Chasson Randle at the Iowa Game
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Couldn't tell you, I support Iowa athletics whenever I can. Listen, Iowa State has loyal fans, Iowa has loyal fans, it's an argument we can have for pages and pages of garbage but let's just agree that right now Tiger Woods is in some deep ****.
Listen tool bag, where in the hell are Iowa's loyal fans last night at a BTeleven/ACC Challenge game. OH, their not there.....not from what I saw in the stands....maybe 4k total? You're horrid fan base is not rooting for EIU basketball at the moment.... again, only when you are good....that is when you have supporters. How are you not seeing this?
The fact that they cant even get students to show up to the game is the exclamation point on the whole basketball thing.
Wow, all of this reminds me of a football game I went to in Iowa City back in the 70s when they played Illinois. We could sit anywhere (I mean anywhere) and there wasn't anyone within 10 rows or 50 feet to the side of us no matter what seat we chose. Of course Iowa wasn't doing so well in football back then! They have done well under Fry and Ferentz but they'd turn out like they do for basketball now if they go back to Burns and the others who tried to turn them around back in the day.
Jon Miller had a very profound to say on the radio the other day. He said back when Iowa was winning under Tom Davis that the mbb program would literally sell out shirt/skins games...seriously, open practices would literally sell out (actually, I believe they were free but you get the point).
Where are these fans? Didn't Iowa have a nationally ranked sell out streak going just a few years ago? I can't find a single hawkeye fan who even knows enough about the mbb program to have an interesting discussion besides "Iowa is terrible, they gotta get rid of that coach". This is why Iowa's fanbase is beneath ISU's.
Any hawk fan that try's to spin this in any direction other than it makes hawk fans look really, really bad is doing just that...spinning. And then to actaully compare attendance in football just makes you look sad.
Where are these fans? Didn't Iowa have a nationally ranked sell out streak going just a few years ago? I can't find a single hawkeye fan who even knows enough about the mbb program to have an interesting discussion besides "Iowa is terrible, they gotta get rid of that coach". This is why Iowa's fanbase is beneath ISU's.
Any hawk fan that try's to spin this in any direction other than it makes hawk fans look really, really bad is doing just that...spinning. And then to actaully compare attendance in football just makes you look sad.
I'm willing to be that our club hockey team is outdrawing your basketball team.
Face it, you are losing this argument. No one is showing up to Iowa basketball games. NO ONE. And it's because Iowa fans only care about winners and don't support any team that doesn't win.
They should probably go back to playing in the fieldhouse to make the attendance look a little more respectable.
Interesting to look at the numbers in football. Whenever Iowa has a losing season, their attendance drops 2-6K. during their lowest point in the last 20 years, Iowa's average attendance dropped 9K from 70K to 61K over a 3 year time frame. Iowa has only had one extended time period where they were not a bowl team and they didn't hold up.
Iowa State on the other hand actually had its highest average following chizdick's first year with just 2 wins. Iowa State started building the fan base with DMac. It grew every year he was here until 03-05. Then it plateaued. However during disappointing seasons or the seasons following disappointing seasons, attendance never dropped more than 2K. ISU has not fluctuated from 45K average attendance since 2002. We have not been bowling since 2005 and have actually increased our average attendance numbers since that time. That is a result of people that became fans as kids in the DMac era becoming adults and buying tickets. Or people that actually attended ISU caring about football. There was no reason to care in the 90's so people didn't become fans.
There is no doubt that Iowa has more fans and when either team is winning Iowa will bring more fans. It is a function of their long term success. But when Iowa had a bad three year run they lowered their attendance more where as ISU held steady. So if Iowa has more fans, and they STILL lowered their attendance that means there were a lot more fans that disappeared when they were losing.
If you want to argue that ISU has a cap on its fanbase, that is valid
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Ding Ding...Panthers are big Hawk football homers but switch back to whatever team is better come basketball season.
Tickets sold. ***** in seats was MAYBE 6,000, which is freaking pathetic when it seats 15,500 for hoops, and that's when they let students in for free.
Ya announced attendance, similar to the announced "sell outs" in football for the hawks... I'm willing to bet there was maybe 6000 tops actually in the seats. Just to clarify the announced attendance for the isu wbb game vs. the mississippi valley state delta devilettes was 9,600+ last night... how does that taste?
I HATE this arguement. We're saying that Iowa fans only support their team when its doing good and its countered by saying Iowa fans support their team when its doing good. How is this relevent and what does it prove?
