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ND fan, Friend of family looking for two tickets and she is on campus if anyone is selling or knows of.
 
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NDLS_USMC said:
ND fan, Friend of family looking for two tickets and she is on campus if anyone is selling or knows of.
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Sounds like something an Ohio State fan would say........

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Luckylucci said:
This is a little bit of what I've been talking about with Hartman. I know we've been a defense first program for a while and last year we needed to emphasize running the ball to protect the QB.

Not this year. Not with Hartman. I would take the approach that we should be the aggressors on offense and they need to keep up with us for 4 qtrs. As nutty as that may sound.
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Completely agree with the caveat that our OL must give Hartman time to push the ball. If we are fighting for a 2.5 second window, then the game plan gets completely altered and we're simply trying to maximize each possession, flip the field at minimum and attempt to churn out first downs.

So much depends on how our OL performs (and conversely, how there's performs against our defense)
 
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Man, the hype surrounding this game is the closest thing we've had since the 2005 USC game. Haven't felt anything like it in the years since, even though there have been some pretty huge games.
 
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There were always going to be a ton of red. Red sticks out on camera. It will look worse than it is. It doesn’t matter - the environment will be rowdy as hell. I don’t know if McCord will get shaken, but the table is laid for a wild environment. Ultimately that’s what matters most to get the win imo.
 
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Yeah I think Vivid Entertainment could make just as good a guess as Vivid Seats in this case. They don't have a clue mang.
 
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It would be useful to know how Vivid Seats estimated that. I assume opposing fans are more likely to get their tickets on the secondary market than home fans. So I could believe that 40% of the tickets sold on VS were bought by Ohio residents, or whatever. That doesn't mean that 40% of the stadium will be red. If you take out student seats, and season ticket holders, and then take 40% of the remainder, you'd get around 15k, right? Which is a normal turnout for a large fanbase, but not an invasion situation.

As for the fanbase, selling tickets was more defensible (if it was defensible) in 2017, given how the 2016 season went, than it is now. Of course the fans who sell tickets are to blame, but so is the university. It needs to deter this sort of thing, which is what Sampson suggested had happened.

Finally, we almost beat UGA despite the invasion, and that was a UGA team that should have won the title that year imo (certainly played Bama evenly in the title game). We can think of examples from the road team winning. Etc. So although an invasion would be embarrassing it doesn't tell us much about the game.
 
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Visiting fanbases flooding the stadium happens for the same reasons we wish people "all the best" when they leave the university, even when they've left in a poor fashion. A soft fanbase who really doesn't see the team as meaningful and needing their support.

No fight. No competitive spirit. No sense of "heck no I'm not selling to the highest bidder. I'll sell to the highest ND bidder." Say what you want, it all comes back to a weak fanbase as a whole. Whether that is old timers who've lost their fight, or young guns who are more about themselves than school/team.

Why can other fanbases create a true home-field advantage but, generally speaking, we cannot?
 
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There’s a lot of Ohio State fans from Indiana so I wouldn’t be surprised I’m guessing 15,000-20,000
 
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bobbyok1 said:
Visiting fanbases flooding the stadium happens for the same reasons we wish people "all the best" when they leave the university, even when they've left in a poor fashion. A soft fanbase who really doesn't see the team as meaningful and needing their support.

No fight. No competitive spirit. No sense of "heck no I'm not selling to the highest bidder. I'll sell to the highest ND bidder." Say what you want, it all comes back to a weak fanbase as a whole. Whether that is old timers who've lost their fight, or young guns who are more about themselves than school/team.

Why can other fanbases create a true home-field advantage but, generally speaking, we cannot?
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ND is a small, geographically isolated private school where the majority of students come from out of region. All of the other schools with big time football programs are giant state schools with the vast majority of the student body coming from within the state and staying in state. That's really the long and short of it.
 
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