<p>Not sold out for us. There are plenty of tix for students :)</p>
<p>Fun article earlier this week in the WSJ had some quotes from (Southern-born and bred, but now living the Berkshires) novelist/essayist Roy Blount, Jr that put some of this sports discussion in perspective:</p>
<p>"When I was a boy in Georgia, college sports was (Georgia Tech coach) Bobby Dodd vs (Alabama coach) Bear Bryant. Compared to that, the Harvard-Yale game is a panel discussion."</p>
<p>"Caring about sports in the Northeast is like caring about French food in South Carolina." </p>
<p>"I like Northern liberals, a term that takes in quite a few of my neighbors. But I've never been able to shake the feeling that running one for president is like letting Harvard play in the Orange Bowl." </p>
<p>monydad,
I hope you find tickets to the hockey game. ALL of my BU friends have been talking about nothing else all summer!</p>
<p>haha damn straight. I'm so excited for it.</p>
<p>Thought I remembered this from somewhere:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=260152%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=260152</a></p>
<p>I still believe those fans think they are experiencing: fun. excitement, drama, etc. YMMV.</p>
<p>Need to get 4 tickets, reasonable...</p>
<p>I think that yesterday’s action warrants the revival of this thread. In case you missed it, many of the USNWR Top 30 played very prominent football games yesterday, several of which were on national TV. </p>
<p>Stanford pulled the upset of the day by beating USC at the LA Coliseum in front of 85,000+ screaming, disbelieving Trojan fans. College football is often a spectacle and can deliver some moments that are truly full of “fun, excitement, and drama.” This was one of those moments. Kudos to the Cardinal for their upset win (which was probably even cheered by Cal fans :) ). Hopefully, the comments about the tree mascot will subside for a few weeks. </p>
<p>Several other highly-ranked colleges also had notable, high profile games this weekend with exciting finishes and great college scenes (Northwestern over Michigan State, Rice over Southern Miss, Notre Dame over UCLA, U North Carolina over U Miami). </p>
<p>You would need to be living under a rock not to notice the positive effect that these athletic games and scenes have on a college campus. I can’t say often enough that one does not need to be a football fan to enjoy these great, fun “scenes.” These games and these “scenes” are unique to only a few of the very best academic colleges in the country. It is a different scene and one that should be sampled if you have the opportunity.</p>
<p>And can you tell us why you decided to revive this thread, instead of posting this on your other similar thread entitled "Athletic Life in College: The Football 'Scene'"?</p>
<p>Just wondering.</p>
<p>Yes, I saw the sobbing USC cheerleaders on national TV. It made me laugh. Such drama. Get a life.</p>
<p>collegehelp,
Those USC cheerleaders have had plenty to cheer (and gloat) about over the last few years, so I doubt many folks feel their pain. But wasn't it great for the Stanford fans as it's been pretty grim for them for more than a while. Unfortunately, I doubt many were at the Coliseum for the game. </p>
<p>TCU comes to Palo Alto this weekend for Stanford's Homecoming-I expect a good crowd...and a great time!</p>
<p>Very, very impressive numbers yesterday as part of the "athletic scene" at the Harvard-Yale game in New Haven. 57,248 partisans were in attendance and no doubt that memories for a lifetime were made for students and alumni of Harvard as the Crimson rolled. By contrast, their undefeated season in tatters, Yale devotees will want to forget this one as fast as they can. Maybe next year...</p>
<p>Aside from this little ongong "grudge match",for which athletics is just an excuse, football is not traditionally a matter of much passion in this league.</p>
<p>Now, for what really matters:</p>
<p>"B.U.-Cornell M. Hockey Game Sold Out
Print: Email: Share: November 20, 2007 - 11:45am
By Sun Staff
The Red Hot Hockey game was a red hot ticket too.</p>
<p>Every one of the 18,200 tickets has sold for the B.U.-Cornell men's hockey game that will be played at Madison Square Garden in New York City this Saturday, according to the Cornell Athletics website.</p>
<p>Aside from the attraction of New York City and playing in "the world's most famous arena," the game features historic college hockey rivalry. B.U. has won the national championship four times (1971, 1972, 1978 and 1995) and Cornell has won twice (1967, 1970). Combined, the schools have placed nearly 80 former players in the NHL, including Chris Drury, Keith Tkachuk and John Cullen, as well as Ken Dryden and Joe Nieuwendyk."</p>
<p>Not mentioned in the article:</p>
<p>I will be there.</p>
<p>Wow, so two schools with combined student populations of over 40,000 and hundreds of thousands of alumni were able to fill a stadium of 18,000 in a city with 8,000,000 people? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>If there is an ice rink here with larger seating capacity,to sell even more tickets,the New York Rangers would be playing in it. But they play at Madison Square Garden. It is 4 hours away from both schools, but of course many of the faithful are in town. Which is why it's amazing to me that nobody thought of this until now; possibly poor attendance at other such events was responsible.</p>
<p>In the past these two teams also sold out Boston Garden.</p>
<p>The Rangers technically sell out MSG, I believe, but many season tickets are purchased by corporations and don't always get used, so the actual routine attendance is significantly lower than this.</p>
<p>College hockey is completely absent in New York, so there is no non-associated indigenous interest base to attract attendance. In a city of 8 million people there is a lot going on to otherwise draw one's attention.</p>
<p>From an article in "College Hockey News":</p>
<p>"But now ... a sellout at "the world's most famous arena" for a hockey game not involving the New York Rangers? Well, considering the fact that MSG suffered poor attendance for holiday college tournaments in years past, it's fair to say that nobody quite expected anything like this."</p>
<p>" "I thought we'd draw a lot of people, but I had no idea we'd draw what we are drawing," said BU head coach Jack Parker. "Selling Madison Square Garden out for a single college hockey game is pretty spectacular."</p>
<p>Cornell coach Mike Schafer agreed."</p>
<p>I guess all these people should have talked to kk19131, he knew better.</p>
<p>Monydad- my kid will be at the game tomorrow nite too-<br>
Lots of Cornell (and BU) kids are home for the holidays. </p>
<p>She is so looking forward to it-</p>
<p>College Hockey is very big across the midwest. Wisconsin average over 11,000 paying customers per game. Uminn, Michigan, and MSU also have large programs that often outdraw basketball.</p>
<p>kk,
I say give Cornell and BU a little more credit. Filling a stadium for any sport with 18,000 fans is not that easy (for reference, only 2 out of 80 Ivy League football games played this fall drew more than 18,000 fans) and the MSG hockey sellout speaks well for the fan support in NYC for these schools. </p>
<p>I don’t think that the “scene” at a hockey game or even a basketball game is like that at a college football game. Nonetheless, these sports can be great boosts to a college’s social life, often will act as important glue in tying students and alumni to a school, and almost certainly will add positively to the undergraduate experience for many students.</p>
<p>You forgot Boston College. USNews #35. One of very few schools that's nationally ranked almost every year in football, basketball, and hockey. Usually only Wisconsin is also ranked in all three sports.</p>