(Lack of) Iowa Football Fan Support
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Iowa has always treated their fans like ****.. There was huge demand for their tickets before the sold-out streak ended. The problem now is the product is stale. The other problem is they have a bandwagon fan base, when one person goes to a game 5 others think it is the thing to do and follow that lead, when one person stays home 5 others think that is the thing to do and follows that lead.
Not to mention one is 2 days away and one is a week away
If ISU was undefeated and hosting a top 5 team on a Saturday night that is nationally televised on prime time TV the tickets would be sold out through the university and you could name your price on the secondary market. I don't know if it's just because a) we have a better fan base b) most of our fans have higher incomes or c) both
I don't know of a single school that doesn't send opposing teams ticket allotments.
Yes but like we both agreed Iowa relies on opposing fan bases to SELL OUT the games which is why the ISU game will sell out every time in Kinnick but a monster game like the Penn State one won't.
Its gotta be Chumps. Haven't heard a word out of him in awhile and he started early in Sept. I see all my alerts from buddy and taters are gone. This guy has to be one of them. The only people that give them a like are one in the same.
What are you talking about? We're not arguing we are agreeing that Iowa relies on opposing fans to SELL OUT Kinnick? Geez you're just trying to pick a fight when we are on the same page.
I have several Iowa fans that gave up their season tickets a few years ago mostly because 1) Iowa kept raising the prices and 2) the watered down home schedules. Conference realignment is the best!
Probably bc your only tradition is losing. Your fanbase is so starved for any kind of success they'd probably sell their first born for a mere taste of what Iowa experiences on a regular basis. I mean look at how over the top your fanbase is after a few years of decent basketball? Never seen a goofier, arrogant, full-of-themselves fanbase after a couple years of mild succeed.
Well that's a new one lol. Iowa is so used to winning that even when they are clamoring for Game Day to come to Iowa City for such a huge game they won't attend the game because they've seen so many wins in person it's just easier to watch it at home!
If memory serves me right, years ago Pollard made the Iowa game a premium ticket and the only way to get into the Iowa game at Jack Trice was to buy tickets to two other home games as well. Iowa fans, the Iowa AD all had hissy fits and said something like, "We would never do that to our loyal Hawkeye fans."?
How is Iowa gouging their fans for the Penn State game any different?
If Iowa is going to continue to charge premium for the higher end games, then they need to also do a variable pricing structure for the less desirable seats. A one size fits all ticket price works when every ticket for every game is $60, but it falls apart when you try to sell a corner endzone seat in the last row for the same $95 price as the one at the 50 yard line half way up the stands.
I'm not going to sit here and say that ISU is not reaping some handsome rewards from the dedicated fanbase, but Jack Trice Stadium was pretty ghetto lookin' 11 years ago. Especially compared to all the renovations that have happened in the Big 12 the last 5-10 years. KSU, OSU, Tech, all had massive projects completed. Baylor got a brand new stadium...although that brick facade on the inside is just a vinyl tarp....lol.
JP knew ISU/JTS was lacking in many facets, and somebody had to pay for it. Having all the shiny toys doesn't guarantee success, but it does keep ISU from falling further behind the rest. I'd love to see more wins as well, and quite frankly I expect it. However we've been paying for the sins of a previous generation...from the athletic department, on down to the fans.
However at this point JTS is top notch, and the fan base should be IMO exempt from any ticket prices raises, or donation level changes for a while.
I won't complain. It's on ESPN primetime, which is nice. It's also a great excuse for me to take Thursday afternoon and all of Friday off of work.
That's funny because Iowa fans were touting before the season that "big time" programs have all their tickets priced the same regardless of where you sit.
Iowa will probably be the one of the only schools for the third year in a row to be Top 25 Nationally in attendance for Football, MBB, WBB and Wrestling.
