'18 ND-Navy tix on sale F 10-27

[BobbyMac]

Tickets for next year's Navy game in San Diego go on sale Friday.

I'll be giving guided tours of the Hop Hwy on Friday and Sunday. Space is limited so you better act fast!

Tickets for 2018 Notre Dame-Navy football game here go on sale this Friday 10-27.

One of college football’s most storied programs is coming to San Diego next year to renew one of the game’s longest-standing rivalries, with Notre Dame meeting Navy in a game that will be played Oct. 27, 2018, at SDCCU Stadium.

Why that is news this week is because ticket sales will begin Friday — exactly one year before the game is to be played. Prices range from $50 to $175 and can be purchased beginning at noon at the stadium ticket office (Gate A) or Ticketmaster.com. There is no limit on how many may tickets be purchased. More information is available at (619) 283-5808.

“It’s pretty awesome,” said Mark Neville, executive director of the San Diego Bowl Game Association. “We’re fired up to bring one of the biggest rivalries in college football here to San Diego. That rivalry is the longest uninterrupted intersectional rivalry in the country.”

The series has been uninterrupted since the teams first met in 1927. Notre Dame has a 76-13-1 record, although Navy came away with a 28-27 last year. Both teams are doing well this season — the No. 9 Fighting Irish are 6-1 while the Midshipmen are 5-2 — and will play Nov. 18 in South Bend, Ind.

While the 2018 game marks the first trip to San Diego for Notre Dame, it will be the seventh appearance here for the Midshipmen. In 1978, they defeated BYU 23-16 in the inaugural Holiday Bowl. Navy also has made four Poinsettia Bowl appearances and played San Diego State once in a regular season game.

“We’re truly excited to play Notre Dame in San Diego, both because the region has a tremendously supportive naval and military presence and also due to the strong relationship we’ve had with the bowl administration in San Diego through the years,” said Chet Gladchuk, Navy director of athletics. “San Diego will be a terrific setting for the passion and pageantry of this extraordinary rivalry game.”

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[MNIrishman]

Have you guys heard about the daily schedule of a Mid?

 

[zelezo vlk]

I'd love to go, but it ain't happening.

Real talk, Crus. Would you alternate the 12th game being @USC and in SD vs Navy over Stanford?

 

[wizards8507]

"Prices range from $50 to $175."

So stupid. You can't charge those prices for Notre Dame - Navy at a neutral site in freaking California. I hate it when they do this. They overprice neutral site games, including bowl games and the Shamrock Series, resulting in half-empty stadiums. The get-in price for this game should be about $20.

 

[zelezo vlk]

"Prices range from $50 to $175."

So stupid. You can't charge those prices for Notre Dame - Navy at a neutral site in freaking California. I hate it when they do this. They overprice neutral site games, including bowl games and the Shamrock Series, resulting in half-empty stadiums. The get-in price for this game should be about $20.

Agreed. Heck, even if I were to buy a ticket, there's no guarantee that I'd go to the game instead of drinking the Hop Highway dry

 

[BobbyMac]

I'd love to go, but it ain't happening.

Real talk, Crus. Would you alternate the 12th game being @USC and in SD vs Navy over Stanford?

They keep the beer there!

I've been on the record for dumping Stanford because ND wasn't getting NorCal kids but there has been a noticeable uptick in that dept with Banks, Book, Bracy on the way (fingers crossed). My Gut still says using the Stanford game to get to Texas and/or play Vandy does more for ND than playing Stanford. Them at the end of the year is overkill for SOS and another unneeded road block to get to the CFP.

Playing the Naval Academy in San Diego and Jacksonville makes a lot of sense. I'd love to see them play at the soccer stadium in LA. That would be pretty cool to go to.

 

[wizards8507]

Them at the end of the year is overkill for SOS and another unneeded road block to get to the CFP.

This is very short-sighted IMO. Stanford has had a hell of a run under Harbaugh and Shaw but they're not a perennial power. Just because they've been tough lately doesn't mean they'll continue to be super strong. They'll eventually regress to the mean of an academically challenging Pac 12 school with limited football history.

 

[SouthSideChiDomer]

"Prices range from $50 to $175."

So stupid. You can't charge those prices for Notre Dame - Navy at a neutral site in freaking California. I hate it when they do this. They overprice neutral site games, including bowl games and the Shamrock Series, resulting in half-empty stadiums. The get-in price for this game should be about $20.

I do not agree with this. Considering San Diego has almost 100,000 sailors, Marines, and associated personnel plus the ND club of SoCal is one of the largest in the country, I think they will have no problem selling it out.

 

[RDU Irish]

After we go 13-1 it should increase demand for the game. $50 isn't a bad buy-in to get in the stadium but I agree that $175 is a bit overkill on the high side. I equate this to Jacksonville last year and you would think they learned something from that. SoCal should be a larger draw though and deeper pockets to support ticket prices I would think.

Schedule Navy for the last game of the season every other year and before Bye weeks in the other years.

 

[wizards8507]

I do not agree with this. Considering San Diego has almost 100,000 sailors, Marines, and associated personnel plus the ND club of SoCal is one of the largest in the country, I think they will have no problem selling it out.

They might sell all of the tickets but the stadium won't be full.

 

[IrishLion]

This is very short-sighted IMO. Stanford has had a hell of a run under Harbaugh and Shaw but they're not a perennial power. Just because they've been tough lately doesn't mean they'll continue to be super strong. They'll eventually regress to the mean of an academically challenging Pac 12 school with limited football history.

They're already doing that this year.

They're clinging for life to Bryce Love and a shitty schedule. Their win over Oregon was impressive on the surface, and looked a like a "they aren't dead yet" win, but Oregon is abysmal without their starting QB.

 

[BobbyMac]

This is very short-sighted IMO. Stanford has had a hell of a run under Harbaugh and Shaw but they're not a perennial power. Just because they've been tough lately doesn't mean they'll continue to be super strong. They'll eventually regress to the mean of an academically challenging Pac 12 school with limited football history.

I agree that Stanford will come off their high. My thinking is more about being in Texas/Nashville/NOLA over NorCal. With SC, MSU/UM/Wis/Pur & GA/Ark/tOSU//A&M on top of the ever improving ACC, ND doesn't need Stanford.

The ACC alliance has lessened the importance of being in CA every year. NorCal/Stanford has been a net negative in what it's brought to ND. That said, they're stuck with the Trees until at least 2024 so may as well get some of those DLS kids like the old days of Aaron Taylor & Derek Landri.

 

[wizards8507]

I agree that Stanford will come off their high. My thinking is more about being in Texas/Nashville/NOLA over NorCal.

Does that actually matter to recruits? Why would they care where we play our road games? It's not like the coaches can only recruit a Texas kid if ND has a game in Texas that week.

 

[IrishLion]

Does that actually matter to recruits? Why would they care where we play our road games? It's not like the coaches can only recruit a Texas kid if ND has a game in Texas that week.

Because it's a guarantee that their family can at least see one game a year within a reasonable travel distance?

 

[BobbyMac]

They're already doing that this year.

They're clinging for life to Bryce Love and a shitty schedule. Their win over Oregon was impressive on the surface, and looked a like a "they aren't dead yet" win, but Oregon is abysmal without their starting QB.

Their O & D line recruiting had fallen off recently and then they land the #1 and #2 OT's in the same class. There '17 class was basically ridonkulous but their '18 class blows so thus far (minus Michael Wilson who'll be a star at WR)... and as always, they have a ton of talent at QB for the foreseeable future.

As long as they run 10 GS's out there every year, they will be tough. It's a good college football model.