52,000 reasons to keep the game on campus

[TheBoris]

Everyone DOES understand. Frankly it’s insulting to assert that people disagree with you because we “don’t understand”

Sorry but when the same posters continue to say again and again that we will lose a home game, they do not understand.

 

[FirstDownB]

One more time. Please try to get it into your head this time, OK?

We are not cutting any home games. We will have seven games in Ross-Ade and another game at a so-called neutral site, Lucas.

Ok, everyone look..
Just take the '18 and '19 schedules and put the IU game at a neutral site. That would be your blueprint. You end up with 7 games in Ross Ade in odd years and 6 in even years. So, on average you would lose 0.5 on campus home game per year and gain 1.0 neutral site game. The teams would probably take turns being "home" and "away". So, your average fan / season ticket holder would have access to the same number (7) of home games. What you are losing is having people on campus for the seventh game every other year. What you gain is playing one less true road game every other year. Is that worth having a game in Indy every year? I don't know. Personally, I think it might help Purdue's presence and college football presence in Indy. But I'm not going to argue with anyone about it. Just use the right numbers.

 

[RegionWarrior101]

Colorado and Colorado St aren't in the same conference and never have been.

Yes, so to get them to play they worked out a deal to play at a neutral site every year.

 

[JohnnyDoeBoiler]

Prof E, there are three options here:

(1) Status quo, playing on a ghost town campus every Turkey weekend.
(2) Playing six home games in WL and the Bucket game in Indy every year.
(3) Moving the schedule back one week and playing the Bucket game on the weekend before Thanksgiving as was done for a century + ten years.

None of those options are dumb, foolish, silly, or absurd. All of them are quite reasonable. The issue is, what is in the best long-term interests of Purdue football? Perhaps we could discuss it without ridicule.

1. The campus was far from a ghost town this weekend. The stadium had nearly or over 50k...the second most for any game this season.
2. You are giving IU an overwhelming ability to turn that game in to what would amount to a home game every single year. Indy is IU country and until Purdue can make the rivalry overwhelmingly theirs again...it'll remain that way for football.
3. The reason the schedule had to be extended is because of the addition of the conference championship game along with adding of the 9th conference game. The conference isn't going to alter it's schedule just to make to peons in the conference happy...sorry, but unless it was OSU/Michigan clamoring for a change, it isn't going to happen.

 

[RegionWarrior101]

Ok, everyone look..
Just take the '18 and '19 schedules and put the IU game at a neutral site. That would be your blueprint. You end up with 7 games in Ross Ade in odd years and 6 in even years. So, on average you would lose 0.5 on campus home game per year and gain 1.0 neutral site game. The teams would probably take turns being "home" and "away". So, your average fan / season ticket holder would have access to the same number (7) of home games. What you are losing is having people on campus for the seventh game every other year. Is that worth having a game in Indy every year? I don't know. Personally, I think it might help Purdue's presence in Indy. But I'm not going to argue with anyone about it. Just use the right numbers.

Well Boris says we get 7 home games PLUS a neutral site game EVERY year. So there is no 6 games, per him.

I think for Purdue to have a presence in Indy = win. Indy is what it is and I would almost rather have a presence in the donut around Indy than Indy itself.

 

[FirstDownB]

Well Boris says we get 7 home games PLUS a neutral site game EVERY year. So there is no 6 games, per him.

I think for Purdue to have a presence in Indy = win. Indy is what it is and I would almost rather have a presence in the donut around Indy than Indy itself.

In a few years Carmel HS will probably build a stadium that puts LOS to shame!