No student tickets for the MBB Texas game
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How about we just make everyone buy the break tickets and not include all tickets in that? Regular season ticketholders have just as poor a showing so why not? Itll make some money so its got to be a good idea right?
Always seemed like a dumb policy to me that discouraged what students were in town from showing up.
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KFitzy87
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I'm about 99% sure that our basketball players would rather see students in the side sections than geezers at the Texas game.
Break games are cheap anyways. Sacrifice a night (maybe 2-3 if you are cheap) of drinking and you have your ticket covered. You could include it in the student season tickets, but enough wouldn't show up to make it worth it. Additionally, we would then have people on the site complaining about the lack of student support at the game even though it is on break.
Was still planning on going to all the games from Jan 2-9 because I'm gonna be back in Ames then, even before I knew it was gonna be a Texas game. Just kinda sucky that the 2nd biggest conference home game is over break.
You CANNOT be serious. The STUDENTS fund this university? Yes, you are the ones paying tuition, but you understand the athletic department operates on its own budget, right? And student tickets are an atom in the ocean compared to FULL-PRICE-PAYING season ticket holders of the general public, many of whom also donate hundreds or thousands of dollars.
And I'm 100% sure our basketball players don't care about the age of the fans that are in the seats. Nice try though.
I'm not sure why people are surprised and all the sudden freaking out over this. When I bought my tickets a couple months ago I figured with the new 18 game schedule there would be a conference game over break and that it wouldn't be included in the student ticket package. Just common sense.
I'd guess CA would be under half full for the game even if tickets were included. A lot of people won't or can't be back to Ames by the 4th for a million different reasons, and a lot of people flat out don't care enough to come back early for a basketball game. A reasonable solution would be for the AD to reserve one side of CA's normal seats for students who are back in town for the game and sell them for $5.
I was planning on using the fact that I didn't have student tickets for the game as an excuse to buy some GA tickets and get a few people who have never been to a game at Hilton up to Ames.
I'd guess CA would be under half full for the game even if tickets were included. A lot of people won't or can't be back to Ames by the 4th for a million different reasons, and a lot of people flat out don't care enough to come back early for a basketball game. A reasonable solution would be for the AD to reserve one side of CA's normal seats for students who are back in town for the game and sell them for $5.
I was planning on using the fact that I didn't have student tickets for the game as an excuse to buy some GA tickets and get a few people who have never been to a game at Hilton up to Ames.
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KFitzy87
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Having just finished my last year playing varsity basketball, I can tell you that a court surrounded by screaming students is a little more exciting and fun to play in than one that is predominantly made up of people with gray hair. Nice try though.:wink:
Ahhh, so you are comparing 14,000 people to the couple of hundred in your high school gym. Kinda a stretch.
As a HS basketball player myself, I was more focused on the game than the hair color in the seats. So was our coach. We won a lot.
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KFitzy87
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Congratulations on your winning ways! Hopefully the Cyclones can win a lot of games like you :smile:
I forgot, they really fill the place up when the students are gone. At least give the students the option to buy the god damn ticket. How hard is that?
They have the option to buy a god damn ticket. Call the ticket office and get one...how hard is that?
What crawled up your ***?! You just come on here and bash 3 or 4 people for various reasons?!?
So the whole students in free thing is probably a stretch but the important thing is getting those seats filled with the best fans possible. Switching out two sides of yelling, screaming students, who won't sit the whole game, for non-students is no comparison. The students won't fill up all of CA during this game but neither will non-students, GA ticket buyers.
I say they split CA, one side GA, and the other side for students at a discounted price. We will get more students to attend and this way they will all be in the same area, allowing them to stand the whole game and be their normal selves. Everyone goes home happy with a Cyclone Victory!!!! :yes:
This is one funny thread. When they advertise student tickets, it is clearly stated that games during break are not included. They have done this for many years, so the AD is in no way trying to jam it to you. I went to lots of games during break during my years at ISU; want to know how? I bought tickets. You can always find people with tickets for sale CHEAP right outside Hilton.
I never have figured out why they don't take and give students the option to purchase the break games. $125 for the normal tickets, $150 to include break games. Reserve a section of seats for students and sell the rest. Not terribly difficult.
This thread is why we can't have nice things. All the damn complaining. Like Ricky Stanzi says, America, love it or leave it. :
