🏈 Temple: Here's one likely reason you aren't a Power 5 school; and shouldn't be. AACCG tickets ...

[TerryP]

 

[Bamabww]

Wow! Unbelievable.

 

[UAgrad93]

Damn! The "fighting Cosby's" shouldn't even be a 3A football school, much less a Power 5. 50 was normally the # of comp tickets a school would get.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Can't wait to see a photo of that crowd...

 

[jdpas29]

i like that picture, eleven. where, generally, is that if you don't mind me asking?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

i like that picture, eleven. where, generally, is that if you don't mind me asking?

Logan Martin Lake, from the Talladega County side looking west toward the Pell City side. I have a place there and it has good sunset view, both in summer and winter, so I try to take shots of them when they're nice.

 

[rick4bama]

:flaming:

 

[PhillyGirl]

They're playing in Texas. And it's finals week for Temple. Kind of makes sense, if true.

 

[bama alum]

That's enough to make uab fans feel pretty proud.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

No doubt there already have been dissertations written on this topic, but it's very rare to find thriving, big-time college football programs in major urban centers, including Philadelphia. This, of course, is chiefly the result of local or nearby NFL franchises' garnering fan support that might otherwise have gone to a college team. In particular, potential "sidewalk" fans are channeled instead toward NFL teams because the affinitive price of admission is merely that one identify himself with a certain city. (I'll admit my biased view that getting excited about the NFL is generally for people who didn't go to college.)

If Notre Dame had been established in Chicago rather than South Bend, would the Irish have any more football cachet than the Northwestern Wildcats? I doubt it.

 

[planomateo]

If that game was close enough and didn't conflict with the SEC Championship game I'd consider going.

 

[OldPlayer]

They're playing in Texas. And it's finals week for Temple. Kind of makes sense, if true.

Do they have any alumni? Unlike Alabama fans, I'm sure none of the Temple fans planned on being in the hunt for a conference championship and never planned to go. Still, only 50 tickets sold?

 

[UAgrad93]

They're playing in Texas. And it's finals week for Temple. Kind of makes sense, if true.

I could see students, faculty and staff not going due to finals, but damn! The alumni should have been able to take those easily.

 

[planomateo]

Further proof that conference sprawl is stupid. WVU in the Big XII is another example.

Perhaps Houston's playing a bigger game here, in terms of future conference expansion options.




He's the Senior Associate Athletic Director at Temple University; CoSIDA Past President, Strategic Communications and Public Relations professional

 

[riz]

Total misunderstanding, I'm sure. Temple is a football school.

 

[PhillyGirl]

I could see students, faculty and staff not going due to finals, but damn! The alumni should have been able to take those easily.

Do they have any alumni? Unlike Alabama fans, I'm sure none of the Temple fans planned on being in the hunt for a conference championship and never planned to go. Still, only 50 tickets sold?

Temple, historically, is a basketball school. Most alumni grew up basketball-mad and football was kind of ignored.

The best population to tap for football support is the young folks: unfortunately, not many of them are able to go 2,000 miles west for this game. And many of them cannot miss finals.

Most of the alums are also in the Philly area. Again, not as simple as just up and going. It would be way cooler if the AACC was in Baltimore or Philly or NYC or something, but unfortunately, the conference's structure makes that unlikely.

I also question that number, as I know several people going .. I can't possibly know a whole 1/10th of all Owls going to this game.

 

[OldPlayer]

Further proof that conference sprawl is stupid. WVU in the Big XII is another example.

Perhaps Houston's playing a bigger game here, in terms of future conference expansion options.




He's the Senior Associate Athletic Director at Temple University; CoSIDA Past President, Strategic Communications and Public Relations professional

He didn't say how false or that tickets weren't returned.

 

[BamaFan334]

They're playing in Texas. And it's finals week for Temple. Kind of makes sense, if true.

Think that would stop our students or fans?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I bet those stands will be as desolate as the crowd at a David Lee Roth solo tour.

 

[EasyTider]

I bet those stands will be as desolate as the crowd at a David Lee Roth solo tour.