PSA: Michigan @ Purdue tickets on sale
Purdue's ticket office just released loads of great tickets to the General Public for the UM game on September 23.
You must have missed that PURDUE was the opponent. Purdue was Rutgers before Rutgers was even Rutgers...
This is true. I just put up $129 a piece for BYU's home game vs Utah this Sept. It's lower level corner and a big rivalry game and I guess it's only $45 more than Purdue haha
I'm sure a LOT has changed since i was there last but I can say of all the campuses I've visited in the B1G I would put West Lafayette only slightly ahead of East Lansing & Columbus for suckdom. Town isnt much fun at all and if you step one foot off campus you're one of "them college kids" they dont seem all that fond of.
Couple that with the fact the stadium sucks, they bang that stupid drum all the time, yell "Boiler Up" when anything remotely positive happens and Jim Smith dropped a sure touchdown there back in 76 when we were ranked #1 that would've given Bo his first undeated season prior to the Rose Bowl and I'll take a hard pass on going back there anytime soon.
Don't forget Lloyd getting cute and putting Will Carr in the game. Carr fumbled a FB dive from the 1 into the endzone and Michigan lost 9-3 (technically it was 3-9, but that is already taken and copyrights have been applied for by our EL friends).
Purdue outscored us 9-5 between the 1995 and 1996 games. If people think RichRod had it bad after two losing seasons, consider Lloyd was very unpopular after two straight four-loss seasons and one of those losses each season was in a bowl game. I don't know if Lloyd would have lasted after 1997 without Woodson.
They outscored us 9-8. 5-0 win followed by 9-3 loss. Two of the ugliest football games ever played on God's green earth.
Well, they do have that beer garden now in the area the used to be bleachers. That might be fun.
Having grown up in East Lansing, I feel I have to defend my hometown a little bit. West Lafayette is a raging tire fire, whereas East Lansing is merely a bonfire-esque couch fire. I've traveled to all the pre-expansion Big 10 towns. I'd group them accordingly:
Nice college towns: Ann Arbor, Madison, Bloomington
Meh college towns in the middle of nowhere/farmland: East Lansing, Champaign-Urbana, Iowa City
College towns trapped in big cities: Minny-St.Paul, Evanston
Toxic wastelands: Columbus, West Lafayette
I've been to Illinois campus and it is literally in the middle of nowhere. You will pass a lot of corn until you stumble upon it. Easy to see why they struggle to recruit highly rated Chicago kids.
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Wow, I wasn't just blowing smoke. East Lansing ranked 71st out of more than 2000 cities for livability. Ann Arbor was #3, just behind Iowa City at #2. Columbus and West Lafayatte don't make the top 100.
Columbus is actually a really cool city. East Lansing is pretty pathetic. West Lafayette manages to be worse. Only South Bend can give it a run for its money of the campuses/stadiums I've watched Michigan play at.
It's definitely not the best college town in the Big Ten, but when you account for relative ease to get to from Ann Arbor or Chicago, availability of tickets and likely weather, it's still worth it to many. Tailgating is still Tailgating, and UM football is still UM football no matter where you go!
and then the usually reliable Bobby Wood topped off the day's festivities by missing a very makeable FG as time expired.
That crapfest did lead to a memorable SI headline for its article about the game, though:
"Michigan Chokes on a Boilermaker"
Thanks for pumping up West Lafayette . I do have an old tire from an '82 Nissan B210 that I can stoke the flames with. I think our group is staying in Indy before the game if that will make my weekend better.
Worst venue in the Big Ten...but at least you get to see a win with a bunch of Michigan fans.
I'm heading to Oktoberfest in Germany this year so will be tuning in from there. Otherwise would probably jump on this and make the drive.
was possibly the awesomest vacation spot I have ever been to. 1a and 1b with Amsterdam. Can rent rooms in the old olympic village in Munich which is close to the action. Pick up a Paulaner mug (complete with a can of Paulaner beer) in the airport on the way home.
Tickets are always easy to get. Game should be wide open interesting and it's a beautiful campus.
Purdue should be visited once, and only once. Relatively ugly, dull campus in the middle of nowhere with angry rednecks. Maybe I overstated? ...but not really that much.
Tickets for both games will be plentiful on Stubhub at kick off.
Not an issue with the niceness or beauty of Bloomington, but finding a reasonable hotel within 30 miles is always a struggle. That's what has kept me from doing that trip in the past.
the campus sucks and West Lafayette sucks.
I'd honestly rather go to Columbus or EL than WL. I'd rather go to almost any other college campus than WL. Heck, ND is a better campus/town than WL, but probably only because I lived there and know where the decent bars and such are (there are only a couple).
Bottoms up, alkie.
Stupid cousin is getting married in stupid Maine that day. Ugh!
the tickets will be much cheaper once Purdue is 0-3 heading into this game.
Their first game against L'ville should be quite hilarious. Jackson will probably throw for 300, run for 200, and moonwalk for 150.
Ohio was the best team in the MAC East last year and gave WMU a good game in the MAC Championship. Probably an impossible hurdle for Purdue to clear.
I'll be honest, I don't know anything about Mizzou other than they have to be better than Purdue.
Oh God it's their Homecoming. That should be fun for them.
Don't go. I grew up 40 minutes from campus, and I can tell you that somehow that shit hole has gotten worse since the 90's. There used to be fun bars to pre-game at, but most of that is gone now. It's just shitty commercialism and people getting drunk because there is nothing else to do. Even the dive restaraunt, XXX, got ruined because Guy Fieri put it on his stupid show.
On the other hand, I can't recommend the trip to Bloomington enough. Imagine Ann Arbor, but warmer and actually affordable. And I hate to say, but the architecture is better in Bloomington. Yeah, there isn't enough hotel space in town, which makes it a pain if you don't book in advance, but if you get creative you can stay out on the lake and make it a great weekend.
Much better than the university allotment.
117H, 118L, & 118H. Horrible. Just buy singles through Purdue. I would highly recommend buying the new Patio seats on Stubhub.
So far, the reasons for not going consist of:
1. The town is crappy compared to other college towns
and
2. I saw Michigan lose there once because of bad coaching decisions
Pretty sure we don't have to worry about #2 any more. And you'll still have a good time because there is MICHIGAN FOOTBALL and TAILGATING. Who cares if the bars suck and the campus is not pretty?