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I'm not sure whether to post this here or in the Globetrotting forum, but I figure this will reach more football fans.
As you can tell from my sig pic, I'm an OSU Buckeye fan. I really want to take DD to a "real college football" experience, and Camp Randall is one of those places I've always wanted to see a game. So I'm looking at driving to Madison this fall for the OSU-UW game.
Here's my Q -- is it even possible to get Badgers football tix in a secondary market? Without paying an arm and a leg?
The OSU alumni assn only lets me buy two tickets and I need 3, so I have to look elsewhere for tix. If tickets are darn near impossible to find, or ridiculously expensive, I'll plan something else for the long weekend from school. I'd just like to know before I invest too much time, energy and anticipation in planning this trip to Madison.
Don't have faith that Gophers new stadium will provide a "real college football" experience?
I have no idea, as well, where to look for Badger ticket outside of the UW ticket office. The UW website says that single-game Big Ten tickets go on sale on August 9.
I would say take her to the UM-OSU game if it was in Ann Arbor. The way UM program has been going, tickets should be easily available and cheap.
I used to live in Madison. My XH is a UW alum. As I recall it was fairly easy to get tix in a secondary market. I don't know how much those tix went for. It has been over ten years since I lived there, so I am not sure if things have changed.
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Don't have faith that Gophers new stadium will provide a "real college football" experience?
Last year, you couldn't touch a ticket for the new stadium.
We've been to a couple of MN-OSU games at the Metrodome. I think you understand my issue. DH says MN gets way too excited over a mere first down, and DD thinks the Buckeyes always win easy.
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I would say take her to the UM-OSU game if it was in Ann Arbor. The way UM program has been going, tickets should be easily available and cheap.
Love it! We saw Santa at Epcot in Dec and DD told him that her mom wanted a contract extension for Rich Rodriguez. I've created a monster! Besides, DBIL is another Buckeye and his wife's family is full of Spartans. No one in the family would speak to me if we spent money in Ann Arbor.
Seriously, though -- The Big House is on my college football wish list, but it's a bit too far to make it back for school on Monday. (The long weekend is Thurs-Fri). Madison is much more do-able. Iowa is another possibility but the Buckeyes don't play there over MEA break.
I have no idea, as well, where to look for Badger ticket outside of the UW ticket office. The UW website says that single-game Big Ten tickets go on sale on August 9.
Which I guess may bring up Question #2 -- is this an option I can expect to use?
I know that at the Shoe, single game public tickets are a theory not a reality.
Last year, you couldn't touch a ticket for the new stadium.
We've been to a couple of MN-OSU games at the Metrodome. I think you understand my issue. DH says MN gets way too excited over a mere first down, and DD thinks the Buckeyes always win easy.
I've been to Michigan-Minnesota game at the Metrodome and hated. I had to leave early because Minnesota's band played constantly the noise just bounced around the dome. It reached the point where that was all I heard.
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Love it! We saw Santa at Epcot in Dec and DD told him that her mom wanted a contract extension for Rich Rodriguez. I've created a monster! Besides, DBIL is another Buckeye and his wife's family is full of Spartans. No one in the family would speak to me if we spent money in Ann Arbor.
Tell her not to get hopes up. I wished for years for John Cooper to get a contract extension and was never rewarded.
Don't worry, UM will still be down for a few years after Rich Rodriguez is fired. The NCAA will make sure of that. I wish UM had never hired him. He only looks out for himself and his current job is just a stepping stone for next job. He's a used car salesman.
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Which I guess may bring up Question #2 -- is this an option I can expect to use?
I know that at the Shoe, single game public tickets are a theory not a reality.
I would say that Camp Randall sells out just as easily as the Shoe so it's more in the theorical than the actual but it's an option.
At Michigan, it's not even an option. There is no way to get single-game tickets from the university unless that single-game is a directional Michigan or a I-AA school. If you wanted single-game tickets to a game like Wisconsin, they would make you buy tix to the game against the aforementioned directional Michigan.
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I grew up in Madison and either my parents would get tickets from season ticket holders or I had student friends who would get them for me. I do know that the OSU game will be a harder one to get tickets for. It usually a big game, if you go to one game a season as a Badger fan this is the one. I can say that it is a very cool experience to go to a game in CR and the whole campus and non-campus area around the stadium is into it. Lots of food, red and white everywhere, tons of energy and excitement. I hope you and DD can go.
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Love it! We saw Santa at Epcot in Dec and DD told him that her mom wanted a contract extension for Rich Rodriguez. I've created a monster! Besides, DBIL is another Buckeye and his wife's family is full of Spartans. No one in the family would speak to me if we spent money in Ann Arbor.
experience to go to a game in CR and the whole campus and non-campus area around the stadium is into it. Lots of food, red and white everywhere, tons of energy and excitement. I hope you and DD can go.
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