What the F are the Yankees going to do? Sign an agreement to have the AAC play the ACC in the Pinstripe instead? Take down the signs that we paid a pretty penny to hang? Schedule Syracuse v BC in their replica instead?
Rutgers is Paying Yankees $70K to Play at Yankee Stadium?
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I have never heard of an agreement in principal with no signed contract that is binding. ND had an agreement in principal with us, then made new onerous demands while negotiating the signed agreement and we told them to pound salt. Shit changes. New info is discovered. Hobbs has the perfect reason to take an out..."I didn't know our loyal alums and fans felt this way, we are going to have to part ways."
I think the Yankees will get over it.
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And that's exactly what Notre Damn did to us, going from a 3-and-3 home series to a 5-and-3 series where our home games were in Giants Stadium
I agree - in the long term who gives a rat's patootie about the former, and the latter to my knowledge is not an issue.
Damnit, get the name right - it's the Steinbrenner Memorial Whorehouse!
"Rest assured that fans' unhappiness with the location change has been heard by the administration. In an NJ.com poll with nearly 1,000 respondents, 80 percent said they would not attend the Rutgers-Maryland game at Yankee Stadium."
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...allen_have_a_legit_shot_to_win_rutgers_q.html
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...allen_have_a_legit_shot_to_win_rutgers_q.html
Apparently Northweastern is looking to go back to Wrigley.
CSN Chicago
RUTGERS LOOKING AT BRINGING FOOTBALL GAME TO YANKEE STADIUM
CSN Chicago
RUTGERS LOOKING AT BRINGING FOOTBALL GAME TO YANKEE STADIUM
Just received my wife's alumni magazine and I see Fordham is doing it this year with Holy Cross for something called the "Ram-Crusader Cup".
http://fordhamsports.com/news/2015/10/16/FB_1016152421.aspx
http://fordhamsports.com/news/2015/10/16/FB_1016152421.aspx
Can we move this game to The Big House and save $60,000?
Who cares about Northwestern and their desperate gimmicks to draw fans to their football games.
Last year Northwestern only averaged 31,000 fans per game and only had 70% capacity.
Rutgers played to 91% capacity last year in High Points Solution despite the collapse under HC Flood.
Call the RU Ticket Office and tell them you want all Home Games in 2017 to be played in High Points Solution Stadium.
This was a solid comment and I feel like it has gone unappreciated.
They want us to consider a serious donation to this program? How about some full disclosure on this to start with? $$$$
I think beer sales at YS might add a bump to the revenue there. So that's one more factor. Not sure how much of a factor, but at restaurants the bar tab makes more money than the food.
Just because I posted the link doesn't mean I think it is a good idea for them or us.
F Yankee Stadium. Bring the game back to campus where Rutgers doesn't have to pay to host a game. Rutgers shouldn't have to pay for home games. If the deal was like the one Rutgers had with MetLife back in 2010, then I'm all for it. In this case the Yankees and those responsible can go pound dirt. Hermman and Flood were idiots to agree to this.
The Parks Department "owns" the parking but they have leased it out to a third party. The company that runs it sold bonds to buy it and had been in default of those bonds from day 1.
Google it.
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This is a home game for us. No reason for Michigan, Penn State, or Maryland to be playing there on their own during the regular season.
I have never seen a bigger bunch of babies in my life! It is one game and some of you are carrying like this is the biggest issue you have in your life. My suggestion to keep your sanity is to get a life and stop worrying about trivial matters like whether RU plays one football game in Yankee stadium. For petes sake!
We have a fan base that acts like non power five at times. Lets focus on recruiting,fund raising..getting the program in postion to win some B10 games..
We will never get to the next level with this type approach from our fan base..IMHO.
We will never get to the next level with this type approach from our fan base..IMHO.
We are a B1G team now. No longer have to play in baseball stadiums. Sometimes administration acts like a non P5. Lets focus on beating a B1G rival at home and not selling our home field advantage to the New York Yankees bottom line. We will never get to the next level with that type of approach...IMHO.
Season tickets holders have a very valid complaint. We are being forced to purchase tickets to a game we do not want to attend. It's not babyish to resent being charged for something you don't want.
How would you react if you went to a movie theater early enough to get really good parking and seats, paid a bunch to see your favorite movie, and then 1/7th of the way through the movie, they told you if you want to see the rest of the movie, you have to get up, drive to some completely different theater you dislike immensely, pay out the ass to park a long way from that theater, sit in seats far enough away and at such an angle that you can barely see the screen, and then you can watch the rest of the movie there?
I'm pretty sure you'd complain.
I purchase season tickets because what I am purchasing is the entire package associated with home games played at HPSS, with great parking, tailgating, seating, etc.
If they want to schedule a home game at Yankee Stadium, I think that sucks for the team, for the program and for the fans, but whatever. Just don't make me pay for it.
funny that all those VT and Vols fans can show up,over 156k strong at a Race track,sit two miles away from field..and not complain.but people here cant travel 19 miles? SMH.
What type of approach? You mean the approach where we don't want to be forced to pay for something we didn't ask for and don't want?
I have no control over recruiting or getting the team in position to win games. I already donate money to the FB program. So I don't have any focus problems.
Seems to me we have an admin that doesn't recognize the reality of it's market when it schedules a home game in a location that over 80% of the fan-base has said they won't attend. The football program is selling a product and we're the customer. Not the other way around.
From a recruiting standpoint, it has to be a benefit to say we played/play at Yankee Stadium. Local recruits and parents might see that as a benefit.
The reality of this market is that 80% of our fan-base doesn't want to watch football games in Yankee stadium. All the head-scratching in the world isn't going to change that fact any time soon.
Also, I wonder if those fans were forced to pay for that game, or if it was an option.
Not if they have heard about or seen the images of RU players having their legs all torn up from the shit turf they have at Yankee stadium.
