Question: Buy tickets to Rutgers now or wait?
Rutgers is the closes east coast game for me this year since PSU is at home. Right now the cheapest tickets are around $94, but you'd probably have to pay more like $115 or $127 to get closer to midfield in the upper tier. I'm just wondering if folks think prices will go up or down and should I wait to purchase tickets or snag one now?
I'm guessing it depends on how good each team is. The game is in early October. Michigan plays PSU and Wiscy before Rutgers, but I'd still expect them to be undefeated. Rutgers has to play Iowa and OSU, so I'd guess they have a few losses. Any thoughts?
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Flip side is that if UM is really rolling by then, you might get a sizable uptick in interest from Michigan fans (who, let's face it, probably outnumber the Rutgers fanbase even on the East Coast).
point probably outweighs this. I'm not sure much can happen to UM before that game to get UM fans more excited than we are now (unless a few teams ranked ahead of us lose and we go in ranked #1 or #2), given we're ranked top five and are double digit favorites in every game before then.
So my money would definitely be on any Rutgers hope that exists now decreasing by a lot more than UM excitement increases by then. And that's not even to consider what happens if we are to stumble before that game (which is entirely and totally possible *reverse-jinx*).
To be prepared for war is the one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Know they self, know they enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
+1 for the MASH reference.
so buy before the dozens of rabid Rutgers fans scoop them up.
Prices on Stubhub are almost always lowest in the few days before the game. So I guess I'd wait until then.
I don't think they will drop by a massive amount though, for two reasons:
- So many Michigan fans in the Northeast who will want tickets offsets some of the price drop from Rutgers fans after they're blown out by OSU and Iowa.
- A significant portion of Rutgers fans are delusional enough to think they will win just because they scraped a tiny victory over Brady Hoke's worst team.
I need a bunch of tickets and will wait until OSU insults them and the RU fanbase realizes they have no shot against us. Right now with all of the "Garden State is walled off" talk, I think RU fans think they may be a good team. LOL.
Could Rutgers even beat Paramus High?
At best they'll be 2-3. @Washington is a loss, same with Iowa and OSU. Even New Mexico will pose problems for them. Howard is the only likely win... 1-4 and sliding, facing a team you should not have declared a war on is not a nice place to be. Gon b ugly!
WAIT.
I'm from Philly and have friends up and down New Jersey and New York. NOBODY cares about college football, let alone Rutgers. It isn't like Michigan football where you have a deep and wide fanbase of both Michigan fans and Midwestern college football fans to keep the prices up. The only college football fans in New Jersey are people with direct connections to Rutgers University and transplants from elsewhere. The second Rutgers fans start selling, it will become a buyer's market.
I'm seriously shocked that the lowest price is $94. There is zero chance it stays that high.
If there is no demand from Rutgers to begin with and the Michigan demand increases...
We shall see. For my sake, I hope you're wrong. I'm trying to get a tradition going with my best friend who lives in N.Y.C. He visits me for MD games and I visit him for Rutgers games.
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and watch out for beanie babies.
Piscataway is a pain in the ass (unlike the main campus which is next door in New Brunswick).
Figure out your parking and transportation plans because getting out of there is a nightmare. For reference:
http://roadgames07.blogspot.com/2007/10/arthur-dimmesdale-needs-good-fl…
I went to the RU game two years ago from NYC and didn't find it to be too bad. Took the train (Amtrak, I think) out there, got dinner near campus, then walked up to the stadium. Rutgers runs shuttle buses between the stadium and the train station, so I pretty easily caught one of those back.
Can't speak for driving, though.
I've been down to Rutgers from the city fairly frequently for academic events. Really easy. It's about an hour on either Amtrak and NJ Transit out of Penn Station. Timing seems to be about the same. Obviously a lot more NJ transit trains and it's substantially cheaper. And I don't think all Amtrak trains stop there.
Stations very close to campus. Seems like the stadium's a bit further away. About 2 miles to the station. Obviously, with a night game, the train back is kind of a pain.
All the advice I've ever gotten for going to Rutgers is "don't drive" because the parking's such a pain, but that's on a weekday. Don't know what the gameday situations are like.
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As always, if public transportation to busy sporting event is possible, and you don't need a vehicle in which to tailgate, take the public transport. Every time.
I'm coming to AA for the Colorado game. Would love to get three tickets in club level. Anyone have any leads on how to get tickets there?
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Or try Stubhub. With our shedule at home being what it is this year, and with eight games, it shouldn't be hard finding tickets for most games, particularly those that are OOC.
I'd definitely wait.
Rutgers is too dumb to move the game and make more $$. Undefeated Michigan coming to NJ, would absolutely bang the place out.
MetLife has Rock the BBQ at MetLife that day.
Plus it probably only holds 20,000 more people and who knows how revenue would be shared between Michigan, Rutgers, and MetLife Stadium. It may actually be less profitable.
No.
No more college football in sterile NFL stadiums just to chase that last dollar.
Rutgers campus or not, college football should be played on a college campus. It's part of what makes CFB great.
It's definitely sterile, but their stadium is right across the river from Rutgers main New Brunswick campus and in the middle of a secondary campus that houses the golf course, various athletic stuff, etc. It's really not much farther than the distance between central campus and the stadium at Michigan (or much different than the distinction between central campus and south campus).
To be fair, I had that impression as well until I actually looked. And I've been to the Rutgers campus 4-5 times.
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1. buy all the tickets right meow
2/. give one to that asshole Darker Blue
3. ?????????
4. profit
Am I drinking milk from a saucer?!?
That the game will now be called the Rumble on The Raritan? Ok I just made that up but it is a rivalry game and we all know that Piscataway, NJ is the Death Valley of the East. So I would say you better get those tickets NOW.
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I wouldn't wait. We'll probably go in at 5-0 which will only drive up the price. Also don't forget the JH factor.
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I'm looking forward to those posts again this year.