CVilleBuff
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More reason for you east coast Buffs to get your asses up there. We are going to outnumber their fans. I just hope it's more than 7 Buffs to 4 UMass fans.
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Looking into the future - UMASS
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I will be there. Plus +8.
BuffNut99
Club Member
Plus +8? You and 8 fatties?
Exactly...it's the only way to go.
FrankRizzo
Active Member
Any ticket details out about this game yet?
Last year they averaged under 16K per game:
http://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/index.ssf/2013/11/umass_football_attendance_watc_3.html
Hmm. Already on par with CSU attendance-wise. Of course Ram fan will tell you that is irrelevant.
So ram fans actually exist on more than one weekend a year and on the internet? I find that hard to believe and will need more evidence before I pay $9.95 for your newsletter.
In recent years, they have also been sighted the week of their CU basketball game. That may be a short-term phenomena, though, based on Miles getting them to the tournament 2 straight years before moving on to the greener pastures of Nebraska basketball. Another losing season this year with another beatdown from CU and they go back to only proving their existence during Labor Day weekend.
But if they can build a new on campus stadium they will average at least 36K.
yeeaaaahhhhhh.... I'm not so sure about that. Moby Arena was 1/4 CU fans when the two teams played in December. There was also a lot of empty seats.
Shhhh! You'll spook them back into hiding.
BuffNut99
Club Member
"The worst non-conference matchup next year"
http://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/index.ssf/2014/06/whats_will_be_the_worst_non-co.html
http://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/index.ssf/2014/06/whats_will_be_the_worst_non-co.html
Go ahead...
It would just be a list of every **** non-AQ team such as south Alabama, Idaho, New Mexico State, etc.
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I hope the writer is correct. Won't be on tv for me, so I just want to see blowout score updates as the Buffs move to 2-0 in front of the however-many thousands of east coast CU fans who get a rare opportunity to see the team play in person.
That game isn't designed to give CU a national stage that Saturday. It's designed to get the Buffs closer to bowl eligibility while giving some fans a game in their area and locking in two future home games as profitable wins.
BuffNut99
Club Member
The writer could have done a little research and answered one of the questions raised in the article ("Why is a power conference team like Colorado travelling nearly 2,000 miles across the country to take on one of the worst teams in the FBS? Seriously, anybody know? This is just a puzzling game to have on the schedule and is certainly an embarrassment for the Buffs") simply by looking at the 2-for-1 nature of the series... Advantage Buffs. But make no mistake, this game was supposed/envisioned to be televised nationally (at least regionally), and meant to be a gathering party for east coast Buffs fans who never get to see the Buffs play, so it is a bit of an inexplicable failure. Advantage fate.
As long as CU gets the win in Mass and gets their "away" part of the contract completed, then I'm all good. I do however agree that this looks pretty small time on our part. I hope we don't see much of this in the future.
Scheduling a one and done with Meatchicken and tO$U are much more small time IMO
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The very fact that the writer asked those questions tells me that even an east coast NFL writer has a better grasp than Bohn of CU's status and the type of scheduling it should do. If UMass would have played in Boulder first and this was a return trip, it would have avoided the superficial analysis a bit. As it is, the writer sees CU traveling across the country to play at UMass without any context of a game having been played in Boulder.
I'll assume that the negotiation went along the lines of UMass struggling to fill its FBS schedule, especially with home games, and Bohn being willing to travel there first in order to get a 2-for-1 that helped fill the difficulties of 4-home-game Pac-12 (with 1 neutral vs CSU) years in which CU had to fill both of the remaining spots to get to 6 games in Folsom.
Won't really argue that. As a whole, it is pretty sad. I'm of the opinion that RG will not allow that trend to continue.
He's probably right. He asks the question as to why CU would travel across the country to play there, but he didn't seem to do much research into the answer, though. He neglected to mention that this was the front end of a 2 for 1 deal. There has to be a "one" in every "Two for One". His premise is correct, though. Nobody outside of the fans of these two teams gives a rip about the game.
You're still whining about a 2-1 deal?
edit: unless you're bitching about the one-off with UM. In that case, I wholeheartedly agree. That was unforgivable.
And as mentioned before it's the one in a two for one that also puts the Buffs in front of a long neglected group of alumni (and yes east coast alumni are allowed to contribute to the university as well.)
It is also being played in an NFL stadium, not some MAC teams 28k home stadium 2 hours from the nearest significant airport.
Now the important thing is that we don't go out there and lay an egg. UMass as a program is about as close as you can get to playing an FCS team without actually scheduling one. Arguably the FCS teams we played last year could be considered their equals on the field so we have to make sure we get a win.
It was a joke. I don't really care strongly either way about this game. But it is a joke that it's not even televised.
If it's not picked up nationally, isn't it the home team that needs to find television distribution? Of course, one would hope that CU would have negotiated a right to secure tv distribution of the game if UMass could not.