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Crowd breakdown at Russell Athletic Bowl

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I was hearing earlier this week about all of these Louisville fans coming to outnumber us, but the ticket sale info doesn't jive. Look at this:

STUBHUB

665 tickets remaining on Miami side, lower level tickets mostly at $100 or more
1,146 tickets remaining on Louisville side, lower level tickets starting at $50

TICKETMASTER

15 lower level seats remaining on Miami side
380 lower level tickets remaining on Louisville side

The evidence from both sites indicates that seats on our side are in much higher demand. The Curatolo-Curran study from a couple of years ago showed that StubHub data was one of the best indicators of actual game attendance.
 
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Just pray its not as "cold" as it was for the 2009 bowl game there. That will empty some of our sidelines
 
Louisville is not going to outnumber us. As I posted in another thread, according to their fans, on their board, they're not traveling to this game like they have to BCS games in the past. They claim say brought 30,000+ to the Sugar Bowl last year (which they likely did) but a lot of their fans are disappointed, and are not making the trip. They'll have a lot of fans, but their fans on their board are predicting 15,000. Maybe as high as 20,000, with some saying as low as 10-12,000. If we base our attendance off of what we had in 2009, I'd say we'll have at least 25-30,000.

If I had to guess, I'd say 25-27,000 Miami and 15-17,000 UL. A couple thousand "neutral" for a total in the mid to upper 40s.
 
Notsince1985 said:
Louisville is not going to outnumber us. As I posted in another thread, according to their fans, on their board, they're not traveling to this game like they have to BCS games in the past. They claim say brought 30,000+ to the Sugar Bowl last year (which they likely did) but a lot of their fans are disappointed, and are not making the trip. They'll have a lot of fans, but their fans on their board are predicting 15,000. Maybe as high as 20,000, with some saying as low as 10-12,000. If we base our attendance off of what we had in 2009, I'd say we'll have at least 25-30,000.

If I had to guess, I'd say 25-27,000 Miami and 15-17,000 UL. A couple thousand "neutral" for a total in the mid to upper 40s.
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He could be dead on here, with all the online chatter
but in ****** bowls and ****** away games Louisville travels very well.....
My guess is they out travel us, close but we shall see,....

cant wait to see some of you folks there...
 
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We had like 25-30,000 for the 2009 game. I don't see us that much less this time around. Remember, there are a lot of Miami fans in Orlando, Tampa and parts of Florida within an hour to 1.5 hours of the game, so it's not really "traveling" for many Miami fans.
 
ball915 said:
Just pray its not as "cold" as it was for the 2009 bowl game there. That will empty some of our sidelines
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****! It may actually empty THE sideline, if you know what I'm sayin'.

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I live in Orlando and that game was not in the 50's against Wisky. For whatever reason it can feel very cold here, even when the thermometer shows it is not. It was in the low 40's that game, I know, I remember that night very well. I work at Disney and I can see the look of shock when the temperature does drop and Yankees and Midwesterner being completely caught off guard by what the thermometer shows and how cold it feels.

Doesnt excuse our play that night and the overall lack of mental toughness by those teams but please, drop the temperature thing. It was cold. It didnt matter.
 
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JefeGringo said:
I live in Orlando and that game was not in the 50's against Wisky. For whatever reason it can feel very cold here, even when the thermometer shows it is not. It was in the low 40's that game, I know, I remember that night very well. I work at Disney and I can see the look of shock when the temperature does drop and Yankees and Midwesterner being completely caught off guard by what the thermometer shows and how cold it feels.

Doesnt excuse our play that night and the overall lack of mental toughness by those teams but please, drop the temperature thing. It was cold. It didnt matter.
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We were there and it dropped actually down to about 38 by the end of the game. We had some souvenir blanket in a backpack I had gotten at Sun Life for donating to something I think the Herald was promoting and my wife and I tried to wrap up in it. The Wisky people were laughing at us all for being so cold and some of them were walking around in short sleeves.
 
Every5Yrs said:
ball915 said:
Just pray its not as "cold" as it was for the 2009 bowl game there. That will empty some of our sidelines
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****! It may actually empty THE sideline, if you know what I'm sayin'.

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That pic was from the Sun Bowl in El Paso not the bowl in Orlando....

El Paso was in the 30s and there was snow on the ground and ice in the stands. I was there...

Orlando was in low 50s down to high 40s by the end.

That pic is from Hyundai a Sun Bowl in 2010
 
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I got very cold at the end of the bowl game with Wisconsin. Dropped into the forties and it was very damp. Growing up in Chicago, I should've been okay with that but I've been down here too long. It was in the 60's as I recall during tailgating.
 
Also, our game with Wisconsin had one of the largest crowds in that bowl game's history (not talking about Cap One) and we were a clear majority. I think the crowd was over 58K. Of that I'd put our number over 35,000.
 
Ha! I just bought 3 of those $100+ dollar tickets on the Miami side, lower level....that's about all they had left.
 
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