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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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What you said is half of it, the other half is a trip to the stadium is a must do bucket list item for any CFB fan.

Going to Bryant-Denny, DKR, The Shoe, etc. is certainly cool, but what distinction do they have besides fielding a good football team? They are simply concrete structures, without stuff like a giant fucking dome that is literally gold, a mural of Jesus the size of King Kong, etc right outside of it.

ND Stadium is Wrigley Field/Fenway in many respects. People will pay to say they have been there.


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Irish4life said:
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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Seems like a possible explanation, but I'm not so sure.

First, ND is only 90 minutes from Chicago, which alone has one ND Club alone with 20,000 alumni and friends. I'm not sure how "geographically isolated" the University is.

Second, ND has one of the largest followings nationally of any college football team. Just that fact alone accounts of ND fans showing up and showing out. Heck, look at the Cubs wherever they play. I grew up in South Bend and live in Colorado. There were more Cubs fans than Rockies fans in each of the three-game series in Denver.
 
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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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Sooo, one ticket site says, according to their own algorithm, that the stadium will be 45% OSU fans and your conclusion is that ND fans are soft...:rolleyes:
 
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Money line shifted slightly in OSUs favor.

Was -150 and -148 on FD and DK this morning, is -176 and -170 now


Spread -3.5 on both, DK was -3

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Huntr said:
Only 45% of the stadium is season tickets, per Sampson.

If the stadium is red, that's on Swarbrick.
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I read that article too and realize I should have been less specific. It's the fault of ND affiliated ticket holders.


Single game tickets are not being sold. Only 5k tickets are available to OSU and spread out. That's it. No resale of returned tickets. Everything else goes to ND affiliated people. Donors allowed only 10.
 
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NormND_44 said:
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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Exactly! There’s a reason stop lights, Red Cross signs, and emergency vehicles are red.
 
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NDohio said:
Oh my gosh? All these people form Ohio are buying tickets to the ND vs OSU game? They must be OSU fans!!

Looks at my user name...
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I am from Ohio also. There must not be any ND fans in Ohio...I doubt those numbers are accurate. Everytime I drive down the turnpike on the way to games there is a ton of ND traffic.
 
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I like Pete and appreciate his coverage. However, he may be the worst at predicting anything involving ND. Whether it’s the # of OSU fans (he guessed 15-20%) that will be in attendance, the winner of the game, the scoring margin or how ND will do against tomato cans….bet the opposite more times than not.
 
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notredomer23 said:
It’s based off the resale market and the resale market has been scarce.
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That’s the grain of salt for sure so I hope that’s the case. The tweet I posted referenced Vivid Seats so doesn’t it depend on how many tix they have total on their site to sell? ND’s partnership is w/ Seat Geek so I would assume most of the secondary market tix go through there.
 
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