Hokie Ticket Sales

[K-State Is Great!]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

[Sliver72]

I've been saying it all along..."One of these days, these ridiculous godamned surcharges on these tickets is going to cause someone on the campus of VaTech to shoot a cop and flee on foot." And damned if it didn't happen JUST the way I said it would.

Good scoop Luke!

IKR

[CyberToothCat]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

Having listened to Baker speak, I know that the 1997 Cotton Bowl was potentially the very last Cotton Bowl.  When he says they were on the ropes, he means it literally.  The Cotton Bowl was going under.


Helicopters never were used much to detail news of the Cotton Bowl.  Television crews assigned to the game always had enough cameras on the ground for action and interviews.  But when choppers were sent to track Kansas State football fans flocking to the 1997 Classic, Rick Baker knew his football game was saved.
 
“We didn’t have a Southwest Conference champion anymore, we didn’t get in the BCS and we lost our title sponsor, Mobil,’’ recalled the Cotton Bowl president. “We were on the ropes.’’

Then, K-State was extended its first invitation to the tradition-rich game for a clash against BYU. Baker watched as TV coverage showed caravans of K-State fans with everything purple affixed to their vehicles. For him, the accounts were as riveting as O.J.’s chase.  “K-State started a streak of well-attended games that got us back,’’ Baker said.  About 40,000 K-State fans were estimated in Dallas to ring in the New Year in 1997.


http://cjonline.com/sports/2011-12-05/kevin-haskin-cotton-bowl-new-draw

[ednksu]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

if youre going to claim to be the best football conference at least try and google this crap before you make yourself look so stupid.

[wabash909]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

Having listened to Baker speak, I know that the 1997 Cotton Bowl was potentially the very last Cotton Bowl.  When he says they were on the ropes, he means it literally.  The Cotton Bowl was going under.


Helicopters never were used much to detail news of the Cotton Bowl.  Television crews assigned to the game always had enough cameras on the ground for action and interviews.  But when choppers were sent to track Kansas State football fans flocking to the 1997 Classic, Rick Baker knew his football game was saved.
 
“We didn’t have a Southwest Conference champion anymore, we didn’t get in the BCS and we lost our title sponsor, Mobil,’’ recalled the Cotton Bowl president. “We were on the ropes.’’

Then, K-State was extended its first invitation to the tradition-rich game for a clash against BYU. Baker watched as TV coverage showed caravans of K-State fans with everything purple affixed to their vehicles. For him, the accounts were as riveting as O.J.’s chase.  “K-State started a streak of well-attended games that got us back,’’ Baker said.  About 40,000 K-State fans were estimated in Dallas to ring in the New Year in 1997.


http://cjonline.com/sports/2011-12-05/kevin-haskin-cotton-bowl-new-draw

Man, what a great fan base.  You just read stuff like that and well up with pride with how amazing we are.

[K-State Is Great!]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

if youre going to claim to be the best football conference at least try and google this crap before you make yourself look so stupid.

Don't tell me how well K-State travels, why don't you tell the Sugar Bowl. Oh, wait. They already looked at your program and decided it wasn't good enough for a Sugar Bowl invite. Insult me all you want, the point is you are an undesirable program to BCS bowls.

[The1BigWillie]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

if youre going to claim to be the best football conference at least try and google this crap before you make yourself look so stupid.

Don't tell me how well K-State travels, why don't you tell the Sugar Bowl. Oh, wait. They already looked at your program and decided it wasn't good enough for a Sugar Bowl invite. Insult me all you want, the point is you are an undesirable program to BCS bowls.

Can't argue w/ that.

SIdebar... How butthurt is pigaggie going to be after losing to us by 1 after leading the entire game?

[Boom Roasted]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

if youre going to claim to be the best football conference at least try and google this crap before you make yourself look so stupid.

Don't tell me how well K-State travels, why don't you tell the Sugar Bowl. Oh, wait. They already looked at your program and decided it wasn't good enough for a Sugar Bowl invite. Insult me all you want, the point is you are an undesirable program to BCS bowls.

Can't argue w/ that.

SIdebar... How butthurt is pigaggie going to be after losing to us by 1 after leading the entire game and out gaining us by 150+ yards?

FYP

[oodfan]

Not sure where this goes.  Too lazy to read through all the other threads, SIAP.

The Tigers have sold about 2,000 of its allotted 11,000 tickets to the Independence Bowl, team spokesman Chad Moller said. Because of low demand and the game's Dec. 26 date, the MU Alumni Association decided against sponsoring its usual bowl trip to Shreveport and is instead offering a one-day round-trip charter flight from Columbia.

 

[BMWWcat]

You can't blame the Sugar Bowl for picking the Hokies...I mean it's about selling tickets and if my other option was K-state, I'd pick Va Tech every time. They will do a much better job of filling the seats than a bunch of cornfed Midwesterners who don't even know what a bowl game is because their program has no tradition. Just ask the Pinstripe Bowl!

I hope you are not being serious. 

[ECO_CAT]

FYI...

Bowl games could care less about ticket sales... way more concerned with the TV markets... just sayin

[K-State Is Great!]

FYI...

Bowl games could care less about ticket sales... way more concerned with the TV markets... just sayin

Sugar Bowl missing out on that huge central Kansas tv market...what a shame. All three letterboxes in the region will be watching Matlock instead....

[jmlynch1]

FYI...

Bowl games could care less about ticket sales... way more concerned with the TV markets... just sayin

Sugar Bowl missing out on that huge central Kansas tv market...what a shame. All three letterboxes in the region will be watching Matlock instead....

So it's agreed, Kansas is a slightly larger tv market than Arkansas.

[WillieWatanabe]

Nice to see we have Virginia Tech fans posting here

[ednksu]

FYI...

Bowl games could care less about ticket sales... way more concerned with the TV markets... just sayin

Sugar Bowl missing out on that huge central Kansas tv market...what a shame. All three letterboxes in the region will be watching Matlock instead....

So it's agreed, Kansas is a slightly larger tv market than Arkansas.

I gotta think there is a murder she wrote run in there or some Ag Day placements to split the 2 remaining.

[WillieWatanabe]

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20111212aaa.html

[felix rex]

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20111212aaa.html

Proxy tickets. lmao.

[KITNfury]

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20111212aaa.html

Proxy tickets. lmao.

Even if you threw in a free hotdog, I don't think a homeless guy would take those proxy tix, let alone a time upstanding military man.

[felix rex]

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20111212aaa.html

Proxy tickets. lmao.

Even if you threw in a free hotdog, I don't think a homeless guy would take those proxy tix, let alone a time upstanding military man.

Are they also going to buy proxy hotel rooms and proxy concessions? Real gold mine for the sugar bowl and local businesses.

[theShow]

This news was picked up by the Detroit Free Press as well. Seems like no one is really excited that VTech made it to the bowl, not even their own fans.

http://www.freep.com/article/20111212/SPORTS06/111212035/Amid-slow-Sugar-Bowl-sales-Virginia-Tech-asks-fans-buy-tickets-donate?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CSports

[ksucrcoop]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Sugar Bowl snub: K-State has sold 14,100 tickets to Cotton; Virginia Tech has sold 9,337 of its 17.5K Sugar allotment

[pissclams]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Sugar Bowl snub: K-State has sold 14,100 tickets to Cotton; Virginia Tech has sold 9,337 of its 17.5K Sugar allotment

i think there are a lot of k-state fans who wouldn't be attending the sugar bowl had we been selected but are attending the cotton bowl because the ease at which they can get to dallas.

[Fuktard]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Sugar Bowl snub: K-State has sold 14,100 tickets to Cotton; Virginia Tech has sold 9,337 of its 17.5K Sugar allotment

i think there are a lot of k-state fans who wouldn't be attending the sugar bowl had we been selected but are attending the cotton bowl because the ease at which they can get to dallas.

I agree.  I preordered 13 Cotton bowl tix and only 6 Sugar Bowl tix....it's just so much more difficult to get to.   That said, I think we could have outsold what VT is doing.  I will guarantee you there have been significantly more than 14,100 tix sold to KSU fans.  We will likely have 25K+ at the game.

[doom]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Sugar Bowl snub: K-State has sold 14,100 tickets to Cotton; Virginia Tech has sold 9,337 of its 17.5K Sugar allotment

i think there are a lot of k-state fans who wouldn't be attending the sugar bowl had we been selected but are attending the cotton bowl because the ease at which they can get to dallas.

I agree.  I preordered 13 Cotton bowl tix and only 6 Sugar Bowl tix....it's just so much more difficult to get to.   That said, I think we could have outsold what VT is doing.  I will guarantee you there have been significantly more than 14,100 tix sold to KSU fans.  We will likely have 25K+ at the game.

especially when you throw in proxy tickets.

[Rage Against the McKee]

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Sugar Bowl snub: K-State has sold 14,100 tickets to Cotton; Virginia Tech has sold 9,337 of its 17.5K Sugar allotment

i think there are a lot of k-state fans who wouldn't be attending the sugar bowl had we been selected but are attending the cotton bowl because the ease at which they can get to dallas.

K-State would have sold their 17.5K allotment within 2 days of the announcement. There might have been less total fans in attendance than at the Cotton Bowl, but I have no doubt that we would have sold the allotment.