ISU and Iowa among least fair-weather fans in America
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Is this serious? That might be nice at a FCS school, but for a P5 school that is giving your product away.
Iowa literally had non-students buy student tickets to football games; and we won't bring up the gimmick basketball attempts to get fans to show up.
Iowa student ticket cost $175. Any Cyclone fan no matter age, enrolled or not can get a SEASON TICKET for $175.
Ok I'll talk slower this time...
How's is having affordable tickets a bad thing?
Do you not understand economics? If fan support was better and you sold out your stadium, you could ask for more money per ticket. Thinking that a cheap ticket is good for your school Isn't logical. It is cheap because nobody want to watch it.
Does your school not understand the law? I'd rather have my school drop the price in tickets vs breaking the ******* law.
They tried to give away 5 tickets, big deal. They tried to do this giveaway, found out they couldn't and stopped. ISU continues to give away season tickets.
Yes, it's an illegal scheme and it wasn't 5 free tickets you idiot, it was free tuition for 5 people along with other winners getting books, cash, groceries.
Send someone over from Cedar Rapids that knows what the hell they are talking about.
First of all, I know you're just begging to get a rise out of people, but I'm going to give you one anyway.
We have maybe what, 5000 tickets at the $175 level? Big whoop, give families a chance to affordably get into the corner nosebleeds (to watch a sub-par product, mind you).
And just because Iowa gets people to pay more for tickets that many of them don't even use, doesn't mean they have better fan support. Yes, it boils down to more $$ for the university, but that isn't the end-all be-all.
Lots of misinformation in this thread. The 56,000 number was the amount of people allowed in Jack Trice before renovation. However, 16,000 of those people wouldn't even gets seats and would have to hang out on the hills/dirt. There were only 45,000 actual seats at the time.
Also the $99 season tickets wasn't for football. That was the price of the upper corners at Hilton the year that Hoiberg returned. By all means though, continue inventing things that fit your agenda to pass around as fact.
Also the $99 season tickets wasn't for football. That was the price of the upper corners at Hilton the year that Hoiberg returned. By all means though, continue inventing things that fit your agenda to pass around as fact.
Lol, I understand economics very well so I'll explain in short simple sentences so you understand what I'm saying.
There's there such a thing called levels. You only talk about the cheapest ticket ISU has available. I buy the $250 tickets because I work full-time. The ED not offering these lower ticket prices initially wouldn't have allowed me to gowhich is a lost revenue.
Averaging 32% more attendance when you're fan base is 400% larger and you're team is 20-7 in the last two years when ours is 6-18 is absolutely nothing to be proud of, but whatever makes you happy I guess.
This kind of information reminds me of Iowa fans giving me crap about Ames...something about 'just gotta drive 2 hours west and look for the town surrounded by corn fields' when they've literally described every single town or city in Iowa.
Yes, Hok fans used to say that to me.
Mate, that is $5,000,000 minimum, before any other purchase made at the stadium each game. Is there even an FCS stadium even in existence that holds 50,000?
It's also much, much more than $5MM, due to the vast majority of the seats costing much more than $99
Like I said earlier: congrats to them for barely meeting expectations. If their team wins 3 games a year, how many Historic seats would be filled by November?
You could get a $99 hillside season ticket before the expansion. In 2013 or 2014 they did bumped it to $125.
