Yet we still sell out home games. Just because we have a large national fanbase

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Oct 28, 2024
10:48:59am

kaladin58 Contributor

doesn't imply that we don't travel well.

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kaladin58

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Author

Time

Listen to this crowd.

Abe Froman

10:34am

Warms my heart

Coog4Life

10:35am

I saw some guy on Twitter rejecting the notion that BYU travels well because most fans at away games live close by 😂

cheezedawg

10:35am

he's not entirely wrong....

LeonMarek

10:37am

Yes he is. Getting a lot of fans at away games is the very definition of a team traveling well. BYU travels well.

cheezedawg

10:39am

but isnt "travels well" implied to mean that the core fanbase travels to the

LeonMarek

10:41am

It means the team travels well, not the fans. If the team draws a lot of fans to its away games, it travels well.

byujacob

10:43am

THIS

Knight-who-says-ni

11:38am

The announcers never seem to use the term in that way

ColonelMustard

1:44pm

There's no other way to define it. Unless they poll the opposing fans about how far they traveled to get to the game

byujacob

2:21pm

The fanbase travels well, whether that is “local fans” or fans traveling from elsewhere in the USA. I would say

Littlerich

10:44am

The entire nation is our home base

rcbyufan

10:46am

The World is Our Campus

BYU Grounds

1:18pm

*The world is our home field

El Jefe

1:27pm

Every fan "travels" to a stadium, regardless of where they live . . .

BlueDiver

1:40pm

Yet we still sell out home games. Just because we have a large national fanbase

kaladin58

10:48am

A distinction without a difference

Iman23

10:50am

THIS, everything else is semantics

here's to hoping

12:35pm

Me and my group fly out of utah to multiple away games per year and know of many

bornbyu93

11:24am

Yet if my schedule didn’t put my

Weagle Coug

12:24pm

A lot of us still travel a ways to get to games when BYU comes, even if it is

SoBlueitHurts

12:45pm

They don't all travel from Provo, but it's not like they're all in Orlando

NOCAL_YFAN

10:39am

This. At a lot of away games, people will travel 2-6 hours to go to the game

AFewThoughts

10:48am

This. At GA Southern, we were surrounded by people from like 8 different states

cajuncoug

1:08pm

Doesn't matter how far they travel. From Utah Co or across town, it's all visitors at an away game.

Soupie

10:47am

I get that they aren't all traveling from Provo. But most teams that "travel

cougarfan84

10:52am

Good mix this game, locals + Utah travelers like my clan, met all sorts -Alaska

DoctorEvil

10:58am

Fans in the stands that drown out the locals...

TailgateU

11:15am

It would be good to know the %'s of "traveling" fans from top teams including ND

Ripliancum

11:24am

RE: I saw some guy on Twitter rejecting the notion that BYU travels well because

dfudge

12:03pm

Bring it to utah next weekend

chismoso

10:36am

Cougar Nation was awesome

LV Mike

10:36am

My son brought a football to get signed by players. I totally rolled my ankle when I didn't notice it under the bench

durandal

10:41am

does that mean he can have your doctor sign it too?

Pangare

11:34am

RE: My son brought a football to get signed by players. I totally rolled my

yahtzee

2:09pm

I was there! 20 of Kerms and Crimedogs and Cougz family had an amazing time!!

kerm

10:42am

That boy can scamper!

Plantagenet

11:46am

My family was at least 0.05% of that noise.

BamaCoug

12:23pm

I contributed.

Carnac

12:29pm

Me too-though I wasn’t at the game😉

kC Cougar

1:53pm

So you yelled at the tv like I did?

squidmark

3:05pm

They didn't show many wide crowd shots (maybe empty stadium?), but sounded BYU

NYC and Japan

1:38pm

Early they showed the student section, but they did not seem to care much about

SoBlueitHurts

1:41pm

Lots and lots of student section shots of costumes. Very few, if any, wide shots

NYC and Japan

2:02pm

I think the SS was the only place with enough fans making noise they wanted to

SoBlueitHurts

2:10pm

Hey recruits, want a home crowd at away games? #PROvo

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