyes there so wear your Orange!
I'm afraid I agree with the 5-7 outcome being likely. I still hold onto bits of hope for 6-6 though.
I see beating Nebby, PSU. Purdue and possibly Minny to the equation. We should win 2 of these games along with the Non conference games and we could win 7 games in year 2 of BB
I dont know what to expect from this program, they could lose to Chattanooga and beat Michigan to finish 4-8. Every year it seems they beat someone they shouldn't while crapping to bed against someone they can beat and ending up with us saying this 4-8 team could've made a bowl game if they just scored points, played some defense, had better play calling etc
I completely understand what you're saying here. Predicting the Illini schedule is like predicting the NCAA tournament games. You think something seems obvious but it's not. Side note: I love the fact that we get Wyoming at home to get the jitters out before a conference opponent, who will not have played their first game. Wyoming won't be a slouch but they lose a LOT from a good team. Solid program though, expecting a dawg fight but we take the reigns in the second half.
Well the Vegas over/under is 4.5, so that would be beating the spread.
The reason this is such a cliche is because it's extremely common in sports, especially in college. We're not unique.
I meant Indiana instead of PSU. I forgot the new schedule swapped IU for PSU.
That's less than ideal.
Expected because we haven't had a brand since the chief logo.
Oof. Michigan and Nebraska fans are probably miffed.
