TOE Pinstripe Sales
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Lots of great PR for TOE out here in eastern Iowa.
http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Fe...Pinstripe-Bowl-than-years-past-462938293.html
http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Fe...Pinstripe-Bowl-than-years-past-462938293.html
Oh, they'll be there. They're stadium vendors.
I went to the Pinstripe in 2011. I flew in on the 29th and flew out on the 31st. That kept plane tickets at a reasonable price. I didn’t really do anything else except hang out at the hotel bar and walk around Times Square. The bowl game itself was OK. I think getting to see Yankee Stadium was the highlight.
Rutgers’ fans suck.
Rutgers’ fans suck.
Don't blame them, who wants to willingly go to NYC. Yuck.
You may be right but then the athletic department went "All In" with it by using it in pretty much all of their social media posts surrounding the game and here we are now.
I was there and ISU sold around 5,000 tickets. I actually had a great time. The weather was much warmer than normal, I just wore a sweatshirt and jeans and I was fine. I just think it is funny ISU sold 5 times the tickets Iowa sold when Iowa has a "travelling reputation" and "top 15 fan base"..so I hear from Iowa fans and media.
and the B1G has claimed NY as a city. They desperately want that market.
Think how dreadful the b-ball tournament will be there. Can’t get much worse than the DC one they just had but it’ll come close.
It looks pretty bad, but again, timing, location, cost, and it not being a high profile bowl all add to the lack of interest. Like how the guy selling the packages spent most of his airtime trying to convince Hawk fans they are really missing out on something special. Also like the comparison to the Rose Bowl crowd two years ago. Yeah, they are not quite the same bowl....
The initial use in response to "Those Guy In Ames" by the staff was good. But message board posters sticking with it at this point is no better than Iowa fans who use "Cyclowns" or similar rivals.com stuff.
I’m giving Iowa pass on this one. They’ve shown year after year that they will travel but the Pinstripe Bowl is a horrible combination of suck and expensive.
But "big time" programs shouldn't get a pass.
Actually "TOE" is a much better acronym than "TUN" or "TTUN".
I'm indifferent to it only because TOE is an awesome acronym. Proceed if you like it, but use the acronym. I mean who here doesn't laugh a little at calling them a toe?
I guess I'm a little biased from living in Chicago for 14 years...but while I like New York when I visit for work or fun it isn't dramatically different for entertainment than Chicago. A lot of Iowa fans have Chicago ties and their campus itself is 3.5 hour drive...and they can visit Chicago when the weather is awesome and the city is bursting with excitement...not dead of winter.
The area around Yankee stadium is not fun at all to make up for it being winter. To be honest that area is kind of a hellhole with nothing to do. It's not like Wrigley, MSG or the new Brooklyn arena where you want to spend your time partying right around the venue in Wrigleyville, Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Let's keep in mind Iowa goes to bowl games just about every year. Hard to blame their fans for passing on the lackluster destination and opponent.
The bigger thing to bash on is the Big Ten's idiotic attempt to turn NYC into a place that cares about a midwest college sports conference because of a team in New Jersey nobody cares about.
It is a shame because NYC is such an awesome city to visit, albeit an expensive city to visit. Helps if you have friends of family living there.
Is anyone shocked? They can’t even sell out their own stadium, why would people think they’d travel to New York?