Empty seats at the national championship game??

[psu00]

ESPN article saying tickets prices on the secondary market are dropping and cheap compared to other years (around $115. Face value of tickets is $475 per ticket?!?!).

Apparently both Bama and Clemson have not sold out their blocks of tickets.


http://www.espn.com/college-footbal.../tickets-cfp-title-game-less-expensive-before

 

[stf110]

I am sure the same core group of fans would typically go to these games, and at some point from a financial standpoint it becomes hard to go 3 years in a row.
And, as the article mentioned, the game is not close to the bulk of either of these team's home bases, with airfare hovering around $1000 alone.

 

[odshowtime]

I feel for all the fans that have to spend so much to get to all these title games.

 

[Zenophile]

"Hey, let's have the most expensive region in the US play host to the National Championship Game."

 

[step.eng69]

YIKES....Monday night's championship is in Santa Clara.
Much too far of a signal-distance for my indoor antenna to capture. Looks like I'll be watching Netflix again during the championship came. Wait, I do that every year. The last one I watched was the Texas-USC game.

 

[step.eng69]

"Hey, let's have the most expensive region in the US play host to the National Championship Game."

Good time for the local population if any are interested in the game.

 

[PSU_1991]

I hate that the championship game is on a Monday night. Everyone has school or work the next day. College FB is played on Saturdays. The championship should be on Saturday night.

 

[Zenophile]

YIKES....Monday night's championship is in Santa Clara.
Much too far of a signal-distance for my indoor antenna to capture. Looks like I'll be watching Netflix again during the championship came. Wait, I do that every year. The last one I watched was the Texas-USC game.

 

[step.eng69]

Dang, there's the USC cheerleaders. Looks like one of the girls just scored.

 

[Nittanygrad93]

I am thinking of trying to get a ticket at the stadium....just for the experience. Think I can do it for under $100? Highest I ever paid for a Penn State Bowl is 85.

 

[step.eng69]

I am thinking of trying to get a ticket at the stadium....just for the experience. Think I can do it for under $100? Highest I ever paid for a Penn State Bowl is 85.

Do you live within a reasonable drive from the stadium?

 

[odshowtime]

The whole thing is a stinking corrupt pile of dog crap in the first place.

 

[Op2]

I hate that the championship game is on a Monday night. Everyone has school or work the next day. College FB is played on Saturdays. The championship should be on Saturday night.

The problem is that it would go up against the NFL playoffs, unless they put it off until mid to late Jan (Jan 20 this year).

 

[Nittanygrad93]

Do you live within a reasonable drive from the stadium?

25 minutes and think I know where I can park for free

 

[Op2]

One way to cut down on travel expenses would be to have these games at the home field of the higher seeded team. This is especially true of they go to an 8 team playoff.

But the problem (from the POV of the powerful SEC that is) with a playoff that has a round at home stadiums is that the SEC teams might have to play in cold or snow.

 

[psugisher]

This is predictable and attendance will get worse if the playoff expands and they don't put games on campus. I can't imagine travelling to Indy, then the Rose Bowl or another bowl down south and then the national title game in a month's time. The games are for the players but also for the fans.

 

[psu00]

25 minutes and think I know where I can park for free

It’s worth a try being so close. They said the secondary market ticket prices were much higher before the semifinals. Once Oklahoma and ND were eliminated they dropped in price by 50%. They may continue to fall until Monday.

 

[step.eng69]

25 minutes and think I know where I can park for free

WOW, go for it. In fact, you should round up the neighbors & friends, Uber to the game, chisel food at the tailgating get stinking drunk and yell F_CK PENN STATE on any score.

Just kidding about getting too imbibed, you'll miss the game.

 

[psu00]

This is predictable and attendance will get worse if the playoff expands and they don't put games on campus. I can't imagine travelling to Indy, then the Rose Bowl or another bowl down south and then the national title game in a month's time. The games are for the players but also for the fans.

True. Any expansion of the playoff will need the first and second rounds to be held at the higher seed’s home field.

 

[ILLINOISLION]

And Santa Clara (home of the 49ers) has one of the worse fields in the country.....especially now in the midst of the Northern California rainy season.

 

[step.eng69]

The problem is that it would go up against the NFL playoffs, unless they put it off until mid to late Jan (Jan 20 this year).

I could certainly do Friday night, I might even watch part of the game.

 

[PSUSignore]

25 minutes and think I know where I can park for free

I'd absolutely do it if I were close. How many times to you get an opportunity to watch a national championship game?

There are lots of factors driving down the cost this year.
- Clemson and Bama are geographically far from the game location.
- Both teams have been in multiple national title games recently, the game is no longer a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for these 2 fan bases.
- The fan bases might not be as interested in paying to see the same matchup they saw in a prior year.
- Fans outside of the 2 teams involved probably have less interest given that these 2 teams have both been here before.
- California can be an expensive travel destination.

 

[pandaczar12]

In future years, they should just move the game permanently to Atlanta. That's damn near halfway between Clemson and Alabama

 

[Op2]

I think one reason the tickets aren't selling is that even Bama and Clemson fans are having a hard time getting excited considering they go every year. I think it would be better for the game if there was more variation on who made it. If something is national then having the heavyweights play each other all the time can be interesting, like Patriots-Steelers or Celtics-Lakers back in the day or Ali-Frazier, but for college football it's just no fun. It's not sour grapes, instead I'm simply tired of those two teams.

 

[Zenophile]

I'd absolutely do it if I were close. How many times to you get an opportunity to watch a national championship game?

Counterpoint

 

[jim cummings]

I forgot about this pic. Someone 10+ years ago had this sig pic with the caption:

If brains were dynamite this chick couldn’t blow her nose.

 

[Nittanygrad93]

WOW, go for it. In fact, you should round up the neighbors & friends, Uber to the game, chisel food at the tailgating get stinking drunk and yell F_CK PENN STATE on any score.

Just kidding about getting too imbibed, you'll miss the game.

Better chance of getting a single ticket for a cheap price. I will just crash a tailgate of whichever fan base provides the ticket and pretend to be a lifelong diehard. Guess I need to work on my Southern drawl.

 

[Madsol]

Better chance of getting a single ticket for a cheap price. I will just crash a tailgate of whichever fan base provides the ticket and pretend to be a lifelong diehard. Guess I need to work on my Southern drawl.

If you get the ticket from a Bama fan, go old school and find a box of Tide laundry detergent and stick a roll of toilet paper on the top.

 

[psu00]

Better chance of getting a single ticket for a cheap price. I will just crash a tailgate of whichever fan base provides the ticket and pretend to be a lifelong diehard. Guess I need to work on my Southern drawl.

Just drop a y’all and ‘bless your heart’ every other sentence and you’ll fit right in.

 

[fastlax16]

Better chance of getting a single ticket for a cheap price. I will just crash a tailgate of whichever fan base provides the ticket and pretend to be a lifelong diehard. Guess I need to work on my Southern drawl.

If you’re ok with missing kickoff ticket prices are going to plummet once the game starts.

 

[Zenophile]

I forgot about this pic. Someone 10+ years ago had this sig pic with the caption:

If brains were dynamite this chick couldn’t blow her nose.

Seems to me that life imitates this particular poster.

 

[psugisher]

I would go to every Clemson/Alabama event leading up to the game, the tailgates, the game and post game just to see the Clemson and Alabama women. I went to the ACC championship game this past year with a couple Pitt "friends" and the interactions with the Clemson women more than made up for having to be around my Pitt friends.

 

[john4psu]

They wouldn't be having this issue if the game were in Atlanta or Jacksonville, much closer to both fan bases. If you think about the four playoff teams this year, playing the NC game in California involved a lot of travel. You have to take off from work, do fans go to both the playoff game and the national championship game, and for Alabama-Clemson this is the multiple post-season trips the three of the past four years.

If they ever expand the playoffs to eight teams, the first round needs to be at the higher-seeded teams home field, but the SEC fights that because they don't want to take the chance they'll have to play up north in December.

Could they wait on selecting the playoff sites/bowl locations till after the four playoff teams have been chosen?

 

[m48tank]

Dang, there's the USC cheerleaders. Looks like one of the girls just scored.

I think you're on today! On what I'm not sure.

 

[wilbury]

I think one reason the tickets aren't selling is that even Bama and Clemson fans are having a hard time getting excited considering they go every year. I think it would be better for the game if there was more variation on who made it. If something is national then having the heavyweights play each other all the time can be interesting, like Patriots-Steelers or Celtics-Lakers back in the day or Ali-Frazier, but for college football it's just no fun. It's not sour grapes, instead I'm simply tired of those two teams.

Yeah, we should start sending teams other than the two best in the country.

 

[Art]

I think one reason the tickets aren't selling is that even Bama and Clemson fans are having a hard time getting excited considering they go every year. I think it would be better for the game if there was more variation on who made it. If something is national then having the heavyweights play each other all the time can be interesting, like Patriots-Steelers or Celtics-Lakers back in the day or Ali-Frazier, but for college football it's just no fun. It's not sour grapes, instead I'm simply tired of those two teams.

Possible, but I think if the game were closer to each fanbase tickets would sell better. And with the Monday night scheduling..... So you have the cost of the ticket, and expensive airfare, hotel and meals for at least two days, and missing two days of work or school.

 

[odshowtime]

II went to the ACC championship game this past year with a couple Pitt "friends" and the interactions with the Clemson women more than made up for having to be around my Pitt friends.

I can vouch. I know one Clemson fan and she's smoking hot.

 

[LurkerLazarus]

Wait until next year, when the same two teams are playing again.

 

[Op2]

Yeah, we should start sending teams other than the two best in the country.

I didn't say we shouldn't have the two best teams but rather that it's boring when the two best teams are the same all the time.

 

[BobPSU92]

I can vouch. I know one Clemson fan and she's smoking hot.

FLAG.