NDSU V UNI @ Vikings Stadium? 2016

[achrist70]

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It would be like playing in the MAC championship without joining the MAC.

I love how they put the band so far away from the rest of the people like they were expecting a bigger crowd

[UNIdad]

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So, how many UNI fans would go to the Twin Cities for this game? I think it would be a little less than would come to the UNI Dome.

[casbern]

Re: NDSU V UNI @ Vikings Stadium? 2016

So, how many UNI fans would go to the Twin Cities for this game? I think it would be a little less than would come to the UNI Dome.

We do have an alumni base up there. I know I'd make the trip.

[SchniDogg]

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This got me curious about what the MAC championship game attendance figures are. If something like this happens, I think it'd be that unrealistic to beat these numbers. Not exactly an apples to apples comparison, but probably the closest for a comparable neutral site game played in an NFL stadium.

Driving Distance from Fargo to Minneapolis 235 miles, Cedar Falls 217 miles.

Year Participants Driving distance to Detroit (mi) Official Attendance
2004 Miami, Toledo 256/54 22,138
2005 Akron, NIU 191/337 12,051
2006 Ohio, CMU 269/153 25,483
2007 Miami, CMU 256/153 25,103
2008 Buffalo, Ball State 273/232 12,871
2009 Ohio, CMU 269/153 23,714
2010 Miami, NIU 256/337 12,031
2011 Ohio, NIU 269/337 13,052
2012 Kent State, NIU 197/337 18,132

[ubuntuCAT]

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So, how many UNI fans would go to the Twin Cities for this game? I think it would be a little less than would come to the UNI Dome.

A little less? I would say a lot less.

[BCPanther]

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2000 UNI fans. Tops...

[Luther_Heggs]

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Northwest Missouri State and Pittsburg State play at Arrowhead every year. I think they get about 10,000 - 15,000 at those games.

[06panther10]

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2000 UNI fans. Tops...

There would be way, way more than 2K fans. Come on, we get considerably more than that to Iowa/ISU games every year and its not like its super easy to get tickets to true road games like that.

[06panther10]

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Driving Distance from Fargo to Minneapolis 235 miles, Cedar Falls 217 miles.

Sad commentary on the depressing isolation of North Dakota when they consider Minneapolis to be their "close" city, when Cedar Falls is closer to it than they are.

Nobody around here gives a single crap about Minneapolis, but for ND residents its their Manhattan.

[BCPanther]

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There would be way, way more than 2K fans. Come on, we get considerably more than that to Iowa/ISU games every year and its not like its super easy to get tickets to true road games like that.

But we're playing Iowa and Iowa State, not South Central Canada U...

[Cat80]

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If the Bison want to give up a home game every other year and 'host' the Panthers in Vikings stadium, I say go for it. It allows the 80,000 or so Bison fans in the TC area to see the Bison and allows me to not drive all the way to Fargo. Win win.

[jackit]

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So, Lakes, how many NDSU fans do you think would come to a UNI game in the Twin Cities?

Gazillion......at least

[Herdman]

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Pitt State and Northwest Missouri State have played for several years now at Arrowhead and they are both DII school. 2012 they had 15349 for attendence. One thing that works for these two school is there are a lot of alumni in the area and the drive time is 2 hours for NW fans and 3 hours for Pitt fans. I don't think the overall $ is a whole lot as Pitt State was thinking of dropping the series there so they can play on campus and make more. For this to work there needs to be a lot of alumni in the Twin Cities and the cost to be lower.

Exactly what I was going to say. Good post.

Lesbian, just because you need another reason to get near civilization for a higher quality of and broader selection of alcohol, that's no reason to drag UNI into it, but thanks for thinking of them.

[95UNIGRAD]

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Exactly what I was going to say. Good post.

Lesbian, just because you need another reason to get near civilization for a higher quality of and broader selection of alcohol, that's no reason to drag UNI into it, but thanks for thinking of them.

Lesbian? (phone auto-correct?)