I only caught the teaser on the news the other night, but is it true that tickets aren't selling like the proverbial hot cakes that Alamo Bowl officials had hoped and assumed?
ya, an easy win for texas. Colt McCoy will run all over them. I mean Iowa finished off loosing to Minnesota, Wisconson who is good, Northwestern and Indiana.
But I thought all Iowa fans are "diehard" and never bandwagon. Talk about an overrated fan base. Try putting ISU into that Big Ten Bowl tie-in system and imagine our numbers at the last couple Bowl games we would have gone to...
FYI: I attended the Hawks' Orange and Capital One Bowls, and it is absolultely beyond question that there were more Iowa fans at both of them than there are Cyclone fans at their home games at Jack Trice. Hawk fans outnumbered USC fans by 10 to 1 at a minimum and LSU fans by at least 4 to 1. In fact, I would venture to say that more than 30K fans attended both of the pre-game pep rallies held the night before the games. I would only note that I find quite incredible any claim that the Clones would send more fans to a bowl game than they actually have at games in their own backyard.
I would also point out that we have no idea how many Hawk fans will attend the Alamo Bowl game, but I'll bet you'll be quite surprised, considering the "down" season they had.
Cyclonekj, did you create the ISU Superman logo or did you get that from somewhere? I would love to have a T-shirt like that.
FYI: I attended the Hawks' Orange and Capital One Bowls, and it is absolultely beyond question that there were more Iowa fans at both of them than there are Cyclone fans at their home games at Jack Trice. Hawk fans outnumbered USC fans by 10 to 1 at a minimum and LSU fans by at least 4 to 1. In fact, I would venture to say that more than 30K fans attended both of the pre-game pep rallies held the night before the games. I would only note that I find quite incredible any claim that the Clones would send more fans to a bowl game than they actually have at games in their own backyard.
I would also point out that we have no idea how many Hawk fans will attend the Alamo Bowl game, but I'll bet you'll be quite surprised, considering the "down" season they had.
Where did anyone say that ISU would send more fans to a bowl game than they get to their home games?? Everyone knows that Iowa has more fans than ISU so congrats on pointing that out. I was just saying that our recent bowl attendance (which was actually quite good) would have been a lot better had our conference been linked to better bowl games. Try to imagine if Iowa had gone to Shreveport twice in the last few years...I'm thinking they'd have more fans than we got but not by much.
But I thought all Iowa fans are "diehard" and never bandwagon. Talk about an overrated fan base. Try putting ISU into that Big Ten Bowl tie-in system and imagine our numbers at the last couple Bowl games we would have gone to...
I suspect Iowa will come close to selling out its allotment of 11,000 tickets to the bowl game...or rather, I suspect there will be that many Iowa fans at the bowl game.
To the point in bold...ISU in the B10's tie ins the last two years. Last year you would have gone to El Paso or Nashville. Two years ago you would have gone to Nashville or Detroit.