Football attendance

lightning1 said:
"major sports heading in the right direction"? No. No they aren't. The football program under KF is about as fresh as a popcorn fart. The offense under BF is so close to dead last in all of D-1, that it might as well be. The basketball program is a Lickliter level JOKE! While we're on the subject of Lickliter....Gutless Gary hired him too! Iowa Athletics routinely rank last or next to last in BIG conference sports. Iowa has yet to win a BIG title in any sport where Gutless Gary hired the head coach. On top of all of that, Gutless Gary tells more lies than a DC politician. Good grief. Spare us your propaganda, Herr Goebbels.
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Bump. To reiterate how clueless Westender is
 
I loved the good old days even though we didn't win many ball games. Get up , drive to game , game took maybe 2.5 hours (now 3.5 @ least) drink a couples brews and eat a burger on the way home. TV may bring in money but has ruined the games for me. Still for 40+ years I have season tickets. Am I nuts?
 
bubbadunk said:
I loved the good old days even though we didn't win many ball games. Get up , drive to game , game took maybe 2.5 hours (now 3.5 @ least) drink a couples brews and eat a burger on the way home. TV may bring in money but has ruined the games for me. Still for 40+ years I have season tickets. Am I nuts?
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Anyone that supports this athletic department under Gutless Gary, is doing more harm than good. And you might be a little nuts too.
 
eyekwah said:
Obviously gadget networking is not your primary area of expertise. Attempting to add wifi to Kinnick Stadium would be a disaster. How may outdoor access points do you think it would take to accommodate an audience of 70,000? How many Fiber Lines would you need? Then there are the other equipment pieces like switches and poe's. The expense for 7 Saturdays per year isn't warranted. If people have a smartphone with a data plan they can use it.
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I go to a lot of sporting events across the midwest every year. Last year I went to US Bank Stadium, Target Field, Busch Stadium, and Miller Park. All have free wifi. If you think its not possbile or it would be a disaster...why are they adding wifi to Kinnick as part of the north endzone renovation?

Smartphones with data plans rarely work during games at Kinnick...which is the entire problem.
 
lightning1 said:
Anyone that supports this athletic department under Gutless Gary, is doing more harm than good. And you might be a little nuts too.
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I agree. I did get one coworker to drop his season tickets and he's glad he did. Up to a point ticket sales don't matter with the TV revenue but they do matter, at some point so every bit counts. Its not fun. It feels like rooting against your team. Suck for Luck type of thing almost. And it only matters if it results in change which I'm not sure it will.
 
lightning1 said:
Now's the time for you to buy extra season ticket packages. Double your donations. Don't let Gutless Gary down. He's counting on fans like you.
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Then the freepers would be after to me for extra tickets to games. Those that just want to give if they can get in for free or next to nothing.
 
mopkins said:
I go to a lot of sporting events across the midwest every year. Last year I went to US Bank Stadium, Target Field, Busch Stadium, and Miller Park. All have free wifi. If you think its not possbile or it would be a disaster...why are they adding wifi to Kinnick as part of the north endzone renovation?

Smartphones with data plans rarely work during games at Kinnick...which is the entire problem.
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Three of those are baseball stadiums that host 81 games a year. The fourth is a brand new football stadium that is the poster child of wasteful corporate welfare.

If they want better phone access at Kinnick, they should do what NASCAR did back when Sprint was sponsoring the top series and try to work with the phone companies to get a few mobile towers put in on days when there are big games in town. I'm not some 15 year old girl who needs to text constantly during a ball game and I would argue that the bigger problem is when you're over by the dental lot or something and trying to use your phone - it simply doesn't work and wi-fi in the stadium isn't going to fix the massive capacity issues they have outside the stadium. Nothing like trying to find some bros tailgating only to get a text that they sent at 9:30 sometime right before halftime.

NASCAR races are out in the sticks where cell towers are sparse, but with those portable towers they handled Kinnick level crowds pretty easily.
 
eyekwah said:
Obviously gadget networking is not your primary area of expertise. Attempting to add wifi to Kinnick Stadium would be a disaster. How may outdoor access points do you think it would take to accommodate an audience of 70,000? How many Fiber Lines would you need? Then there are the other equipment pieces like switches and poe's. The expense for 7 Saturdays per year isn't warranted. If people have a smartphone with a data plan they can use it.
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^^ This ^^

I am always amused by folks who talk about in-stadium wi-fi. As if it's a simple router from the local cable company sitting in the press box. Works great, as long as the opposing OC remembers to turn it on each week o_O
 
NoBeer said:
I agree. I did get one coworker to drop his season tickets and he's glad he did. Up to a point ticket sales don't matter with the TV revenue but they do matter, at some point so every bit counts. Its not fun. It feels like rooting against your team. Suck for Luck type of thing almost. And it only matters if it results in change which I'm not sure it will.
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<<It feels like rooting against your team.>>

That's because it IS rooting against your team.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
^^ This ^^

I am always amused by folks who talk about in-stadium wi-fi. As if it's a simple router from the local cable company sitting in the press box. Works great, as long as the opposing OC remembers to turn it on each week o_O
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hawkeyebob62 said:
^^ This ^^

I am always amused by folks who talk about in-stadium wi-fi. As if it's a simple router from the local cable company sitting in the press box. Works great, as long as the opposing OC remembers to turn it on each week o_O
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It should be easy and free. You just give a local telco the rights to run it for free advertising. "And don't forget, Kinnick wi-fi is provided by US Cellular. Stop by one of their many locations in Iowa City, Coralville and the surrounding areas. US Cellular, We've Got You Covered."
 
NoBeer said:
It should be easy and free. You just give a local telco the rights to run it for free advertising. "And don't forget, Kinnick wi-fi is provided by US Cellular. Stop by one of their many locations in Iowa City, Coralville and the surrounding areas. US Cellular, We've Got You Covered."
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I haven't used US Cellular bince I moved out of Iowa City 12 years ago, but I thought they just did cellular and not landline internet. No way in hell they'd want the headache of trying to get a big enough pipe in there to handle the fans and the router that would be necessary with 20,000 people trying to access it all at the same time. The option for wired internet there seems to be Mediacom and I would trust Larry, Darrell and Darrell from Newhart with setting up internet before I'd trust Mediacom. And as stupid as Mediacom is, even they know it would be a disaster - they wouldn't want their name associated with the slightly functioning internet that would be inside of Kinnick.
 
okeefe4prez said:
I haven't used US Cellular bince I moved out of Iowa City 12 years ago, but I thought they just did cellular and not landline internet. No way in hell they'd want the headache of trying to get a big enough pipe in there to handle the fans and the router that would be necessary with 20,000 people trying to access it all at the same time. The option for wired internet there seems to be Mediacom and I would trust Larry, Darrell and Darrell from Newhart with setting up internet before I'd trust Mediacom. And as stupid as Mediacom is, even they know it would be a disaster - they wouldn't want their name associated with the slightly functioning internet that would be inside of Kinnick.
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My point was conceptual, not specific. Wi-fi works great in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Man Iowa fans really do have low expectations.
 
NoBeer said:
My point was conceptual, not specific. Wi-fi works great in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Man Iowa fans really do have low expectations.
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Oh, I didn't know wi-fi worked great at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln because when I was there I was watching the damned ball game.
 
okeefe4prez said:
Oh, I didn't know wi-fi worked great at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln because when I was there I was watching the damned ball game.
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westender said:
Exactly this!!! I could see 14 year olds wanting WIFI but why adults?? Put the phones down!
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OK, not everyone is a geezer who needs people off their lawn. There are a lot of commercial breaks, halftime, most people get to the stadium with 15-20 left in warm ups. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to want a cell signal in a stadium besides "kids these days" ya old farts.
 
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