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Post by AztecSports95 on Dec 15, 2010 13:56:43 GMT -8
According to the Twitter Account, ElPaso 411:
29,504 tickets still availible for UTEP-BYU game. The stadium seats 39,244. - NM Bowl Media Relations RaeAnn McKernan
Wow. I thought BYU fans followed their team anywhere!
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Post by mightymightyaztecs on Dec 15, 2010 14:05:57 GMT -8
I hate twitter even more than I hate BYU so I gotta say that "according to the twitter account" isn't really reliable sourcing.
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Post by McQuervo on Dec 15, 2010 14:06:46 GMT -8
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jeffacka on Dec 15, 2010 14:34:02 GMT -8
According to the Twitter Account, ElPaso 411: 29,504 tickets still availible for UTEP-BYU game. The stadium seats 39,244. - NM Bowl Media Relations RaeAnn McKernan Wow. I thought BYU fans followed their team anywhere! Anywhere but New Mexico or Wyoming.
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Post by keepfootball on Dec 15, 2010 15:14:00 GMT -8
According to the Twitter Account, ElPaso 411: 29,504 tickets still availible for UTEP-BYU game. The stadium seats 39,244. - NM Bowl Media Relations RaeAnn McKernan Wow. I thought BYU fans followed their team anywhere! Anywhere but New Mexico or Wyoming. Way to represent. Of course, I wouldn't be going to NM either. Bad place for a bowl game. Maybe the worst western bowl site. I'd rather go to Boise. And on that note -- Fresno St. should wear blue jerseys with red trim at the Humanitarian Bowl if the Dawgs are the home team.
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Post by AztecSports95 on Dec 15, 2010 15:28:22 GMT -8
I hate twitter even more than I hate BYU so I gotta say that "according to the twitter account" isn't really reliable sourcing. The source was in the twitter post: NM Bowl Media Relations RaeAnn McKernan That's not reliable enough for you?
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Post by aztecbb on Dec 15, 2010 15:29:42 GMT -8
If you are not Mormon would you rather go to NM or Provostan?
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Post by goodonyou on Dec 15, 2010 16:27:22 GMT -8
If you are not Mormon would you rather go to NM or Provostan? NM (no contest)
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Post by LJ_Aztec on Dec 15, 2010 16:37:34 GMT -8
Either BYU is bringing Fresno State type traveling numbers, or that report is false...thought I had heard that at least 10,000 UTEP tickets had already been purchased.
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Post by goaztecs on Dec 15, 2010 16:51:23 GMT -8
You would think that BYU would bring 20K UTEP 5K and 1K of locals for 26K but I guess not.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Dec 15, 2010 17:22:47 GMT -8
You would think that BYU would bring 20K UTEP 5K and 1K of locals for 26K but I guess not. Certainly fits my comments about MIP not traveling well, but appearing to do so if where they're playing has a lot of LDS. =Bob
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Post by Fred Noonan on Dec 15, 2010 17:26:54 GMT -8
Who cares how many Borg go to New Mexico? The Fred Noonan School of Navigation.
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Post by North County Aztec on Dec 15, 2010 17:52:15 GMT -8
I thought BYU fans followed their team anywhere! BYU player wives are only counted as 1, no matter how many wives they may have. BYU player children are counted 1 for every 10. BYU could fill any stadium if they brought all their wives and children. Big love. BTW, I hate BYU!!!!!!
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Dec 15, 2010 19:24:58 GMT -8
Who cares how many Borg go to New Mexico? The Fred Noonan School of Navigation. It matters when the Point Bowl seems to be operating under the misconception that MIP travels well. =Bob
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Post by firemedic619 on Dec 16, 2010 2:19:33 GMT -8
The Twitter "tweet" was correct. From the AP: sports.ap.org/college-football/story?id=p55fccc580b6248668b9e0a9d21b61c3fBut, I found something even more interesting from the article: Stull expected the size of UTEP's crowd to be much larger than the number of tickets sold through the athletic department, as there are tickets available through the New Mexico Bowl that start at $23.
Tickets bought through UTEP are better seats, but cost $30.It's too bad the Poinsettia Bowl doesn't "do" tickets the same way. Instead, we get the "crappy" seats that are cheaper allotted to SDSU rather than the good seats that are more expensive. From reading this forum, it seems the latter would be the more popular allotment option. If we ever get an invite to the Holiday or Poinsettia again, somebody "in-the-know" needs to talk to Binkowski about switching his ticket allotment procedures.
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Post by jeffacka on Dec 16, 2010 9:52:55 GMT -8
Who cares how many Borg go to New Mexico? The Fred Noonan School of Navigation. It matters when the Point Bowl seems to be operating under the misconception that MIP travels well. =Bob BYU does travel very well. Personally, I have traveled to many games around the country. In some of the hotels, BYU fans are pretty much the only guests. Of course, any game for me (Provo or elsewhere) is a road trip for me.
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Post by jeffacka on Dec 16, 2010 9:53:51 GMT -8
You would think that BYU would bring 20K UTEP 5K and 1K of locals for 26K but I guess not. Many BYU fans bought tickets through the NM Bowl and not through BYU.
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Post by aztech on Dec 16, 2010 17:30:44 GMT -8
According to the Twitter Account, ElPaso 411: 29,504 tickets still availible for UTEP-BYU game. The stadium seats 39,244. - NM Bowl Media Relations RaeAnn McKernan Wow. I thought BYU fans followed their team anywhere! I think you're reading it wrong. The 29.5K tickets that are out, means out of the ticket offices. In other words, sold.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Dec 16, 2010 18:07:12 GMT -8
According to the Twitter Account, ElPaso 411: 29,504 tickets still availible for UTEP-BYU game. The stadium seats 39,244. - NM Bowl Media Relations RaeAnn McKernan Wow. I thought BYU fans followed their team anywhere! I think you're reading it wrong. The 29.5K tickets that are out, means out of the ticket offices. In other words, sold. Well, bought by the schools does not necessarily mean butts in the seats. =Bob
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Dec 16, 2010 18:09:41 GMT -8
It matters when the Point Bowl seems to be operating under the misconception that MIP travels well. =Bob BYU does travel very well. Personally, I have traveled to many games around the country. In some of the hotels, BYU fans are pretty much the only guests. Of course, any game for me (Provo or elsewhere) is a road trip for me. That may be, but I'd still question how many of them are from Provo or SLC as opposed to being somewhere within a few hundred miles of the game - people from Smell-A or farther north driving to the Holiday Bowl, for example. All I know is when I used to go the the HB, virtually every MIP fan around me was local, but then, those weren't the seats bought through the school. =Bob
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