Williams & Blum today- FB attendance
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I spend a lot of money on Iowa State athletics. It’s something my family and friends all do and we really enjoy it. I understand some people can’t/don’t want to budget for it and watch from home and that’s fine but those people also seem to be the ones who are the loudest on social media about it. Attending sporting events are expensive in general. Just like going to a movie, going out to eat, vacations, etc.
Family and their group has been seeing a lot of this in B lots. People taking up a second stall when they haven’t paid for a second. People completely blocking the drive aisles with their setups. Good times.
Attending sporting events IS a luxury and it has been for a while now. It doesn't surprise me that entertainment expenses are the first to be cut. But every situation is different.
I couldn't imagine not finding the money to make season tickets work. I would sacrifice if need be so that I can still attend all the Football/Basketball/Wrestling as I can since it is what makes me and my family happy.
I couldn't imagine not finding the money to make season tickets work. I would sacrifice if need be so that I can still attend all the Football/Basketball/Wrestling as I can since it is what makes me and my family happy.
I'm in the crowd that significantly prefers going to games vs TV. We're crazy busy in the fall (for example, 3 weddings this season on ISU game days) so we don't make it to a ton, but the atmosphere at Jack Trice vs at home on my couch is a big deal for me and my family. The only game we've made it to this season was UND, but that one wasn't real expensive. We sat in one of the corners (sec 17 I think) and it was $150 for 3 tickets plus $25 for parking in the grass lots. We bring tailgating food and drinks and normally just get the lemonade in the stadium during hot games. That plus a 2 hour drive each way and we probably spent $300 for 3 of us to go. Obviously more for conference game tickets, and I totally get why some wouldn't want to spend that and would rather watch from home, but for us that's an easy decision as many times per year as we can get down there.
I mean the choice laid out was going to games or filling your wall with televisions. The consumerism was already built in. Marketing consumables to buy and use up is just as marketing 101.
Experience can be free as well. Valuing experience offers more options for free memories, I’d argue. It just seemed weirdly judgmental to criticize someone for buying tickets versus a wall of televisions.
And it's that way in every single stadium in the country.
Agreed.
There are 61K tickets sold. When I was in school, there were 42K physical seats in Jack Trice. This is going to be an excellent turnout, and one of the largest crowds for any Big 12 game this year. Only BYU can hold more.
With the caveat of having decent seats. I mean you go to a UNI game you can sit wherever you want if you just buy a ticket to get in. On the other hand it iscrazy expensive to go to a Big 12 basketball game and sit in the lower level and we haven't even talked about the prices for conference championship and NCAA tournament games.
I enjoy going to a couple games a year but a game day is very exhausting to travel from MN, tailgate and travel home. Plus I don't love being in big crowds it just isn't my jam. With kids now too it's even harder. I don't like giving up too many nice fall Saturdays either. If I watch on TV I can watch the game and then go enjoy the rest of the day going house projects, biking and being outdoors.
As I've gotten older my free time has become more valuable. I'm a lifelong Packers fan but have yet to watch a game of theirs this year because I'm already dedicating a good portion of my Saturdays to watching CFB and I'm just not interested in spending an entire weekend watching TV. Even finding time for college ball is becoming tougher, especially with the way that landscape is evolving.
The thing that surprised me the most about 2020 is how little I found myself missing sports, and I think that's kind of stuck with me.
Who is talking about a wall of televisions? I have 65” whatever brand with FireTV built in. That’s it. I think it was $499 last Prime Day. Will probably last 5 years.
Yeah I watch almost no NFL until it gets later in the season or I'll watch some of the weekday games. I'll listen to Vikes games and maybe turn it on in the final minutes if it's close but otherwise I want to enjoy the nice weather. College is cut down to ISU games and then usually the night games I'll watch before bed. But like you free time is so valuable and this is the best time of year to be outside that I have to take advantage
It's not cheap by any means, but you don't need to just make **** up...
I take my family of 4, our season tickets/donation/parking total $2,780. Coming from NW Johnston gas for the season is under $300, so that puts us up to $3k. We might spend $300 for the season on concessions, at MOST that takes us to $3,500 - quite a bit less than your "$5k on the low end" figure.
And if we didn't donate for parking and our 2/4 chairbacks, take $900 off the total. $2k on the low end would be more accurate. $5k might be near the average.
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."
$5 grand is a little high I would say, we kept our 4 season tickets this season, section 19, so we were moved and got the price freeze for 3 seasons. We are in a non donation section and do not do donate. Since we do not donate we purchase the public parking for all games before the season and have seat backs for all four seats. I would guess all in we are around $2,000 for the tickets and parking and then what ever we spend at the game.
We were really thinking about not getting tickets this season, but then caught a break when one of our sons friends wanted to purchase our tickets for some games and we split our tickets in half. I would guess we will do the same next season and then after that, who knows. Going to 3/4 homes games a year is enough for me.
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