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cuervo72 · 10-02-2021, 10:10 AM

Yeah, we were at the Purdue/Illinois game last weekend. Illinois! Purdue! (Capacity all of 52k or so.) The normal student section was packed, and they started looking for seats where we were sitting, which I guess they all assumed was a continuation of the student section (it was not). It was absolutely mobbed, nobody was sitting down, constant stream of students in some stage of drunkenness coming up and down the stairs. Here's a hint: if throngs of people are coming DOWN the stairs because they couldn't find seats, it's a good bet that YOU WON'T FIND SEATS EITHER.

We were on the aisle, maybe three rows up from (basically right behind) a landing behind a tunnel in from the concourse. People stood there, too. Many tried to claim seats next to the group in front of us, which many times had to testily tell students that no, these were THEIR seats (whole group wasn't yet there), GO AWAY.

Eventually they had to get some folks from security/fire to get people off the stairs, off the landing, and to go to another student section more towards the end zone. Then it was a little bit better. But we basically couldn't see any action the whole first quarter, had to catch it on the jumbotron.

10-02-2021, 10:10 AM	#471
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Yeah, we were at the Purdue/Illinois game last weekend. Illinois! Purdue! (Capacity all of 52k or so.) The normal student section was packed, and they started looking for seats where we were sitting, which I guess they all assumed was a continuation of the student section (it was not). It was absolutely mobbed, nobody was sitting down, constant stream of students in some stage of drunkenness coming up and down the stairs. Here's a hint: if throngs of people are coming DOWN the stairs because they couldn't find seats, it's a good bet that YOU WON'T FIND SEATS EITHER. We were on the aisle, maybe three rows up from (basically right behind) a landing behind a tunnel in from the concourse. People stood there, too. Many tried to claim seats next to the group in front of us, which many times had to testily tell students that no, these were THEIR seats (whole group wasn't yet there), GO AWAY. Eventually they had to get some folks from security/fire to get people off the stairs, off the landing, and to go to another student section more towards the end zone. Then it was a little bit better. But we basically couldn't see any action the whole first quarter, had to catch it on the jumbotron. __________________ null Last edited by cuervo72 : 10-02-2021 at 10:10 AM.