ISU vs EIU Ticket prices

intrepid27 · 04-18-2008, 07:06 AM

Football: Iowa charging less than ISU for Big Game tickets | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

Three thoughts:

1.Will this topic never die? This practice will become very common in the collge landscape. Pollard is just on the front end of the curve.

2.I wish Hawk fans would realize that "This ain't about you!!". JP is training the ISU fan base to buy season tickets versus cherry picking single games. Sounds like revenue maximization to me.

3.If EIU has another medicore season it will be interesting to see what Barta has to pull out of his hat to get fans in the seats. I remember around th eend of the Hayden Fry era Bowlsby was making excuses for poor attendance by sayin gthat th efan base was "getting too old" to come to games. Mark my words.....EIU will face similar issues in the future.

isuno1fan · 04-18-2008, 07:09 AM

We won't hear the end of this and EIU fans will use this as evidence they are the "good guys" and we are just gouging them because we have to in order to get revenue.

cycloneG · 04-18-2008, 07:38 AM

I wonder if the fans who are complaining are the same fans that are buying the tickets. Iowa fan's bought the entire allotment of tickets priced at $90 each. It would have been folly had Pollard not priced them so high. It was a good business decision to maximize profits.

iowast8fan · 04-18-2008, 07:46 AM

Tickets sell on Ebay for $100, so why should ISU let the fans make money off a game that the university should be maximizing profits?

Also, why are Iowa fans always so obessed with what ISU is doing?

BryceC · 04-18-2008, 08:03 AM

I've said this before but Nebraska fans won't like paying a premium for ISU game tickets and they won't like the season ticket requirement, but it has happened to them several times (Wake and USC for example) and they'll suck it up and go to the game or they'll stay home. If Iowa fans want to think of themselves as having a big time program they need to understand there are bad things that come with that too.

Clonehomer · 04-18-2008, 08:42 AM

I thought UI was a business school? The UI fans that went to Iowa need to explain to the other 90% how the concept of supply and demand work.

ajk4st8 · 04-18-2008, 08:45 AM

I guess the demand for Iowa football tickets isn't as high as they are at ISU.

CyBobby · 04-18-2008, 09:28 AM

If Iowa State got seven million dollars from a conference network like the squawkeyes ... well guess what....jamie pollard could REDUCE PRICES ALSO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cardinal&gold · 04-18-2008, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by iowast8fan

Tickets sell on Ebay for $100, so why should ISU let the fans make money off a game that the university should be maximizing profits?

Also, why are Iowa fans always so obessed with what ISU is doing?

Conversely, why are ISU fans always so obsessed with what Iowa is doing? It goes both ways.

DJK15 · 04-18-2008, 09:49 AM

Pollard is playing with fire. Barta will get the last laugh when he chooses not to renew the Iowa-ISU series. In fact, it wouldn't bother me at all, I'd rather Iowa start a new series/rivalry with Nebraska or Mizzu.

cycloneG · 04-18-2008, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by DJK15

Pollard is playing with fire. Barta will get the last laugh when he chooses not to renew the Iowa-ISU series. In fact, it wouldn't bother me at all, I'd rather Iowa start a new series/rivalry with Nebraska or Mizzu.

What fire is Pollard playing with? He's increased ticket sales and total revenue. Iowa fans bought the entire allotment of tickets. If Iowa fans were so upset about ticket prices, they didn't have to buy them. No one held a gun to their head and forced them to buy them.

How does Barta get a last laugh if the series isn't continued? Iowa isn't the biggest draw for Iowa State when they play in Ames. Nebraska and UNI have both drawn bigger crowds.

Wanting to start a series rivalry with another school is nice to say but hard to do. Iowa has no history playing Nebraska or Missouri.

Cy Hard · 04-18-2008, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by DJK15

Pollard is playing with fire. Barta will get the last laugh when he chooses not to renew the Iowa-ISU series. In fact, it wouldn't bother me at all, I'd rather Iowa start a new series/rivalry with Nebraska or Mizzu.

Tired of losing huh....

Stormin · 04-18-2008, 10:03 AM

The price of the tickets is irrelevant. In fact, it is better for Iowa to have ISU value the tickets at a high rate. Doesn't Iowa get to keep the money from the sale of those 4,000 tickets?

The common guy has NO access to individual game tickets for the ISU-Iowa game no matter what the price. They go to the Highest Priority Season ticket holders in both cases when either team is the visitor. So it is irrelevant. Just another thing for the trailer dwelling Squawk fans to complain about.

keepngoal · 04-18-2008, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by DJK15

Pollard is playing with fire. Barta will get the last laugh when he chooses not to renew the Iowa-ISU series. In fact, it wouldn't bother me at all, I'd rather Iowa start a new series/rivalry with Nebraska or Mizzu.

I would love for the Iowa AD to TRY and cancel the series... only making the Iowa (too much time on their hands) Legislature pass the law requiring Iowa to suit up. It would only bolster the fact, yes fact, Iowa can't stand a rivalry when it IS a rivalry.

Barta tried to run from ISU, but lost.

-keep.

keepngoal · 04-18-2008, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Stormin

The price of the tickets is irrelevant. In fact, it is better for Iowa to have ISU value the tickets at a high rate. Doesn't Iowa get to keep the money from the sale of those 4,000 tickets?

The common guy has NO access to individual game tickets for the ISU-Iowa game no matter what the price. They go to the Highest Priority Season ticket holders in both cases when either team is the visitor. So it is irrelevant. Just another thing for the trailer dwelling Squawk fans to complain about.

Iowa buys them at our price and sells them to their 'fan' base. If the Iowa 'fan' base didn't pony up, the UofI would be out $$.