Brian Kelly can thank Charlie Weis for being the Notre Dame head coach that saw Notre Dame’s then-record 43 game winning streak over Navy end in 2007. Kelly now owns the distinction of being the Notre Dame head coach who saw the University’s home game sellout streak end though at the hands of Navy. Notre Dame announced on Thursday that after 46 years and 273 consecutive games, this weekend’s top 25 matchup will not be a sellout.
In a statement announcing the streak ending this week, the University cited three November games being a challenge for maintaining the streak this year. But this weekend’s contest features a Navy team ranked in the top-25, meaning that Notre Dame’s sellout streak was able to withstand seasons like 2007 and 2016, but will end in a matchup of top 25 teams.
Notre Dame’s streak of 243 straight sellouts was second all-time to Nebraska’s 373 that is still intact in Lincoln. There are a lot of November games in those 273. There’s a lot of cold-weather games in there too. And, there’s a lot of games that weren’t marquee matchups mixed in there as well. So why is it ending now?
https://www.uhnd.com/football/2019/11/14/navy-ends-another-notre-dame-steak-sellout-streak-ends/ - (
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Sounds like excuses to me...I really do think there is Brian Kelly fatigue.
I can go on Stubhub and get in to the game for 21 bucks.
that's as big a reason as any.
If a season ticket holder gives their tickets away for any particular game of any particular season in any particular sport, and that game is a sellout, is it a sham? Where is the line drawn?
The tickets were sold. The sellout is valid, IMO. If ND were giving the tickets away on their own, different story, but if boosters were buying them because the sellout streak had some value to them, so be it.
That said, if you can't sell out an event where there is some untapped demand simply because you're not willing to drop prices to capture that demand, you're making a conscious choice to not sell the event out.