Start marketing the Depends, masks and santizer now.
Will We Have Football in the Fall?
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Start marketing the Depends, masks and santizer now.
I'm not sure we are on the same page here and it's probably not worth starting over to explain what I meant. But I will say that I didn't think your post was bad at all. It was just wrong so I was correcting it.
I truly thought what I said was understood as fact by now, and the only opinion left was if that way was worth the risk, which we still don't know and I'm 50/50 on.
Ree4
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"Season ticketholders, naturally. But it would not just be the 14,000 tickets tied to the biggest financial contributors."
Great to see, I'm glad it's not just going to be the wealthiest/most willing to spend the most that buy their way in. I wonder if they'll go to some kind of lottery system or if they'll pick certain seats picked far enough apart. Would be a lot of data and decision making to sort though. Tough to decide who gets to go and who doesn't.
I don't think they should just sell 30,000 season tickets and let the same people go to every game.
The secondary market will be very interesting this fall. Usually you have a fairly good idea of price range you're going to pay for seats at Kinnick, TCF, or Camp Randall.
This fall who knows? Completely unpredictable.
Ree4
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Out of fairness I would completely agree but that could add a ton of complication - unless they just pick at random. Have you ever had to split season tickets before? I'll take ISU, Wisconsin and Michigan state - you can have the rest. Not saying that this is what you're suggesting because it would be incredibly hard to do, but if they started adding preferences it would be very tough. If they split 3 games for me 4 games for you how do they decide how to refund donations? Do they take $500/7games x number of games attended and value them all the same? Of course I'm over thinking it and I'm guessing they'll do something very simple.
Yea you would lose all donations if you got rid of season tickets, which I'm sure they don't want to do. Maybe jack up single ticket prices to make up for it?
SteveGarvey1
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If it means making at least a game at Kinnick this year, I'd put on a Depends. Depends on the game though, bah-dah-bump.
okeefe4prez
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Rob - when do you think the "shit or get off the pot" date is going to be for schools who decide they don't want to play? I'm starting to get the sense that there will be momentum for some schools to get something going, but I am skeptical about certain elite schools actually going ahead with playing and I am also skeptical about whether certain states, like Illinois, are going to allow teams to play even if they want to. So basically a bunch of teams are going to need to rework their schedules based on who is going to play. Given your in depth knowledge of the inner workings of an athletic department, how much time are the schools who decide they want to play going to need to revise their schedules?
I'll hang up and listen. Thanks.
I'll hang up and listen. Thanks.
Motigerhawk
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You surely cant speculate. Who knows what will happen. No one knows for sure. So how can speculation or opine about what COULD happen even be considered?
RobHowe
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I’m missing your point. Could you elaborate please?
Motigerhawk
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We have no idea what will happen in the next 3 months, so how can one even consider what will happen. No one knows. Not the experts, not the right, not the left. We need to live in the present and take things as they come.
RobHowe
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I really don’t have a guess. I don’t think we’ve heard anything from a number of B1G schools about reopening. They need time to prepare for the season if they’re going to play. It seems like the middle of July would be the safe cutoff for playing at the beginning of September.
RobHowe
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I presented multiple outcomes on what could happen depending on circumstances and did not speculate on what was going to happen.
Motigerhawk
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As have others. In fact, Missouri's hot spot, St. Louis county had a large uptick in cases over the memorial day weekend.
I have explained what history has shown. And what multiple outcomes could occur. And these were wrotten based on opinion articles written on this site.
I know you own this site and I appreciate it, as it has allowed me to express my OPINIONS on the state of affairs of Iowa athletics.
But one cannot dissuade opinions on one of the most dramatic challenges of a generation and society because they disagree. Well, you do own the site so you can do that. But this virus is what it is. In the NE children are starting to die because of off shoot illnesses related to Covid.
You speculate but wont let others do the same.
okeefe4prez
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Thanks. I can't see any way Northwestern is gonna want to play. Illinois has an order preventing gatherings in excess of 50 people, so I think there is a good chance the Illini and Huskies are also toast. My buddy is a season ticket holder in Champaign and said the DIA has called him a few times begging for a renewal but they only have a response of "we are working with the governor's office" when confronted with questions about how they expect to play football in light of the governor's order. That would mean we would be down at least 3 teams right off the bat. It's just weird because these college games are lined up like a decade in advance and it seems like rescheduling is going to be a nightmare. If we lose 3 games in mid July, we're gonna need to beg someone like Kansas or Kansas State to play us and those new schedules are gonna have to come together in probably 2-3 weeks.
okeefe4prez
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As someone who been banned from multiple iterations of hawkeyenation and the entire scout network, let me just say this - Rob's moderating decisions aren't final because they are right, they are right because they are final. The guy is being pretty lenient, but he has limits so please just respect his decision so he doesn't 86 the whole topic.
Motigerhawk
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That is okay by me. But quit posting opinion articles about the taboo subject if you dont want opinions.
Again, I love this site. But his reasoning on this whole topic is all over the place. He doesnt want opinions, yet gives them. He doesnt want speculation, yet speculates.
What is the rule of law? Is it personal freedom or safety for the site? Seems like the arguments that have been happening on several threads.
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