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Bargain Ticket Deals Not a Good Sign · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the tickets to Sean I got something yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Family four pack, okay, four tickets plus concession vouchers forty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's forty dollars a ticket or forty dollars for
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  Speaker 1: four tickets.
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  Speaker 2: It's four I believe it's forty dollars a ticket. So
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  Speaker 2: one it's one sixty gotcha plus? Then you get the
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  Speaker 2: forty dollars food voucher.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you get the popcorn, you get it runs in
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  Speaker 1: it probably a soda off of so family goes for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: That's mean they're scary, they're getting creative. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: look that that was the Tennessee game on the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we'd have that problem Tennessee was still
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  Speaker 2: on there for Bowling Green. But you know the reality, guys,
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  Speaker 2: is a game against Bowling Green at ninety percent of
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  Speaker 2: major school has a hard time selling now tickets. Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: has been the one percent for decades, and it does
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  Speaker 2: get your attention. I mean, you know these are generally seats, guys,
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  Speaker 2: in rows eighty to ninety eight in the upper part
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  Speaker 2: of the stadium, in the north and the south. They're
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  Speaker 2: hard tickets to sell right now as it is, and
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  Speaker 2: then you don't have really a marquee non conference opponent.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of with the way this last year ended here
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  Speaker 2: we are.
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  Speaker 1: Then used to be and it isn't a fan problem, Shano,
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  Speaker 1: because the volleyball team sold all of its season tickets
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  Speaker 1: in minutes, including those high in the arena and those
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  Speaker 1: that are frankly not very attractive seats. And there are
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  Speaker 1: more home games. So this is clearly a repudiation of football.
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  Speaker 1: What are what are the issues associated with the fans
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  Speaker 1: in your view?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think there's you go to this year
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  Speaker 2: with the schedule playing five ranked teams, Illinois ranked in
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  Speaker 2: the top thirty, so basically six top thirty teams on
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  Speaker 2: the schedule, and you'll lost your last three games. You
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  Speaker 2: had your spring football and the winner time basically, and
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  Speaker 2: it's been an extremely quiet offseason. I mean, there's just
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  Speaker 2: so many things that have made this one of the
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  Speaker 2: more unique off seasons. I can recall the way last
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  Speaker 2: year ended, the bad Bowl game, the Dylan Royala exit,
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  Speaker 2: the IOWA loss, the Penn State loss, playing the spring
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  Speaker 2: game on the weekend the Sweet sixteen, to really only
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  Speaker 2: hearing from Matt rule and the off season from the
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  Speaker 2: spring game until Big ten media Days one time, and
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  Speaker 2: it was for a you know, it just there's just
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  Speaker 2: not been a lot of publicity or or build up
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  Speaker 2: for much of this, and I think they're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to keep their head down and work. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: been it's been hard to put your finger out other
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  Speaker 2: than the fact that the way last year ended.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my understanding is that there are a sizeable number
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  Speaker 1: of seats for all of the games, not just these
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  Speaker 1: three cupcake non cons, but for all of the home games.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the case. Did they have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: season tickets available for the whole season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? The season ticket data, I mean, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: remember what it normally would be, but I think they
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  Speaker 2: they would generally sell like a little over sixty thousand
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  Speaker 2: season tickets six sixty two or sixty whatever that number is,
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  Speaker 2: because then you've got your opponent seats, you've got your
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  Speaker 2: student seats, you know, your faculty family seats, So you
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  Speaker 2: don't actually have eighty six thousand or whatever the number
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  Speaker 2: is season tickets. So yeah, it's hard to know of
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  Speaker 2: that normal season ticket pool how many are remaining, But
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  Speaker 2: they're selling as much at a single game level as
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  Speaker 2: we've seen, or at least aggressively promoting. And what they
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  Speaker 2: do is they the leftover seats that aren't sold, They'll
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  Speaker 2: sell them at a really low price to a seat
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  Speaker 2: geek and then those tickets quote are sold. And Data
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  Speaker 2: made this comment, we challenge our team instead of you know,
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  Speaker 2: making ten cents on the dollar, let's let's try to
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  Speaker 2: sell these at twenty five cents on a dollar and
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  Speaker 2: move these tickets because seat geek or a ticket broker
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  Speaker 2: can buy these from the asking and the tickets quote
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  Speaker 2: gets sold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we have scrimmage tomorrow. What do you expect.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we think Matt Rule has not committed that they
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  Speaker 2: would have a scrimmage tomorrow. We will talk to some
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  Speaker 2: coaches today and players today. We talked to Matt Rule
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  Speaker 2: again on Saturday. But you know, I would imagine if
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  Speaker 2: they don't do a true scrimmage, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: more situational, different scenarios that they want to go through.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, big, big day here. Classes begin Monday. So
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of your final hurrah of camp before
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  Speaker 2: the classes begin up.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Here at you and now and by the way, you're
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  Speaker 1: looking good for your nineteenth birthday today, buddy boy, Happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Sean, Sir. Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Husker. He's a Husker training camp, baby, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen. His mom and dad planned to have Sean
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  Speaker 1: born just a couple of weeks before the football season
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  Speaker 1: so it wouldn't interrupt the football season. Worked out great,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Buddy, We'll talk to you on Monday.