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re: Missouri just returned tickets.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:54 pm to JesusQuintana
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:54 pm to JesusQuintana
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Here is the thing. We have one of the smaller fan bases in the SEC. Maybe 9th or 10th biggest. We also have by far the worst traveling situation of any SEC team.
So yeah, we'll sell out some allotments. We'll return tickets to others.
The longer we are in the SEC the bigger our fan base will get
So you need the SEC to grow your fan base? Hope we can help you.
Y'all might not have many fans but you sure have plenty of excuses.
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Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:01 pm to Beantownbulldog
A lot of teams returns tickets, especially if it's a long trip. Don't sit there and act like Mizzou is the only SEC school that does that. Most SEC schools are short distances away from each other, unless you're on the outter edges like SC, Florida, Kentucky, aTm, or Mizzou. I've seen SEC schools within 200-300 miles of each other return tickets.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:03 pm to bayou2003
Please refer to the last sentence of my post above yours. Thank you sir.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:04 pm to Beantownbulldog
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Y'all might not have many fans but you sure have plenty of excuses.
I don't make any excuses for Mizzou's crowd at Athens in 2013. It looked good to me. If you are going to obsess over the specific number and whether or not any tix were returned, rock on.
I'm telling you Mizzou didn't return any tickets for Ole Miss and Vandy, which, oddly enough, are easier to get to from the areas where most Mizzou fans tend to be concentrated. Ole Miss fans both years we've been there lately (2007 and 2013) kept telling me and my buddies how well our fanbase travels and they were pretty surprised. The Vandy students were in shock in 2013, kept saying it felt like Tennessee or Bama was in town or something.
And last year's Mizzou crowds at Florida and Tennessee were very sizeable. South Carolina looked good too.
At any rate, whether we bring enough fans to suit you or not, the Mizzou fans who do go have certainly enjoyed themselves. Our 9 game winning streak in SEC regular season road games says hello.
This post was edited on 9/8/15 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:04 pm to bayou2003
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I've seen SEC schools within 200-300 miles of each other return tickets.
Serious question.
Has Alabama football or Kentucky basketball ever returned tickets?
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:04 pm to bayou2003
They make their own excuses, they don't need your butthurt help.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:06 pm to Cheese Grits
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Serious question.
Has Alabama football or Kentucky basketball ever returned tickets?
Dude is Missouri football on the level of that.lmao. When was the last time they won a conference title in football???
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:07 pm to Beantownbulldog
Stop acting like a poor and buy tickets off stub hub.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:07 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
Pinkle is a good coach.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:10 pm to bayou2003
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Dude is Missouri football on the level of that.
Was not aiming that at Mizzou, just when it comes to any kind of ticket / attendance smack I can't remember either discussion happening.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:10 pm to Henry Jones Jr
it its kind of crazy they can drive thru kansas and be in col
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:12 pm to gatortrav88
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it its kind of crazy they can drive thru kansas and be in col
Um you do know people in Texas can drive through a small portion of Oklahoma and be in Colorado in less than an hour. Texas is closer to Colorado than Missouri.
This post was edited on 9/8/15 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:13 pm to WG_Dawg
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UGA never has a problem selling out our allotment for away games.
No one...NO ONE...enjoys underachievement like the University of Jawja!!
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:19 pm to everytrueson
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get the point on the travel and Mizzou needs to do better and has been improving since the SEC move. It is just how many times can you have the 3 day weekend? That's why we do 2/3 road trips a year. Every SEC trip from KCMO except Arky is a flight, hotel, and rental car. Not really a great excuse, but it gets expensive if you try to do all road games each year. I will go to Athens every time we can though. I love that town and I have some friends that live in north Georgia.
You guys suck. We are driving up to Green Bay for the start of next season. Just like the wisky fans came to houston. Not just teams in GA and Alabama travel to see their team.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:22 pm to Cheese Grits
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MU just did not have the SEC history but as the edge of multiple conferences they could join many but may never fully fit any. The one beauty of the SEC is the power to reinvent your aura.
For once I agree with you Cheese.
That's why I laugh when people say we don't "fit" in the SEC. We don't "fit" in the Big 10 or Big 12 either. For better or for worse, Missouri is a cultural and geographical crossroads that doesn't fully identify with any one region.
This shows our conference borders pre-expansion. We are pretty much the no-man's land between the Big 12, Big 10, and SEC. Therefore, we aren't going to "fit" in any of them.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:24 pm to Cheese Grits
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Was not aiming that at Mizzou, just when it comes to any kind of ticket / attendance smack I can't remember either discussion happening.
I don't know if there was any sort of attendance dip for UK, home or road, when the Eddie Sutton scandal broke. I'd be interested if any folks can remember that, or if the UK bandwagon stayed 100% full even through probation and a losing season.
Back in a magical time period in Mizzou hoops called the early 1980s, while Mizzou was winning four consecutive conference titles and rising as high as #1 in the AP poll for several weeks, kansas basketball was enduring losing seasons, and Allen Fieldhouse actually started to become something of a ghost town by 1983. And forget about their road attendance or even finding any ku fans at the annual Big Eight Tournament in Kansas City, half an hour from their campus. They went quiet.
Of course,the boosters were upset, and ku responded by hiring Larry Brown, and giving Danny Manning's truck driver dad an assistant coaching position on Brown's staff which in turn got them the younger Manning, and the rest is history. But there was a time when their fans stopped caring because it was a losing team. My guess would be that was true for at least some portion of the UK crazies as well, but maybe not - they do strike me as being a whole other level of hoops crazy beyond ku.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:26 pm to KCM0Tiger
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This shows our conference borders pre-expansion. We are pretty much the center of the college sports universe between the Big 12, Big 10, and SEC. Therefore, we aren't going to "fit" in any of them.
Fixed it for you.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:26 pm to gatortrav88
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it its kind of crazy they can drive thru kansas and be in col
Also kind of crazy that we can get from Missouri to Mississippi with a 70 minute car drive.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:35 pm to KCM0Tiger
I love playing with maps like this... make Nebraska blue for B1G.
Would be interested to see how many miles of shared border we have with each conference.
Iowa counts twice for B1G and Big 12.
Would be interested to see how many miles of shared border we have with each conference.
Iowa counts twice for B1G and Big 12.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:38 pm to 5thTiger
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Would be interested to see how many miles of shared border we have with each conference.
I did it in a thread a long time ago...I'll see if I can find it.
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