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Post by firemedic619 on Dec 16, 2010 18:12:39 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. Nope, you're reading it wrong. Read my link of the actual article above. The 29,504 tickets that are "out" are UNSOLD tickets, including the unsold tickets from the UTEP/BYU allotments. Ouch! |
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Post by aztech on Dec 16, 2010 22:35:46 GMT -8
Nope, you're reading it wrong. Read my link of the actual article above. The 29,504 tickets that are "out" are UNSOLD tickets, including the unsold tickets from the UTEP/BYU allotments. Ouch! Then who's blowing smoke here? Below from the MWC board |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2010 8:05:47 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. A column in the El Paso Times said on Wednesday that as of that date, only 9,700 and change had been sold. The attendance figures to be so pathetic that it wouldn't surprise me at all if they don't scramble around today to just give some cheap seats away to charitable organizations to distribute. I sure would. Oh and by the way, that bowl game hasn't drawn flies except when UNM has played in it so you have to think its future is in doubt. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2010 8:15:06 GMT -8
Nope, you're reading it wrong. Read my link of the actual article above. The 29,504 tickets that are "out" are UNSOLD tickets, including the unsold tickets from the UTEP/BYU allotments. Ouch! Then who's blowing smoke here? Below from the MWC board "Sold" I understand. "Out," I don't. However, "out" clearly means something different than "sold." And without checking the debate on the MWC board, the only thing "out" would seem to me to mean is tickets the NM Bowl distributed to the participating universities whose ticket offices are stuck with them if their fans don't purchase them. IIRC, that's what happened with SDSU and the LV Bowl in 1998. We were basically up against one other school to participate (Tulsa maybe?) and the bowl folks wanted a commitment that SDSU would sell - or buy - at least 10K tickets. SDSU made that commitment and sold 10K tickets (I bought two) but had SDSU sold less than that, it would have been on the hook for the difference. So that's what I think is meant by "out" here. Which means that although the NM Bowl may not lose any money, UTEP and YBU could lose a LOT. |
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Post by JOCAZTEC on Dec 17, 2010 8:40:05 GMT -8
The vegas bowel in 1998.
Of the 21,000 who showed up, and many walkups no showed due to the high winds, 19,000 wore red and black, and 2,000 wore light blue and white (and who was the idiot who sat those tobacco heads up-wind??). The Aztecs had less than 3 weeks to sell tickets.
Meanwhile back at the cheatin' fudgsicles, fulca had the whole year to prep its fans and ONLY sold 25% of the Pose Bowel in Rasadena against those stinkin', ref-protected, Budgers of cheesy, Fishwishconsin. AND, and, and, uSucal went to the Sun Bowel in Seeyoudad Wariz-North, and what about 3,000 too-good-for-you trojie fans attended.
Carlos' Montezuma attire was superb, bytheway.
HAM
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Post by aztech on Dec 17, 2010 17:05:18 GMT -8
"Sold" I understand. "Out," I don't. However, "out" clearly means something different than "sold." And without checking the debate on the MWC board, the only thing "out" would seem to me to mean is tickets the NM Bowl distributed to the participating universities whose ticket offices are stuck with them if their fans don't purchase them. IIRC, that's what happened with SDSU and the LV Bowl in 1998. We were basically up against one other school to participate (Tulsa maybe?) and the bowl folks wanted a commitment that SDSU would sell - or buy - at least 10K tickets. SDSU made that commitment and sold 10K tickets (I bought two) but had SDSU sold less than that, it would have been on the hook for the difference. So that's what I think is meant by "out" here. Which means that although the NM Bowl may not lose any money, UTEP and YBU could lose a LOT. Your point well taken. The NM Bowl publicists seem careful not to mention ticket sold. If sales are that dismal, they have to be handing out free unsold tickets everywhere to make attendance look half way decent on TV. Those zoobs will be bragging these attending are all their fans considering that they couldn't even sell out their own allotment, which they won't admit to. The fact is most of those in the stands will be non-LDS Albuquerque residents. LOL. |
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