Sorry to record scratch back to this comment, but you are saying that Champaign hotels have a 2 night minimum stay requirement? In what world is that acceptable in 2022?
That's a very good use of that particular statistic.Our schedule hasn’t been particularly strong so far, but even in our close loss to Indiana, we’ve outplayed every team we’ve played so far this year.
From Robert’s latest article. Our post game win expectancy in each game this year:
Wyoming: 100%
Indiana: 72%
Virginia: 99.4%
Chattanooga: 99.9%
Wisconsin: 99.8%
Comparing that to 2021:
Nebraska: 59.2%
UTSA: 12.7%
Virginia: 0%
Maryland: 3.3%
Purdue: 17.4%
More Numbers
It's been so long since I had to make this adjustment. You know the one (or maybe you don't). The wholeilliniboard.com
This reduction is in addition to the news coming from Credit Union later today? I know it won’t be enough of a change to please the “just give the tickets away” crowd, but good to see them making an adjustment.
Someone mentioned that's how it works in State College, PA too. I think that's relatively common in major college football.
Hmmm. Googling around does seem to show that it is pretty common. Seems you are guaranteed a few hundred bookings from each road team coming in, plus some schools have their own home team stay in hotels the day before. I suppose you take advantage of it as long as its considered relatively common.
My disappointment is that the ticket office is not doing anything positive to reduce the ticket prices and helping to sell out the stadium. It is local businesses and donors that are doing the heavy lifting.
The question for the hotels is whether charging an even higher rate for single night bookings would bring in enough extra revenue to justify the cost and hassle of turning over an unusually massive number of rooms during the day. Seems like they've pretty consistently chosen a "no" answer.
I think you can flip that around and be encouraged that the local community is throwing their weight behind BB and the team.
The Illinois ticket website still shows horseshoe and balcony at $75. I'm not sure that tweet really means what it seems to imply.
This is a huge one IMO. In the years we played well and filled the stadium, the community and local businesses always played a huge part promoting the Illini.
I think we thought it felt different every time. But I'm not sure that the stats backed it up like they do now.
Agree. The next game is the most important game. Hopefully will continue to be a good, entertaining season. Enjoy each game, only 12 a year to watch (plus one).
Not sure what time scale we're talking about, but we've obviously had a number of breakout years in the past. This has to get to the level of a '99 or an '07 for there to be a crushing disappointment like '00 or '08. One step at a time.
^^^^^. Yes. Just as everyone in the business community loves a winner and wants to bask in its glow to stimulate sales, everyone wants to love a team with a credible prospect of becoming a winner and opening wallets further.
Yeah for me it shows we got to 50k+ without making any price adjustments. This is actually really impressive and portends big things should we keep winning. I'll tell you why.
Part of the reason, quite frankly, that it feels different is because it is different. It seems like hump games in the past featured better opponents than the two coming up. so the task looks much more doable.
It’s not uncommon for donors and businesses to do the heavy lifting. And who do you think it is getting them involved? DIA and the ticket office that’s who.
Yeah, central Illinois has a number options that should work for lodging c/w Springfield or Peoria.
I'm ok with this. I am all for U of I setting up a fund where donors can contribute to give free tickets to the student body who are likely in a worse financial situation than the vast Illini alum and friends network. I'd pay for some kid to take my place at a game since I can't make it.
Me, too... and for 59-0 in 1985 and 54-28 in 1990. Both of those hurt even more because we had good teams both years (really good in 1990.)
