This is the difference though...some of us don't consider it a rathole even if the team goes 0-12. For me, a Saturday at Trice is a MUST in the Fall regardless of how the team performs. Wins make it better, but losses don't make me question the investment.
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This is the difference though...some of us don't consider it a rathole even if the team goes 0-12. For me, a Saturday at Trice is a MUST in the Fall regardless of how the team performs. Wins make it better, but losses don't make me question the investment.
CycloneErik
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I agree here. If we ponied up and bought more tickets, that helps to change a lot of things.
I agree! I think PR may be be our Hayden, but way too early in the game to know.
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We have an unusual stadium in that 10,000 of the 55,000 capacity of Jack Trice Stadium (JTS) are general admission/standing room only/hillside seats. What other stadium in America has 18% of its capacity without actual seats? I think a standard regulation chain-link fence should be placed around the outside of the hillside seats and that no hillside seats should be offered until every single one of the 45,000 real seats are sold. It would be a much better atmosphere if every one of the 45,000 actual seats were filled rather than having huge chunks of empty seats and a smattering of people on the hillsides. I would like to see Iowa State pricing events to ensure sell-outs. This would lead to a better game day experience and bolster recruiting in the long-run which would in-turn lead to more wins and more revenue down the road thus allowing Iowa State the opportunity to bowl-in the South Endzone.
Just someone else that expects Texas results on UNI money. No big news here.
People need to get over the idea that our budget problems have anything to do with ticket prices. We have the 2nd highest single game ticket prices in the Big 12 North, and we have the 2nd highest season ticket prices in the Big 12 North.
2009 Football Season Ticket Prices (for seats, not hillsides/standing room):
1. Nebraska $378 / 7 games (all seats requires add'l donation)
2. ISU $350 / 6 games (some seats require add'l donation)
3. Kansas State $300 / 7 games (some seats require add'l donation)
4. Missouri $280 / 6 games (some seats require add'l donation)
5. Kansas $225 / 6 games (some seats require add'l donation)
6. Colorado $180, $265, $400, or $548 (depending on seat) / 6 games (donation included in price)
My tickets were only $195. How much are endzone tickets? Glad you took the highest level seats and used them. Ask a KSU fan or a NU fan how much their donation has to be to get tickets.
CycloneErik
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What does a day at Adventureland cost for a family of four? To be honest, that is pretty cheap to get into a BCS college football game. I took the family to a Minnesota Vikings game several years back. Ridiculous.
I know it isn't cheap. But you are talking about the entertainment for four people. And that is for an all day deal. Pretty decent entertainment value really. If you dropped the hillside tickets down to half you would only save $30 or $7.50 per person. If that is a deal breaker for you then you will have to stay home. I would suggest packing a lunch and what you save on the restaurant bill will more than pay the difference.
I know it isn't cheap. But you are talking about the entertainment for four people. And that is for an all day deal. Pretty decent entertainment value really. If you dropped the hillside tickets down to half you would only save $30 or $7.50 per person. If that is a deal breaker for you then you will have to stay home. I would suggest packing a lunch and what you save on the restaurant bill will more than pay the difference.
Just out of curiosity, why do you list multiple price points for CU and rank them last but not list all of the price points for ours?
$99, $125, $195, $350
Our bottom two are lower than CU's bottom one, and our bottom three are lower than all of the other prices you listed.
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This is a great point. My neighbor and his wife are not renewing football season tix for what they say are $$$ reasons - yet I see the pizza delivery guy stop by their house at least twice a week. That is their business concerning what they choose to spend their money on - but then don't say you have no choice...
My favorite people are the people that complain like this then continue to smoke a pack a day.
5 of us went last week for $120, not including food or parking.
So given the time spent - I'd have to say it's considerably cheaper to go to Adventureland.
I'm afraid I don't see how people consider at 2 1/2 - 3 hour football game as "all day entertainment". Most people I know don't take their kids because they don't want them around the tailgating, drinking and often obnoxious behavior. I know for fact I wouldn't take my kids until about their teens. To each their own, however.
Sorry - college football, even the comparatively cheaper prices at ISU, is about the MOST expensive thing I can think of.
Which hospital??? :wink:
I got ours reduced from the bank, but it was still $24/each. Regular is $31.
Well if you don't include food or parking or the gas to get there then the OP only spent $60 for the four of them.
And you don't have to drink. I see a lot of families that bring their grill and cook out while the kids play the bean bag toss or throw the football or frisbee. I consider the hour or two drive each way. Plus the couple hours or so having a nice cookout, plus the 3 hours of a football game to be a pretty full day. We have some in our group who don't even drink. They like the game day atmosphere and the excitement plus seeing the large crowds of people. I have been to Adventureland and don't really like standing in line for long periods to ride for a few minutes. It felt like we were being loaded like cattle into a loading chute. To each their own I guess. And it probably does depend on what your kids like. But Adventureland is not less expensive.
It's all personal opinion. But from my viewpoint.
1) I'd rather sit in my backyard and watch a 20" tv though the kitchen window - than watch a game on those hillsides. I'm not paying anything for a crap view. May as well stay home and listen to John on the radio. So just because I can scrounge the cheapest ticket in the house, doesn't make a worthwhile entertainment value.
To keep the Adventureland comparison alive, that's like saying I can get into A-land for the same price as a hillside, but half the rides are off limits.
Not to mention - I paid for a 3 hour football game. And for 8-10-12 hours at A-land. Just because I hang out in the parking lot for 4 hours before or after the game - that's not part of the price - at least to me.
2) I'm not talking about my group of tailgaters alone. The people I have tailgated with are fine. I'm referring to the others whom I have little to no control over. Not to mention, from time to time, people in the stands. Perhaps we're prudes, but everyone I have normally tailgated with over the past 10+ years and that HAVE kids, have yet to bring them to a game. So I'm certainly not the only one who shares that opinion.
Factor in further, if you choose not to bring your kids for whatever reason - the potential cost of a sitter. I know a few for whom this is the biggest cost to the whole thing.
Again, I know "you can do it cheaper" and there are a dozen different ways to get in cheap, cheap, cheap. But then for many it becomes a non-worthwhile experience - and that's what the complaint is.
And that's where I'm at as well. I love ISU, enjoy the games. But it's got the point with the yearly hikes in ticket prices and more and more demands on donations - that it just isn't worth it any more. And if that makes me a crappy fan because I can put my entertainment dollars to better use elsewhere, then so be it.
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I would not say it makes you a crappy fan, but I hope to see you write more critiques of the third tier amusement park known as Adventureland than that of ISU athletics.
Unfortunately for the fans of ISU athletics that value ISU football over Adventureland, ISU football is nearly a public good which allows peripheral fans to go along for a free ride… combined with the network (bandwagon) effect that governs college athletics, and the situation becomes toxic.
Adventureland was merely a comparison of options. And not one brought up by me initially, but one I recently utilized.
Here's another. My wife and I are about to leave for 2.5 hour movies (roughly the same time as your average football game) $19 for the two, versus the $200 that this season's tickets would cost per game, factoring in the donations. And I'll probably score the best seats in the house at the flick.
I'll let you know what I think of the movie when I get back. :skeptical:
I don't feel all that bad, however. After all, I'm a member of the select group that got tickets over the years that probably kept ISU football viable so that today's "Johnny come lately's" , who have decided to show after a small amount of success, can enjoy it. Call it a bit of pride.