For the 2 percenters

[Army of Dad]

Just now, bstnsportsfan3 said:

I am a retail manager, in the middle of Christmas/new years season and my busiest month of the year and i managed to talk my boss into giving me the day off. If you WANT to make the game, you will. GMG!

Only 363 more days until Christmas 2017.

[UNTFan23]

1 minute ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

I am a retail manager, in the middle of Christmas/new years season and my busiest month of the year and i managed to talk my boss into giving me the day off. If you WANT to make the game, you will. GMG!

Glad you're able to make it!

[bstnsportsfan3]

Just now, Army of Dad said:

Only 363 more days until Christmas 2017.

Dont even joke with me like that :P

[PlummMeanGreen]

55 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

I am a retail manager, in the middle of Christmas/new years season and my busiest month of the year and i managed to talk my boss into giving me the day off. If you WANT to make the game, you will. GMG!

SUPER!  We applaud you, bstnsportsfan3! 

Having Army in this game to the many of us who call themselves patriots actually makes this game even more special.  (No, I will not break into a verse of "It's A Grand Ol' Flag".........yet). 

GMG!

[TIgreen01]

I didn't read every post in this thread...but you have to admit that the folks who decided that putting these two teams back together for a rematch wildly missed the mark.  Maybe it was all that was left and we got it by default?

The New Years date GREATLY helped our attendance in 2014 and the so close to Christmas date, 5-7 and rematch are going to really work against us having a repeat of 2014.  I don't think that says anything horribly bad about our fan base to any bowl committees if we don't bring 38k fans back out this year.  I think our New Orleans Bowl attendance in the early aughts and 2014 HOD speak for themselves.  UNT fans support good teams in bowl games.  We've demonstrated that repeatedly now.  This UNT team isn't very good and the opponent is an absolute whiff (no disrespect to Army as I believe that if this was the 1st time we faced them this year it would be a GREAT opponent).  I think we drew 18-20k in Texas Stadium when we last played Army there in the 90s in the regular season.  They don't travel particularly well, but maybe they'll do better for a bowl game?  Either way, I expect attendance numbers in the same ballpark for this one.  And it WILL NOT kill our reputation.  

I went to the Alamo Bowl back when RG3 won the Heisman.  The University of Washington was the opponent and they could not have had more than 5k there--and that's giving them a lot of credit.  That was in a tourist town and for a P5 team that's supposed to travel.  Lots of P5 teams don't travel to bowls as well as we've demonstrated that we do.  By comparison we always brought at least 2-3 times that amount (in actual butts) every time we traveled to New Orleans.  Before you say that New Orleans is a better destination, just look at the opponent attendance at every New Orleans bowl we played in.  We ALWAYS outdrew the opponent.  So, I don't buy that this is the end of the world for UNT.

All that said, it undoubtedly makes us look all the better if we somehow bring 25k+ to support a 5-7 team, against a rematch opponent that we spanked, and 2 days after Christmas.