I agree with this just because of the optics, but you have to remember those 2 games bring a disproportionate amount of visiting fans.
Crowd For Saturday
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I agree with this just because of the optics, but you have to remember those 2 games bring a disproportionate amount of visiting fans.
My DD is a student at ISU. She says that student tix for TCU are currently going for around $40 and there aren’t many available. She bought student tix to the Kansas game for $10. She’s kicking herself for not getting student season tickets.
Your designated driver?
Does it help that if I go to Cyclones.com and attempt to purchase single game tickets for TCU, I get an error?
Error 401 Not allowed
Or that single game tickets are not listed as purchase choices within my university account page?
Edit to note ... could be my employer's network security blocking me. Oops.
Error 401 Not allowed
Or that single game tickets are not listed as purchase choices within my university account page?
Edit to note ... could be my employer's network security blocking me. Oops.
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I've been to nearly every home game for the last 17 years and I completely disagree. Staying home does not necessarily mean you are not a good fan. Everyone's circumstances are different. You just better not ***** about attendance or the crowd behavior in general if you aren't going to games.
Just bought 3 of the 60 dollar tickets. pretty excited for Sat.
Being a college graduate, with an education degree at that, makes the monthly budget hella tight. Gonna see what I can do.
UNI and Iowa are early season rivalry games that have had great weather, great tailgating and prior to harvest. Unfortunately, due to lack of success, people attend iSu games as much, if not more, for the tailgating.
The last weekend in October is opening pheasant season and the heart of harvest. Year in and year out, people talk about how that shouldn't impact the attendance much. Those same people fail to look around on game day and see who the game day sponsors are. They are Ag companies for a reason. You not only have the farmers but you have all the ag businesses that support farmers. I would not be making the game Saturday if my daughter didn't swim in Ankeny. Even then, I will most likely miss the first quarter. Not because I am not a good fan but because I love my daughter more than the Clones.
Hmm. On other boards I’m on it’s common to use DD, DS (dear son) DH (dear husband) DW (dear wife) DSD (dear step daughter) etc. as abbreviations. Fortunately all the “dears” in my life are Cyclones, except for my mom (DM) who cheers for Iowa). She’s still a dear, though
In reality, A lot of those fans have been repeatedly kicked in the nuts by iSu football. Unfortunately, it will take more than a good season to get them to change their traditions. It will take sustained success with spikes of great years.
I go to as many games as humanly possible but I don't begrudge fans who have come to iSu and finally moved on.
You've probably been asked, but why in the world do you write ISU this way?
Dude...we have won 17 games in the last five years. A lot of the fans travel 2+ hours and have jobs. The fact that we had 35K+ there on a Thursday night after such long term poor results says how good a fanbase we have.
I agree. I think it goes back to the discussion about changing the culture around the program. Obviously the players have bought in all the way, but they don't carry the baggage that most fans do. Like David Montgomery doesn't care about Troy Davis getting screwed out of the Heisman or whether or not Seneca was in (he was). KCM couldn't care less about the OU massacre or missed FGs that would have won a Big 12 North title.
I suspect there's a pretty good chunk of the fanbase still waiting for the other shoe to drop. They've just seen too much. They'll come around, but it'll take a little time.
