Iowa State has sold only 11,000 tickets
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Man, I hope you are right! I would absolutely LOVE to head over from STL to this game. However, my wife's cousin decided she wanted to pledge her life committment in marriage this weekend, so I'll be stuck with the mobile phone internet updates.......
Ah crap, I'm going to ask it. Do season ticket holders have to buy a ticket for this game? If not, I could see 10,000 season ticket holders, 11,000 tickets purchased now and another 5,000 that purchase them from today till game time. 25,000 wouldn't be bad if that happens. Anything under 15,000 is kind of embarrassing.
It's ALOT different playing a neutral site game against a traditional power that your school rarely plays and playing a non rival conference team... Had this game been a non conference game against Arkansas, Ole Miss, etc then I would be pumped... As it is, it's hard for me to get excited about, sorry.
Perhaps not for you, but I know it is a factor for many who live closer to
Ames than KC. Travel costs will be more for those folks, along with more time for that travel.
Ticket cost alone is usually not a deciding factor on whether people choose to go to a game, home or away, or away-and-still-home.
Wait, are they only counting tickets bought from Iowa State's allotment, because I guarantee you a lot of people bought from ticketmaster like we did.
Explain your yes. Yes they have to purchase a ticket as the season ticket doesn't cover this game?
This game wasn't included in the season ticket price. Season ticket holders have to buy a ticket.
yes the 11000 are only from ISU's allotment, and no season ticket holders were not required to purchase tickets.
I definitely agree about the travel time, but season ticket holders shouldn't use "cost" as a reason not to go as they would have paid a similar amount or more money to watch the game in Ames.
At first I was a bit miffed this was not included in the season ticket package. However, there are clearly a number of people that are season ticket holders and are not making the trip to KC. Some may have gone if it had been included, but others simply don't travel for games. So, we'd have a decent number of "sold" tickets that went unused.
Regardless, this is a nice cash maker for both programs. Great exposure and a nice experience for the players - especially those that have potential to play at the next level.
IMO, the real only downside is this comes at a time when both programs are poor. Mizzu and KU really caught lightning in a bottle with the timing of their Arrowhead series. Could not have come at a more perfect time for their programs.
I hope the Big 12 continues to look at doing this. Another fun one would be a pair of the Texas teams facing off at Houston or the new Cowboys stadium. And I'd be totally ok with traveling to Denver to face Colorado at Invesco field (and then perhaps having our home game at Arrowhead).
I don't think ya do these things frequently...but I do think it would be neat if one Big 12 game (other than Texas-OU) was played at a neutral location each year or every other 2 year period. Each team would do it about once a decade.
This might just be the smartest thing that Jamie Pollard has ever done!!!
Sure beats the cheeze dip hire and his ten game losing streak!!!!:yes:
Sure beats the cheeze dip hire and his ten game losing streak!!!!:yes:
+1
Hilarious to see the fools try and bash the game and our fans when they can't even read. There will be well over 20,000 ISU fans and 40,000 total.
I second this we got our group of 34 tickets through the Chiefs and my roommate also got a group of 15 where he went to the chiefs ticket office so he didn't have to pay the service charge. Most people down in KC are getting tickets through the Chiefs or Ticketmaster. The 11k are only through ISU. I have also been driving up to Ames for all the home games for the last 6 years there is nothing to the drive. It takes just about as long to get to Okoboji from ames as it does ames to KC. Another good thing is most of the MU and KU fans that end up going to this game will be cheering for ISU.
Another thread about the KC game, another round of the exact same arguments over and over and over again...
Write a $1,000,000 check to the ISU AD and I am sure he would not have taken the deal down in K.C. :biggrin:
That 11,000 from the athletic department doesn't surprise me. I'm sure that a lot of people have purchased the tickets through ticketmaster directly. We've found over the years that you usually get better seats that way. We'll find out on Saturday truely how many cyclone fans are there.
