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I figure subscription numbers are low ...

I think people assume subscription numbers on Kickoff and the podcast are low, too, but that would be a bad assumption for our site. I don't know if SJU's model is based more around game-day single-game buys or the season ticket.

I am curious how it is actually going.  I'd love to watch on saturday, but there's no way I'm paying to watch a D3 game online, and I'd imagine that the vast majority of non SJU / UST fans are in the same boat, and that a large number of actual fans are unwilling to pay to watch online.

Wonder if they'd ever reverse course?  Hope they don't do the same for basketball...

Honest question on the SJU stream.  I was in attendance for '15 and '16 so didn't watch.  Will the stream be able to handle the expected spike in viewers?  Would like some idea before I plunk down $15.

[jamtod]

I figure subscription numbers are low ...

I think people assume subscription numbers on Kickoff and the podcast are low, too, but that would be a bad assumption for our site. I don't know if SJU's model is based more around game-day single-game buys or the season ticket.

I am curious how it is actually going.  I'd love to watch on saturday, but there's no way I'm paying to watch a D3 game online, and I'd imagine that the vast majority of non SJU / UST fans are in the same boat, and that a large number of actual fans are unwilling to pay to watch online.

Wonder if they'd ever reverse course?  Hope they don't do the same for basketball...

Honest question on the SJU stream.  I was in attendance for '15 and '16 so didn't watch.  Will the stream be able to handle the expected spike in viewers?  Would like some idea before I plunk down $15.

The horse on a treadmill on the SJU campus is going to be working overtime to keep the servers going. Hope they got a good deal on bulk oats.

[AO]

I did a no-no and walked on the field to shake his hand in McMinnville in 2002. He was a tad taken back but smiled and bid me adieu.
I'm glad I did.

I'm glad you caught him.  John couldn't get off the field fast enough after games.

I think John beat 90% of fans out of the stadium at Bethel in 2007, caught a glimpse of him as he zoomed across the pedestrian bridge back to the Robertson Center.  The cold probably only quickened his pace.

[DuffMan]

jamto, aren't you from Iowa?  I would think that you would not be one to cast stones about the "ruralness" of SJU.

[jamtod]

jamto, aren't you from Iowa?  I would think that you would not be one to cast stones about the "ruralness" of SJU.

Yes, I'm quite self-aware. I make as many cracks about trUST funds as I do about backwards Johnnies.

Also, I would say I escaped rural Iowa for civilization, but the highlight of my year is MEA when I take my kids (especially my son who is now 6) to Iowa and we help with harvest, so I'll be pulling a grain cart or riding in a combine in a couple of weeks.

[jamtod]

Anyway, now that I've broken the facade of hatred, back to your regularly scheduled Tommie-Johnnie pissing match (or should the Johnnie go first there since they can actually win at this competition unlike on the football field?)

[mac77]

I'd guess no, Faunch, but that is just a guess.

You think it will be full the night before?

There is no parking by the Power Plant. Do not try to park there!!!

(I thought it was my little secret!)🤣
Go, Johnnies!!

[DuffMan]

The real secret is behind the grounds garage. 

[DuffMan]

Several years ago, I parked over by the House of Prayer and ride my bike across the Watab bridge.  Even that lot was filling up!

[57Johnnie]

Anyway, now that I've broken the facade of hatred, back to your regularly scheduled Tommie-Johnnie pissing match (or should the Johnnie go first there since they can actually win at this competition unlike on the football field?)

The only smack match I ever remember the Johnnies losing was the 2003 semis to the Engineers.
The birth of the Stomp. 
I think you can figure out who won the game though.

[jamtod]

Anyway, now that I've broken the facade of hatred, back to your regularly scheduled Tommie-Johnnie pissing match (or should the Johnnie go first there since they can actually win at this competition unlike on the football field?)

The only smack match I ever remember the Johnnies losing was the 2003 semis to the Engineers.
The birth of the Stomp. 
I think you can figure out who won the game though.

So that was the opposite of 7 out of the last 9 Tommie-Johnnie games, huh?

[Robert Zimmerman]

Author of 2 books, numerous articles, and somewhat scandalous Top 10 Lists in the JWP school newspaper, but this might be my favorite piece of sfury writing.  It is like reading "The Night Before Christmas," every December.  It is not Johnnie-Tommie week until I have reread this post from a couple of years ago:


Johnnie-Tommie week has spilled outside the ring and now the combatants are fighting in the stands! Look out, folks! That's Faunch and USTBench delivering haymakers to each other, one after the other. Faunch is doing it while chewing on a printout of the picture the Tommies took on the 50-yard-line while Bench -- his body covered in grotesque scars left over from the barbs received during the Roney era -- is decking him with a right hand that sports a bracelet reading WWGD. And...what's this, from the locker room we've got Retired Old Rat sprinting out to lend a hand and he's absolutely clobbering Bench from behind with a steel chair, a loaf of Johnnie Bread and a special-edition DVD of the 2003 SJU championship season. Now Reverend and Double O have joined the festivities and they're each carrying large placards that indicate how many girls go to St. John's: Zero. And they're now hitting RoR over the head with the cardboard weapon, and that fascinating fact that may or may not speak to SJU students' orientations.

AO continues to watch the festivities from the announcer's table and is now offering odds on the outcome of the fight.

Pat Coleman watches the brawl via Skype and simply wants to let fans of both teams know he hates both schools and is out to get them.

Duffman contemplates joining the fight, but instead sits back with an imported beer, and loses himself in the memory of the Trinity playoff game in 2002. He weeps.

Touchdown Tommy briefly stops by the broadcasting table to announce that he always liked St. Thomas more anyway and thinks they're going to win the brawl.

Oz Johnnie watches from halfway around the world and compares Bench's fighting technique to a kangaroo and a rugby player no one's ever heard of who died in 1953.

56321 logs in to watch the fight and complains about Faunch's offensive calls and a disturbing lack of intensity on defense. "Someone needs to lose their job," he adds.

Dusty says the entire situation is developing.

Robert Zimmerman says You that build all the bombs, You that hide behind walls/You that hide behind desks/I just want you to know/I can see through your masks and everyone else says, thanks, Bob, but it's 2015 now and, by the way, we couldn't understand you anyway.

105 would like to remind you that on his way to the airport he got his shoes shined by a very nice gentleman who graduated from St. Thomas in 1998. Good kid, seems happy with the gig.

Art76 has just written 2,000 words about a fight coming up next week between Augsburg and St. Olaf.

wildcat11 says the Johnnies could win the fight if they put Blake Elliott in the pistol and just let him do his thing.

And here's Chicago Tommie, he's just driven 12 hours and is yelling at Bench and the other combatants, "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!" Only he includes 15 ellipses and 25 exclamation points.

This could go on for awhile.

[sjusection105]

Author of 2 books, numerous articles, and somewhat scandalous Top 10 Lists in the JWP school newspaper, but this might be my favorite piece of sfury writing.  It is like reading "The Night Before Christmas," every December.  It is not Johnnie-Tommie week until I have reread this post from a couple of years ago:


Johnnie-Tommie week has spilled outside the ring and now the combatants are fighting in the stands! Look out, folks! That's Faunch and USTBench delivering haymakers to each other, one after the other. Faunch is doing it while chewing on a printout of the picture the Tommies took on the 50-yard-line while Bench -- his body covered in grotesque scars left over from the barbs received during the Roney era -- is decking him with a right hand that sports a bracelet reading WWGD. And...what's this, from the locker room we've got Retired Old Rat sprinting out to lend a hand and he's absolutely clobbering Bench from behind with a steel chair, a loaf of Johnnie Bread and a special-edition DVD of the 2003 SJU championship season. Now Reverend and Double O have joined the festivities and they're each carrying large placards that indicate how many girls go to St. John's: Zero. And they're now hitting RoR over the head with the cardboard weapon, and that fascinating fact that may or may not speak to SJU students' orientations.

AO continues to watch the festivities from the announcer's table and is now offering odds on the outcome of the fight.

Pat Coleman watches the brawl via Skype and simply wants to let fans of both teams know he hates both schools and is out to get them.

Duffman contemplates joining the fight, but instead sits back with an imported beer, and loses himself in the memory of the Trinity playoff game in 2002. He weeps.

Touchdown Tommy briefly stops by the broadcasting table to announce that he always liked St. Thomas more anyway and thinks they're going to win the brawl.

Oz Johnnie watches from halfway around the world and compares Bench's fighting technique to a kangaroo and a rugby player no one's ever heard of who died in 1953.

56321 logs in to watch the fight and complains about Faunch's offensive calls and a disturbing lack of intensity on defense. "Someone needs to lose their job," he adds.

Dusty says the entire situation is developing.

Robert Zimmerman says You that build all the bombs, You that hide behind walls/You that hide behind desks/I just want you to know/I can see through your masks and everyone else says, thanks, Bob, but it's 2015 now and, by the way, we couldn't understand you anyway.

105 would like to remind you that on his way to the airport he got his shoes shined by a very nice gentleman who graduated from St. Thomas in 1998. Good kid, seems happy with the gig.

Art76 has just written 2,000 words about a fight coming up next week between Augsburg and St. Olaf.

wildcat11 says the Johnnies could win the fight if they put Blake Elliott in the pistol and just let him do his thing.

And here's Chicago Tommie, he's just driven 12 hours and is yelling at Bench and the other combatants, "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!" Only he includes 15 ellipses and 25 exclamation points.

This could go on for awhile.

Priceless. I'd +K sfury if he would every post again, on the most prolific board on D3Sprorts, while taking a break from yet another book tour 

[faunch]

I figure subscription numbers are low ...

I think people assume subscription numbers on Kickoff and the podcast are low, too, but that would be a bad assumption for our site. I don't know if SJU's model is based more around game-day single-game buys or the season ticket.

It worked well when i watched the Carleton homecoming game and i watched some of it using mobile data.

I am curious how it is actually going.  I'd love to watch on saturday, but there's no way I'm paying to watch a D3 game online, and I'd imagine that the vast majority of non SJU / UST fans are in the same boat, and that a large number of actual fans are unwilling to pay to watch online.

Wonder if they'd ever reverse course?  Hope they don't do the same for basketball...

Honest question on the SJU stream.  I was in attendance for '15 and '16 so didn't watch.  Will the stream be able to handle the expected spike in viewers?  Would like some idea before I plunk down $15.

It worked well when i watched the Carleton homecoming game and i watched some of it using mobile data

[OzJohnnie]

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