JT Plans

[CyBobby]

YEah, this picture below actually kind of freaked me out when I saw it. At a quick glance, that could be JTS.

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The WVU stadium not only looks identical it is...The mountaineers used the same plans that Iowa State used to build their east and west side of the stadium....Then the mountaineers just filled in the ends!!!

Great things are on the way & the program is moving in the rite direction...quoting Jamie Pollard:yes:

 

[hobbsfan27]

When are they bowling it in?

 

[MontyBurns]

Great things are on the way & the program is moving in the rite direction...quoting Jamie Pollard:yes:

That's right up there with:

"I hope we get some rain, we could use it", quoting Noah.

 

[jdoggivjc]

That's right up there with:

"I hope we get some rain, we could use it", quoting Noah.

Don't misquote Noah -

Noah warned everyone the rain was coming - no one believed him...

 

[Aclone]

Don't misquote Noah -

Noah warned everyone the rain was coming - no one believed him...

I think that was the point.

 

[LindenCy]

Holy crap- ignore the hill in the foreground, and you're freaking looking at Jack Trice! That's really uncanny...

Wow. I had to enlarge it to see if it was JT or not.

 

[isupug7]

So i noticed that there was a tunnel in the new bowled in endzone... any possibility of our locker room moving over there... cuz as many of you the space in the jacobson is quickly running out... so has anyone heard anything like this?

 

[jaretac]

So i noticed that there was a tunnel in the new bowled in endzone... any possibility of our locker room moving over there... cuz as many of you the space in the jacobson is quickly running out... so has anyone heard anything like this?

It was talked about earlier in the thread, but I believe that tunnel is for equipment since the early plans had a equipment storage facility under the S. endzone bleachers.

 

[theshadow]

So i noticed that there was a tunnel in the new bowled in endzone... any possibility of our locker room moving over there... cuz as many of you the space in the jacobson is quickly running out... so has anyone heard anything like this?

Space under the south end would be used for maintenance equipment. Depending on the plans, the visitor locker room could be moved out there also. The ISU locker room won't move out of the Olsen Building.

 

[temperflare]

Yes. Oregon prints money. They don't need a big stadium.

You don't build a broad fan base without having seats to put butts into.

With this plan, to expand to even 60K, we'd either have to rip out the (just built) south end zone, or tear back the Jacobsen Building.

Planned obsolescence is a bad thing.

I'm wondering if more seats available will = lower prices to bring in higher volume of fans.

If so, I'm most definately in!

 

[Al_4_State]

I'm wondering if more seats available will = lower prices to bring in higher volume of fans.

If so, I'm most definately in!

This would be the hope. I call this scenario a massive win-win for our fanbase. It seems logical to me, that getting butts in the seats (even if they aren't season ticket holders or millionaires) is going to make $ for the school in the long run. All those people are buying tickets, parking passes, food, and hopefully more Cyclone gear all the time.

 

[Flag Guy]

So i noticed that there was a tunnel in the new bowled in endzone... any possibility of our locker room moving over there... cuz as many of you the space in the jacobson is quickly running out... so has anyone heard anything like this?

I don't know that it'd free up any space in the Jacobson but... since (atleast some of) the maintence equpiment is in there now, maybe that'd free up some space

Doubt it though, as that's not really good office space

 

[jaretac]

This would be the hope. I call this scenario a massive win-win for our fanbase. It seems logical to me, that getting butts in the seats (even if they aren't season ticket holders or millionaires) is going to make $ for the school in the long run. All those people are buying tickets, parking passes, food, and hopefully more Cyclone gear all the time.

The question is: do we have a big enough fan base?

With the way the team is playing now, the people with tickets aren't even staying for the game. Someone said that we should bring the capacity up to 80,000 and lower ticket prices because 80,000 seats times $30 a seat equals 2.4 million where 50,000 seats times $40 a seat equals 2 million. His argument was that by adding seats and lowering tickets the AD will actually make more money. If this was 2005, I would say go for it, but this is 2008 and the economy is struggling and allot of the sunshine fans are MIA.

Let's face it, bowling in the endzone would make the stadium feel more like a Big12 facility, but the AD can already sell 50,000+ tickets (when there is a demand for it). So, we are talking about spending 50 million on a addition that won't really add that many seats. The AD won't build it until they bring in enough donations and we are a good 20-30 million away from where we need to be.

I'm in no way against this, I just want to give everyone a reality check and point out that if everything goes right- it will be at least three years.

 

[Aclone]

The question is: do we have a big enough fan base?

I think that with the D.M. metro to draw upon, not to mention Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and the larger ring of Minneapolis, the Quad Cities, Kansas City and Omaha, we have plenty of population base to draw from.

The ingresdients we need are:

1. An exciting football team,
2. A winning football team,
3. What people perceive to be reasonable ticket prices, and
4. Enough seats to put all the butts into. You can't really become a lifetime Cyclone fan if you don't have the opportunity to be in Jack Trice Stadium. The Jack just has that effect on people.

As for another way of looking at it, ISU graduates what, 4,000 a year? You guys would have to tell me--is it really unreasonable to expect, say, 250 of those graduates a year to A. stay in the area, and B. buy, on average, four season tickets, over forty of the next fifty years? That's a 40K fanbase right there.

 

[CycloneErik]

I think that with the D.M. metro to draw upon, not to mention Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and the larger ring of Minneapolis, the Quad Cities, Kansas City and Omaha, we have plenty of population base to draw from.

The ingresdients we need are:

1. An exciting football team,
2. A winning football team,
3. What people perceive to be reasonable ticket prices, and
4. Enough seats to put all the butts into. You can't really become a lifetime Cyclone fan if you don't have the opportunity to be in Jack Trice Stadium. The Jack just has that effect on people.

As for another way of looking at it, ISU graduates what, 4,000 a year? You guys would have to tell me--is it really unreasonable to expect, say, 250 of those graduates a year to A. stay in the area, and B. buy, on average, four season tickets, over forty of the next fifty years? That's a 40K fanbase right there.

I became a lifetime Cyclone fan, before I ever managed to see a game in the Jack. But, once Revkah and I had the chance to get to a game, we were sold on attending every one we could (unless we were in Jamaica)!

 

[Al_4_State]

The question is: do we have a big enough fan base?

With the way the team is playing now, the people with tickets aren't even staying for the game. Someone said that we should bring the capacity up to 80,000 and lower ticket prices because 80,000 seats times $30 a seat equals 2.4 million where 50,000 seats times $40 a seat equals 2 million. His argument was that by adding seats and lowering tickets the AD will actually make more money. If this was 2005, I would say go for it, but this is 2008 and the economy is struggling and allot of the sunshine fans are MIA.

Let's face it, bowling in the endzone would make the stadium feel more like a Big12 facility, but the AD can already sell 50,000+ tickets (when there is a demand for it). So, we are talking about spending 50 million on a addition that won't really add that many seats. The AD won't build it until they bring in enough donations and we are a good 20-30 million away from where we need to be.

I'm in no way against this, I just want to give everyone a reality check and point out that if everything goes right- it will be at least three years.

I think there are people that would enjoy going to games, and would want to, but just don't feel like they can justify dropping an arm and a leg to do so. Cheap tickets could also help draw in some of the people on the fringes who never had a strong allegiance, and turn them into big fans after going to a game.

 

[CyAg]

Make the tickets too cheap and their will be pressure on the pricing ont he upper section as as well.

It is a balancing act.