Ya. Baseball and football are complete opposites in that sense. I can hardly watch baseball on TV but being at the park is just awesome.
Williams & Blum today- FB attendance
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These arguments about watching in person vs TV are good ones. Teams, both professional and college, are having trouble luring fans to the game.
Going to open up a can of worms, but the easiest way to help get more butts in the seats is sell alcohol at the game. But I digress
Going to open up a can of worms, but the easiest way to help get more butts in the seats is sell alcohol at the game. But I digress
I agree it would help but the TV timeouts are a massive problem. I really doubt the networks are going to fix it but they're killing the golden goose in so many ways. It's infuriating honestly.
I go to a D3 game or two a year (St Johns) and the games normally start at 1 pm and are over before 4. They flow so nicely.
Simple. It's freaking expensive, and the games are televised. We try to go to one football and one basketball game every year. That's all a lot of people can do.
Same for me with occasional high school games (and obviously less everything including time).
No reviews or super long diliberation over calls, no in between quarters nonsense. Just move on and play.
That’s true if you are going to one game. You are spending more time for basketball if you count over a whole season (just for games)
Was the collective asking for $$ to? There’s more to than the teams record, but to say it has no bearing just doesn’t fly. End of day, many are feeling priced out.
And to be honest, the game day experience inside the stadium isn’t worth it.
This. I could care less about alcohol in the stadium. Too expensive for me.
But…..don’t belly ache about budgets and donations when you are leaving $$ on the table. Everyone (or almost everyone) is doing it. Honor before victory I guess.
Yeah. I’d rather beat G5 teams than lose to them. Why do you think season ticket sales dropped off?
My family never talks about the games they wish the didn’t go to…it’s the games that they missed that always get brought up. My wife, who is not an alum, from IA, etc. still talks about missing the Jack Trice game last year. She is very excited for fireworks and drones this weekend…weather permitting. We make memories every week and you never know when one will be truly special.
Because the world is more expensive than ever and everyone has their limits. No Iowa on the home schedule hurts. It certainly has nothing to do with losing to Ohio and Memphis. Dear God.
I’m an out of state season ticket holder. We regularly bring guests who are blown away by the game day experience. I know several Gopher fans that bought tickets during Covid just to come down and watch college football. We have something special on so many levels but like most things it is taken for granted.
Being at a baseball game is much more enjoyable in person than on tv. It’s the opposite for football imo. Going to tOSU is different because I can ride my bike there, or grab a scooter, or have someone drop me off and pick me up after. Ames is a little different in that you have to drive 40 minutes from DSM or further for a lot of people because not that many people live there. I’ve become a big fan of “tailgating” at the bars or the “fan zones” around the Shoe instead of the parking lot style of tailgating at JTS. I think CyTown is going to move the environment forward in a good way once that gets up and going full steam.
Stop whining. I drive down from Minnesota for every home game.... right as the lots open. It's just a few Saturdays a year. Rain, shine or snow.... I'm there to support the team.
This is my annual comment where I say I hate all forms of video review.
At the Crew game tonight I almost lost my ****. They reviewed everything that didn’t need to be reviewed, and just didn’t review all the things that should have been reviewed. Weird rules around what can and can’t be reviewed, it’s terrible. Of course the MLS has to keep Messi and his band of former Barca senior citizens strong but this was beyond the pale.
I had a whole long post breaking this down but it got deleted without a draft getting saved, but its more than just Iowa.
Our sellouts have all come from 6 opponents
UNI, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas. (which is to say the closest FCS school, the 4 closest FBS schools, and the largest fanbase in the old big 12)
In most of those even years, we have only gotten one of those (Kansas State) and often late enough in the year that attendance falls off due to weather or us simply being bad.
A sellout saturday would be a rather unique event in being against a more distant opponent with a small fanbase.
For further context, here's all-time past Baylor attendance:
1988: 42,913
1997: 34,404
2001: 44,189
2005: 45,992
2009: 42,253
--10 team big 12--
2012: 54,877
2014: 51,776
--new stadium configuration---
2016: 50,842
2018: 53,860
2020: Covid (13,535)
2022: 58,069 (this was our home big 12 opener after starting 3-0)
Even just being near a sellout should be seen as a great attendance when you compare to past attendance vs Baylor.
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Sure, but I don't think that's as much of an issue for people as much as the time commitment on any individual day.
Not to mention the outside of game time is different as well. You can show up to ames 30 minutes before and get into Hilton. Much harder to do that in Jack trice, even if you aren't tailgating. And while there are traffic issues for both, you can be stuck there a lot longer after football.
I feel like this has devolved into a Season Ticket thread when it started out as a why this game isn't sold out yet thread. And every single reason people are listing as to why they don't want to get season tickets is a reason why they should buy tickets to this game.
