GhostofBTT
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You know what would help Miami sell out? Give them a crappy TV contract and then bring Texas Tech to town. You could totes sell 60,000 seats...if you had them.
Football attendance: IL, MN, Miami
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1hawkeye1
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GhostofBTT
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Scorpio79
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he has some sort of chemical formula diagram on his t-shirt LOL
Maybe that's a young sioux34?
Maybe that's a young sioux34?
okeefe4prez
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Oh, Champaign. I remember having someone call me hick and farmer at a gas station as I stopped to fuel up my rig donning my Iowa gear. Got a prime tailgating spot a few blocks from the stadium and close to Assembly Hall and it was maybe 100 yards from a corn field and some sort of pig lot experiment. Such a cosmopolitan town. The Bears excuse works for Northwestern and the Vikings excuse works for the Gophers, but the Bears aren't taking jack away from the Fighting Illini and the Colts aren't taking jack away from Indiana, those schools just have crappy fanbases and no clue about how to tailgate properly.
Illinois is what some of the posters on this board need to look at the next time Ferentz goes 6-6 or 7-5 and they call for his head. Illinois had an absolutely terrible AD who routinely fired coaches and replaced them with even crappier coaches and after a prolonged run of terrible teams, they have lost all local fan support in central and eastern Illinois. Say what you may about TavernHoks, but those sorts of fans are what you need to sell tickets and merchandise, you can't just rely on alums. Illinois and Northwestern are two fanbases with virtually no "tavernfans" and it shows in a major way. OSU, Nebraska and Michigan have millions and it shows in a major way.
hawkdrummer1
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Minnesota:
Despite building a $288 million stadium and approving beer sales, Minnesota football has declined markedly in popularity. In just four years in TCF Bank Stadium, the Gophers have lost 80 percent of their student ticket base.[/QUOTE]
Try 3 years, TCF opened in September of 2009. Still...Goopher fans are pathetic.
Despite building a $288 million stadium and approving beer sales, Minnesota football has declined markedly in popularity. In just four years in TCF Bank Stadium, the Gophers have lost 80 percent of their student ticket base.[/QUOTE]
Try 3 years, TCF opened in September of 2009. Still...Goopher fans are pathetic.
thejumper5
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hawkdrummer1
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okeefe4prez
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hawkdrummer1
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Well 'splained OKeefe. Chicago is pretty splintered. Uh er...excuse me <ahem> "diverse"
GhostofBTT
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How many Idiots Out Walkin Around blasts did you hear? Every Illinois fan thinks they made that up, and every one of them thinks it is clever.
HawkeyeShane
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Everyone remember this and realize that one Jamie Pollardini (old school JDM reference) has been and IS trying to create "Tavern Clones" at this very moment...so the next time your friendly neighborhood Cyclone Fan asks you,"Where did you go to college?" look him in eye and say,"I was just about to ask you the same thing, doosh"...
Disclaimer: I have no idea what my rant has to do with anything...other than Clone fans annoy the hell out of me with their lame and untrue statements that try to somehow shame us T-Hoks (hip new 3.0 reference to Tavern Hoks).
HawkeyeShane
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They aren't the only ones...Pissconsin fans giggle like school girls when they drop that hammer as well.
FalseMirage
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Add Miseryians to the list, I had one use it on me earlier this year then laugh like he was clever. I told him the reason Missouri is called the show me state is because they are to dense to figure anything out for themselves. Now that was funny and original.
Doublewide
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Trooth was spoken here. Illinois TG really sucks also because most of the students go to the bars pregame and its the old blue hair Alumni who TG.
HawkeyeShane
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Of course they think it's superawesomefunny, it only requires them to remember 4 words! Putting them in the correct order is the hard part...
hawkeyescott
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Do you remember the last time ISU backed into a conference title in 1912? Also they doing anything in Ames this year for the 100th anniversary of their last conference title?
HawkinGoferLand
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Minisotans have a twist: I Oughta Went Around is their clever one. I seriously almost punched the guy in the face at work when he said it. 1) He was born, raised and graduated HS and college in NW IA. 2) He knows absolutely nothing about sports and shouldn't try to contribute to the conversations with that $hit. 3) he and I are the only Iowa guys in the entire office of 40 people. You're going to side with them, cool.
MNHawkeyeFreak
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My 7th grader has heard the Idiots Out Walking Around term a few times from her health teacher. Although born in Minnesota, she made sure to tell him she's a Hawkeye.
okeefe4prez
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Doublewide, I refer to you this quote in your signature: **Official 2011 HN Poster Awards Winner ** ~Most Valuable Poster~
You have got to do better. Illinois students don't pregame at their bars. Their bars suck. Royally. It is hard for me to explain this, but think of Ames, but take away Hickory Park and put in a larger, far more selective and more bookish school. That is Champaign-Urbana. Ron Guenther has killed their football program and its traditions (including, but not limited to, homecoming, which they claim to have invented).
Seriously, if you don't want your title to be retroactively stripped and handed over to VintageHawkeye (RIP) you have go to do better.
