Lousy Ticket Sales for Cotton Bowl

by Jon Johnston on Dec 28, 2006 10:23 AM CST in Nebraska Husker Football

Tickets for the Cotton Bowl apparently aren't selling very well. So much for great support and fans willing to travel anywhere - as has always been said about Nebraska fans. Nebraska has sold an estimated 9,000 of the 12,500 ticket allotment, which is a good thing because they get to pay for all the tickets they don't sell at $90 apiece.

Some are saying that Dallas isn't a great bowl destination and that the Cotton Bowl venue leaves much to be desired. There are a boatload of Nebraska fans living in North Texas already. Think they're not planning on attending? When you see articles like this, doesn't it give you the idea that you should wait until the last minute and get a ticket for $20 instead of $150?

A few more reasons for lousy ticket sales:

Early morning start - game time at 10:30 am means that realistically you're going to be getting down there around 8:00 am to get prepared for the bowl game. After New Year's Eve? Yuck!
Lousy timing - a lot of school starts January 2nd. I don't know what your Christmas vacation looks like, but my kids will be back in school the day after the bowl game and I'll be back at work. Maybe if it were on a Friday or Saturday, there'd be time to get to the game, get back, and get to school, but not when everyone is expected back the day after.
Disappointing Seasons. The article states that Nebraska fans feel let down after the loss to Oklahoma. What's to be disappointed about? We were in the Big 12 title game, and had our shot - we outplayed Oklahoma throughout the game, but had a bad day with turnovers against top ten team. It also states that Auburn fans are disappointed due to a November loss to Georgia.

Like I stated earlier, if this game were being played in September, we'd be all over it. It's a great match up between two teams with a good history.

If you think that losing to Oklahoma sucked, what if we lose to Auburn? Even more disappointment. Who wants that?

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I think....

that its not only the loss to OU that has people thinking the season did not reach potential. I think some still see the USC game plan as a poor one that gave us little chance to win, the OSU loss as a big, big disappointment and then add the OU loss when we clearly outplayed them and people are a little down on the coaching staff. I think you will see more red on game day due to people in Texas waiting to see what they can get their tickets for as opposed to using the NU ticket office. I also think this was the year people on the fence of the Solich/Pedersen deal were waiting to see what would happen and alot of them dont see a vast improvement over what Solich had and I think that is keeping some home. I really dont think that a Monday game has a lot to do with it because people have kept their kids from school and have taken off work in the past to attend bowl games (and they weren't all MNC games).

By the way I have noticed that your bowl picks are about even right now. I didn't notice your pick of the Rice/Troy game, did you not pick that one or just forget to put it in your column? On the others you are 5-6 right now. Hows the wife doing? I only got into the local one and it just started today with the OSU/Alabama game and the Cal/aTm game. Got both right so far. I missed getting my entry in on the big one that picked them all due to the big ice storm we had here that kept me out putting up powerlines until 1:00 am. Entry had to be in by 6 that night and I was at work. Should have gotten it in before the deadline but I never do that for some reason. Maybe next year.
Other picks:
Houston/So.Car=SC
Minn./Tex.Tech=Tech
Tex/Iowa=Texas
Penn.ST/Tenn.=PST
Aub/Nebr=Nebraska
West Vir/Geo.Tech=WV
Ark/Wis=Ark
USC/MICH=Mich
OU/BST=OU
Louis/Wake=WF
ND/LSU=LSU
OSU/Fla.=OSU

by taflorom on Dec 28, 2006 11:02 PM CST reply actions

she's kicking my butt

check out the In The Bleachers blog. They're going to update a tally soon, and I have to believe she's at least 2 or 3 ahead of me.

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Dec 29, 2006 3:38 PM CST up reply actions

Oh Yeah...

Did you notice that Superstar Josh Freemen and KSU got their butts handed to them tonight? I still haven't figured out why everyone has jumped on the " Josh Freemen for the next three Hiesmens" band wagon. All he did was beat Texas. What did he do in the other "big games"? He lost to KU and NU. Texas did more to lose the game then KSU actually did to win it. Josh is a freshmen and he will be a good qb but he cant do it alone and KSU doesn't have much surrounding him right now. I would almost be willing to bet that he never plays for a Big XII championship let alone a MNC.

by taflorom on Dec 28, 2006 11:28 PM CST reply actions

One last comment...

What the hell is all the crap showing up at the end of the diaries. A whole bunch of new comments that are just a bunch of crap. Can you put a stop to that or is that something through SBN? I hope you can stop it because it get frustrating thinking you have some new comments to read and get that crap. It is at the end of almost everyone.

by taflorom on Dec 28, 2006 11:34 PM CST reply actions

where are you seeing this?

I'll try to find them.... probably comment spam. I know we had the problem again.

btw, back in Minnesota, so we missed the big storm. hope everything is okay.

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Dec 29, 2006 3:38 PM CST up reply actions

The old diaries

that are listed to the right hand side. Like my pick em' deals. Its always the last comment. I noticed that most of them had however many comments and then (new) by them. I started going through and it was just a bunch of ad stuff. Didn't click on any but if you put you arrow over the content it underlines certain parts and then I recognized some names of stuff. Just thought you would like to know.

by taflorom on Dec 29, 2006 8:21 PM CST up reply actions

Look...

at my pick em' post from Nov. 14th. The last comment. Title is "in my opinion" then the comment is what I was talking about.

by taflorom on Dec 29, 2006 8:25 PM CST up reply actions

i cleaned them up

i hope

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Dec 30, 2006 12:21 PM CST up reply actions

Yes you did...

miss a big one. Already close to a foot of snow and it is still coming down hard. They are calling for up to 18" tonight and 4-6 more through Sunday. It has been hectic moving this crap. Better then last weeks ice storm though. This may get to you guys with the way the radar shows its movement. Hope not but then you are probably used to it by now.

By the way my wifes folks live in Norcross in your area. About 2hours away. If you ever get there look up the Rosin family and tell them you know me. Good people.

by taflorom on Dec 29, 2006 8:17 PM CST reply actions