The fans lost the game not the players

[TOMMY_23]

Even though this video makes me chuckle....Its a sign of where ND is at as a program / business...Win and this goes away. Pretty simple...

AMEN!!!!!

Right now, Jack thinks he can trot out an average football team while raising prices on everything. It's a competition and the diehard fans that are sick of 3-9, 8-5 and 4-8 won the battle Saturday night.

 

[TOMMY_23]

What an idiotic post! What the hell does ANTIFA have to do with this? Why not reference the age of the nazis who protested? You took a stand by selling [your] ticket? I call BS. You sold your tickets (assuming you really have them) because you could make a buck on them and then watch the game on TV. If this were true, then I suspect that you would support Colin Kapernek for taking a stand on what he perceives as racism in America. Do you?

I fully support Colin. I don't understand what the national anthem and spitting in the face of soldiers has to do with anything, but I hope he keeps up the fight for justice.

ANTIFA is loaded with immature millenials in the very similar age group of college athletes. Just look at what ANTIFA members keep doing to Trump supporters in Berkeley, CA this year. Even Nancy Pelosi is calling them out. Get your head out of the clowds.

It's nice of you to act like you know me and what my reasons for selling the tickets are. Let your ignorance shine on that topic!

I'm sorry I don't know much about a sect of our society that constitutes about .003% of our population. Troll better next time.

 

[Uncle Money]

I guess the team is mentally weak then.

It would've motivated me, but I'm in my 30's. Kids these days are mentally fragile. Just look at who is apart of ANTIFA.

The crowd was 50/50, btw. I'm sorry. I truly am, but I'm sick and tired of Brian Kelly and the direction this program is going. I took a stand by selling my tickets.

Just because I am honestly curious...Did you sell your tickets to the Temple game as well?

 

[ndfi65]

Sorry folks, GA fans everywhere sucked and the so called "Irish Fans" were a discrace to sell their tickets. But sorry snowflakes the fans didn't lose the game, keep making excuses for bk and his cast of misfits. Quit making excuses for this lame ass coach

 

[NDSMC78]

Sorry folks, GA fans everywhere sucked and the so called "Irish Fans" were a discrace to sell their tickets. But sorry snowflakes the fans didn't lose the game, keep making excuses for bk and his cast of misfits. Quit making excuses for this lame ass coach

Why don't you STFU? All you do is call people names and act like Mr. Tough Guy. Your insults and overly aggressive demeanor do not impress anyone. Your act is old. Chill.

 

[AdvanSix]

This is a business. If there is one team in college football who should know it's Notre Dame. Got your own television network. No one else does. Elected not to go conference alignment, that is a business decision. Maybe it works maybe it doesn't.
Fans selling tickets for over $1,000.00. That's business.

no truer words have ever been spoken....

 

[Irishjohn68]

In the section I usher, and I'll tell you it's between the 40 yard lines (so some big time donors), I was shocked at how many UGA fans were in my section. There are 1,040 seats in my section (40 rows, rows 18 to 58, and 26 seats per bench and not counting the new blue seats) I would have to say at least half the fans in my section were UGA fans. And that is not an exaggeration. It was Nebraska all over. For a big recruiting weekend that has to loo bad in the eyes of high school recruits. What the hell, there were not other ND alums/fans who would not pay big bucks to see a team like Georgia play at ND Stadium?

 

[beachcardinal]

no truer words have ever been spoken....

Doesn't Texas have their own network.

 

[echowaker]

Stay classy. I bet you wouldn't talk like that to my face.

The crowd was 50/50. There was nothing stopping ND from winning that game. You're just defending a garbage coach.

Oh please. Internet tough guys crack me up.

 

[twalsh]

Doesn't Texas have their own network.

Yeah, it it almost cost them their entire conference. It did cost the Big 12 Texas A&M.

 

[Birks31]

Every alum/season ticket holder holds blame for this loss. This was a home game for UGA. Of all the games I've attended over the last 40 years, this is the most pathetic I've seen. So all of you, and I"m sure there are some on this board, should be ashamed of yourself selling out for the money.

Hold on now. I was a season ticket holder for 23 years. I never sold a single ticket ever. If I didn't take family or friends I would give them to people who I knew would love to attend a Notre Dame game. When they upped the donation requirement and ticket price to well over $5,000.00 I just couldn't swing it anymore. That doesn't even include travel costs, food, etc. So there's four tickets that went back to Notre Dame even though I hated to give them up. Whoever Notre Dame sold them to, I don't know, but I know there are thousands of former season ticket holders who finally got priced out by the university. Many of us who talk at games figure they did it on purpose because some of our tickets were in pretty good lower bowl sections like 8,9,10 and sec 26,27&28. It was Notre Dame's greed that took those tickets out of my family, not some UGA fans money.

 

[Toby Smart]

The daily ND radio show predicted that the next stadium invasion could be Arkansas in 2019. They said that since ND has partnered with vividseats, Jack probably won't do anything about the invasion last Saturday. They said that Kevin White threatened to do something after the Nebraska game but never did. Eric Hansen, the co-host, mentioned that since all seats were involved with vivid seats, it was ND ticket holders who sold them to Georgia fans.

 

[NDSMC78]

The daily ND radio show predicted that the next stadium invasion could be Arkansas in 2019. They said that since ND has partnered with vividseats, Jack probably won't do anything about the invasion last Saturday. They said that Kevin White threatened to do something after the Nebraska game but never did. Eric Hansen, the co-host, mentioned that since all seats were involved with vivid seats, it was ND ticket holders who sold them to Georgia fans.

Arkansas is in 2020.

 

[cockburg]

If athletes at this level are truly adversely affected by opposing fans, they shouldn't be playing at this level. The whole concept that we lost the game because Georgia fans attended the game is silly. The suggestion that "true" ND fans shouldn't sell their tickets is even sillier. Football is entertainment. Hell, if I were lucky enough to get tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway, I'd still sell them for the right price. Everybody and everything has a price.

That's why UGA is ahead you in football, I can promise you college football is not entertainment in Georgia, It's a way of life.

 

[RTLH]

Hold on now. I was a season ticket holder for 23 years. I never sold a single ticket ever. If I didn't take family or friends I would give them to people who I knew would love to attend a Notre Dame game. When they upped the donation requirement and ticket price to well over $5,000.00 I just couldn't swing it anymore. That doesn't even include travel costs, food, etc. So there's four tickets that went back to Notre Dame even though I hated to give them up. Whoever Notre Dame sold them to, I don't know, but I know there are thousands of former season ticket holders who finally got priced out by the university. Many of us who talk at games figure they did it on purpose because some of our tickets were in pretty good lower bowl sections like 8,9,10 and sec 26,27&28. It was Notre Dame's greed that took those tickets out of my family, not some UGA fans money.

This is not unique to Notre Dame. A lot of sports teams college and pro are doing things like that.
Remember some 30 years ago. Some arenas knocked out the last 5 or 6 rows in the lower tier and enclosed them with glass, cashier seats and a bar and charged huge premiums as this was the start of hence, luxury boxes.

 

[ArchDawg]

It's not remotely close to "the majority" of season ticket holders. There was a lot of red in the stadium. It's a very noticeable bold vibrant color. What color was Georgia's opponents' fans wearing? Huhhhh, can't really tell. I'll give you a flavor. I had on a gold ND UA 3/4 zip, my wife had on a white/green/navy shirt, my daughter had on a white ND football shirt #10, and her boyfriend had on a navy ND polo. Imagine, if you would, that all of us, and EVERY person in the stadium not wearing red was wearing gold. Gold shirts, gold hats, everything gold. Another noticeable vibrant color. It would look like it probably really was Saturday night, roughly 62,000 to 65,000 ND fans and 15,000 to 18,000 Georgia fans. That's not to discount that Georgia got 8,000 tickets from ND and had at least double that many fans in the stadium. That's impressive. But this idea that it was 50/50 or 60/40 is ludicrous. It's because it's RED, just like it was with Nebraska in 2000. Why could you tell there were so many Texas fans a couple years ago? Because burnt orange is a very bold distinct color. Why can't you tell how many Michigan or FSU fans are in the stadium when we play them? Because navy blue and maroon (i know it's actually garnet) are not distinctive bold colors.

I am not saying this is a non-issue, but there's much ado being made over a minor issue. On to BC.

There were at least 25K Georgia fans as reported by the Chicago Tribune. Having been at the game and also watched the television broadcast (replayed) it was at the very least 30K and possibly more.

50%? No, but more than 18K by a longshot

 

[Toby Smart]

Arkansas is in 2020.

Yes. 2020. I stand corrected. Thank you.