I cant even imagine. I remember the UDCC being crazy busy 10 years ago, much less now
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I cant even imagine. I remember the UDCC being crazy busy 10 years ago, much less now
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This actually is an interesting question... have the number of student tickets available increased at all with this increased student body? I dont think it has, maybe we might need to expand the student section at some point.
They have been hiring 100-200 new tenured or tenured track faculty per year, this year they hired 123.
source: http://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2015/08/20/facts
Percentage wise maybe not as much. This one comes to mind though:
Looking around a bit
Arizona State has gone from about 61k to 82k
Alabama has had a rise from about 21k 10 years ago to 36k last fall.
I haven't heard about any increases lately. If a student misses out on a student ticket, they can still get a hillside. Is it still easy to sneak in to the student section with a hillside ticket? If not they can still sit (stand) in the NE hillside next to the section. If we were to start having winning seasons and the rest of the stadium is selling out (or close to it), I don't know if JP would want to give up the revenue. Maybe if the student section was moved, but I don't think that will happen either.
I wonder what the cost would be of expanding the existing decks over the north hillsides. The new seating in the former NE hillside could be a student section expansion and the former NW corner could be general seating. This would be years away if it happened at all.
Im guessing they wil just make the NE hillside a student section hillside eventually. Clone zone on the NW hill.
The hillsides are now jr cyclone club seating sections though so students couldnt buy those.
That might explain why there is some room in the student section now. Lots of d*****bags bought hillsides and just came in the student section in the past. Can't do it anymore.
Percentage wise maybe not as much. This one comes to mind though:
Looking around a bit
Arizona State has gone from about 61k to 82k
Alabama has had a rise from about 21k 10 years ago to 36k last fall.
Arizona State however is 4 campuses (Tempe (the main one), Downtown Pheonix, Glendale and Lake Havasu). My step-daughter's original major was at the Dowtown PHX campus which had 2 dorms and I think buildings that housed 5 or 6 different majors. I was surprised by how big it was. Her current major is on the main Tempe campus, but the campus itself didn't seem that large. I think ASU has a large commuter student body.
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I would think they wouldn't do anything to the NEZ until they are ready to get rid of the Jacobsen building/remodel it. I think it would be hard to expand JUST over the hillsides.
Some semi-truth in that.
In the context of past attendance figures (as a kid I can recall mid 30s being common) it is impressive to get 60k+ without really any recent success on the field. But in the context of demographic change it is not really that far off from expected IMO. The attendance of the 70's-90s was still a resultant from Iowa State College and a much smaller Iowa State greater community, in addition to some lousy FB and MBB. Move ahead to now and you get bump from both a couple generations removed from when ISU was a smaller university in addition to some MBB and football success. Even better the growth of the fanbase is not linear. The growth in the newest generation is larger than the Iowa State College alums they are replacing.
The fundamentals are there. If we ever have 5-10 years of FB success similar to what we have had the in MBB, I think many would be surprised at the size ISU's potential. If somehow we would have hired Synder we would already have NEZ.
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