Musselman weighs in on MAC/Big Ten scheduling

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:04 pm

Dr. Bucko wrote:Big ten teams have invaded MAC stadia several times. Toledo hosted Minnisota, Indiana and Purdue, Miami hosted Iowa a couple of years ago, and Central M. will be hosting Indiana this year. I don't think anybody else has done anything with the big ten aside from the above mentioned schools.

Northwestern will be playing at Ohio at some point. I forget when.

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:11 pm

1987alum wrote: PGY is probably right. I remember seeing that something like 60% of BG students live within an hour or two of Cleveland (even when they're not in school!), so it would make an easy trip home for the weekend.

Also that is probably labor day weekend. Almost everyone goes home that weekend anyway so they will be closer to the stadium.

tekekini · Post by **tekekini** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:23 am

kdog27 wrote:
1987alum wrote: PGY is probably right. I remember seeing that something like 60% of BG students live within an hour or two of Cleveland (even when they're not in school!), so it would make an easy trip home for the weekend.
Also that is probably labor day weekend. Almost everyone goes home that weekend anyway so they will be closer to the stadium.

yes, but we arent going to get all of those 60% to show...i have a feeling, especially if students have to pay for tickets we may be lucky to get 20% of those BG people that live near cleveland.

there is going to have to be a lot of alumni/local fans that go to the game. I am just skeptical of how the attendance is going to be...we dont even get great attendance at the Doyt. a good chunk of those people who do go to the doyt, only go becuase their boyfriends go, or their other friends go and they have nothing else to do but they dont really care about the football team. It will slowly change as the freshman classes continue to get bigger every year. more of them will come in knowing about the football team, and maybe care more.

tekekini · Post by **tekekini** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:25 am

however, it could be a great opportunity, if a lot of those people go home and get their families to go to the game with them, talk their parents into paying their way in...that could be a boost for the attendance. Wisky would be a decent enough of team to draw some of those kids families to the stadium