Correct. 48,000 undergrads annually at Ohio St. Notre Dame has around 8500.
Of course...A year from now it will be 50,000 Georgia fans were at the game.
Who cares what the number was. It was way too much. That's all that matters.
I do. Money. Cash. And when you play a school like Ohio St. that takes CFB seriously, has an annual undergrad population of 48,000 and is 4 hours away by car, and your team is playing at an iconic, bucket list venue like Notre Dame that does not happen very often....unlike Michigan every 2 years, this is what you get.
I was at an OSU - Indiana game - at Indiana - about 6 or 7 years ago and it was estimated that 75 to 80% of the crowd was OSU. and the stadium was really full. And that was just for shitty Indiana. Every time OSU did something really good on the field, you knew it by the huge pro OSU crowd noise. It was just unreal - they can take over a Midwest stadium if you let them. To say that they take CF and the Buckeyes seriously is a HUGE understatement.
The IU fan base could not care less about football. Basketball is a different story.
I fully understand that and agree 100%. But I talked to a few IU fans that day that said that no other fan base comes close to taking over their stadium like OSU. My point is that ND has to guard against this BS as you can bet many OSU fans will try. That's the largest and most fanatical fan base in the country and most of them are concentrated in a somewhat reasonably short driving distance to South Bend
You see the pic? That’s well over half my man. If you don’t think that’s embarrassing as an ND fan than idk what to tell you.
Of course.
OSU taking over your stadium is far more likely - because of the proximity and fan base size - than Georgia
This 100%. I already know some OSU fans that are willing to shell out huge money for the game.
Irish wear green for the OSU game is the mantra I have been seeing all off season on Twitter. There is no reason in hades for Irish fans to sell out especially to Bucknuts!
Fine; since ND had the bright idea of copying other schools practicing price discrimination to make the big games very expensive thus abandoning a 100 year tradition of every ticket is the same. That is not the action of a school that wants us to come back to campus as often as we can to support the team in the big games. It is an obvious play to maximize the bottom line revenue.
Even after gas, it may be cheaper for many Buckeys to see their team in Bloomington.
If you’re rich enough to have Irish season tickets than the profit you make probably doesn’t justify letting down the program.
“Loyalty” often comes at a price !
