Pregame: Illinois vs Iowa, Saturday, October 8th, 6:30pm CT, BTN
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lol ugh good lord that is so unacceptable and pathetic how down our football program has been. I remember that win over Iowa too and their inbred fan base spewing so much NSFW that can't be repeated on here towards Juice and Benn on their message board.
We have to beat Iowa period. No excuses. GO ILLINI!
perhaps November 12th against Purdue if that has Big Ten West implications? Not sure who else is playing that week.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Our home opponents haven't been holding up their end of the bargain toward the possibility of making that happen.
Which is good news. Just win baby.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Michigan at home in Oct. 2007? ABC Saturday evening primetime game. 15 freaking years ago. Following Illini football has felt like being a fan of Halley's Comet.
LOL. I almost posted something similar (though you composed it better than I would have).
Dan
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I don’t have a problem with the price or the concept in general except for the hypocrisy coming out of the DIA. Demand is saturated at the price points they are offering, and need to lower prices to fill the stadium. Having Bielema spamming press conferences with pleas to fans is only going to get fans to search for tickets, the price will determine if they buy them or not.
If the DIA determined their current pricing model optimizes revenue then fine, whatever, but don’t criticize the fans who stayed home, and say the team deserves more support.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
Dude, don't tempt me. I married an amazing man, but the ability to sit through a full football game is not one of his attributes
I honestly cannot tell if you’re being sarcastic here or not.
Many people working in big cities on the coasts could, and will, drop this kind of coin
If you have any family in the area stay with them and knock the hotel and rental car costs down!
Maybe week @ MI? We may need to win out until then to make it happen. First glance seems like Georgia vs Kentucky, and Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State might be most likely.
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Same here. I took his last line to mean that the onus was on those within driving distance to attend the games, all the other combined costs being too high for long-distance fans. So a mix of sarcasm & not?
IlliniCardinal
- Minneapolis
Counter point: one could argue $75 for a big ten football ticket is a bargain, especially for a key conference / divisional game:
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From a student’s perspective, season tickest for Illini football are competitive / attractive:
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Some of our fans may not be ready for this team to succeed:
Regardless of whether you decide to attend in person on cheer on at home…
Go Illini!
NCAA college football average ticket price by conference 2021 | Statista
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From a student’s perspective, season tickest for Illini football are competitive / attractive:
Student Ticket Prices in the Big Ten
After looking at student fees at various universities, many of you were interested to see the relationship between student fees and student ticket prices. The...
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Some of our fans may not be ready for this team to succeed:
Regardless of whether you decide to attend in person on cheer on at home…
Go Illini!
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I think the streak is not having CGD in Champaign, so this still wouldn’t count.Maybe week @ MI? We may need to win out until then to make it happen. First glance seems like Georgia vs Kentucky, and Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State might be most likely.
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altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Speaking of ticket prices: completely by chance this afternoon, as I was cleaning out some (really) old boxes I came across a bunch of stuff from my UIUC days.
Among these I found my ticket stub from the Oct. 1990 game v. #24 Sparty. (Classic BT game, ABC 2:30 p.m. slot; Illini #8 in polls; Doug Higgins' five FGs, including the winner with under a minute left, gave the Illini a 15-13 win and kept us tied for 1st.)
We sat in the west balcony 20 rows up (so ~ halfway up, since this was long before the sky boxes ate up 2/3 of that balcony.) Down at the (IIRC) 10 yard line near the south EZ.
Ticket cost $20. That's ~ $45 in today's greenbacks. If the DIA is charging $75 face today for what I gather are similar, if not inferior, seats, that's 67% more than I paid for my seat in '90.
Especially given what I'd guess is dramatically lower demand today than existed for Illini football tiks in 1990, that demonstrates a huge growth in the cost base of the program.
I also found the stub for the game in Columbus two weekends earlier, when we beat #20 OSU 31-20. I bought it from the ticket office in Assembly Hall the preceding summer. Seats were in the visitors' section down near field level at the goal line.
It cost $19 (so, again, around $45 in today's $$.) My buddies snagged gameday scalper tickets in the upper deck for, as I recall, around $25.
Those were the days... I just checked StubHub. Similar seats for the OSU game v. Indiana in November? $250-300.
Among these I found my ticket stub from the Oct. 1990 game v. #24 Sparty. (Classic BT game, ABC 2:30 p.m. slot; Illini #8 in polls; Doug Higgins' five FGs, including the winner with under a minute left, gave the Illini a 15-13 win and kept us tied for 1st.)
We sat in the west balcony 20 rows up (so ~ halfway up, since this was long before the sky boxes ate up 2/3 of that balcony.) Down at the (IIRC) 10 yard line near the south EZ.
Ticket cost $20. That's ~ $45 in today's greenbacks. If the DIA is charging $75 face today for what I gather are similar, if not inferior, seats, that's 67% more than I paid for my seat in '90.
Especially given what I'd guess is dramatically lower demand today than existed for Illini football tiks in 1990, that demonstrates a huge growth in the cost base of the program.
I also found the stub for the game in Columbus two weekends earlier, when we beat #20 OSU 31-20. I bought it from the ticket office in Assembly Hall the preceding summer. Seats were in the visitors' section down near field level at the goal line.
It cost $19 (so, again, around $45 in today's $$.) My buddies snagged gameday scalper tickets in the upper deck for, as I recall, around $25.
Those were the days... I just checked StubHub. Similar seats for the OSU game v. Indiana in November? $250-300.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
One source I’ve found says the cost to tuition has gone up 413% since 1990, whereas cost of tickets has gone up just 375%.
So attending games today is a bargain
We have orange rain ponchos. We wore them at the 2021 spring game but the wind whipped them around. Someone in DIA should round up up thousands of them and sell them for cheap or even give them away. Lightweight, with ties, one size fits all.
Yeah… but I still have to pay my butler $3000 for staying at my mansion and not actually doing any butlering while I’m gone. Sure, I could bring him with me, but then that’s another five to ten grand in temporary security I’ll need to hire with no one there except two maids, a gardening team and my personal astrologer. I scoff at your scoffing.
Just have Jeeves drive you to the game.
Are there any advanced stats out there that show rankings with things like strength of opponent, tempo, home/away, etc baked into the rankings?
I know Bill Connely does a thing called SP+ but he works for ESPN so most of his stuff is behind a paywall. Are there any sites like college football's version of barttorvik?
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
As the father of a freshman in college your post made me simultaneously laugh out loud while weeping!One source I’ve found says the cost to tuition has gone up 413% since 1990, whereas cost of tickets has gone up just 375%.
So attending games today is a bargain
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
It's not KenPom for football but Jeff Sagarin has similar ratings:
College football team ratings 2022 - Jeff Sagarin Ratings
We're up to #37. Iowa's #36, virtually tied with us. Should be a tight game Saturday evening.
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