Do people not think an AD desperately trying to uncover additional revenue streams hasn't weighed changing student tickets against the risk of alienating your future ticket buyers?
Student Attendance
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I've got no interest in that fight. Fine with whatever the AD thinks is the right choice.
Are you really at all shocked by this given today's folks of that age?! I see it 24/7 where I work with people who are 4-6 years older than students and it just seems to get worse the lower you go.
@VeloClone @alarson care to elaborate on why you disagree with this? Are myself and three other posters down thread remembering incorrectly?
That isn't endemic to that age group. There are plenty people all the way up to boomers that are exactly the same way.
Ha! They really only show up for Iowa, Ku, Houston,Kstate this yr. Week night attendance is mediocre from the student and only about 1 or 2 Saturdays do they show out.
Student interest in live attendance in sports has changed drastically from when I was in school.
No disagreement there. But it's pretty bad with the younger generations in general from my experience.
Just didn't read or think about it correctly. I remembered growing up in NE Iowa and rarely getting to watch the games. However, I realized after that you were posting about Central Iowa and my reference point was more than 30 years ago.
Damn, I'm getting old.
I don't know what you mean by "NE Iowa", but the Mason City CBS affiliate regularly carried ISU basketball in the 90's.
I didn't pay attention to sports prior to 1995, so I don't really know what that era looked like.
It wasn't just the upper deck last night, they didn't even fill up the lower sections either especially on the West side. I get that it was cold, there are probably students with exams too but even with all that considered it probably was the most noticeable absence I can recall this season.
Maybe it's just this generation doesn't feel entertained or as passionate about their school's sports, I dunno. Only comparison I have is I was a student when we had our 32-5 Elite 8 team and I remember trying to get through an exam as fast as I could 1 night there was a game then hoping on my bike and hauling ass to get to Hilton by halftime to watch the rest of the game. I didn't want to miss any games if I had the choice.
Maybe Cyclone Alley needs to come up with some enticing attendance incentives? Not sure exactly what kind of prizes or maybe some postseason party for perfect attendance gets you something worth showing up for then have another tier or 2 below that for ones that miss 3 or less, 5 or less? Sometimes exams or illness is going to happen even to those that show up every game. Just a thought, I've wondered for a while now if they need to shrink the upper level of the student section and sell some of it to the public as there are maybe 5 games a season they pack it 75% or more and 2 of those are usually Iowa and Kansas then maybe get a few more ranked games that get them to show up in force then it's hit or miss for everything else.
Maybe it's just this generation doesn't feel entertained or as passionate about their school's sports, I dunno. Only comparison I have is I was a student when we had our 32-5 Elite 8 team and I remember trying to get through an exam as fast as I could 1 night there was a game then hoping on my bike and hauling ass to get to Hilton by halftime to watch the rest of the game. I didn't want to miss any games if I had the choice.
Maybe Cyclone Alley needs to come up with some enticing attendance incentives? Not sure exactly what kind of prizes or maybe some postseason party for perfect attendance gets you something worth showing up for then have another tier or 2 below that for ones that miss 3 or less, 5 or less? Sometimes exams or illness is going to happen even to those that show up every game. Just a thought, I've wondered for a while now if they need to shrink the upper level of the student section and sell some of it to the public as there are maybe 5 games a season they pack it 75% or more and 2 of those are usually Iowa and Kansas then maybe get a few more ranked games that get them to show up in force then it's hit or miss for everything else.
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Waterloo/Cedar Rapids market is NE Iowa. Mason City is North Iowa. Also, did you miss the part about how I realized that my reference point was more than 30 years ago so actually in the 80s.
I can attest to the eastern Iowa comment. I was president of the NE Iowa cyclone Club for about 10 years. We had no TV and almost no radios coverage. I visited multiple radio and TV stations personally, and most said they could not sell the advertising. ( I do not think they wanted too). I finally got a local radio station on board. I finally gave up TV and just bought a special antenna so I could get WOI. I was in Waterloo.
My son is a great athlete, a successful football and basketball player, is a total sporto...does he watch sports on tv? Nope. Do any of his friends that are good athletes? Nope. He watches highlights, might pop in for a few minutes to watch a game and then back to his room or out with his friends.
This issue is only going to get worse. I'd bet in another 20-30 years these stadiums are going to shrink in major ways, gen x and some older millennials are the last of the sports loving generations. (at least as far as watching and attending).
This issue is only going to get worse. I'd bet in another 20-30 years these stadiums are going to shrink in major ways, gen x and some older millennials are the last of the sports loving generations. (at least as far as watching and attending).
AD is laughing their way to the bank right now overselling the seats and making money at a much better rate than the comparable seats on the other end.
Hilton needs a reseating and every seat should require donation. Then we can chip away at student seats.
To be fair there were plenty of empty seats scattered throughout hilton last night so it wasn't just the students who didn't show.
I wasn't trying to be argumentative, I was just trying to piece together the when and where of this kind of coverage existed.
He’s more my age. KIMT only carried Hawkeye crap on the regular before I was at ISU, started 90. During college I don’t know since I was in Ames
My kids and their buddies watch football and then ISU stuff but don’t go out of their way and may make a game or two of MBB or wrestling. We all have season football tickets.
Oh gosh not at all. For a while WOI put most of the Saturday games on, but it was only in the WOI viewing area.
