Student Attendance
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Ha, my son was in the 4th row behind ISUs 2nd half basket. He got his mug on tv quite a bit last night.
The temp dipping below zero for an Iowa State basketball game is a pretty regular phenomenon over the years.
So maybe it’s time to go back to assigned seats? We had assigned seats for the big games only when I was there. Outside of the KU and UI games I think were all GA.
Have assigned seats and track attendance. Freshmen sit in back and you can work your way forward with consistent attendance. If you don’t go to games, you don’t get tickets the following year. It could be similar to season ticket holders where you get a time that you can pick up tickets based on where you were in the pecking order. Pick up your tickets with friends or dorm floors to get tickets together.
It could be done if it is a problem. It seems a bit of effort is better than eliminating this experience for students.
The activity, service, building, and recreation fee is $421.45 or full-time undergrads and grad students. Even vet med students have to pay it.
It's not specifically an athletics fee but it pays for things like access to beyer pool and lied rec as well as intramural offerings. Athletics certainly receives some benefit.
You have to separately purchase an all sports pass ($299) or football only ($175) to get tickets. Olympic sports and women's basketball are open to all students without needing passes
Those are sold to junior cyclone club families. After a week of sales, the leftovers go into general public sales.
I would say lower bowl, then the first 4/5 rows of the upper deck and then sale the rest to the general public as season tickets.
Here’s what I’d do, Jamie can feel free to steal this idea.
I’d offer at least half the upper level student seats to new grads for half price.
When I graduated you could get half price season tickets with a $50 donation level.
Get them in and a big number will probably become regular season ticket holders.
I’d offer at least half the upper level student seats to new grads for half price.
When I graduated you could get half price season tickets with a $50 donation level.
Get them in and a big number will probably become regular season ticket holders.
There were two times during undergrad where I had an exam/mbb game time conflict and the class was set up that you could drop your lowest exam score for the semester. So I skipped the exam for the game, the second time I emailed the TA/Prof beforehand because I found out some get nervous when students don't show up for an exam. Cyclones won both times and I got an A in one course and a B in the other so all is well that ends well.What was the excuse on Saturday?
This is where I like to brag about my friend, who during our freshman year, had a Chemistry test the night of a basketball game. I think the test was scheduled for 6:30-8:30 and the game was at 7. She took the test in 15 or 20 minutes, handed it to the TA who asked her if she was sure she was finished. She was and made it to Hilton right after tip off. She has a successful career despite this
It's long past time to move to a combination merit/claim system for students.
Anyone who buys FB season gets a defined number of points.
Earn additional points for going to other sports (VB, SOC, GYM, WBB, WR, etc.).
More points = earlier chance to claim MBB tickets.
All MBB tickets distributed on a game-by-game basis, 3-7 days ahead of each game.
Ticket cost goes onto the U-Bill when claimed.
Any tickets left unclaimed by a certain time (48 hours prior, for example) go on the market to the general public.
Result:
Build attendance at other sports.
Reward that support by having a better chance to get in to premier MBB games.
Not ending up with hundreds of empty seats for the non-KU/Iowa games.
Anyone who buys FB season gets a defined number of points.
Earn additional points for going to other sports (VB, SOC, GYM, WBB, WR, etc.).
More points = earlier chance to claim MBB tickets.
All MBB tickets distributed on a game-by-game basis, 3-7 days ahead of each game.
Ticket cost goes onto the U-Bill when claimed.
Any tickets left unclaimed by a certain time (48 hours prior, for example) go on the market to the general public.
Result:
Build attendance at other sports.
Reward that support by having a better chance to get in to premier MBB games.
Not ending up with hundreds of empty seats for the non-KU/Iowa games.
Transferring tickets is easy if you know who wants it. I guess when I was there we just dropped our ticket on a table in our dorm hall for anyone who wanted it. They almost always got picked up. The key was to make it simple enough that the ticket holder doesn’t have to do any work.
Is there a ticket waiting list pool that you could just donate your electronic ticket to with one click and not have to find a recipient yourself?
I don't disagree at all. But we are vastly different times than when Orr was here. Students (or any fan) can watch literally every game on some streaming platform. It wasn't that easy 30+ years ago.
They don't. There are plenty of empty seats up there and in the lower bowl they just don't compress.
Honestly this debate has come up again and again over the nearly 2 decades i've been on this site and its always a dumb one. Right up there with people who hate on the band, i consider people who want to cut the students' seating allotment to be ****** college sports fans.
Weren't the games on CBS (or similar) every night 30 years ago?
Edit to clarify - this is in regards to students at the time. The games were televised locally in central Iowa. Watching games then was free on TV.
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The biggest problem with students tickets is they can't be transferred to the general public.
If you could figure that part of it out, there would be no reason to change the amount of available seating. But I guarantee that the general public would buy (and use) a lot of the student seats that don't get used.
If you could figure that part of it out, there would be no reason to change the amount of available seating. But I guarantee that the general public would buy (and use) a lot of the student seats that don't get used.
