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Texas A&M Athletics: Congrats! You just received exclusive access to the game vs. New Mexico State! Saturday 10/29 at 6:30pm. Lower Level - Sideline Seats! Buy best available now for $130 each.

To buy now, reply with: BUY AGGIES + quantity

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Sure wish I could make the game!
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What a deal!
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Uhhhhhhh



No
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yawn
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I farted
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Well this went over like a fart in church. Evidently attendance will be down regardless.
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How soon til we get a lecture from some fresh out of fish camp poster about not going to the game and it's tragic because we're a top 10 team?
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Schedule crap teams you get crap attendance. UTSA will prolly have better attendance because their 2,000 fans travel well.
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Uh.....no. $50, Ok
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I get that crap games have to happen but I hate that they are now in the middle of and at the end of the season. We are coming off playing #1 Alabama to take on New Mexico State. I mean who wants to see that, really? If they are first game of the year then fine, at least we can all be excited football is back.
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Hate cupcake games. Like paying to see Mike Tyson in his prime fight a 15 year old girl. Not sporting. And yes, Appalachian St, blah, blah, blah. For every upset there are 20 wins. And mostly boring blowouts. We only get 12 games and I hate wasting 3 of them on cupcakes.

Glad fans are speaking with empty seats. Hope they change the attendance requirement (which they don't even enforce) from 15,000 to 30,000. This would cut the teams from 128 to 80. Then allow FBS to only play FBS.

I don't care about cupcakes finances. I'm not a socialist. There fans need to support them if they want to play.
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Do you expect them to play a power 5 every week.
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Amazing Moves said:

Do you expect them to play a power 5 every week.


It's the power 5 plus 15 more teams like Notre Dame, BYU, etc. So you're cupcake games are against teams like Vandy, South Carolina, Kansas, Iowa St, Purdue, Oregon St, Boston College, etc, etc, etc. Make every game count since there are only 12 of them. If you still have to have your Mike Tyson versus a little girl match then allow one cupcake per year, but not 3 or more like we have now.

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txagssweetie2014 said:

Hate cupcake games. Like paying to see Mike Tyson in his prime fight a 15 year old girl. Not sporting. And yes, Appalachian St, blah, blah, blah. For every upset there are 20 wins. And mostly boring blowouts. We only get 12 games and I hate wasting 3 of them on cupcakes.

Glad fans are speaking with empty seats. Hope they change the attendance requirement (which they don't even enforce) from 15,000 to 30,000. This would cut the teams from 128 to 80. Then allow FBS to only play FBS.

I don't care about cupcakes finances. I'm not a socialist. There fans need to support them if they want to play.
"Socialist." I don't that that word means what you think it means. Their team still has to suit up, play the game, and spend the next two weeks in the ice bath, ... and their players learn something by playing a better team. Their players deserve a little TV time, too. They practice just as had as anyone else. Distribution of revenues to all colleges would be "socialist," you know, like the TV revenues are in most conferences.

And it's "their," not "there."

All teams play cupcakes (except, of course, the cupcakes that go 0-12). Get over it.
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george92 said:

Schedule crap teams you get crap attendance. UTSA will prolly have better attendance because their 2,000 fans travel well.


I guess Nebraska has only been scheduling power 5 top tier programs during their 50 year sell-out streak.....
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TheWoodsAg said:

george92 said:

Schedule crap teams you get crap attendance. UTSA will prolly have better attendance because their 2,000 fans travel well.


I guess Nebraska has only been scheduling power 5 top tier programs during their 50 year sell-out streak.....
There is nothing else to do in Nebraska but husker football in the fall.
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Nebraska has had sellouts for 50 years b/c there is nothing else to do in Nebraska besides going to these games. People who live in Texas have tons of other activities to keep them occupied other than watching a game vs NMSU.

On another note, I don't know why we keep having these debates.

If the University keeps scheduling these crap games, awful attendance will persist.

Then you have the apologist who go on and on about how and why we need these games to 'rest' and to fund these minor FBS and FCS programs.

Its nonsense, but until you have a head coach and AD who agree to change the scheduling philosophy, we'll get more of the same and more games like Praire View where seats are empty.

Its the season tickets holders that get screwed the most..........Praire View, NMSU, etc is like attending NFL preseason games/scrimmages.

And no I don't mean we need 4 games vs Clemson type schools for OOC, just competitive games vs solid FBS schools.
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txagssweetie2014 said:

Hate cupcake games. Like paying to see Mike Tyson in his prime fight a 15 year old girl. Not sporting. And yes, Appalachian St, blah, blah, blah. For every upset there are 20 wins. And mostly boring blowouts. We only get 12 games and I hate wasting 3 of them on cupcakes.

Glad fans are speaking with empty seats. Hope they change the attendance requirement (which they don't even enforce) from 15,000 to 30,000. This would cut the teams from 128 to 80. Then allow FBS to only play FBS.

I don't care about cupcakes finances. I'm not a socialist. There fans need to support them if they want to play.
Not a socialist, huh? That's all well and good, but do you know who IS a socialist? Texas A&M Athletics. Who else? The Southeastern Conference. Yes, the conference shares revenue amongst the teams for the betterment of all. The very definition of socialism.

The sooner people leave politics in the politics board the better off the football board will be.
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Yeah it's really odd. We have some some extra tickets for this game and I am struggling to give them away, much less make 20 or 40 dollars per ticket.

I'm still waiting for all the "good Ags" who run to this board before big games and whine about high ticket prices to offer me face value for my ticket.

Im sure they'll be here soon. Wouldn't want people taking advantage of others and getting tickets cheaper than the cost someone else paid for them.
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If you sell all available season tickets, you still have to fill the visitor's allotment (7,000) and any unclaimed student tickets (could be a few thousand) for games like this. That's why you don't see SEC schools with a Nebraksa like string of sellouts--they only have 3850 in the visitor's allotment, and don't give out nearly as many student tickets as we do, so even if their competition brings no one, they only have a couple of thousand to sell for these games.

As far as scheduling games like this in the middle or late part of the season, there are two reasons to do this: first, and most importantly, TV wants quality games throughout the schedule, so if we played all our non-conference games in September, like the Big XII, we'd end up with a couple of weeks where the schedule is just awful; second, these games work like pseudo bye weeks for us--guys who need experience can get it, but we can hold out starters with nagging injuries and get them well for big games. Teams take a beating in the SEC, and you need these recovery opportunities.
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TheWoodsAg said:

george92 said:

Schedule crap teams you get crap attendance. UTSA will prolly have better attendance because their 2,000 fans travel well.


I guess Nebraska has only been scheduling power 5 top tier programs during their 50 year sell-out streak.....
So much wrong here......
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these games work like pseudo bye weeks for us--guys who need experience can get it, but we can hold out starters with nagging injuries and get them well for big games. Teams take a beating in the SEC, and you need these recovery opportunities.
I'm sorry, I just do not agree with this philosophy whether its true or not. I don't get the folks who are adamant about this philosophy either.....its a cop out.

Under that premise, we should never go to a 9 game SEC schedule, while other conferences do.

If we're always so worried about 'pseudo byes' then we should just reduce the number of games played per season.

Season ticket holders are the biggest losers here. My family and friends that attend games want to see exciting matchups like UCLA and Tennessee. And again, we don't need to play Clemson type schools for 4 OOC games......decent FBS schools would be suffice.
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CASHMONEYAGGIE2002 said:

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these games work like pseudo bye weeks for us--guys who need experience can get it, but we can hold out starters with nagging injuries and get them well for big games. Teams take a beating in the SEC, and you need these recovery opportunities.
I'm sorry, I just do not agree with this philosophy whether its true or not. I don't get the folks who are adamant about this philosophy either.....its a cop out.

Under that premise, we should never go to a 9 game SEC schedule, while other conferences do.

If we're always so worried about 'pseudo byes' then we should just reduce the number of games played per season.

Season ticket holders are the biggest losers here. My family and friends that attend games want to see exciting matchups like UCLA and Tennessee. And again, we don't need to play Clemson type schools for 4 OOC games......decent FBS schools would be suffice.
We shouldn't go to 9 games. One of the reasons the Big XII was interested in expansion was that they did the math and realized that 9 games hurt their chances of placing a team in the playoff.

Other than the fact that we should be playing the Arkansas series home and home, an 8 game conference schedule with one marquee opponent and three buy games is OK. Ideally, one of the three buy games would be for a Group of 5 FBS team, but those teams are in demand, so they can pick and choose, and they don't want to get too beat up in playing their out of conference schedule so they aren't going to schedule 3 or 4 power 5 teams, either. We can't make them sign up to play us. College football doesn't have a preseason so you have to play some games where you get a chance to work on things. They've been doing this forever. Even when my dad was a student in the '40s, we used to play schools like North Texas State Teachers College for this reason.
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For someone who has watched college football for so long you really don't understand how college football works.
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Flash Seat has field box tickets on sale for $125 (including fees). Field box seats are much better than the east sideline seats. All American Club tickets are not that much more.
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I'm too busy to make any other game right now, but I might go to this one.
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The SEC is a club, not a socialist country. You only get invited if you can produce. A few semi-hackers got grandfathered in, but they probably pulled at some point. There is nothing socialistic about that. Oligopolostic, maybe.

In a socialist country, there are no prerequisites to getting benefits other than citizenship. But in our country, we can't wait to give illegals and islamic terrorists benefits too.
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Hate cupcake games. Like paying to see Mike Tyson in his prime fight a 15 year old girl.

Seriously! The game was better when teams only scheduled 11 games. They ought to disallow games with FCS opponents and they ought to require FBs programs achieve to a certain level. Right now, there are some "FBS teams" that are really only FBS because "being FBS" means they can charge more for guarantee games. They play 4 "guarantee games" for $5 million. If they were FCS, they would only be making 2 mil for the guarantee games. So there is a marginal profit of $3 mil. They have to carry 20 extra scholarship players, but each scholy player probably only costs around 20k. so let's say the marginal cost is half a mil. They make a marginal profit of $2.5 million.

Plus, they can market the fact that they are "FBS" to prospective students. They still play junk football though.
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Fans will respond to the product you put on the field and the quality of the opponent., the matchup. I don't care about the budget of the smaller schools, and whether their players learn anything from playing a bigger school or not. Evidently fewer fans are thrilled about this game.
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CASHMONEYAGGIE2002 said:

Nebraska has had sellouts for 50 years b/c there is nothing else to do in Nebraska besides going to these games. People who live in Texas have tons of other activities to keep them occupied other than watching a game vs NMSU.

On another note, I don't know why we keep having these debates.

If the University keeps scheduling these crap games, awful attendance will persist.

Then you have the apologist who go on and on about how and why we need these games to 'rest' and to fund these minor FBS and FCS programs.

Its nonsense, but until you have a head coach and AD who agree to change the scheduling philosophy, we'll get more of the same and more games like Praire View where seats are empty.

Its the season tickets holders that get screwed the most..........Praire View, NMSU, etc is like attending NFL preseason games/scrimmages.

And no I don't mean we need 4 games vs Clemson type schools for OOC, just competitive games vs solid FBS schools.


Ahem...Nebraska gives away SOME tickets that don't sell so as to ensure that marketing gimmick continues to be promoted.

Boys and Girls Clubs
Boy Scouts
Etc
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We get to tailgate all the way until 6:00, and it's a guaranteed win at Kyle. Probably going to be a damn fun Saturday.
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They ought to disallow games with FCS opponents
You might as well just do away with FCS football then. Most FCS football budgets come from the few games they play against FBS schools. I'm for it though. Below are the last place teams for each non Power 5 FBS conference divisions. I'd rather see A&M vs. any of those school than A&M vs. UTSA. When the spread is 43.5 points, it's not even worth going to the game.

East Carolina
Tulane
Florida Atlantic
Rice
Massachusetts
Bowling Green
Ball State
Utah State
Fresno State
South Alabama

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these games work like pseudo bye weeks for us--guys who need experience can get it, but we can hold out starters with nagging injuries and get them well for big games. Teams take a beating in the SEC, and you need these recovery opportunities.I'm sorry, I just do not agree with this philosophy whether its true or not. I don't get the folks who are adamant about this philosophy either.....its a cop out.

Under that premise, we should never go to a 9 game SEC schedule, while other conferences do.

If we're always so worried about 'pseudo byes' then we should just reduce the number of games played per season.

Season ticket holders are the biggest losers here. My family and friends that attend games want to see exciting matchups like UCLA and Tennessee. And again, we don't need to play Clemson type schools for 4 OOC games......decent FBS schools would be suffice.


It's not just about the fans; I can guarantee you the coaches and players want a game like this to rest up, get healthy and work on some things, and the backups get in and get work, which is important

It's also helping our chances to beat ole miss and LSU

We have an edge on LSU because they have a gauntlet before we play them
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There will be close to 100,000 there Saturday night. Against a weak opponent, that is outstanding. It will be a beautiful fall evening for football yet Ags will complain that no one is there.
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These games are good for the players. Starters get a break and backups get a chance to play.

It isn't always about the fans.
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