To: AD Pollard

[lomashad]

If youre such a marketing genius, instead of ******* and moanin about what you hated and how disappointed you were, what would you have done to make it that much better?!?!
What exactly were you expecting? Fireworks and strippers?!? Im all for those, but they wont win us football games come fall.

I completely agree with ripvdub, but if the strippers and fireworks could come out of the inflatable cyclone helment I for one would buy season tickets every year!

[acrozier22]

[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI"]Practice! Talking about practice![/ame]

[ISUAlum2002]

I think there were quite a few more than 7,000 there yesterday. I'd estimate somewhere in the 10,000-12,000 range. Think about it. If you were there, you saw nearly the entire lower level of the east side of the stadium was full and there were a lot of people in the upper deck as well. If JTS seats about 50,000 (not including the hillsides), then each of the decks would hold about 12,500, as all 4 of them are nearly the same size.

There were definitely a lot more than 7,000 people there yesterday, and I think there were only about 5,000 there last year (crappy weather, though), so we're moving in the right direction.

To the poster who mentioned NU's spring game.....when you consider that there has never been a regular season crowd that even approached 70,000, don't you think its a little ridiculous to verbally bitchslap our fanbase for not bringing out 70,000 to the game yesterday?

[dsouth]

While we may not agree with this...um...opinion.

Lets dispute and attack the opinion, not the poster.

I mean, he seems to think everything our coach does should be only about selling tickets, not making his players better and working on his system.

We all know winning won't sell any tickets....

I agree. He is just expressing his opinion; although, i think few would agree with it.

[PolkCityClone]

I think there were quite a few more than 7,000 there yesterday. I'd estimate somewhere in the 10,000-12,000 range. Think about it. If you were there, you saw nearly the entire lower level of the east side of the stadium was full and there were a lot of people in the upper deck as well. If JTS seats about 50,000 (not including the hillsides), then each of the decks would hold about 12,500, as all 4 of them are nearly the same size.

There were definitely a lot more than 7,000 people there yesterday, and I think there were only about 5,000 there last year (crappy weather, though), so we're moving in the right direction.

To the poster who mentioned NU's spring game.....when you consider that there has never been a regular season crowd that even approached 70,000, don't you think its a little ridiculous to verbally bitchslap our fanbase for not bringing out 70,000 to the game yesterday?

Actually, the south end from the 20 yard line down was empty. I didn't have time to count the people, but it was better than last year by far. I would trust the 7,000 estimate, give or take a 1000.

[dinger]

why are you all yelling at JP? this was chiziks game. you all dont know what took place, what conversations those two men had. JP got Chiz to come in, do his thing, not breathe down his neck and give him space and thats what hes doing. this was a spring practice. it is not meant for promotional purposes. some schools use it that way and it is effective, but thats not its purpose. you need to back off of JP, especially when you arent even sure it was his decision.

bingo i have it...im going to start a thread bashing chizik for not promoting his own spring game more. what? ludicrous you say? my point exactly.

[ISUAlum2002]

Actually, the south end from the 20 yard line down was empty. I didn't have time to count the people, but it was better than last year by far. I would trust the 7,000 estimate, give or take a 1000.

That's odd. I was sitting at the 20 on the south end and there were plenty of people to the south of me.

[tube1]

Practice! Talking about practice!

Yeah, this quote was funny the first time I read it. However, when it's played for the third or fourth time, it just gets old. Sorry. Someoen must have peed in my cherios too.

[Dave19642006]

So since we are making a stink about all this, did we win or lose? what is our record now 0-1 or 1-0, basically drop it its just practice, NOT A GAME

[dinger]

but apparently its a practice that we missed a big opprotunity on

[ArathornClone]

That's odd. I was sitting at the 20 on the south end and there were plenty of people to the south of me.

I was one of the ones sitting south of the 20 near the south end zone. It was sparse but not empty.

[CYdTracked]

Wow, I didn't read through the pages of replies to this but to the original post:

This was just a damn spring game. We knew going into it that it was not going to be a typical game. My best way to describe it was a "glorified practice." I've always been more interested in the tailgating than the game at this event and I really did not expect to see anything spectacular and I got just what I wanted to see out of this.

You can't get excited about spring games or think that you'll see something that will give you a better idea of how this fall will go. Not everyone is on campus and with a new system you can't expect to be dazzled.

[Drive4cy]

I don't understand what "opportunity" was wasted? Was Chizik suppose to tell the defense to not try and let the offense open it up and hang 50 on the board to create buzz? I don't see the big marketing chance this weekend was. It was a practice open to the public, nothing more, nothing less. I'm almost glad JP didn't try to make a gimmick out of it.

[crawfy54]

Dear ISU0454,

We in here talkin about practice. We talkin about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We talkin about practice. We not talkin about a game when it actually matters. We talkin about practice.

Regards,

Allen Iverson

lol nice...

[CYdTracked]

I'll leave it to Mr. Iverson to explain this: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI]YouTube - Iverson Practice![/ame]