Did you guys all have to eat your tickets or were you able to give them away?
Not saying the late harvest hasn't effected attendance, only that the effects are being way overstated.
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Did you guys all have to eat your tickets or were you able to give them away?
Not saying the late harvest hasn't effected attendance, only that the effects are being way overstated.
Im sure that in the middle of bringing in the crops, filling up JTS was a paramount worry of theirs...
Have you ever combined corn? Plenty of time between end rows to make a call or two to a friend. Same for the guys hauling to town. :wink:
Oklahoma state built that enormus endzone seating last year. they went 9-3 last season and Struggled to fill it.
I thought our crowd was surprisingly good today. I bet those who werent there were sad they didnt go.
I thought our crowd was surprisingly good today. I bet those who werent there were sad they didnt go.
I would agree. My parents fall into that gap, and until i went to school and joined the marching band, they never had any urge to come to ISU football games (they came to see the marching band more than anything at first). Now theyre out tailgating every week. Drawing this group back in would definitely help.
I know very little about farming, so someone with more knowledge can answer this question. If ISU was a better team this year, say they were leading the Big 12 North, does work in the fields get put off for another day?
The reason I ask is because I'm wondering if this is a problem that is remedied by more success or if it will be something that has to be dealt with come November every year.
The reason I ask is because I'm wondering if this is a problem that is remedied by more success or if it will be something that has to be dealt with come November every year.
No. In agriculture, you are at the mercy of god and the weather. God can either bless you with great growing conditions or he can test you with horrible growing conditions.
You harvest when you can or you are screwed. You can not make the weather work for your schedule. It has nothing to do with winning IMO.
That smell was everywhere. I went out at halftime and it was worse in the parking lots. I'm not sure if the chemicals being applied to the fields to the North of Ames was working it's way in or what. Maybe it was just that Minnesota just smells like trouser trout... :wink:
And there were at least three regular season ticket holders by us that were in the field the last two weeks. the stat earlier was that 40000 Iowans are farmers. How many of them have people that work for them or support them? How many went to ISU. I guarantee we have 10% of our fanbase that are directly impacted by the harvest.
And there were at least three regular season ticket holders by us that were in the field the last two weeks. the stat earlier was that 40000 Iowans are farmers. How many of them have people that work for them or support them? How many went to ISU. I guarantee we have 10% of our fanbase that are directly impacted by the harvest.
I have to say that was the most into the game a crowd has been in November in a lot of years. Also, if you have season tickets and can't go, give them away. Also, I sit in section C, West side upper deck. I also was smelling bad fish smells at the start of the game.
In some years yes. But most years we should be done or wrapping up harvest, this year we have half our corn crop still in the field. At this point of the year we need to be getting the crop out. That is a lot of money standing out in Iowa's fields. Some of that money will go back to ISU.
Go to all the games. No matter what. End story. Yeah there are some life or death type of things and exceptions I know. But I've been to every home football game since 2004, i'm now 24 and I plan to go to every football game barring something short of god's hand stopping me. There's nothing that compares to cheering with the ISU team on the field chanting "Let's Go Bowling!"...can't believe we haven't done that in 4 years, way too long.
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Exactly. There are a lot more people involved in harvest than just the 40k farmers in the state. There are hired hands, friends and neighbors helping out, people who work at the local elevator, machinery and equipment dealers and mechanics, welders, insurance people, seed dealers. And all of those people who can't go have families that likely won't be going either. On top of that, any other year, some people would be done by now or far enough along that they could possibly take a day off...not this year. To say that the harvest only affects a couple hundred fans is flat out wrong.
I think that winning does change a lot. The reason why iowa and Nebraska aren't noticeably hurt by harvest is that for every fan who can't go, there are plenty willing to step up in their place. At ISU, we haven't won enough to garner that bandwagon group. We have a group of 50 or 60k. When the weather is nice and harvest hasn't started and the season is fresh (no losses to turn people away), we can pack the stadium. From there on out, people start looking for reasons not to go. Some are legit (harvest, weddings, kids soccer), some are not (weather, bad record, hunting). The key is that there aren't fans to replace them and ISU has not won enough to force bandwagoners to view the games as a must see.
Does it affect attendance? Sure it does. To say it's 4-6 thousand fans (to quote an earlier poster) is questionable. Our highest attendance this year (not counting Iowa - they've got their fans there too so it's probably not the best measurement) was like 50,000. So you're saying 10% of our fans are farmers that couldn't come today because of harvest?
I don't know because I don't have the numbers (neither does anyone else on here)...just asking if people think that's actually true.
I don't know because I don't have the numbers (neither does anyone else on here)...just asking if people think that's actually true.
Hauling to town is for suckers. Build your own damn elevator. :wink:
I was the guy who said 4-6K less due to harvest, and I would probably scale that back to 3-5K. Honestly, when we put 50K in the stadium for Army, and 43K for CU for bowl eligibility where do you think the rub is happening? There is definitely a significant, measurable effect on attendance from a do or die harvest at school like ISU. As others have said, unlike Iowa or Nebraska, we don't have bandwagon fans willing to be the next man in.
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