Agreed. I usually enjoy tailgating with visitors at JT, most of them are kind of fun and not jerks. Really only bad experiences have been Hoks and Nebby fans.
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Agreed. I usually enjoy tailgating with visitors at JT, most of them are kind of fun and not jerks. Really only bad experiences have been Hoks and Nebby fans.
You gotta understand the context of what I said. I don't care if visitors have a good place to tailgate in IC. The pricing component is my bad, I gotta remember they give most stuff away in Ames to go watch that football team.....$99 season tickets, $50 parking for the year, Cyclone kids passes for free, etc. Economics is a simple thing, better product and more demand equals higher prices.
Sorry, but I gotta point this out for sheer idiocy. Now where the hell is my free pizza and tuition when I get there!
Exactly, thanks for proving my point. ISU prices football, like the Hawks had to price basketball under Lick.
None of your prices were CORRECT. And like I said, I want my damn free tuition since they were offering it this year, wait for it........................for football games!
I haven't read past this post but I guarantee someone is going to come back with Iowa basketball comparisons.
And free tuition for buying football tickets this year.
He walked right into that one.
Did they ever announce who won their free tuition for either buying a football ticket or emailing them in the 12 hours or whatever they gave students who were not purchasing? I was hoping they were all students from "Chicago" who didn't buy tickets.
You guys are looking at it from ISU fan's perspective, where we just all get together and have a good time. You have to look at it from an Iowa fan's perspective, where the limited/crappy tailgating is perfect, it allows the doctors and lawyers to one-up each other over how good of a spot they can buy, and the hipsters and tavernhawks can posture about how hardcore of fans they are because they tailgate in the mall parking lot. Plus, the separation allows them to pretend the other arseholes don't exist and all Iowa fans are just like them.
I have no problem with free pizza, it's delicious, but do they somehow monitor if people are just taking the free pizza and leaving? Bobbleheads I'm not as fond of, particularly the ginger variety. Free tuition? Sign me up for a second major.
Except that's not true in Iowa states case. Seeing as how demand is still high after a 3-9 season, and a 0-2 start .
all the while, those vaunted hawkeyes coming off a bowl year had to entice students by giving away free tuition for 5 students and giving fuel saver points for hyvee gas. Quit while you're ahead deano.
The funny thing is most visiting fans have nothing but good things to say about tailgating at Iowa. Yes it's spread out and yes there are jerk Hawk fans (your fan base has their share as well), but many fans from other schools like coming here to tailgate.
I understand it's "cool" to hate everything Iowa but tailgating isn't bad at all. I've had fun in Ames tailgating before as I have in other venues. It's what you make of it.
I understand it's "cool" to hate everything Iowa but tailgating isn't bad at all. I've had fun in Ames tailgating before as I have in other venues. It's what you make of it.
ISU math. 54,000 >> 65,000-70,000.
You might want to take your own advice and quit embarrassing yourself. ISU is in the same league as Iowa on ticket sales/revenues, as NDSU is to ISU.....It apples and oranges
Here is the best ISU football season tickets ever, last year:
http://thegazette.com/2013/08/01/state-athletics-budgets-to-grow-by-7-2-million/
ISU calculates football ticket revenue to jump by $1.85 million to $10.1 million, a 22.3 percent leap. Last year the Cyclones' football ticket revenue exceeded its budget by nearly $1.15 million.
Here are Iowas number from 2012 (couldn't find 2013 numbers) yet 2012 was the worst Iowa season in over a decade.
http://thegazette.com/2013/04/13/major-disparity-in-big-ten-football-ticket-revenue/
Penn State ($33.403 million) -- the league's other stadium seating more than 100,000 for home games -- was third. Nebraska ($28.184 million), Iowa ($21.034 million) and Wisconsin ($18.332 million) rounded out the top six.
So we have ISU at 10M in ticket revenues, and Iowa at 20M. So Iowa is doubling ISU in ticket revenues while only selling 10-15K more tickets. So basically ISU has to charge 1/2 the money to get 10-15K less people in their stadium.
point is what? Never did I say Iowa has a bigger attendance or makes more in ticket sales. Iowa has a better history and has been more successful the past decade. Willing to bet Iowa state wouldn't need these gimmicks if they had the success Iowa has had in the past 10-15 years.
Still waiting on what this has to do with anything I said.
I was addressing the fact that ISU fans seem to make fun of Iowa for giving away tuition to 5 student the tune of $40,000.....yet it doesn't dawn on them that they are giving away 5M-10M annually by selling tickets at 1/2 price to "entice" it's fan base to show up at games. Not only that but weren't ISU student season tickets down by 2000 this year, and required the student to purchase football season ticket in order to get basketball season ticket? ISU has more gimmicks than anyone to boost ticket sales. Not that this is a bad thing, I wish Iowa's marketing department was half as savvy as the ISU department.