Colorado Spring Game sold out
The game is scheduled for April 22.
45,000 tickets sold. The previous record attendance was 17,800:
That number of tickets is higher than the average attendance last year of these Pac-12 teams:
It's not a stadium sell out. But that's only because they decided to not open up luxury seating:
Last years attendance was 1,950.
The game will be on ESPN with Chris Fowler and team announcing:
Riveting
Wow. Pretty impressive what his name and swagger can do.
imagine if they had done more than go 1-11 and end at the bottom of the PAC-12 last season...
otoh maybe that's why they're grasping for anything to get excited about
Hype:
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extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion.
I expected Colorado to have a bigger stadium than 50,000. That's less than Purdue and IU.
It's small, but it's a pretty nice stadium. The backdrop of the flatirons is very picturesque.
March 31st, 2023 at 12:01 PM ^
The Bolder Boulder 10K race on Memorial Day typically includes about 50K runners. It is staged according to ability and ends as you run into this stadium and are given a lunch bag. You can then sit in the stands (appropriate for 50K runners of course) and await the entrance of the fastest stage. It is very cool to have a near-capacity crowd to welcome the best runners. Also a beautiful location, perhaps the only one better than the Rose Bowl (though half the size). Fun to be there!
I can see Mork.
I’ve been there, place is kind of a dump. Great views though.
Fuck yea!
March 30th, 2023 at 11:04 PM ^
I 100% approve of this message 🥃🥃
March 30th, 2023 at 11:26 PM ^
Bourbon is not the beverage of choice in Colorado.
March 30th, 2023 at 11:51 PM ^
I guess I am glad I don't live in Colorado......
Although I understand it is a beautiful state 👍
March 31st, 2023 at 12:14 PM ^
The only reasons to be happy you don't live there is the distance to Michigan Stadium and the cost of housing. You've got to spend nearly a $1mm for a fixer-upper. Yet, there are many moving there. I get the idea that there are quite a few from California going there to escape even higher housing costs and all the other BS that's going on there, especially due to availability of remote jobs.
A million for a fixer upper? Not quite.
Neither is that.
Go Buffs
OP---Wouldn't just a tweet or two suffice?
Shhh it’s Zeke man that’s his thing
OP's trying to be a model citizen for those who struggle with embeds.
Just peacockin
or, preferably, none at all.
Chris Fowler, eh? Hard pass I’m afraid
He's an alum, which is the only reason he's doing this.
They should have a Fowler Klatt crossover booth.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:23 PM ^
I might tune in just to hear what RGIII says.
March 30th, 2023 at 11:48 PM ^
*Butthead voice* hehe, hehe, he said boner.
I was like, Michigan is playing Colorado Spring. I better look into tickets on stubhub because we want to take our boys and some nephews this fall. Then I clicked. I fell for it.
March 31st, 2023 at 12:17 PM ^
Air Force is the team in Col Springs! Another beautiful and meaningful place to see a game in the fall, except that the stadium is awash in advertising including the PA announcer during the game talking about first downs and QB sacks sponsored by whomever. I found that ridiculous! Fun to see the cadets marching around and ending up in the stadium in the adjoining section.
Primetime spring game...a bit much but when you got Deion I get it.
We had a Friday evening Spring Game a few years back, which was doubly odd.
Why are they referring to them as the Huskers?
OP fucked up and added similar tweet in the middle about Nebraska spring game, confusing them with Colorado.
Easy to do, considering they both suck in a big way.
That appears to be shared for context based on the preceding sentence:
That number of tickets is higher than the average attendance last year of these Pac-12 teams:
What's funny is that I think we'd rather have CU in the B1G instead of Nebraska now. I highly doubt it, but I wonder if Coach Prime could make Colorado (and the Denver TV market) a fringe possibility for B1G expansion.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:26 PM ^
Colorado is an AAU member, IIRC. Nebraska - is not.
March 30th, 2023 at 11:58 PM ^
Why? Matt Rhule is a good coach, Nebraska is old school big ten. Deion will either flame out gloriously or leave CU after he has succeeded and they will torpedo again. Whatever he is building there won’t last long, one way or another.
"...Nebraska is old school big ten."
Umm, what? As far as the "old school" Big Ten goes, Nebraska is not part of it. It is a 'Johnny come latey' program - the Big Ten has been a thing since 1896, and Nebraska joined in 2012.
Aside from that, your post is spot on - if CU's flame gets really hot in the next few years, it'll burn out soon after Prime Time takes over something bigger. It's a beautiful location, but it's not a 'football school'...
March 31st, 2023 at 10:07 AM ^
He means in style and atmosphere. That they are.
March 31st, 2023 at 10:22 AM ^
Seems like he's going to have a couple of great years at Colorado, and then will end up at Floroda St. He is one of the superstars in the history of Florida St .it would probably be bigger for him to coach at Florida St than for what Jim Harbaugh has been for Michigan .
March 30th, 2023 at 10:31 PM ^
Actually, it appears that the point of the tweet was to list the Pac-12 teams who averaged fewer than 45,000 fans per game last year. A less than astute reader might have drawn the same conclusion that you did, considering that the tweet was about Nebraska and Colorado was included in the list. A careful reader would notice that the 45,000 figure is common to both NU and CU, and that OP's statement was correct.
Imagine the hype train when they get that 4th win to end the season 🤩
You're probably right on only 4 wins this season, hell I'd say maybe even less.
But I'll bet ya a beer or ten Deion will have this team turned around within 3 years, maybe even 2 more years.
Kids WANT to play for this man.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
Why are you all shitting on the guy?
FFS, Colorado was 1-11 last year and 11 of those loses weren't even fucking competitive.
If Colorado wins 4 games this year, that would be a HUGE improvement.
Fuck this board sometimes.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:25 PM ^
And 11 of the losses weren’t competitive… touché…
Prime does move the needle.
But it's not a culture fit and it won't last.
Enjoy the spectacle for now because he won't be there in a few years. He'll either say or do something that will shock the delicate sensibilities of the Boulder crowd, or he'll flame out against the unreal sky high expectations that he himself created.
^^^ This ^^^