I heard they're giving away tickets for tonight's game

[CaneandAbel]

Alot of people saying pathetic lets go to the game. I'm buying mine now.

 

[Dwinstitles]

Lose and they will not come

 

[Wino Cane]

Nothing like an empty stadium on a second tier national broadcast to cause our program relevance to recede even further. I'd rather have a 35-40,000 seat on campus venue that was packed than the 76,100 seat Sun Life with pathetic turnout. I can't help but think that's a huge negative to recruits.

 

[BALLHAWKU]

This is all Shalala fault

 

[Ispyin]

Nothing like an empty stadium on a second tier national broadcast to cause our program relevance to recede even further. I'd rather have a 35-40,000 seat on campus venue that was packed than the 76,100 seat Sun Life with pathetic turnout. I can't help but think that's a huge negative to recruits.

FYI, espn2 is one of the most carried networks and for football can outdraw the mothership. This isn't 20 years ago.

 

[SFbayCane]

So you will go for free, not for $8?

I paid $75 and drove 8 hours to go to the Nebraska game. Our fans are pathetic.

In the United States people vote with their dollars. The fact that tickets are being given away and still not being swallowed up should tell the administration something very important.

 

[L A M P]

UM should fill all the seats with Tupac holograms.

WEZ should hand out brown paper bags at the gates.

 

[Wino Cane]

Nothing like an empty stadium on a second tier national broadcast to cause our program relevance to recede even further. I'd rather have a 35-40,000 seat on campus venue that was packed than the 76,100 seat Sun Life with pathetic turnout. I can't help but think that's a huge negative to recruits.

FYI, espn2 is one of the most carried networks and for football can outdraw the mothership. This isn't 20 years ago.

Have anything to back that up?

Here, let me help you:

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/

The highest share for ESPN2 game this year was a 1.1 share for the Southern Miss/Alabama on September 13th. For any given time slot, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and "the mothership" are burying the deuce when it comes to viewership.

Just to complete the picture of ESPN2's diminished relevance as far as game time viewership is that ESPN and ESPN2 are almost exactly in the same number of households:

• ESPN is in 98,516,000 homes nationwide and ESPN2 is in 98,477,000

http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2013/03/espn-by-the-numbers-march-2013/

Perhaps you misspoke?

 

[Hotatlcane]

That stadium is empty. No wonder tickets were given away.