It's only temporary until we have a winning product. I donate $2500 and have no problem with the minipaks at all.
mini-pack time tomorrow?
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It's only temporary until we have a winning product. I donate $2500 and have no problem with the minipaks at all.
Lets hope that begins to happen this year. It really affects the lower level donors who give whatever they can to get the same seats all us mini packers get.
That is the correct attitude. We're getting mini-packs, but down the road when we are both established in our jobs we will be donating at least $250 and we won't be complaining about others getting good deals.
But getting low-level donors at initial levels is the key to growing the NCC, and now there is absolutely no incentive to do so. They should be able to get some preferential seating for their money, and all this does is **** them off, and discourage them from donating.
Having to put the Iowa game in any kind of discounted mini-pack is mind-boggling...
So you're the one who hogged all the good seats. :wink:
I just ordered seats for the Iowa mini-pack and clicked the "best seats available" option. I don't know if that was a mistake or not because I got tickets in Section F about half way up for all three games.
Does that mean mini-packs are selling at a pretty good rate?
The incentive is helping your university/team. You also start accumulating NCC points which will become very important when/if our teams start winning. Those getting by on the mini paks now or that didn't renew season tickets and have to start over at ZERO pts will be ******* and moaning about not being able to get good seats even though they started donating again when we are winning.
PLUS
You get the decal for your car! What more incentive do you need!
Touching on something Tornado man eluded to, I think it is a shame that the visiting fans get better seats than some of the donors. I am not a huge K-State fan, but the last time I was at a K-State-Iowa State game, they put all the ISU fans way up in the four corners of the stadium.
ISU should do the same thing.
ISU should do the same thing.
If there are open seats in the middle of the field, they will just move. I used to do it myself back in the day. Until donors sell the middle of the field out, others will sit wherever they please regardless of what seat the ticket reads.
Your above post is just what I tell my friends who are not NCC members, but not all are "fanatics" are want to give just to support the program - they want something for their money.
As someone else posted, I fear the season tix numbers are down - wonder how many quit because they knew they could get great seats regardless?
The more I think about it, a mini-pack with the Iowa game in it makes us look like Indiana or Northwestern - very sobering.
You mean there are empty seats where you can do that?
Yep, you are right, but still giving up some pretty decent seats to the opponents seems a little silly. Plus, they are all grouped together at field level. Sometimes they are pretty loud.
At the K-State game, we couldn't tell if there were any other ISU fans there or not. Of course, getting killed by 50 probably had something to do with the noise level. ISU simply could not do anything right in that game.
I had heard (can't verify) that ISU gives visiting teams those great seats by the field as an incentive for them to also bring their band to sit adjacent to them - thus buying more tickets.
I went last season and ISU fans were bunched together in the southeast corner of the stadium at field-level. Can't complain.
We sit in section 5, row 11. I believe that 1-10 in front of us are reserved for faculty/staff. Last year, the 4-6 seats directly in front of us had a rotating cast of characters, including opposing fans... I don't know how low you go before the seats are less desirable - I thought 11 was going to be too low, but I actually really like where we're at (not as much as our old, at the top of the lower level seats.)
The only problem I have with the mini-packs: ticket prices should never have been increased to $350 in Chizik's first year. Sure, we made money behind the excitement of his hiring, but most people have pulled out now.
Just got my pack about 30 minutes ago (4 pack)...still plenty of good seats available. I'm at sec 21 row 7. Actually a little too close to the field for my liking but I'm not complaining.
Had ISU not done this I would have just scalped a few tickets to the 2-3 home games I can make. This way ISU gets $200 in their pocket and not some dude that decided not to show up.
Had ISU not done this I would have just scalped a few tickets to the 2-3 home games I can make. This way ISU gets $200 in their pocket and not some dude that decided not to show up.
I'm w/you. I have had season tickets the past two years but recently got a PT job where i work weekends so didn't want to commit to that much money if I couldn't make it. At this price I can rationalize not making a game a little more. Not bad seats either I don't think. I've always sat in the upper level so not sure what I'll get w/my two lower level games since they are pretty close to the field.
NDSU: Section D, Row 29
Army: Section 12, Row 4
Baylor: Section 5, Row 2
Colorado: Section D, Row 30
I am selling a ticket package that is a way better deal than the 4-game mini-pack. Check out the ticket exchange forum if you are interested.