Iowa offering free tickets for the MSU game

[Clonefan32]

What are we supposed to use then? That is the only figure given from a reputable source.

A visual look around the arena at how many empty seats are empty? Photographic evidence of empty seats? Public attempts by the University to beg people to come to games? It's not like anyone needs exact numbers here. You can pretty easily tell a 2/3rds full gym from a full one.

The Drake example is a great one. Imagine if I, as an Iowa State fan, tried to use the paid attendance for that game in support of our fan support. We had 56,000 people come out to watch us play Drake during a monsoon! What great fans we have! You'd have a field day of that. But when the University of Iowa is publicly begging people to come we're all the sudden going by paid attendance?

 

[dexterhawk]

There's a huge difference between citing paid attendance and relying on it as an indicator of fan support, as you and others have tried to do.

Link?

 

[Clonefan32]

Link?

Use the link to the Drake game if you need a link. It would be insane for me to claim that 56,000 in paid attendance equated to great fan support at that game.

 

[rhoho]

The more I read the responses on here the more i realize some people have no life and spend all day on here and also im pretty sure if some of the posters were known in public they would get dropped for being keyboard warriors and hiding behind their keyboard

 

[benjimill]

Anybody else think students should have an allotment of free tickets for every game? I think Duke and some other schools do this. With the cost of tuition combined with TV money etc I don’t really see a reason to have them paying...

This would be nice, although at many schools I would imagine the student tickets are heavily discounted. I am paying over $60,000 this year for tuition- it is getting completely out of control.

 

[iahawks]

A visual look around the arena at how many empty seats are empty? Photographic evidence of empty seats? Public attempts by the University to beg people to come to games? It's not like anyone needs exact numbers here. You can pretty easily tell a 2/3rds full gym from a full one.

The Drake example is a great one. Imagine if I, as an Iowa State fan, tried to use the paid attendance for that game in support of our fan support. We had 56,000 people come out to watch us play Drake during a monsoon! What great fans we have! You'd have a field day of that. But when the University of Iowa is publicly begging people to come we're all the sudden going by paid attendance?

So you want to use photographic evidence and anecdotal information to try and guess the number of fans in actual attendance? Good luck with that.

That is the number CyTwins is using for the Drake game.

 

[VeloClone]

As far as the Drake game goes, I bought my ticket and used it. I just didn't use it again because I didn't have the ability to change my schedule that late and spend a weekend in Iowa.

 

[Clonefan32]

So you want to use photographic evidence and anecdotal information to try and guess the number of fans in actual attendance? Good luck with that.

That is the number CyTwins is using for the Drake game.

Did you not read the part where I said you don't need an exact number? Again, you can tell an empty arena from a 2/3rds full arena. Not hard to do.

And if I'm being lumped in with Twins it's probably time to remove myself from this thread.

 

[dexterhawk]

How does Duke even do that? First come first serve I assume?

Apparently there are are 1200 tickets available and they camp out for them ahead of time...unused tickets get sold to the general public. Apparently they haven’t been giving out all 1200 lately

https://www.dukechronicle.com/artic...ps-over-time-despite-high-interest-in-tenting

 

[VeloClone]

ISU and Iowa don’t need money from student tickets

Charging at least something makes people have some skin in the game for high demand items like tickets to football and basketball games which helps to weed out who gets them to people who are actually going to use them.

I guess that hasn't been working out very well for Iowa though, has it? I guess I'll have to think about that some more.

 

[iahawks]

Did you not read the part where I said you don't need an exact number? Again, you can tell an empty arena from a 2/3rds full arena. Not hard to do.

And if I'm being lumped in with Twins it's probably time to remove myself from this thread.

So at what times is there a full panoramic view of the entire stadium or arena to even suggest that you could guess the attendance?

 

[Clonefan32]

So at what times is there a full panoramic view of the entire stadium or arena to even suggest that you could guess the attendance?

You realize these games are nationally broadcast, right?

 

[benjimill]

Every athletic department in the nation offers discounted ticket deals. The difference between the two is one involves the transfer of money, whereby the other one desperately begs anyone off the street to come in.

Also, you didn't answer my question.

Iowa State was giving away free tickets to the Drake game to anyone who wanted them.

 

[CRCy17]

Another point, and why many places don't actually just give out free tickets to students and just discount them heavily, is that when someone has a ticket they received for free, there isn't the feeling of "buy-in" and redemption rates of said free ticket are incredibly low. When there is a price paid for a ticket, even if it is very low, the purchaser has actually invested into the event and is much more likely to attend. Schools could all give students free tickets, but they can't get them in the building. (See the Texas Tech reference earlier)

 

[iahawks]

You realize these games are nationally broadcast, right?

I do, but they hardly ever show the entire place. Usually one view over and over again.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

ISU and Iowa don’t need money from student tickets

I've been told numerous times by Iowa fans that Iowa needs that extra home football game every year for fiancial re

I do, but they hardly ever show the entire place. Usually one view over and over again.

Correct, BTN is really good at not showing the swaths of empty sections.

 

[JP4CY]

This would be nice, although at many schools I would imagine the student tickets are heavily discounted. I am paying over $60,000 this year for tuition- it is getting completely out of control.

There is no way your tuition is 60k. Maybe if you combine rent, meal plan, books, and tuition at an Ivy school.

 

[Clonefan32]

I do, but they hardly ever show the entire place. Usually one view over and over again.

I'm done with this silly argument. I imagine Carver Hawkeye will be pretty close to full, and I will say when full it is loud. But you cannot deny that it awful embarrassing for the University to have to bring this much attention to their inability to fill their gym. They've circled it in a bright hi-lighter several times in the past week. There's just really no excuse for any kind of true fan base to not get themselves to a game of this magnitude and to have to resort to a very public plea for people to come. Iowa's crowd does not look like, say, Penn State's from the other night, but they struggle to fill the place. That much cannot be denied.

 

[IASTATE07]

The more I read the responses on here the more i realize some people have no life and spend all day on here and also im pretty sure if some of the posters were known in public they would get dropped for being keyboard warriors and hiding behind their keyboard

This is, um, quite the post.

 

[dexterhawk]

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You realize these games are nationally broadcast, right?

Better hope the photos aren’t taken right after halftime at Trice....half the crowd is still out in the parking lot