I bet if we had 1975s non conference schedule, UCLA, Airforce, Florida State and Utah, the stadium would be sold out. But sadly, only Airforce was home game. Imagine in this day and age traveling to 3 power 5s?
1. The administration at Nebraska would have called this game a sellout two weeks ago.
2. This game will most likely be the highest-attended Big 12 game all season that is not at BYU or is the conference championship. Let's not lose perspective.
1. BYU | Lavell Edwards Stadium | 62,073
2. Iowa State | Jack Trice Stadium | 61,500
3. Texas Tech | Jones AT&T Stadium | 60,454
4. West Virginia | Milan Puskar Stadium | 60,000
5. Arizona State | Mountain America Stadium | 53,599
6. Oklahoma State | Boone Pickens Stadium | 52,305
7. Utah | Rice-Eccles Stadium | 51,444
8. Arizona | Arizona Stadium | 50,800
9. Colorado | Folsom Field | 50,183
10. Kansas State | Bill Snyder Family Stadium | 50,000
11. TCU | Amon G. Carter Stadium | 46,000
12. Baylor | McLane Stadium | 45,140
13. UCF | FBC Mortgage Stadium | 44,206
14. Kansas | David Booth Memorial Stadium | Low 40,000s (Opening in Fall 2025)
15. Houston | TDECU Stadium | 40,000
16. Cincinnati | Carson Field at Historic Nippert Stadium | 38,007
I'm too lazy to figure it out on my own. Mac will be at the game Saturday. Anyone know how many sellouts there were during his tenure?
Thanks. That makes sense.The hillsides weren't counted toward "official" capacity then -- only the physical seats were -- so it's a lot tougher to pin down.
Yes.Did you buy season tickets this year? Did you buy them last year?
Also Oklahoma and Texas.Because Iowa dropped off the schedule. You are probably the only one who sat around saying " man I would have got season tickets if they had only beaten Ohio and Memphis."
But yet, you are saying that losing to 2 G5 teams affected ticket sales, but it didnt affect you buying tickets?Yes.
It love going to games at Jack Trice. If you prefer watching from home that is fine, but I don’t agree that it has to cost a fortune to go to games. There are some very affordable options.We watch NFL games on TV too.
We don't have any die hard ISU fans that tailgate. We have friends who are loyal to a whole bunch of different teams. We all love to get together maybe 3 or 4 Saturdays in the fall and watch football all day and night at someone's house. Grilling, drinking, and yard games are all included. So much better than taking my wife and kids to Ames by ourselves(our close ISU fan friends might go to one ISU game a year) and spending a fortune.
I am completely befuddled why this is so controversial. Losing to Ohio and the bowl performance had no impact? Okay I guess.I think CW pretty much nailed it. It also didn’t help losing to two G5 teams last season.
That’s laughableThere’s a mountain of data (some examples in this thread already) that disproves this theory. Sorry but it didn’t have an impact outside of the ten people who actually didn’t get tickets due to that. And that’s NOT an impact. The number of people on the forums (small amount mind you) hung up on the result of a pointless game in Memphis is bizarre.
The subject is the reason why season ticket sales are down. I said I agree with what CW laid out and that also losing those two games didn’t help. I really don’t know what else to tell you.Well, sure we'd all like to see ISU win those games. Those that are seething about it a year later is quite the approach though.
Has there been much of a drop off?
It looks like the most people ever for Baylor will be there Saturday...so I guess things aren't as bad as some would like.
Both can be trueThe subject is the reason why season ticket sales are down. I said I agree with what CW laid out and that also losing those two games didn’t help. I really don’t know what else to tell you.
Exactly. CW wasn’t citing ticket sales for this game only. He was pointing out inflation, NIL, and fans being asked to foot the bill for everything, all while ticket prices, parking, etc keep going up are all factors affecting season ticket sales . I just added losing to two G5 teams didn’t help while going 7-6. Apparently a lot of posters think losing to NDak and Arkie St wouldn’t matter.Both can be true
The sales for this game isn’t really off from normal recent behavior.
There may be some disappointment in that because the team is ranked and 4-0 for the first time in decades, but ticket sales aren’t necessarily that responsive. Arguably better performance last year, and the corresponding offseason hype, would do as much to sell out the game as being 4-0 (which mostly amounts to beating Iowa as the difference)
That would matter, but two losses last season have minimal effect. I think the biggest factor is the TV time outs are so excessive. That is obviously nationwide.Exactly. CW wasn’t citing ticket sales for this game only. He was pointing out inflation, NIL, and fans being asked to foot the bill for everything, all while ticket prices, parking, etc keep going up are all factors affecting season ticket sales . I just added losing to two G5 teams didn’t help while going 7-6. Apparently a lot of posters think losing to NDak and Arkie St wouldn’t matter.
Definitely has an effect. It’s been a major talking point this season. I still think two bad losses are a bigger factor IMO. But you definitely have a point.That would matter, but two losses last season have minimal effect. I think the biggest factor is the TV time outs are so excessive. That is obviously nationwide.
The economy is not magically better in Eastern Iowa, and as much as I hate to say it, EIU had no trouble selling out every game this season. Sure they had the ISU game, they also have Nebraska, Wisconsin and Washington at home, so its a little better, but its not like they are getting Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State at home either.
The difference is they have had success on the field over the past 20 years while we have struggled, its not the economy, its the team and their record.
Go on a decade winning 9/10 games year after year, getting to better bowls and winning them, the fan base will increase. Until we do that, we are going to struggle selling out games. We are also hampered by the fact that Baylor, TT, Cincy are going to bring less than a 1,000 people to the game. While Nebraska, Wisconsin and ISU purchased every ticket their school got and those that did not purchase through their school got them in the secondary market.
Winning brings fans, that therefore fill up the stadium, 6 and 7 win seasons, get the hard core fans, but not many others. Win and we will be fine, just have to win more.
What is the difference there, ISU has been successful for years through multiple coaching changes, while EIU has struggled during that time.The bandwagon tavern hawk fans decided to attend football games instead of men's basketball games.
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