Pregame: Illinois vs Iowa, Saturday, October 8th, 6:30pm CT, BTN

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BRucks
purcy51 said:
Tell you what, when I move back to Indiana next year lets talk about splitting the cost of season tickets. My wife isn't interested in attending games with me!
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May want to leave her in Montana.
 
#103      
sacraig
Illinir1 said:
I was present to watch Isiah William muck it up for the Illini at Iowa for a 10-6 loss.
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I put that squarely on Mike Locksley. He was a one trick pony: option with Williams and Mendenhall. Iowa clearly focused on stopping that and Locksley kept calling it.
 
#104      
Navy_illini
Saturdaze said:
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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You can get tickets for $60 this afternoon. Cheaper than a home game
 
#108      
cuillini
DeonThomas said:
Sorry but I have to laugh/scoff at this.

$1500 - two last minute round trip plane tickets from Charlotte
$ 160 - parking at Charlotte airport
$ 150 - two tickets to the game
$ 230 - 3-day car rental from O'Hare
$ 110 - gasoline
$ 500 - two nights at local C-U hotel
$ 200 - Illini gear
$ 450 - meals (for two) on Friday-Saturday-Sunday
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$3300 Cost for attending 1 game with spouse or child. One might think that the 800,000 living alumni are fighting to get the 30,000 remaining tickets.

Oh - and $3300 is totally worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* The Illini play just 7 home football games per year.
* Partying and reminiscing with friends, relatives and fellow fans.
* The smell and feel of crisp, cool October air.
* The "campus buzz" of a once great football team being revived by an outstanding new coach and staff.
* The faith and hope that we may once again be playing on New Year's Day.

And if you're fortunate enough to live and work locally, just substitute $200 for the $3300, above...........
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Man, I hear ya. I'm coming from socal. However, our flights paid for on points, staying with friends. Only other costs are golf, food and tailgate. GO ILLINI!
 
#110      
TheDrinkinLincoln
IlliniInCAN said:
This is one of the most incredible stats about Illini football 5 weeks into the season that I’ve ever seen! Remarkable job by Walters. On the sad side, it probably means he won’t be around long. Enjoy it gang, what this D is doing is something special!

Edit: And big props to Heavy-B (coach B) for ID’ing the talent in Walters and getting him to Champaign.
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If Walters makes a HC gig that is good for Illinois. We are now a spot that gets you to the dream. Also we have our HC/DC in waiting in Kane. Have a real feeling he is BB's heir apparent considering BBs career probably ends here and should last ~8-10 years.
 
#113      
pruman91
RabidDawgClassic said:
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.
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Wow
A scoff off here at Loyalty
May the best scoffer win
 
#114      
trtl
One Man Fast Break said:
The all-time series is at 38-37-2 in favor of Illinois. Iowa has an eight game series win steak and it has seemed inevitable that they would surpass and start running away with the all time record... but time to stop that. Gotta avoid penalties, and then our defense shouldn't allow their offense to do anything.
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Our special teams has to be competent. That’s all. No F-ups.
 
#115      
trtl
Butters said:
At $75/ticket, if this game isn't a sellout, DIA should face some tough questions. Completely nuts to me give how poor our attendance has been for YEARS that they continue to price out fans.
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I guess I don’t know how we compare to other teams pricing-wise, but I do know that $180 for a season ticket is pretty darn reasonable. And, as fans (not pointing at anyone) we can’t say, “Back up the truck for Bielema, Walters, and Lunney,” but not be willing to fork out $26 per game.
 
#116      
illinoistradition
trtl said:
I guess I don’t know how we compare to other teams pricing-wise, but I do know that $180 for a season ticket is pretty darn reasonable. And, as fans (not pointing at anyone) we can’t say, “Back up the truck for Bielema, Walters, and Lunney,” but not be willing to fork out $26 per game.
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But you can't shell out $26 a game now. Season tickets are no more. We sold something like 23,000 season tickets. Meaning you are no relying on people to pony up $75/game to support this team. A tough sell with how expensive other things are. As others have pointed out, other programs with more success than we have had have cheaper tickets. I don't know the answer here.
 
#117      
trtl
altgeld88 said:
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.

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This just makes me long for ticket stubs … which, sadly, no longer exist.
 
#118      
Jimbo
If I lived in CU wild horses couldn’t keep me from the game. $75 is reasonable for a night of entertainment. But I don’t understand the extrapolating for a family of four. Spouse comes along if interested, hire a babysitter for the kiddos.

i didn’t think the Wisconsin game would be close, and I feel the same about the Iowa game. I think the oddsmakers haven't caught on yet. I predict

Illinois 23
Iowa 10
 
#120      
Saturdaze
IlliniCardinal said:
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:

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Regardless of whether you decide to attend in person on cheer on at home…

Go Illini!
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I think that’s a fair point, and $75 might be a steal for other teams fans, but other teams fans aren’t in the market for Illini tickets.

Those are great links and I take from that the DIA setting the price at $75 preseason may have been well informed, but the reality is the team has exceeded expectations and still have 10k - 20k unsold tickets, so they need to do something besides begging, and the easiest thing to do is lower prices.

@trtl and @illinoistradition mentioned season tickets being $26 per game and that deal being no longer available - well the DIA can make it available again for partial season. That could target locals able and willing to attend multiple games, but not willing to pay $75 per ticket.

The DIA can reserve hotel blocks and offer hotel ticket packages for the spontaneous Chicago alumni. If the hotels are all sold out to Iowa fans because the DIA, then they can sell coach bus party packages to and from Chicago with tickets.

I’m just spitballing here and there can be plenty of reasons why those options aren’t on the table, but the DIA doing NOTHING, but beg and imply the fans should be paying the current prices is the problem, IMO.

The DIA should be THANKING fans for not abandoning the team completely the last 10 years. In defense of the fans here’s a link from 2019:

#32 Illinois $51.3 million
I’ve said it before: Based on what they have to watch, Illini fans are the most faithful in college football. How did UI make a $29M profit off a 2-10 season?


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#121      
RoundBalcs
Does anyone know which lots open up day of for parking, or if certain lots aren't sold until game-day? 46 and 47 (available online now) don't look far on a map, but they're far.

Admittedly, it's been a while since I was in person...
 
#122      
ChiefGritty
Saturdaze said:
Based on what they have to watch, Illini fans are the most faithful in college football.
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#124      
jrichisamazing
wma500 said:
The over/under of 38.5 is the lowest on the board of all of college football next weekend. A couple points ahead of Wisconsin/Northwestern.
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Illini win 16-3. The offense struggles to get going, but somehow manufactures 3 FG's. The defense dominates all game. And the lone touchdown comes from an electric Isaiah Williams punt return in the 4th quarter.
 
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