True - but I think ISU was fortunate the south end enclosure also coincided when Campbell turned the program around. I'm not sure if the ticket demand would be as high as it is now if the program didn't have the success it did
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Lots to agree with here, but we are talking about a department that has many funding needs.
Either way you have to have success on the field to get people to purchase tickets. It will be interesting to see the demand for football tickets this spring when its time to sign up again. The economy sucks for most people, the prices keep going up each year and with the change of coaches, it could not have happened at a worse time for ISU.
What would have been an easy decision to renew season tickets, will all we had coming back, has changed and many will have to rethink that decision on renewing or not. I was on the fence about renewing for next season before Campbell left, if you told me today, that I must choose, I would let our four tickets go and move to the 3 game pass for next season.
I was a student in the 70s and 80s and then moved away. When we retired four years ago, we moved back to Ames and got season tickets. When we walked in to Hilton for the first game I said to my wife, “It’s like stepping back in time!”
Hey...they got new courts and lower bleachers due to the flooding in 1993 and 2010.
I’m glad we’ve moved away from bashing our heads against the wall on the cy-town topic to bashing our heads against the wall on the press box topic.
Never change cyclones.
Never change cyclones.
I'm honestly confused, lol.
We have posters saying there isn't demand for suites/box seats and other posters saying there is a waiting list for the Jack Trice club suites.
We have posters saying there isn't demand for suites/box seats and other posters saying there is a waiting list for the Jack Trice club suites.
Both things can be true.
Suites are a lot more expensive and on a tier well beyond the jack trice club, and require a longer-term commitment.
You wouldn’t have to increase the number of suites. You could move the existing suites to a “press box” and then convert the current suite space into more Jack Trice club style seating. Still not something that would happen in the current environment but it would be one option to fill some of the existing demand for premium seating. Assuming there is still a waiting list for Jack Trice club seats.
If you were to win the $1.5b lottery next Monday and walked into Jamie Pollard's office on Tuesday telling him you were going to give $100m for a new press tower, I guarantee he would convince you to donate that in a different direction. Hilton concourse renovation? Maybe, but suite space is far down the list of priorities. I'm not sure if you've heard, but our athletic department is not in a position to drop 9 figures on aesthetics.
On top of that, Jack Trice has 45 private suites. In comparison, Kinnick currently 46 suites, Kansas will have a total of 42 after their renovation, Nebraska has 44, Kansas State has 40, and Minnesota has 39, so we are very much on par with our competition geographically as far as number of private suites go.
The unsold popcorn is still used today! Vintage snack.
Pretty sure it you are making $100 million dollar donation, you get to decide where the money goes, no matter what the AD wants or needs. If the AD is not willing to do exactly what you want, then they are not getting the money.
No one is saying the press box should be #1 on the want list, and we cannot afford it even if it was. I am just saying it should have been done years ago, and now, it will never be done.
I mean in the grand scheme I would like to think he would take it and do it, but I agree he would probably try to talk you into better use for Iowa State.
As I recall, this design was actually distributed for construction bids but came in over budget. Contractors were afraid of the cable roof. So they totally redesigned it to the present form with a conventional roof. Sometimes things happen for good reasons!I mean, concept art is literally designed with the sole purpose of attracting interest in a project without regard for practicality or budgetary constraints. Have you seen the original concept art for Hilton Coliseum? The Ribcage of Doom?
And it would cost like $100 million probably. Stuff is crazy expensive these days and then you add that it's a big floating box in the sky.
Also I'm pretty sure we're the only ones who care that much about what our press box looks like. You never see it on tv and fans aren't going to be any more or less intimidated by a press box and bigger jumbotrons lol.
I'm all for stadium improvements, it's my favorite thing but I don't see the press box changing any time soon.
I'd rather update the look of Jacobson or reconfigure the whole North end zone. But that's not happening any time soon either.
This is a pro league now, can we use public moneys for stadium upgrades now? Lol
Here me out... we call an audible, and we build CyTown on top of a new massive press box.
Everyone's happy. Problems solved forever.
Might as well move the Campanile on top of it and create a dining area there while we're at it.
We could call it Campa-Meal.
Agree how many people actually post on this website, Yeah I'm just watching at home. The affordability factor is still a driving force for many ISU fans.
Suites and all that stuff are really fun as long as someone else is footing the bill and comping you a pair a tkts to a game. I really don't know anyone that has a suite personally but I'm LOL poor.
