I'd write something sarcastic but I remember feeling just like this in 2003/2004. I had a field pass for the OU Sooners game and I walked to the car and started the drive home before halftime.
Cyclone Nation ALL IN!!!
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I'm hoping this is not how our team feels. We need more True "pretty big fans". Hopefully we can get a win next weekend and yo will turn around.
This. I'll be at the stadium, cheering on the team. Last time maybe ever for aTm to show up at the Jack. That's motivation enough for me. The team will get better and the crowds will be there. In the meantime, I'm sure we can keep that total over 40,000, maybe even 45000.
37k season tickets + their allotment + homecoming bump + beginning of 3 game mini-pack
Damn near impossible for us to sell less than 40k. Id bet the number will be somewhere around 50k.
I got tickets for free to ISU vs Nebraska in 1992 because my roommate's brother thought exactly like you do in this post. For FREE! I sat in the student section (second row upper deck, near the 45 yardline), with two Husker fans behind me the whole time (lots of guts being in the student section on their part) and they were always making comments about how the Huskers were going to beat us and ISU showed up and pulled off a miracle with a third-string QB who threw maybe 3 passes all game long. I also went to Lincoln for the 9-7 victory there, and paid my money to sit in the midst of the sea of red, wearing my ISU gear the whole time. Loved hearing that ISU fight song after the game in Memorial Stadium. You don't get to see that stuff staying home...
Where would I be if I gave up on ISU after a few beat-downs? Same place a lot of the fair-weather fans will be, home watching the Hawks play a cup-cake schedule on BTN or watching Chizik and co on CBS. I'm all-in already, and headed to JTS on Saturday, win or lose.
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I hear you, but what do you think actual attendance will be? I'm going to say 45,000, but I hope we get a surprising total.
Homecoming game, National Tv, Last time aTm steps foot in JTS. I'm really hoping fans show up and can at least get 50K+
Completely agree. I don't have the stats but I think if you look throughout history ISU fans have shown up time and again to see bad football and they know they are going to see bad football - yet we come out supporting our school. As far as I am concerned the fact we average over 40k for many years now with really not much to show for it and a small fanbase says a lot. We are THE FEW - THE Proud - THE CYCLONES!
I have a wedding Saturday at 1 and the reception at 6. Had Iowa State shown an effort in any of the last three games I'd probably go out of my way to haul *** up to Ames and back in between the two events. As it is, probably not worth the trouble. Passing my seats on for this one.
I have no Idea why we dont when I lived in Southern Iowa I didnt make it to every game because I was either to young to drive all the way to Ames or didnt have the gas money to make the trip but now that I live in Ankeny for the last two year I have made it to every home game even if the team was not playing so hot. So to me there is no reason not to be there if you are a fan of this team.
And that is why you suck. You will probably watch from home the rest of the year too huh?
We get six or seven home games a year. This year it is six. How many of us, from December to August, can't wait to get back to Ames to see a football game? What else are you going to do on a home game Saturday? Spend it with 50,000 of the best fans in the nation! I cannot understand those that **** and moan and say they will not attend because the team does not hold up to "their" expectations. I will be there supporting the University that I love and the Cyclones!
We'll have the core fans we always hve. The problem is, the last couple of weeks is exactly why we only have that core group of 30,000 - 36,000 fans. This happens year after year after year. Without at least being competetive, you are never going to get beyond the people who have a deep love for ISU athletics. A lot of people here love to make fun of the Hawkeyes for having a bunch of fans that never went to school there. Well, the joke is on us I'm afraid. All we had to do was keep the last three close and I think you get the outsiders looking in thinking this is a team I could support. Instead, we get the typical, "Meh, another ISU football team."
