Ticket Sales and Attendance
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I hope our 50k streak doesn't break this season, I think we are something like 37 games long in it. We could always pull a Nebraska though and just lie about it.
Most likely the 50k streak will fall this year.
And yeah, no season ticket release that i know of. Cant imagine it was good. Combine the last couple years' results, with the fairly lackluster schedule this year (@ iowa, 2 home games in september, 3 games in november with one more on oct 29) so even for tailgating its a ****** schedule. I know of at least 4-5 tickets season that were dropped.
And yeah, no season ticket release that i know of. Cant imagine it was good. Combine the last couple years' results, with the fairly lackluster schedule this year (@ iowa, 2 home games in september, 3 games in november with one more on oct 29) so even for tailgating its a ****** schedule. I know of at least 4-5 tickets season that were dropped.
Attendance had to have been affected by all the lots being closed this weekend.
I think the heat had some impact yesterday. I forgot sunscreen and the left side of my face and neck is really bad. I will say attendance was really disappointing though.
The attendance overall at other schools including pros seem to be waning as fewer millenials care as much as the oldtimers. Like golf.
Yeah, there was a lot of empty seats.
I upgraded my seats and they're awesome. On the east side, under the upper deck. We were in the shade and had a nice cool breeze all game. The view is pretty good as well. I'm not moving.
I upgraded my seats and they're awesome. On the east side, under the upper deck. We were in the shade and had a nice cool breeze all game. The view is pretty good as well. I'm not moving.
The crowd looked pretty good on TV!
Compare our crowd to the crazy number of empty seats at TCU for our game, and even Baylor looked weak on attendance for the OSU game, a large area in the upper deck was almost empty.
Compare our crowd to the crazy number of empty seats at TCU for our game, and even Baylor looked weak on attendance for the OSU game, a large area in the upper deck was almost empty.
There were single game tickets available in most of the back third of most upper deck sections before this game. That is at least 5000. And we didn't resell very many in the visitors section. That is at least another 2000. And some of the seats not available as single game tickets for this game were taken in mini-packs. If you don't count them as season tickets, that would be another 1000 or so. Hillsides probably are counted as season tickets because they are good for all games.
Thus, based only on some very quick and dirty math, I would estimate that we sold a max of 42,000 season tickets.
Thus, based only on some very quick and dirty math, I would estimate that we sold a max of 42,000 season tickets.
A lot of people were also dealing with cleaning up flooding or preparing for flooding to come.
The crowd largely stayed to the end too. I barely noticed the typical 4th Quarter streams of people flowing out. Kudos to the fans.
Don't want to blame youngster, but this is the reason why ISU's expansion was a head scratch for many of us. It certainly went against the trend.
Still, I said to my wife, while watching your game, "My gosh, look at how they support their team." So yes, it looked almost full on TV; at least the first part which we watched.
Mini-packs only included the games of Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and West Virginia.
I do think that flooding might have kept a few people at home. I would agree with you on your estimate of season tickets sold. But IMO, we probably sold at least 42,000 and maybe a max of 44,000 or so. At any rate, it was a decent crowd for a winless home team playing a no name opponent.
The lower level was pretty full including Hill Sides. The visitor section was empty outside of three rows of SJSU fans. Most of the upper levels had at least 1/3 seats empty near the tops. I guess that I like the hot weather games far more than the freezing games.
If you've ever been to the stadium, you'll see why the expansion was NOT a head scratcher. If attendance never increases, the stadium still looks more big time and it matters just as much if not more what the stadium looks like empty (when recruits visit) as it does on game day.
Can't underplay how much the grass lots being closed effected the number of people in town for the game. I had many friends who didn't come up because they didn't know where to tailgate without the grass lots.
Iowa State needed to expand the stadium. It really was a no brainer. Jack Trice really only had about 45,000 or so seats with the remaining spots on the 4 hillsides holding 10,000 fans. We now hold over 61,000 with the 2 remaining hillsides. And have about 56,000 or so seats.
When we get big attendance games we are selling out. And will continually get attendance of at least 50,000 or more. As the team improves, we will continue to get very good attendance. The parking lot situation with all the rain definitely impacted things. And combined with an 11 am kickoff and flooding going on, the attendance was impacted in a negative way.
Good win. The team is improving.
