Because state playoffs are in there. It makes little sense for a public facility to be in the shape that it's in.
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Every year when I watch the playoffs I'm reminded of what an absolute dump the Dome is. I've seen people with nicer Morton Buildings.
The dome is 100% perfectly fine for high school football.
All the big money Panthers are bigger Hok fans than Panther fans. Actually thatmight be true of any UNI fan bottom up. That’s a tough problem to tackle.
DeKalb at NIU.
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That penalty on SE Valley on that TD run was pretty weak I thought. Took a TD off the board.
The only legit UNI fans I know actually played there during college for Farley (and think he's a massive dooshcanoe but that's another discussion).
It's a public university and lots of in-state kids play college sports there. Not saying it needs to be P5 caliber facility but it should be maintained and improved as necessary, both to keep it safe and to provide a great college athletic experience.
I don't want to muck up this thread but there are a ton of different things pushing and pulling UNI in different directions.
Three Biggest Things: 1) We've only been relevant for 35ish years instead of generations. 2) We kick out teachers and accountants 3) If you thought the Pomerantz years were bad for Iowa State, hoo boy do I have some stories to tell you about what happened to UNI.
If what they showed on the replay was the blind side block it was extremely weak.
This says a lot. Go back now, you would not feel the same way about it. They barely have functional pissers in there to take a leak.
Finals started in '76 -- which I think was the year it opened.
Semis moved there around '96.
Honestly, I don't give a rip what the amenities are like, I just like the fact that the game is played indoors which takes the possibility of poor elements out of the equation. I played in a several playoff games back in the day and the weather was absolutely brutal. My senior year we played in monsoon which completely took away all of our strengths.
I believe there was a huge blizzard that hit most of the state the week before the semis in 93 or 94 that forced all of the eastern teams to play in the Dome and all the western teams played in the DakotaDome in Vermillion.
That was the impetus to move the semifinals indoors.
I like the idea of the Dome but I’m not so big on some semifinals having to be played on Wednesdays now because of how many they have to fit in. It reminds me of the old days where they tried to jam in an extra round of playoffs where the first three games were on a Wednesday, Monday, and the Friday four days after that. With six classes and 12 semifinals, you could do 4 games a day over 3 days. But now they have seven classes and 14 semifinals.
