[82lsju]

A guy I’ve known for a long time who works for the Redbox people and who works in other press boxes told me that the bowl wanted nothing to do with Stanford.

Yes the Foster Farms/Redbox organizer's disappointment with our 2014 appearance at their bowl has been well documented.  What is unclear is why; I believe CTCard posted information suggesting attendance at that bowl was higher for the Stanford-Maryland game than for games before or after.  I'm not sure if that has to do with inflated expectations of the local school going to the bowl, or if the AD did something to piss them off.

BC

attendance the last five years (likely tickets sold)

2013    34,136
2014    34,780
2015    33,527
2016    27,608
2017    28,436

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbox_Bowl

I would guess we are also less attractive as a fair number of the Stanford attendees in 2014 probably lived locally so no bump in hotel or other tourism related spending

[82lsju]

A guy I’ve known for a long time who works for the Redbox people and who works in other press boxes told me that the bowl wanted nothing to do with Stanford.

Yes the Foster Farms/Redbox organizer's disappointment with our 2014 appearance at their bowl has been well documented.  What is unclear is why; I believe CTCard posted information suggesting attendance at that bowl was higher for the Stanford-Maryland game than for games before or after.  I'm not sure if that has to do with inflated expectations of the local school going to the bowl, or if the AD did something to piss them off.

BC

attendance the last five years (likely tickets sold)

2013    34,136
2014    34,780
2015    33,527
2016    27,608
2017    28,436

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbox_Bowl

I would guess we are also less attractive as a fair number of the Stanford attendees in 2014 probably lived locally so no bump in hotel or other tourism related spending