how are your ticket sales going?

[Falcon Commander]

truer words have never been spoken.



I agree.

[Schadenfreude]

I don't know too many people who can arrange time off from work on a short notice around the holidays,

Some Buckeye fans I know build time into their schedule for the bowl trip.

I know that doesn't come naturally to us, since we went 11 years between bowls.

But that's how the best traveling bowl teams do it, I think. Their fans make it a routine... and not to pat myself on the back, but I intentionally planned a winter vacation this year. I'm blessed to be able to go to the bowl game, but if the Falcons hadn't been invited... I would have found something else (warm!) to do with my time.

Marshall's routine appearances in the I-AA playoffs helped their fans get into that routine.

Something to think about when planning vacations for next year, I suppose.

[HornLakeTiger]

Man....up until last season, we went 32 years without a bowl....so this whole concept of going to see our Tigers playing in a bowl game is still brand new to the majority of us Memphis fans....LOL.

[kdog27]

I don't know too many people who can arrange time off from work on a short notice around the holidays,

Some Buckeye fans I know build time into their schedule for the bowl trip.

I know that doesn't come naturally to us, since we went 11 years between bowls.

But that's how the best traveling bowl teams do it, I think. Their fans make it a routine... and not to pat myself on the back, but I intentionally planned a winter vacation this year. I'm blessed to be able to go to the bowl game, but if the Falcons hadn't been invited... I would have found something else (warm!) to do with my time.

Marshall's routine appearances in the I-AA playoffs helped their fans get into that routine.

Something to think about when planning vacations for next year, I suppose.

Since playing on January first is rarely or never going happen there is no way to build in this time and know for certain what days to take off. Your talking about a range of almost two weeks where the bowl game can fall anywhere in that time.

[kdog27]

I don't know too many people who can arrange time off from work on a short notice around the holidays,

Some Buckeye fans I know build time into their schedule for the bowl trip.

I know that doesn't come naturally to us, since we went 11 years between bowls.

But that's how the best traveling bowl teams do it, I think. Their fans make it a routine... and not to pat myself on the back, but I intentionally planned a winter vacation this year. I'm blessed to be able to go to the bowl game, but if the Falcons hadn't been invited... I would have found something else (warm!) to do with my time.

Marshall's routine appearances in the I-AA playoffs helped their fans get into that routine.

Something to think about when planning vacations for next year, I suppose.

Since playing on January first is rarely or never going happen there is no way to build in this time and know for certain what days to take off. Your talking about a range of almost two weeks where the bowl game can fall anywhere in that time.

[oldtiger]

bgsufan1972
I am a season ticket holder and I bought 12 tickets and sent them to the MAKE-A-WISH-FOUNDATION of Alabama. Also sent a money order for $250.00 so that the children going would have money for food and souveniors.
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WOW!!!!

[oldtiger]

bgsufan1972
I am a season ticket holder and I bought 12 tickets and sent them to the MAKE-A-WISH-FOUNDATION of Alabama. Also sent a money order for $250.00 so that the children going would have money for food and souveniors.
____________________________________________________
WOW!!!!

[Schadenfreude]

I don't know too many people who can arrange time off from work on a short notice around the holidays,

Some Buckeye fans I know build time into their schedule for the bowl trip.

I know that doesn't come naturally to us, since we went 11 years between bowls.

But that's how the best traveling bowl teams do it, I think. Their fans make it a routine... and not to pat myself on the back, but I intentionally planned a winter vacation this year. I'm blessed to be able to go to the bowl game, but if the Falcons hadn't been invited... I would have found something else (warm!) to do with my time.

Marshall's routine appearances in the I-AA playoffs helped their fans get into that routine.

Something to think about when planning vacations for next year, I suppose.

Since playing on January first is rarely or never going happen there is no way to build in this time and know for certain what days to take off. Your talking about a range of almost two weeks where the bowl game can fall anywhere in that time.

Yes.

[1987alum]

1387 tickets as of Sunday. Pretty sad considering many of those I been told where ALUMS, over 600, calling and ordering their tix from the ticket office. That means only 700 students and locals have ordered tickets. This is really pathetic!

Why is this pathetic?

I don't know too many people who can arrange time off from work on a short notice around the holidays, afford ticket prices for a whole family, afford airfare for a whole family, afford hotel costs for a whole family.

Just everyone please shut up and don't worry about it. We will sell what we sell.

Tom:

Pathetic is a bit strong, I agree.

I'm lucky that I have a lot of vacation time and a great deal of flexibility. And, honestly, if my year-end bonus didn't come through like it did, Noah & I would be on the couch for this one.

This fan base thing is a marathon, not a sprint. Just five years ago, we were mired in some pretty dark times. It's going to take a consistent, persistent, long-term effort to build a fan base that will regularly fill The Doyt, let alone travel well.