Wait...
An offer to PAY
Probably from Nebraska. They
Probably from Nebraska. They supposedly snatched up tickets a while ago expecting to go to that game, and now they have to dump them.
Serves them right. Everyone
Serves them right. Everyone thinks they can just stroll into the Big Ten and dominate. Everyone who has ever thought this has been proven wrong.
Michigan: 903–315–36 (Best in NCAA)
vs Ohio State: 58-44-6
vs Notre Dame: 23-16-1
vs MSU: 68-32-5
vs B1G: 522-197-24
vs SEC: 20-8-1
vs PAC 12: 48-24-1
vs Big 12: 10-5-1<
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"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
Well if said "hoaxster" would
Well if said "hoaxster" would have done a little research, he would have seen that these football conference championship games have the bottom drop out of the ticket prices as the game approaches. He's an idiot.
Sincerely,
Cpt. Ass-Hat
He actually seems really
He actually seems really sharp if you read the article. Not knowing ticket price tendencies doesn't seem like a good reason to call someone stupid.
Sharp maybe in coming up with
Sharp maybe in coming up with the hoax. Not-sharp in doing some digging and researching ticket prices for these types of events. He overspent and now he's mad...poor baby. Who cares
Sincerely,
Cpt. Ass-Hat
Don't feel bad for him, but...
SEC championship tix have stayed stable if not increased. Right now, cheapest tix are $134 on stubhub. And that's been the history for that game. Not unreasonable to think the same of the inaugural Big 10 championship.
Real problem was that Michigan, Nebraska, and Ohio State were eliminated on the same weekend a week after the Penn State scandal broke, removing the four largest fan bases from the market and flooding the secondary market with tickets. Doesn't help that Wisconsin fans have been depressed since the back-to-back hail mary losses (if they lose only one of those, Wisconsin's making their case for a national championship slot this weekend, and there's a lot more interest) and that Sparty doesn't travel well.
That, and Atlanta is the Chicago of the Southeast.
I do sort of wonder what the SEC game prices might be, if the game were in Birmingham, or Mobile, or Lexington. Or, uh, Indianapolis. Maybe the same, I don't know. I also wonder if Georgia playing the Number 1 team in America matters. Would the B1G game prices be different if Nebraska was playing a Number 1 OSU? Or if Purdue was playing a Number 1 Michigan?
Hoax
You know it was a hoax as the Lions and Pistons in down years could fill the stadium by giving away tickets. Not paying people to go, but just giving away tickets for free.
I don't think that applied
I don't think that applied here--you can't give away tickets that you've already sold. The B1G's problem is no-shows, not sales.
Not just the B1G
But Indy's problem as well. Indy wants as perfect an event as they can have, remember that they're bidding against Chicago here. Indy doesn't want images like the ACC Champ Game photo flying around. The B1G is set money wise. The game sold out. All of the tickets have been sold by the B1G/Venue/Whatever. The issue is perception and actually having butts in the seats. I'm sure plenty of Nebraska fans bought tickets and are no longer going. The B1G/Indy people want to make sure that the seats attributed to those tickets are filled. Thus this hoax.
"Over? Did you say, over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!"
Indy already has it for 5
Indy already has it for 5 years. They're well on their way to establishing themselves as the permanent host just as Atlanta has done with the SEC (after the first two were held in Birmingham). One bad year while the conference works out the kinks won't be a problem for Indy. Two or three years of "bad" match-ups and no-shows could start to cause some problems, though.
Was always willing to accept
Was always willing to accept the hoax/satire reasoning... only ever had a problem with calling it a "scam."
Well crafted joke by that guy.
What does it say about the
What does it say about the state of the BTCG if that many people were willing to belive it? I don't think you could have picked a worse slate of teams to represent the Big Ten in it's inaugural Championship Game
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
Indiana/Minnesota
17 people in attendance, all of them somehow related to Kevin Wilson or Jerry Kill.
"The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman."
- Jack Handey
Really?
I suppose a Minnesota/Northwestern/Purdue/etc. game could have been a real barn-burner?
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"the team, the team, the team."
You could have had Penn
You could have had Penn State. That definitely would have been worse. Maybe not for attendance (though, if you're a PSU fan, are you really physched for football right now?) but certainly for the story surrounding the game, especially with the first Sandusky lawsuit filed this week.
And certainly for the quality of football played. Watching PSU play offense is not exactly going to draw any casual viewers away from Oklahoma-Okie State. At least this matchup has the Monte Ball trying to break Barry Sanders' record going for it.
Am I the only one...
...that's bored by these 63-60 games? I guess they're ok as a novelty, but a steady dose of wondering who'll drop the ball because they'll sure as hell never be tackled isn't really the kind of foortball I like.
Child of the '70s, I suppose. 24-12, 10-7, 12-10, 10-10. That was good football.
I am generally with you.
I am generally with you. Football shouldn't be like grass court tennis where there's one break of serve/defensive stop in an otherwise overwhelming offensive display.
That said, there are defensive struggles where great defenses overwhelm competent offenses (think OSU-UM 1997). Then there is incompetent, boring offense. That's Penn State this year.
Good football's better than
Good football's better than bad, for sure. But I feel like I might be the only neutral observer that got more pleasure out of LSU/Alabama than I expect to get out of Bedlam.
Of course, I like watching Wisconsin-style basketball, too. Ignore me.
Wait...
An offer to PAY people to go to a college football game was a HOAX?? What?????