Baylor/TAMU Ticket Sales Part II

by **PonyKai** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:45 pm

http://www.presnapread.com/getting-to-t ... he-matter/

...Yesterday, I came to the conclusion that Baylorâ€™s argument about the financial burden of traveling to away games should the Big 12 disband simply didnâ€™t have legs: Baylor doesnâ€™t travel now, when rivals are within less than 100 miles, so whether the trip for an away conference game is 100 or 1,000 miles away shouldnâ€™t matter â€” fans arenâ€™t showing up regardless.

I cited the paucity of tickets Baylor sold for its 2011 date at Texas A&M as evidence. According to Texas A&M, Baylor has sold only 830 of its 3,850-ticket share. Is that true? Is this more, less or a similar total for Baylor in past trips to College Station?

The number of tickets sold â€œis nearly the same as (in) 2009,â€ Baylorâ€™s last trip to A&M, said executive associate director Nick Joos. And thatâ€™s an important admission, one that provides further evidence for the consensus that Baylor cannot cite travel issues as rationale for maintaining the Big 12 in its current formation....

by **Dutch** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:06 pm

i think we sold 1900 for the A&M game.

by **ponyte** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:06 pm

Guess the Baylor faithful don't feel confident that the Bears can run up the score using a fake punt late in the game. Seems real competition is a bit too much to tolerate for them.

by **Stallion** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:19 pm

Baylor has always traveled about 2-3 times better than SMU-if the tickets had been availiable up to the week of the Game they would have too this year. I've been to enough Baylor games to know this to be a fact-compare SMU ticket sales in Waco to Baylor in Dallas is the most recent example. There were more Baylor fans at Ford that any SMU Road game in modern SMU history-defined as the last 35 years. Some of you aren't focusing on the pre-season dealine for ticket sales which is really the cause. I probably wouldn't have bought a preseason ticket to A&M 2-3 months before the game either. What's our excuse when we can't drive across the Turnpike to Ft Worth?

by **ponyboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:19 pm

Dutch wrote:i think we sold 1900 for the A&M game.

Does that include any of the seats that were double sold? I got to my seats down in College Station only to find that our band had necessarily taken the entire row.

by **PonyKai** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:28 pm

Actually, I think the focus of this is that TAMU is clearly, publicly throwing sand in Baylor's face over the numbers.

by **Stallion** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:35 pm

No I'm talking about SMU-a school I'm very familiar with-a school that had no more than 18,000 of its own fans at a conference game after two straight bowls.

by **Nacho** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:46 pm

smu has turned into a school where students and alumni clearly do not care about smu football anymore. i see this as a result of smu basically turning into a women's school over the last twenty years. women outnumber men at smu.
during the post dp era men sports fans went to other schools. this left smu with women and men who do not care about football. the guys who do care about football do not go to games but instead go to the boulevard then on to the house to watch whatever big name team is on tv. this is what we are up against.

by **RednBlue11** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:50 pm

Nacho wrote: i see this as a result of smu basically turning into a women's school over the last twenty years. women outnumber men at smu.

WHAT?!?! who the hell cares!? that's a ridiculous and un-provable comment.

not to mention that most universities have a ratio that is close to 1:1, that that has ZERO affect on their attendance in any measurable way.

point for coming up with an original theory although it's one that belongs to archie bunker types and blowhards that like throwing [deleted] at the wall

by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:57 pm

What is the male-to-female ratio?
For 2009, total population: 50.5% male to 49.5% female; 47% male to 53% female among undergraduates.

by **Nacho** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:36 pm

i will say that i thought we had a pretty good turnout of students on saturday. much better than in pre june days. the guys that are now coming to smu may have more interest in smu football. the losses at the end of last year and to tamu hurt. we need to win some big games to get the students and alumni to the games. we have a big game against tcu that we really need to win, assuming we beat nws and memphis.

by **Nacho** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:04 pm

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandrevie ... 13/reviews

some of these comments are eye opening.

by **smupony94** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:08 pm

eye opening? Boring actually

by **GiddyUp** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:35 pm

Blah blah blah

by **SMU Pony Mom** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:49 pm

smupony94 wrote:What is the male-to-female ratio?
For 2009, total population: 50.5% male to 49.5% female; 47% male to 53% female among undergraduates.

I believe that this year's freshman class is 49% male to 51% female.