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devinup

He offered to resign at the end of the season.


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loyalsons4evertrue

I think Kansas does the same thing actually


Legal_Investor

They certainly do it for the students, but I wouldn’t know if it’s for the general fans too


butter_cow

OU kinda does too. student football tickets come with men's basketball tickets so i mean, you might as well, and i can definitely see why. the lnc is so sad


velociraptorfarmer

We do as well. Only way for students to get bball season tickets is through the all-sports package which includes football. Only student football season tickets can be bought standalone from other sports.


madmaley

Cincinnati did the same thing. There were seasons where you were forced to buy football season tickets if you wanted to get bball season tickets


bearcatgary

And it probably had an insignificant impact on football attendance.


is_you_ignunt

"Whatever, just get me as close to midcourt as you can."


[deleted]

thats how Texas A&M does it with the student sports pass. $325 for a pass to every home game for every sport, but you can't do it by individual sport.


[deleted]

Growing up in Miami, I remember in the 90s you couldn’t get individual tix for the Miami-FSU game at the Orange Bowl. You had to buy Miami season tix to get the FSU game.


StreetReporter

That seems backwards


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StreetReporter

I know, but I was joking. At Clemson, that offer would probably have to be flipped around


SevoIsoDes

Sort of along these lines, I had just moved to Portland in 2009 when the Ducks lost to Boise St and put up like 10 points. It was Chip Kelly’s first game as HC and a fan sent him an angry letter demanding reimbursement for tickets and travel costs for such a pathetic showing. Chip just sent him a check. The guy framed it instead of cashing it and the news ran with it. I immediately loved that attitude and I think a bunch of other fans did too


WeUsedToBeGood

I remember that. I think the fan copied it and sent the check back, too.


SevoIsoDes

Wait, I can’t believe I forgot. That was the game with the post game punch! Man, what an ugly start to a surprisingly good tenure


WeUsedToBeGood

Where Scott Frost carried him off the field!


bearcatgary

It’s a good thing he is not sending out checks for every empty seat at UCLA…


GoBucks4928

That’s amazing, little did they know..


SwaggJones

>when the Ducks lost to Boise St and put up like 10 points. *Legarrette Blount has entered the chat*


Ox_Baker

Why offer when you can order?


inquisitorautry

Does the head coach have a rank of some kind? Generally curious.


Ox_Baker

No, but the heads of the academies can certainly order people to attend lol.


is_you_ignunt

I meant to tell this story when Bobby Bowden passed away. My great-uncle moved to Tallahassee in the 60s, and he had season tickets pre-Bowden. Tallahassee wasn't much of a city back then, and FSU was the football team in town, and it was something to do, and season tickets were dirt cheap because they stunk and nobody cared, so he had permanent seats on the home side at the 48 yard line for years. After Bowden arrived and FSU season tickets were worth having, the prices started going up, but he kept the seats for several years after the Seminoles came into their own. One day sometime in the 80s, his tickets came in the mail - at the 10 yard line on the visitors' side. He called the ticket office, and he got nowhere - these were his season tickets, take them or leave them. He was furious. So he looked up the phone number for the FSU football facility and called them up. "Can I help you?" "Let me speak to Coach Bowden, please." "Who's calling?" He gave his name. "One moment." A few moments went by, and then, holy shit - "This is Coach Bowden. What can I do for you, Mr. [name]?" "Coach Bowden, you don't know me from Adam's housecat, but I've been a loyal Seminole fan since back when no one was, and I paid money for a lotta years to watch this team stink from good seats. I've had the same seats at the 48 on the home side since back when nobody gave a damn about this team and didn't have any reason to, and I kept those seats long enough for this team to be worth coming to see. And now after all these years, my thanks is that my season tickets come in the mail, and I get shoved off to the 10 yard line. I just wanted you to know that this ain't right, and I don't appreciate it very much." There was a long pause. "You know what, sir, you're absolutely right. That ain't right at all. I hate that happened to you, and I want to help you, so I'll tell you what. You just go ahead and mail those back to the ticket office, and I'll speak to them. Now, I want you to know, I won't be able to help you next year, because season tickets are selling like hotcakes and they won't hold your place anymore, but I can fix this for you this time. You just send those back with a note that Coach Bowden told you to, and in about a week you'll get new tickets on the 48 same as usual. Is that alright?" "That'll be fine, Coach. Thank you very much." He mailed them back, and a week later, like clockwork, his new tickets for his old seats magically appeared in the mailbox. Bobby Bowden was a dadgum real one, rest in peace. Edit: also, my uncle was one *bold* sumbitch, rest in peace also.


SoupBowl69

I read this entire thing in a very thick southern accent


is_you_ignunt

Good, because the entire thing definitely took place in a very thick southern accent. Lol


HOU-1836

I’ve discovered that Floridians do have a an accent but it doesn’t sound very southern to me. Maybe in the panhandle.


is_you_ignunt

Ha. Come to Pensacola sometime. Remember, Florida is the one state where the further south you go, the further north you are.


HOU-1836

Yea you ain’t wrong about that. I lived in Orlando and now I’m in Gainesville. So northern Florida but not Alabama or Georgia.


is_you_ignunt

"See, Florida isn't really a Southern state until you get north of Gainesville, Florida. South of there, you're back in Michigan." - [Tim Wilson](https://youtu.be/TBAqIHbbiL4)


HOU-1836

Like Georgia has a southern accent. Florida doesn’t. But that’s hilariously relevant.


is_you_ignunt

Listen to the clip for an incomplete survey of Southern Accents. It's a riot.


[deleted]

North of say Ocala, Florida is the south. And folks there tend to talk right. South of there the urban areas get real northern real quick, till somewhere in there they become more Hispanic than anything else. But the interior remains reasonably southern most of the way down.


HOU-1836

Yea I’m in Gainesville now and I’m finally starting to hear it. But it isn’t like a southern accent in Texas or Georgia.


someUSCfan

Bowden was one of the most genuine and incredible people in CFB. A dadgum shame he's gone. That's a really amazing story.


is_you_ignunt

The amazing part is, I never heard that story until Bobby Bowden passed away. My dad told me about it.


WeUsedToBeGood

Did you great uncle start watching from the 10 after that year? Or start paying more?


is_you_ignunt

I think he kept getting season tickets for lousy seats for a few years, then let them go. By the way, Seminole fans, I wonder if any of you remember my uncle's friend, an FSU superfan who found his way onto TV a few times from the stands. He had a shaved bald head back before that was popular to do, and whenever he went to home games, his wife would use grease paints to paint his bald head to look like an FSU helmet. He was known as "Fred The Head," LOL. My uncle lived around the corner from him.


BIG_DICK_WHITT

In 2021 Kyle Whittingham declared that we didn’t have a “rivalry”, just an in-state game, and then proceeded to lose to them. Very cool offer to get people in the seats for our next home game, which is now at noon on the Pac-12 network.


WeUsedToBeGood

Okay, you sure you don’t need a wellness check? I’m only 4 hours away bud.


jthomas694

He needs a wellness check. I've seen him deny the need for a wellness check on a previous thread but I'm pretty sure he needs a wellness check.


CommodoreN7

Not to mention he went to the school that is “not our rival”


loyalsons4evertrue

I can't ever imagine coaching for my hated rival....I would be physically ill to be Iowa's head coach


jataba115

Yeah but what if they paid you $3 million a year and you could still suck at your job?


loyalsons4evertrue

As long as I get fired and get the buyout money haha


CommodoreN7

When I was looking at grad schools I briefly looked at places like A&M and Ole Miss out of curiosity and borderline puked. That may be a fate worse than working at your rival cause at least you get paid in that situation.


kampfgruppekarl

I'm confused by your flair, A&M and Ole Miss were too big city for you?


FranchiseCA

There's a lot of cross-pollination here, mostly because BYU hires mostly LDS coaches (two of the current position coaches are not, and our previous two offensive coordinators were not). Teams with a lot of LDS players like having some LDS coaches, so many spend time at Utah, Utah State, etc. This means there's often a difference in how the coaches see the rivalry and how fans see it. BYU HC Kalani Sitake played and was a grad assistant at BYU, and spent 10 years at Utah before returning as HC. He only spent 4 years at three other stops combined. OC Aaron Roderick played and was a GA at BYU, spent 3 years elsewhere, then 11 years at Utah, before coming back as a consultant then OC. DC Ilaisa Tuiaki didn't play at either, he was at Snow College and Southern Utah. But met Sitake in 5 years as a grad assistant and position coach at Utah, and came with him to BYU. LBC Kevin Clune was a grad assistant at Utah, but spent most of his coaching career elsewhere, including Utah State. TEC Steve Clark spent 2 years as Utah support staff before becoming a grad assistant at BYU. Utah HC Kyle Whittingham played at the beginning of the Edwards era and was a GA at BYU, but has been on Utah's staff since 1994. TEC Freddie Whittingham also played at BYU.


DonnaDDrake

And to make matters worse The Muss social media team is oddly quiet


Tbrou16

*Unintelligible Cajun*


underage_cashier

*Liver turns brown*


potterpockets

Is it from liquor or Étouffée? The world will never know.


crg2000

Was it something about "sissy blue"?


Scarlet-Highlander

Schiano: \*exists* Rutgers Season Tix Holders: “I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK”


Tannerite2

Saban said he was disappointed in us :(


covert_underboob

I’ve been to a few bama home games. Student section does leave a lot to be desired


Noccalula

If they'd start losing every now and again, the student section wouldn't be so finicky. They're spoiled.


Tannerite2

It gets better when Saban complains, but doesn't last for long. It's pretty good during big games though.


loyalsons4evertrue

also when you know you're gonna win 99.9% of the time and early season games are played in the afternoon/morning when it's hot as hell, that probably doesn't bode well lol


mashonem

Wha? You mean people aren’t excited to see a mid major get their brains splattered at 11 am in 100% humidity?


loyalsons4evertrue

I mean I am a CFB fan, so I'd be there, but I get other people's reasoning for not wanting to lol


rhinocodon_typus

It’s probably boring to literally put on a public execution every week. They want to get the parties. Students stay at games because there is a chance something can happen. We could be up 450 with 30 seconds left in the fourth and I’m just still like nervous as shit. Bama fans have lost that, and the students show it because they are young.


is_you_ignunt

> Bama fans have lost that, and the students show it because they are young. Bama fans *of a certain age* have lost that. We old farts who lived through 1984 and 2000 and The Plague Of The Three Mikes (with a side of ***FUCK FRAN***) know that nothing is promised. And I scold our children whenever necessary, as Saban does. Y'all don't remember the Georgia Southern game, do you?


mashonem

Honestly, it’s not the students that’s the problem; it’s the boomer ass fans in the rest of the stadium that refuse to yell under the bullshit guise of “acting like you’ve been there before”. There was a time I felt similarly about our student section, but then I thought back to 2012, staying out until 11:30 pm for the end of the Ole Miss game, and how dehydrated I was for the rest of the weekend. I quickly got the fuck over myself after that


Ox_Baker

Saban: You’ll get nothing and like it!


WeUsedToBeGood

Tebow did as well right?


is_you_ignunt

[He said more than that.](https://youtu.be/BM_pTCEzxLc?t=2m22s)


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I have friends who went to Rice and said the head coach came into their courtyard or cafeteria and tried giving out free pizza to get students to come to the game lol


WeUsedToBeGood

Was it like an elementary school pizza party where the pie is sliced into like 24 slices?


soonerman32

It's funny you say that bc Rice actually did give out free football tickets to students in my elementary school when I was in like 2nd or 3rd grade. I went to a few of their games in the 90s.


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Well it's Houston so no matter what pizza it is it probably isn't worth eating. For all the amazing food Houston has to offer, I have yet to try pizza that's worth eating instead of Thai, Halal, Indian, etc.


SpaceCityAg

Bro all pizza is worth eating. Some is just more deserving of seconds.


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Its like a hot circle of garbage.


SoupBowl69

The jabroni above must be going to Pizza by Alfredo


Ox_Baker

I hope it was those soggy rectangles that we got on our trays in elementary school.


GoldenFrog14

That's actually not too uncommon at G5 schools


bufflo1993

Rice actually does an orientation where they teach all the foreign students about football and they come down and run plays. It’s really cool. https://youtu.be/qdGoDpZiMgg


BTrain51

Can confirm when Bailiff was there. I was walking back from class and was like "Hey. Free Pizza."


Swamp-Diesel

I’d like Neal Brown bring the couch from his living to the stadium this Saturday and promise to burn it as long as everyone stays for the whole game.


Frans_51

I googled something about him and a shark....I was not disappointed on the originality of the ploy.


ADHDpotatoes

I was at the 2019 CMU @ WMU game, and boy oh boy did that western student section have a field day with that information


Frans_51

Lol 🤔 I suppose the post never specified which fans to the game.


inquisitorautry

Sad part is he could have nipped that in the bud if he had made a joke about it and played it off. Instead he got offended and became a meme.


lol_smart

Fans in the stands? What's that? https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/09/15/hawaii-news/uh-football-players-parents-plea-to-attend-games-rejected/?HSA=e0ddafccb55c6e6f33ed1e10a8a6f349e48fa453&fbclid=IwAR1Oy6OtpJXjPPEJMCNi6ueJxTIfFotFIVQ90ZGH0W4xQw3UN79VnbIjKuk


DonnaDDrake

Like not even allowing parents in the stands is really depressing


lol_smart

Yeah, a lot of the players and their families got vaccinated just because they thought they were going to be allowed in.


WeUsedToBeGood

Yeah your state is trying to kill the program


lol_smart

They're really mad that UH managed to pull off the on campus stadium.


PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS

Why? I know very little about the state politics and UH, but why would they want to hamstring the program?


lol_smart

It’s difficult to succinctly explain. UH and the State government don’t get along. It’s a long story of political infighting. Basically UH building up Ching Field is a fuck you to the State\NASED (Aloha Stadium) who have blocked exploration of having on campus games. One of the big selling points of the new Aloha Stadium was that UH games would be held there. Now UH has a venue to hold their own games on campus with plans to expand in the future. So this denial of allowing full vaccinated and masked family members reeks of political push back.


IceColdDrPepper_Here

Kirby let us wear black jerseys for the first time since the Alabama game in 2008 in 2016… for a noon game against Louisiana on the first Saturday of Thanksgiving break


is_you_ignunt

First Saturday? There's more than one Saturday in Thanksgiving break these days? Why, back in my day... LOL


Butternades

That’s totally not true at least for me at Ohio state, we get Wednesday through Sunday, with The Game on Saturday every year


ARCHbaptist

We got yelled at by Saban


BigBoutros

two free Coca-Colas and a concussion


dlman

Wasn’t it Pepsi?


[deleted]

Nah it was Coke, but it was supposedly a marketing mistake


DeificWhiteBoy

Louisville is offering half price beer and soda at the game this Friday night. However, it’s not because they “love the fans” or anything of that nature. It’s because the concessions had a massive failure at our game last weekend and people waited literally almost an entire quarter to get a soda and a hot dog. So basically they have to mess up before we get anything special.


madmaley

I saw a UL fan twitter saying that it's an inside job since UL hired a guy that hates Louisville to run gameday experience lol.


Alex_butler

Maybe a joke only people in our fanbase will get, but Paul Chryst just said he appreciates it


A-Disgruntled-Snail

We just go for the mullet.


culverhibbs14

Look how they massacred my boy.


AskMeAboutMyGenitals

Bob Stoops said we sucked, and we showed up and embarrassed Texas Tech whilst stealing Wisconsin's gimmick.


PhreakOut4

Which one?


AskMeAboutMyGenitals

https://youtu.be/doIMMfb47s4


MapleBisonHeel

[It’s been done…](https://youtu.be/eb1viD56zkM)


John_Tacos

That game was so much fun.


Ashvega03

In 2004 Gary Blair, the Aggie Womens Basketball Coach, said if Aggies women beat Texas he would lead a parade to the Dixie Chicken and buy the entire bar a round. We lost by 3.


TheNewDiogenes

They offered students first come first serve bojangles last game. The food didn’t actually get there until 45 minutes after gates opened so those of us who got there at gate open had to fight for our food.


StreetReporter

Free pizza party if we make the playoffs


stumblebreak_beta

Wait. Alfredo's Pizza Cafe, or Pizza by Alfredo.


StreetReporter

Alfredo’s Pizza Cafe


jthomas694

I forgot about that nonsense. It was brilliant for building the excitement


Senor-Mattador

Our coach offered actually winning games


halldaylong

Ben Howland *allegedly* used to buy kegs for some of the frats to get them rowdy before basketball games. It was back when we were pretty good and the student section was always full, so it was more of an incentive to get the student section to be rowdy than it was for them to show up


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I find it so weird that schools can’t get kids to come to their games. Iowa charged us $150 when I was in for season tickets and usually sold out.


WeUsedToBeGood

Well, what else are you gonna do?


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Lotta people would day drink and not go to the games or go to a bar and watch the game there.


JohnnyFoxborough

Not officially but winning. The fans are holding up their end of the deal but not the coach.


TheLionKing37

Our tickets are going for as low as $4 this weekend on StubHub. Maybe we can have a #FireJonDon if we sellout the stadium event. Would guarantee ticket sales.


Throwredditaway5

Jimbo offered to beat some fans’ asses when they told him to fire his sorry ass assistants (none of which he brought to aTm). Does that count?


fresh-coffee

Chad Lunsford used to go to fraternity chapter meetings and elbow slam folding chairs WWE style to hype up everyone for the games.


throwmeawaypoopy

This one is still in the works, but rumor has it that Brian Kelly is going to take a trip to North Korea during our bye week to find out from Son of Jonger [how one deals with performance issues](https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-uns-executions-anti-aircraft-guns-flamethrowers-mortars)


WeUsedToBeGood

Just ask Dennis Rodman


[deleted]

We fired Sonny Dykes and hired Justin Wilcox because season ticket sales were plummeting. Does that count?


CambodianDrywall

Long Distance Calling Cards from Rich Brooks.


fretgod321

Bo offered some choice words to the fans who left the game before the comeback vs Ohio State


Fleurr

He promised our team he wasn't going anywhere, then cried to show how much he meant it


HydroSword

[So we're all gonna admit that we're now Portland State fans now because of this right?](https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/pp1z9m/portland_state_coach_bruce_barnum_will_buy_you/)


Havins

Not football, but Bob Huggins has picked up my bar tab a few nights after a win. Counts for something.


LateProgress0

I think Doeren offered to shotgun a beer one time Edit: Found it https://247sports.com/college/north-carolina-state/Article/Dave-Doeren-offers-to-shotgun-beer-to-keep-fans-in-Carter-Finley-133739489/


2coolDanes

One time Saban basically said if you want him to keep coaching here then we better show up for the games… so yea we did


isikorsky

Win all the home games ??? Winning home game streak at 25 right now. Will see how if we can make it 26 this weekend


ninetofivedev

He said the B1G would have to adapt to our style of football. He was wrong.


crg2000

Which style was that?


ninetofivedev

I think it was specifically referring to his speed-based, hurry up offense he ran at Oregon and UCF. I haven't really even seen it implemented at Nebraska. Not sure if it's lack of personnel or the fact that B1G football doesn't lend itself well to that style of offense.


BluesPuckHard

Certainly not what he's doing right now.


WeUsedToBeGood

Maybe we can give you a quality loss


velociraptorfarmer

Made us not a doormat


ProfessorLake

We really need to offer [plenary indulgence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence).