blackdog
- Champaign
As Robert from Illiniboard has said we are fans not players, we can think as far ahead as we want to.
Pregame: Illinois vs Michigan State, Saturday, November 5th, 2:30pm CT, BTN
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As Robert from Illiniboard has said we are fans not players, we can think as far ahead as we want to.
Looks like we got us a good old-fashioned “dog” fight! blackdog vs. destindog
This is a great post! Especially these three wonderful sentences.
Illinisteve25
- Champaign
Its honest work but someone's gotta do it... Which I have also done for 15 years and will do again this weekend rain or shine!
IlliniwekKDR
- Colorado Springs, CO
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
Yes. There's been many seasons where the team starts 2-4 and plenty of folks on here are saying "we might not win another game this season".
Illinois 27-13
CLOSE TO A SELLOUT!! LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
Reports of 70 degree weather, with rain and 45mph wind gusts. Sounds like a first team to 20 kind of game to me.
Rain will pretty much be done by 1
Saturday is a high of 62.
We get a string of 70 degree days Wed-Fri & Mon-Wed but they skip over the weekend.
This year's fall weather has been amazing and I hope it's the norm moving forward.
We get a string of 70 degree days Wed-Fri & Mon-Wed but they skip over the weekend.
This year's fall weather has been amazing and I hope it's the norm moving forward.
Number of seats available (71)
116 (Horseshoe): 2
130 (West Main): 1
107 (East Main): 10
109 (East Main): 58
This is assuming it's not the old trick where seats magically start appearing when the number available dips below a certain quota.
116 (Horseshoe): 2
130 (West Main): 1
107 (East Main): 10
109 (East Main): 58
This is assuming it's not the old trick where seats magically start appearing when the number available dips below a certain quota.
I will be there and think we will sell it out this time. I have decent seats, but they won't be as comfy as the Nebraska game. Watched in front of a giant screen in a sports book in Vegas. Nebraska fan left at half=time.... good time!
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I wish we had a board Rain Man who could analyze the seating chart and when certain areas become available to gauge how many tickets we have actually sold!
OR, we could just get a report from our inside agent, @BRucks!I saw someone mentioned there were still a lot of student tickets available, but I actually took the social media post in question to be a good sign. It's effectively saying that tickets are going fast enough that if students don't buy their tickets by Wednesday (today), there is enough demand that they are going to start selling those to everyone else! No matter what, I am guessing we are over 55k right now, which will look like a sellout on TV (unless the rain keeps people away
). Remember, we sold 55,229 (91%) for this game...
Just saw this post now. I thought it was odd one section suddenly had two full rows available in the 60s when there's 75 rows. So we're definitely not 71 tix from a sellout - they're just being deceptive on slowly trickling tix for sale.
I've been tracking the ticket sales for MSU in a spreadsheet for the last two weeks. I've checked the ticket site on average 10-15 times per day and have taken inventory of what seats/rows/sections are listed for sale. I've also noted what seats/rows/sections are not listed for sale.
According to what I've seen, and it depends on the section, but anywhere from 11-20 of the top rows in the East Main stands have not been listed for sale yet. Assuming the unavailable rows are 100% unsold and counting the available tickets, there are approximately 4,252 unsold tickets in the East Main stands. There could be some additional in section 101 depending on what the student ticket overflow situation is. The East Balcony is completely sold out. I've seen tickets in every other section/row come and go. The Horseshoe, West Main, and West Balcony have had some one-off tickets appear, but they are effectively sold out. All told I think there have been at least 56,416 tickets sold (assuming the student tickets sell out...I have no data there).
I guarantee this game looks like a sellout (weather permitting), and as others have said, maybe that is what is most important.
Another important game that was played on Thanksgiving was the 2001 Finale vs Northwestern. I've tried for years to find that game on YouTube, but could only find a newsclip.
Two weeks earlier, our game vs sub-.500 Penn St drew 70k. The Thanksgiving finale only drew 45k while we were ranked top-10.
B-ILL
- Working From Home
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
I'd stay away from the spread because of these elements. Could be a busy day for Chase and (hopefully) McCray.
MoCoMdIllini
- Montgomery County, Maryland
Illinois a fairly big number north of 28
Spartans 9
(I'm going to keep going with 9 until someone breaks double digits against this Illini D)
Spartans 9
(I'm going to keep going with 9 until someone breaks double digits against this Illini D)
We cannot just show up and expect to win just because MSU will be without some players. Play all 4 quarters the way we have been and I can smell another victory. We now have a target on our backs for the rest of the season and nothing comes easy. Go Illini!
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Some of these questions
“Hey Isaiah Williams, do you think you’d play better if you didn’t try so hard?”
Come on bro.
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