people are idiotsPeople tend to value experiences at the end of the day.
people are idiotsPeople tend to value experiences at the end of the day.
A side note, I had a parking pass that day and was driving around looking for a spot in my section. I found one but people had their tailgating set up in the empty space. I tried to pull in and they all started yelling at me. I said I was sorry but that was the only space I could find. They told me I should have came earlier, very little did they know that wasn't possible for me since I just flew in from Boston. My hope is that cyclone fans are not so inconsiderate and rude to other Cyclone fans.
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.People like to say they value experiences, because it’s a trendy meme. pushed by the people that are trying to part consumers with their money.
“Don’t think about the money, think about the experience”.
It’s marketing 101. Probably brought to you by the same people that brought us “Marlboro Country” and “Camel: Where a Man Belongs”
And it's that way in every single stadium in the country.Even if there's a sellout, I'm guessing there will be more than 300 empty seats trickled throughout the stadium from people who either couldn't make it and couldn't sell them, extra corporate seats, or people who hit it too hard in the lots.
While I agree, I’m quite sure it’s for different reasons.people are idiots
Agreed.I don't get it either. But there has been a pretty clearly coordinated push from everyone at CF on social media and in the podcasts to sell this game out. Which, fine, we all want sellouts. But there's been a weird urgency to it.
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 would agree. I find the in person benefits of basketball to be a stronger offering over TV than football.
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.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.
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.
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 advantageAs 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.
I'm speaking about families. For families, $5,000 a season is on the low end when it's all said and done
My response was to thisWho 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.
yikes. that is a moderately priced, moderately sized TV, per game. you could have a half dozen 50" TVs on a wall of your house by the end of the season.
Yeah. I’d rather beat G5 teams than lose to them. Why do you think season ticket sales dropped off?
Did you buy season tickets this year? Did you buy them last year?Yeah. I’d rather beat G5 teams than lose to them. Why do you think season ticket sales dropped off?
$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.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.