STILLBUSTER
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Off course not, the hillside (corners) are gone ... along with a whole lot of partying that occurred there. As for the rest of your scenario ... "YET."
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Off course not, the hillside (corners) are gone ... along with a whole lot of partying that occurred there. As for the rest of your scenario ... "YET."
DesMoinesHawki
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Really? This is supposed to entice fans to renew season tickets?
Maybe next year the U of I will toss in a free tank of gas ...
Maybe next year the U of I will toss in a free tank of gas ...
well I swore I would never comment on one of your posts, but you are right about the flaw in the poll. First off, you have to wait for the sting of that disaster to wear off. A lot of people said they would not go again as long as KF is the coach after the bowl game. That's already wearing off. Second off, ESPN isn't cutting edge journalism. With all that said, attendance will be down for sure. I personally am not going to drop a bunch of money to get over there as I have in years past. I will enjoy the games on my nice HD tv, and when they crap the bed with some horrific coaching decisions or bad personal decisions, instead of stewing over it on my 2 hour drive home, I will just watch more football.
MelroseHawkins
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UofI slashes ticket prices. Desparation!
http://www.kwwl.com/story/28238886/2015/03/02/iowa-slashes-student-ticket-prices-for-football-games
http://www.kwwl.com/story/28238886/2015/03/02/iowa-slashes-student-ticket-prices-for-football-games
deanvogs
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It isn't enough, they should offer $99 student passes that gets them into every sporting event on the Iowa campus. This is college athletics, let the students come out and support their team. If these Athletic department are gonna be making bank off sports, the students should get some bennies as well.
mopkins
King Kong
Yeah but priority doesn't really matter as much anymore with the new reseating. You basically just buy your way into better seats.
This says it all. Much of the experience of going to Kinnick or most games that are near sellouts is the tailgating and partying.
Thanks for sharing your personal anecdote to what is being felt by many. Since my kids graduated and moved out of Iowa City I just get there right before game time and walk to my car right after the game so I havent felt this change hardly at all.
Many of my friends who I could stop and party with are not going to games anymore or doing the same as me.
So it is dawning on me to just stay at home and watch most of the games. I want to see the Big Ten games on the schedule so I will shell out for those.
I think you missed the point of the original post about the hillsides and $10 tickets. I am pretty sure that was a jab at ISU which gets a good percentage of fans going to games to sit on grass for little dollars.
MelroseHawkins
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Absolutely.
My wife (got it right the second time around) starting coming to games with me in 2009. We would stroll through the lot directly outside Kinnick before games. It was fantastic...characters..tailgaters...music...atmosphere...people everywhere having fun, laughing, partying...and NOBODY causing trouble. She loved it. Said "Wow, I never knew how great college football was!"...and she immediately became a big fan...couldn't wait for our road trips to Iowa City.
Fast forward to 2014. We're strolling through the same lot...on HOMECOMING week...and it's less than 50% full. UNBELIEVABLE. You couldn't buy a parking pass for that lot 5 years ago...and now, it's half empty.
Nobody...NOBODY...working in a marketing or sales capacity could completely kill a product like that and have a job in the "real world". Only in the Sally Mason-ized PC campus world.... could that happen.
Pathetic.
This says it all. Much of the experience of going to Kinnick or most games that are near sellouts is the tailgating and partying.
Thanks for sharing your personal anecdote to what is being felt by many. Since my kids graduated and moved out of Iowa City I just get there right before game time and walk to my car right after the game so I havent felt this change hardly at all.
Many of my friends who I could stop and party with are not going to games anymore or doing the same as me.
So it is dawning on me to just stay at home and watch most of the games. I want to see the Big Ten games on the schedule so I will shell out for those.
Agree. Going to the Iowa games used to be a party. I never had or saw any problems. Now it's just a boring get-together, alike going to a family holiday get-together. Add in there that they changed everyone's seating & tailgating spots. No wonder people aren't renewing their tickets when they can't be by people they've been by for years. Now they shove many of the non-donors in the ramps where you can't really tailgate because you can't have a grill. After the changes it's a horrible time to have a bad team.
A university might be able to sustain the transition with a good team, but having mediocre results is killing the attendance. I went last year and the atmosphere was so benign and boring.
BLKNGOLD48
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Let me throw out a hypothetical question. Let's say the renewal date has come and gone, and Iowa is way down in renewals, do they come back with a deal for season ticket holders? Not that I'm changing my mind, but with the response on here and the people I know that have been loyal season tickets holders, seems like there is going to be a lot of people not renewing. I'm just curious as to what the athletic/ticket department will do.
clicheusername3
Banned
Originally Posted by hawkdrummer1
Absolutely.
My wife (got it right the second time around) starting coming to games with me in 2009. We would stroll through the lot directly outside Kinnick before games. It was fantastic...characters..tailgaters...music...atmosphere...people everywhere having fun, laughing, partying...and NOBODY causing trouble. She loved it. Said "Wow, I never knew how great college football was!"...and she immediately became a big fan...couldn't wait for our road trips to Iowa City.
Fast forward to 2014. We're strolling through the same lot...on HOMECOMING week...and it's less than 50% full. UNBELIEVABLE. You couldn't buy a parking pass for that lot 5 years ago...and now, it's half empty.
Nobody...NOBODY...working in a marketing or sales capacity could completely kill a product like that and have a job in the "real world". Only in the Sally Mason-ized PC campus world.... could that happen.
Pathetic.
This says it all. Much of the experience of going to Kinnick or most games that are near sellouts is the tailgating and partying.
Thanks for sharing your personal anecdote to what is being felt by many. Since my kids graduated and moved out of Iowa City I just get there right before game time and walk to my car right after the game so I havent felt this change hardly at all.
Many of my friends who I could stop and party with are not going to games anymore or doing the same as me.
So it is dawning on me to just stay at home and watch most of the games. I want to see the Big Ten games on the schedule so I will shell out for those.
Agree. Going to the Iowa games used to be a party. I never had or saw any problems. Now it's just a boring get-together, alike going to a family holiday get-together. Add in there that they changed everyone's seating & tailgating spots. No wonder people aren't renewing their tickets when they can't be by people they've been by for years. Now they shove many of the non-donors in the ramps where you can't really tailgate because you can't have a grill. After the changes it's a horrible time to have a bad team.
A university might be able to sustain the transition with a good team, but having mediocre results is killing the attendance. I went last year and the atmosphere was so benign and boring.
That's the price of success, you get a bunch of fairweather fans. Those people that filled up those lots back in '09 were probably in Hilton Coliseum last night cheering on the Clones. As a special breed of message board folks we forget that about 80% of the people out there aren't crazy fans to the level of message boarding or aren't alumni that live within a reasonable distance that are truly loyal. For the most part those other 80% are just trying to be cool and "be seen" and want to be able to yuck it up with their bandwagon buddies so they go where the hottest team is.
Billso
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Wow. What a huge miscalculation - they screwed up a community that had been built across generations.
I haven't been to a game since 2009 but have never, ever, since 1980, seen a lot anywhere close to Kinnick that wasn't packed.
