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2 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Who wants to watch Ohio U play SDSU on a Wednesday night in December in Frisco?

I would have gone just because I live near the stadium, like college football and picked Ohio in my bowl pool.  But I looked all day and couldn't find tickets for less than $50 each after fees.  I probably would have gone if I could get in for half that price.

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5 hours ago, wardly said:

There weren't 10,000 t0 12,000 fans in stadium at New Mexico, and while we may disagree on head count I find your response to my estimate juvenile.

First off...no one in this thread claimed there were 10,000-12,000 at NM. The reported attendance for the Frisco Bowl was 11,000 or so, not New Mexico. But most everyone here understands that that number is tickets sold/handed out, not a head count.   But your so quick to criticize the N.M. Bowl (for god knows why????)....that you don’t even know which bowl and reported attendance your referring to.

And secondly, don’t take it personal but if your going to fabricate the notion that there was more in Frisco than N.M. then expect to be called on it.  

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New Mexico

 

 

Rick

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New Mexico Bowl holds 36,000, announced attendance 25,000, actual number between 1 and 25,000. Frisco Bowl said they had 11,000, which if true would be about my estimate of New Mexico Bowl. Since Frisco Bowl only holds 18,000, I just assumed that the announced number might be correct. My mistake.Either way, not much support with butts in the seats for either one.
 

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1 hour ago, Quoner said:

FFR wins this battle hands down. Consider that your...

 

Frisclosure, baby!

It's not rocket science or frisclopen-heart surgery.

Put two long distance middling fan bases together, and it's a recipe for an empty stadium. Pictures tell the tale. 

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1 hour ago, wardly said:

My mistake.   Either way, not much support with butts in the seats for either one.
 

Depends on what you define as “much support”.  Regardless, there were still WAAAAAY more butts in seats in New Mexico than in Frisco.  

Considering the distance for both schools’ fans,...62 miles further from Logan than from Denton.......and the short time allowed to plan,....it was better than I imagined it would be for UNT.  I’ve been to other bowls where there were much less.  But for a program like North Texas that’s still sort of new to this going to the post season thing I thought it was a decent turn out.

Just a middle-aged man’s opinion.

Rick

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My bad. I just assumed that both teams would be required to buy a total of 9,000 tickers, which is half the capacity, similar to the requirement of New Mexico Bowl. I just couldn't believe that the Frisco Bowl couldn't sell another 3-4,000, so assumed the announced attendance of 11,000 was butts in the seat. One again, to assume is to make an ass out of me. For that I apologize.The only reason I ever broached the subject of attendance in Albuquerque is my concern as to how can UNT continue to lose money by participating in these second tier bowls. We had to eat the cost of 8,500 tickets, plus cost of team,band,dancers, cheerleaders,etc. To me the big picture is football for 2nd tier programs is a failing business model. Overall, attendance is down for college football, and t,v, revenues for UNT are basically non existent. Coaching and administrative costs are skyrocketing, travel costs increasing, and for us football is becoming a gate revenue sport.In the real world when expenses continue to rise  and revenues decline you have a business that is on life support at best.While I realize that collegiate sports seen to be exempt from normal business practices, at what point do you pay the piper?

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On 12/20/2018 at 1:51 PM, FirefightnRick said:

First off...no one in this thread claimed there were 10,000-12,000 at NM. The reported attendance for the Frisco Bowl was 11,000 or so, not New Mexico. But most everyone here understands that that number is tickets sold/handed out, not a head count.   But your so quick to criticize the N.M. Bowl (for god knows why????)....that you don’t even know which bowl and reported attendance your referring to.

And secondly, don’t take it personal but if your going to fabricate the notion that there was more in Frisco than N.M. then expect to be called on it.  

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New Mexico

 

 

Rick

So your illustration shows we brought the band and a nearby Utah State brought a few fans. Ok. I was at the Frisco bowl and sitting on the pressbox side where everyone else was. You could walk under that area to get out of the rain.

All I really saw out of NM was our team get embarrassed by a classless Utah State team in front of an empty old stadium.

Either way, pretty stupid argument. Both had lousy attendance and responding by cursing is sophomoric at best. 

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Well, guess I am wrong again. In  2017/2018  CUSA grossed $18.5 million from bowl payouts with institutional expenses of $5 million, for gross payout of $13.5 million. I must tell you I am having a hard time believing the numbers, but there they are. Think I will log out  next yea.as my Christmas gift.Happy holidays to all.

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2 hours ago, UNTexas said:

So your illustration shows we brought the band and a nearby Utah State brought a few fans. Ok. I was at the Frisco bowl and sitting on the pressbox side where everyone else was. You could walk under that area to get out of the rain.

All I really saw out of NM was our team get embarrassed by a classless Utah State team in front of an empty old stadium.

Either way, pretty stupid argument. Both had lousy attendance and responding by cursing is sophomoric at best. 

I would say the second picture showed we brought quit a few fans. What this thread tells me is that some of our fans will complain about any and every thing. 

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