Knight78
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"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
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"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
mopkins
King Kong
Iowa's stadium food is boring, bland and mostly terrible. Its almost like Barta is spitting in our face trying to get us to renew our tickets by "enticing" us with concession stand vouchers.
You'd think Iowa could have something unique like corn on the cob from the grill...state fair style...or some really good pork dishes as much as they promote AMERICA NEEDS FARMERS. Instead you get pizza hut slices and walking tacos.
You'd think Iowa could have something unique like corn on the cob from the grill...state fair style...or some really good pork dishes as much as they promote AMERICA NEEDS FARMERS. Instead you get pizza hut slices and walking tacos.
lightning1
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This is spot on! Another one of the many, many, many failures by the Iowa AD.
...........of course, half eaten ears of corn might make for nasty missiles aimed at KF's head, the next time he falls for a fake punt.
HawgEyeState
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I'm just so da** glad they FIRED that Field Hockey coach, I might upgrade my Football tickets, this year.
Already pay $400 per seat, but might now try to get the $800 area seats.
Barta deserves a raise !!! Let's Go Hawkeyes!
Already pay $400 per seat, but might now try to get the $800 area seats.
Barta deserves a raise !!! Let's Go Hawkeyes!
Chickenlounge
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Just take you $70, get a hotdog, find Barta, and do this...
I agree this "incentive" seems to have little value unless you like the horrible food at the stadium. However, if they really wanted to give an incentive to renew tickets they should up the reward. How about hold a lottery for people that renew tickets, with prizes being (1) upgrade seats to 50 yard line for a game, or (2) free admission to a sky box for a game, or (3) watch the game from the sideline, (4) full access to locker room pre/post game, (5) sit in the press box with coaches to listen to calls, etc. Most if not all of these would not cost the Athletic Dept. any revenue and would be a pretty cool experience for the fans.
hawkforlife9
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OUTofTOWNHAWK
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atxhawk
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Maybe the new president will fire Barta and get the entire athletic program moving in the right direction. Or maybe he'll be forced to resign over his handling of the Griesbaum debacle and what appears to be a pattern of unequal treatment of the women's programs.
At least part of the football problem is gone now that Mason and her hatred of tailgating and fun is gone.
Somewhat related/not related rant coming.
I've talked to some now former season ticket holders who were ticked at the whole reseating thing. They'd been sitting to the same people for years, then split completely up, and the same went for their lot assignments. It's not new news that some of the bigger donor lots have been more empty for the past few years as Frau Mason sent out her fun gestapo stormtroopers to clamp down on having fun.
The economics part of it is really going to hit some of the businesses with a loss of outside income. Let's figure that a couple from Chicago decided to not buy tickets this year. Figure $400 a weekend for hotel room(2 nights), another $300 on food and beverage, $75 in miscellaneous expenses, and that's around $800 spent in IC/Coralville for the weekend or $5600 for the season. Just pulling numbers out of thin air basically, but a search for homecoming weekend hotels had prices from $150-$300 not including tax. Multiply that total by say, 500 and that is $2,800,000 in lost revenue for the area. Spread over the entire city that's not much, but that's for only a loss of 1000 fans that decided to stop coming. Even if you knock it down to say an additional 5000 fans, not spending $100 a weekend just by coming to town, going to the game, then leaving, that's $3.5 mil in lost revenue. It starts adding up as more and more people stop coming, especially for the groups that sell concessions as fund raisers, or any of the concessions running along Melrose.
Which reminds me, I hope the University plans on reimbursing the groups running the stands for lost revenue.
Has anyone else noticed the distinct lack of emotion displayed by our male athletes? I know people have commented on it from time to time with the football team, but it's also true of the basketball team much of the time, and even in wrestling a bit. Think of the Maryland hoops game, White was fired up and showing emotion, the team wins. They show zero emotion in the games against Minny and jNW and lose. Yesterday they were showing emotion against Nebby and they win. I can see it on the football team with emotionless KF on the sideline, but you would think with Fran's personality that some of it would carry over to the team. It's almost like GB has a rule that players are supposed to be emotionless robots.
KF's earlier teams had that fire, that chip on the shoulder attitude, not so much lately. Can't comment much on Alford's teams since I didn't get to see many of the games and am trying to black out the Lickliter years, but Davis' teams always had attitude.
Ugh, it's time for a housecleaning and it begins at the top with Barta.
At least part of the football problem is gone now that Mason and her hatred of tailgating and fun is gone.
Somewhat related/not related rant coming.
I've talked to some now former season ticket holders who were ticked at the whole reseating thing. They'd been sitting to the same people for years, then split completely up, and the same went for their lot assignments. It's not new news that some of the bigger donor lots have been more empty for the past few years as Frau Mason sent out her fun gestapo stormtroopers to clamp down on having fun.
The economics part of it is really going to hit some of the businesses with a loss of outside income. Let's figure that a couple from Chicago decided to not buy tickets this year. Figure $400 a weekend for hotel room(2 nights), another $300 on food and beverage, $75 in miscellaneous expenses, and that's around $800 spent in IC/Coralville for the weekend or $5600 for the season. Just pulling numbers out of thin air basically, but a search for homecoming weekend hotels had prices from $150-$300 not including tax. Multiply that total by say, 500 and that is $2,800,000 in lost revenue for the area. Spread over the entire city that's not much, but that's for only a loss of 1000 fans that decided to stop coming. Even if you knock it down to say an additional 5000 fans, not spending $100 a weekend just by coming to town, going to the game, then leaving, that's $3.5 mil in lost revenue. It starts adding up as more and more people stop coming, especially for the groups that sell concessions as fund raisers, or any of the concessions running along Melrose.
Which reminds me, I hope the University plans on reimbursing the groups running the stands for lost revenue.
Has anyone else noticed the distinct lack of emotion displayed by our male athletes? I know people have commented on it from time to time with the football team, but it's also true of the basketball team much of the time, and even in wrestling a bit. Think of the Maryland hoops game, White was fired up and showing emotion, the team wins. They show zero emotion in the games against Minny and jNW and lose. Yesterday they were showing emotion against Nebby and they win. I can see it on the football team with emotionless KF on the sideline, but you would think with Fran's personality that some of it would carry over to the team. It's almost like GB has a rule that players are supposed to be emotionless robots.
KF's earlier teams had that fire, that chip on the shoulder attitude, not so much lately. Can't comment much on Alford's teams since I didn't get to see many of the games and am trying to black out the Lickliter years, but Davis' teams always had attitude.
Ugh, it's time for a housecleaning and it begins at the top with Barta.
Knight78
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Have to be 49/48 yard line. There's an aisle on the 50 yard line. And you don't want to get too close as you won't be able to see over the team on many plays from the hash mark to the near sideline.
hawkdrummer1
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BOOM!
docholihawk
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At least we're not offering hot dogs, coke, program and the opportunity to sit on a hillside for $10.00.
HawgEyeState
Banned
HawgEyeState
Banned
And for the record, I'll be Renewing and perhaps Upgrading this year (since they'll be ample supply of
vacant seats).
Look for me on the 40 yard line, PressBox side, row 23.
GO HAWKS
vacant seats).
Look for me on the 40 yard line, PressBox side, row 23.
GO HAWKS
ArvadaHawk
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You should try to sit next to a field microphone so that we can hear you cheering; you could be the only fan there.
Billso
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Actually, that may be smart, if you believe Iowa turns things around eventually.
Get in while everyone else is getting out. Warren Buffet strategy. Except you'll need to dump truckloads of cash to *keep* good seats.
hawkdrummer1
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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.
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