does minnesota care? isu up 6-1 in ticket sales

**Steve** · 12-18-2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by vmbplayer

This. 3 out of the last 3 now? At some point you would rather save some cash and hit the new years parties back home.

They only sold about 1500 last year. Brewster also doesn't have much support with either the fans or the administration. The AD has yet to decide if he will extend his contract or even bring him back next season.

**Hawk4Cy** · 12-18-2009, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by agronclone

i heard yesterday that isu is ahead of minnesota for insight bowl ticket sales 6-1. very few people on the gopher website are actually talking about the game. what is the deal? does this make isu look good, or bad for not drawing ticket sales for their opponent?

Over 80% of the fan base want the coach canned so not much support for a bowl trip:

What should the U do? | StarTribune.com

**agronclone** · 12-18-2009, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Hawk4Cy

Over 80% of the fan base want the coach canned so not much support for a bowl trip:

What should the U do? | StarTribune.com

i don't understand why that is the case. do they expect to win the big 10 year in, year out? i think of their position in the big 10 to be similar to ours in the big 12.
if the ticket sales are 6-1, and we have sold 7,000 as of earlier this week, then they have sold ~1,200 tickets at minnesota. if that is the case, then they should be on pace to sell as many if not more than last year.

**tiberius** · 12-18-2009, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by 06Panther

6 people isn't very many either.

I guess 999,994 of the million iowans living in arizona must be hawkeyes.

**Jack & Hilton** · 12-18-2009, 09:52 PM

6-1 odds our car is beat to ****

**TarHeelHawk** · 12-18-2009, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by cardinal&gold

This makes 3 out of the last 4, and they lost each of the previous two ('06 to Texas Tech 44-41 and '08 to Kansas 42-21).

That 44-41 game was the one that got Mason fired; I want to say that they had a 30 point lead in the 4th quarter and still couldn't win the game.

But to to the OP - no, Gopher fans don't care. There is reason that whenever Iowa or Wisconsin played at the Dome that they would fill half of the stadium with their fans. Have you ever met a die-hard Minnesota Golden Gopher fan?

It's all about the Vikings in Minneapolis, and sharing a stadium with the Vikings didn't help matters. They're trying to forge their own niche/identity with the new football stadium, but that stadium had large sections of empty seats at the end of the year.

**gopherluv** · 12-19-2009, 06:47 AM

Minnesotans don't care about this game or Golden Gopher Football. I haven't heard one news story on the Insight Bowl. It's sad really. Many Gopher fans say the reason ISU will outnumber us 6-1 in Phoenix, is there to so much to do in the TC. BS!! UM has always had terrible football fans and the program is in shambles.

**randallhatfield** · 12-19-2009, 07:14 AM

If you have ever visited MU you would understand. There hockey is the number one sport, football is a second. Add that they have not faired well in the last years and you get what you are seeing now.

**cyclonesurveyor** · 12-19-2009, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by gopherluv

Minnesotans don't care about this game or Golden Gopher Football. I haven't heard one news story on the Insight Bowl. It's sad really. Many Gopher fans say the reason ISU will outnumber us 6-1 in Phoenix, is there to so much to do in the TC. BS!! UM has always had terrible football fans and the program is in shambles.

this. high school hockey in minnesota is bigger than Gopher football.

**gopherluv** · 12-19-2009, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by randallhatfield

If you have ever visited MU you would understand. There hockey is the number one sport, football is a second. Add that they have not faired well in the last years and you get what you are seeing now.

Actually basketball is king at the U. I'm willing to Tubby Smith makes 3-4x the money that Lucia makes. Hockey is big in MN. But keep in mind that even in MN hockey is a niche sport. Lots of high schools don't even have a team. There are allot of co-op programs where one or two players from a given town play for a co-op and the MSHSL then considers that school to have a program. It's more of a storied sport than anything else. (ie. the state tourney) Hockey is big in MN but it's all relative to the popularity of the sport.

**randallhatfield** · 12-19-2009, 04:47 PM

Well you would know more then I. Just everytime We visited a school in MN it seemed like hockey was the perfered sport. Even at MSU the hockey team was a D1 sport and the football team was a D2, if I remember right.

**gopherluv** · 12-19-2009, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by randallhatfield

Well you would know more then I. Just everytime We visited a school in MN it seemed like hockey was the perfered sport. Even at MSU the hockey team was a D1 sport and the football team was a D2, if I remember right.

St Cloud, Duluth, Bemidji, and Mankato (we still call MSU "Mankato State") are all DI in hockey and DII in everything else. Don't get me wrong, hockey is popular in MN. But it's a niche sport. Gopher basketball is king.

**Bierman5NCs** · 12-22-2009, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by gopherluv

Minnesotans don't care about this game or Golden Gopher Football. I haven't heard one news story on the Insight Bowl. It's sad really. Many Gopher fans say the reason ISU will outnumber us 6-1 in Phoenix, is there to so much to do in the TC. BS!! UM has always had terrible football fans and the program is in shambles.

ha! you are a fool.....