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1hawkeye1

1hawkeye1

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Kinnick looked horrible on TV today. Waaaay too much red. Especially close to the field.

Hell, the few games I've been able to attend in person, I was never able to sit that close to the field. Whats up with that?

Very poor impression to TV land and potential recruits.
 
Well I was at kinnick and there was not really that many Wisconsin fans there. No more than what you would typically see from Wisconsin anyway. Not sure what you saw on tv, but visitors seats are always in the front rows by the south end zone. Those are terrible seats. In no way at all did this negatively affect recruiting.
 
bud2380 said:
Well I was at kinnick and there was not really that many Wisconsin fans there. No more than what you would typically see from Wisconsin anyway. Not sure what you saw on tv, but visitors seats are always in the front rows by the south end zone. Those are terrible seats. In no way at all did this negatively affect recruiting.
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How do you know if it hurt recruiting or not?
 
hawkinn3 said:
How do you know if it hurt recruiting or not?
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How would would it? A recruit in person or on tv sees 3 to 4,000 Wisconsin fans and 66,000 Iowa fans at the game but that is a negative? How's this, it is my opinion that this in no way even remotely hurts our recruiting.
 
bud2380 said:
How would would it? A recruit in person or on tv sees 3 to 4,000 Wisconsin fans and 66,000 Iowa fans at the game but that is a negative? How's this, it is my opinion that this in no way even remotely hurts our recruiting.
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Could be the cherry on the **** Sundae that is our offense.
 
I agree with the OP, I know the red pom poms hurt but there were plenty of groups of Wisconsin fans in seats I can only dream of getting, including a big section right behind their bench. What the heck is that all about? Opposing teams have always been intimidated by how close the fans are and so we do them a favor by seating their own fans behind their bench?????
 
Iowa Football has much larger issues, than me whining about opposing fans seats. When your a mediocre football team this type of stuff happens.


In my eyes this isn't a mediocre team, it is a TEAM and PROGRAMED handcuffed by COACHING.
 
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ssckelley said:
I agree with the OP, I know the red pom poms hurt but there were plenty of groups of Wisconsin fans in seats I can only dream of getting, including a big section right behind their bench. What the heck is that all about? Opposing teams have always been intimidated by how close the fans are and so we do them a favor by seating their own fans behind their bench?????
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Opposing teams always have that section that is on the visitor side, lower section and in the corner.
 
Well the cameras sure had an easy time finding Wisconsin fans, and if that is the way it has always been then it needs to change.
 
ibahawkeye said:
Opposing teams always have that section that is on the visitor side, lower section and in the corner.
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Only since the re-seating of Kinnick and we have to be the only program in the country that gives seating across the entire front 15 rows of the stadium to opponents.

They belong in the nosebleed corners like everywhere else, but I'm not counting on our inept decision makers to fix it this time around.
 
kuhntz said:
Only since the re-seating of Kinnick and we have to be the only program in the country that gives seating across the entire front 15 rows of the stadium to opponents.

They belong in the nosebleed corners like everywhere else, but I'm not counting on our inept decision makers to fix it this time around.
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They're not good seats. You can't see much being that low and in the corner.
 
bud2380 said:
Our **** offense could hurt recruiting sure. But the op said a few thousand Wisconsin fans in attendance could hurt recruiting, which makes no sense at all.
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You missed the point. On TV they kept showing the sideline and the first 10-15 rows of fans. There was a huge section of red right behind the Wisconsin bench. Not just in the corner. It didn't look good. That's my point. Whether it hurts recruiting or not, I have no idea. It just plain looks terrible. That can't be denied, and makes plenty of sense. If one doesn't have the acumen to understand that; then that's on them.
 
eveningnewsteam said:
I didn't Think Wisconsin brought that many fans. 3k maybe
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I would say closer to 8,000. They sold out their 4,000 visiting allotment. And there were easily 4,000 more additional fans in Kinnick.
If you sat in sections 101-110, it would be hard to see all the visiting fans because that's the side of the field most of them were on.
If you sat on the press box side, you would see all the red in the stands.
70,000 fans in Kinnick. Easily 10% were dressed in red.
 
Meh....not that many there. U of I does a good job of quadrant-ing all opposing fans anyway.
 
Seth53 said:
Meh....not that many there.
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Wisconsin game attendance: 69812

Northwestern game attendance: 66838
Michigan State game was homecoming weekend and had 69025(inflated by homecoming crowd).
Western Michigan 66886
Missouri State 64201
Northern Illinois 67402

Iowa averaged 66870 before the Wisconsin game. 3,000 more fans showed up to Wisconsin and that's including the entire 4,000 allotment. (In previous games, the visiting team allotment was available for Iowa fans).
That's a minimum of 7,000 Badger fans inside Kinnick. 10% of a stadium is a lot.
 
I don't know about the numbers there, and I don't know how it affects recruiting....but for most .500 record teams to have as many home fans there as there are is what is a positive. Because when you have a good team, you will travel well, and you will find good seats. We always did when we were. I will say though, that there was an unusual amount of red in the lower five rows across the length of the East stands. That Wisc fans were able to secure these very "vocal" seats is appalling. The corners are fine and typical, but something was up for them to get so many of these seats...[perhaps another strike against our AD?]

Further, it didn't help that a third of our students had bright red pom-poms. That alone seemed warped and not thought out.
 
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