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Posted: 12/15/2015 9:51 PM
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Have not heard much, but we've got to be. Doing well, 3-4k?
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Posted: 12/15/2015 10:29 PM
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Word on the App State site was that the game is a sellout, so if Ohio didn't sell their allotment, they could have turned the tickets back in for them to be sold by others.
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Posted: 12/15/2015 10:53 PM
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Word on the App State site was that the game is a sellout, so if Ohio didn't sell their allotment, they could have turned the tickets back in for them to be sold by others.
I bought some tickets for kids today so we're not sold out
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Posted: 12/15/2015 11:03 PM
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Word on the App State site was that the game is a sellout, so if Ohio didn't sell their allotment, they could have turned the tickets back in for them to be sold by others.
That's awesome, should be a great crowd, thinking we will end up with 5,000+ fans with the students bussing down.
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Posted: 12/16/2015 9:57 AM
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I read last week that App St sold it's first allotment in a day or so and were getting a second allotment, so maybe that's what they meant by a sellout.
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Posted: 12/16/2015 10:12 AM
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Pataskala wrote:expand_more
I read last week that App St sold it's first allotment in a day or so and were getting a second allotment, so maybe that's what they meant by a sellout.

Any idea what an allotment consist of?
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Posted: 12/16/2015 11:30 AM
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Heard that App State sold in excess of 4000 and that we're under 400. Anyone hear the same thing?
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Heard that App State sold in excess of 4000 and that we're under 400. Anyone hear the same thing?
Remember, Alan, that for whatever reason, a lot of OHIO fans in the past have bought bowl game tickets from the bowl and not through the OHIO ticket office. So, if your figures are from the ticket office, they may not reflect total sales.
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Posted: 12/16/2015 7:02 PM
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I don't know what the stadium seats but my guess is it won't be a sellout. But I have to imagine we will have a few hundred student tickets alone. So my unofficial guess is maybe upwards of 1k Ohio fans will be at the game, which is not bad considering the difficult travel and cost to get there.
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Posted: 12/16/2015 7:03 PM
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How many buses of students are going down?
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Posted: 12/16/2015 7:21 PM
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How many buses of students are going down?
As I recall, I think the Athletic Dept. said that the full allotment of 8 bus loads were sold and they were taking names for a waiting list. Don't know what the final count is.
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Posted: 12/16/2015 10:09 PM
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8 busses equals roughly 275 students depending on bus size.
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Posted: 12/16/2015 11:11 PM
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Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
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Posted: 12/16/2015 11:18 PM
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
Rcd an e-mail this evening from the ticket office still trying to sell tickets for kids. I am already in, but, it indicates they are still working sales.
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Some sources list the stadium's capacity at 25,000, although I also saw a source listing capacity as 21,000. Either way, not a very big stadium so I can see the place being sold out.
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Posted: 12/17/2015 8:28 AM
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
I've wondered the same. My assumption is that the hotel portion of the package is the limiting factor.
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Posted: 12/17/2015 8:41 AM
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Seems to me that you could count the 110 as sales, even though the school is buying them.
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
My guess is limited hotel space and cost. The university is already taking a big hit sending eight buses down.
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Posted: 12/17/2015 9:23 AM
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Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
Rcd an e-mail this evening from the ticket office still trying to sell tickets for kids. I am already in, but, it indicates they are still working sales.
My guess is if it wasn't for the sympathy sales, total sales would be less than 200 to non-students.
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Being that I can't attend I too purchased 2 tickets on our web site for the military. I wanted to do my part.




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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
Rcd an e-mail this evening from the ticket office still trying to sell tickets for kids. I am already in, but, it indicates they are still working sales.
My guess is if it wasn't for the sympathy sales, total sales would be less than 200 to non-students.
Its a tough location to rally around. Nothing to see but civil rights museums.
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Posted: 12/18/2015 9:31 AM
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Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
Rcd an e-mail this evening from the ticket office still trying to sell tickets for kids. I am already in, but, it indicates they are still working sales.
My guess is if it wasn't for the sympathy sales, total sales would be less than 200 to non-students.
Its a tough location to rally around. Nothing to see but civil rights museums.
Interesting point Wes although I'd love to see those museums sometime. At the game last night the conversation eventually got to the bowl and a lady next to me said "these bowls really don't mean anything - they are just a solitary game where NCAA basketball tournament games for MAC teams mean that you've won the conference championship and theoretically are playing for the national championship."
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Posted: 12/18/2015 9:59 AM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
Rcd an e-mail this evening from the ticket office still trying to sell tickets for kids. I am already in, but, it indicates they are still working sales.
My guess is if it wasn't for the sympathy sales, total sales would be less than 200 to non-students.
Its a tough location to rally around. Nothing to see but civil rights museums.
Interesting point Wes although I'd love to see those museums sometime. At the game last night the conversation eventually got to the bowl and a lady next to me said "these bowls really don't mean anything - they are just a solitary game where NCAA basketball tournament games for MAC teams mean that you've won the conference championship and theoretically are playing for the national championship."
By that measure, what have bowl games EVER amounted to? In days of old when advertising wasn't the title sponsor of all bowl games, what was the measure of success then? The vast majority of bowl participants weren't racing for a "national title." If you won the Cotton Bowl, you won the Cotton Bowl. That's it.
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Posted: 12/18/2015 10:49 AM
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You make a very good point Robert but in 1968, the last year we won a MAC championship, there were 11 bowl games - 22 teams. You had to be very good, very good to get an invitation.

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1968-bowls.html

Today with 80, you don't have to be very good at all. Except for the marquis bowls, the others are just like the many channels on cable tv - so much noise. All of this was posted in the context of ticket sales and how insignificant the number is that we have actually sold to people who are going to the game. The basketball tournament is a different thing and we sell way more tickets to attendees of that tournament.
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Posted: 12/18/2015 11:01 AM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Why 8? Is that what they have? Or, are these charters? If they are charters, why not 80, if they can fill them?
Rcd an e-mail this evening from the ticket office still trying to sell tickets for kids. I am already in, but, it indicates they are still working sales.
My guess is if it wasn't for the sympathy sales, total sales would be less than 200 to non-students.
Its a tough location to rally around. Nothing to see but civil rights museums.
Interesting point Wes although I'd love to see those museums sometime. At the game last night the conversation eventually got to the bowl and a lady next to me said "these bowls really don't mean anything - they are just a solitary game where NCAA basketball tournament games for MAC teams mean that you've won the conference championship and theoretically are playing for the national championship."

Unfortunately, we talking about football, not basketball, do the comparison doesn't work well. G-5 teams have virtually no chance to play for a national championship in football. To say any game "really does not mean anything" is sad in my opinion, but shared by many.

I also have to ask, using her rational, what did that basketball game mean last night? Nothing to do with a national championship, that's for sure.
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