Especially since for every game you can just buy a hillside ticket and then go sit in the student section.
Attention ISU students
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Especially since for every game you can just buy a hillside ticket and then go sit in the student section.
I would agree at JTS about the student section being the cheapest... but at hilton.. students get much better seats for that 125 than you do for the $99 corner seats. Parquet is normally what, $2500 min donation plus about $500\ticket? Id say students still get a pretty good deal for the seats.
I asked Jamie on the Monday night Cydline Show about the lack of student support. He said student ticket sales were down something like 30% from last year.
The discounted seats in the parquet shold be sold at higher prices to regular fans if students aren't going to buy them. It's pathetic.
The discounted seats in the parquet shold be sold at higher prices to regular fans if students aren't going to buy them. It's pathetic.
Yeah, I would definitely pay the extra $26 to get the student section seats. You miss some things sitting way up in the $99 seats.
The thing is, it wasn't just a couple of years. It was a couple of years of the cyclones getting blown out. Not showing up, and reading headlines of Cyclones drop another, or Men's Hoops come up short.
You may remember the glory days of ISU basketball but I would bet a lot of students say that Yeah ISU used to be good, but for the last 4 years ISU has been god awful.
And how are tickets everywhere else? There are still pairs of seats available as low as 6-7 rows up in the balcony, at midcourt, available from the ticket office. Lots of donors that did renew were talking about cancelling, but didnt because they remembered hoiberg... students dont have that reason, and have several years of failed basketball.
Yep, lucked out and was in school from 99-03 and watched some unbelievable basketball teams. I've always felt bad for the students the past few years.
No, but there is a huge difference in the excitement of the people who watched Freddy play vs. the younger students who don't remember him. I'm guessing if those of us who watched The Mayor and remember him clearly were students right now, the student turnout would be damn near full even coming off 5 pathetic years.
I don't think a lot of people realize how the bad basketball over the past 5 years has turned all the fringe fans away from coming to games.
ISU was not that great even in the Johnny Orr years. People still showed up. We'd lose all our games on the road and win them all at home(with the crowds help). That's how "Hitlon Magic" became a phrase.
They won more at home and actually upset some teams at home but they'd never compete on the road.
They can't be down at all, since we sold 12,500 tix for Alabama State, and 13,000 for Drake. Those were the announced attendance figures.
It's the students who aren't buying.
But I think he is missing the fact. If you are calling the Orr years mediocre okay that is fine, then that combined with the deep run in the tournament brings a sort of excitement to the whole state as a matter of fact.
We just haven't had that excitement, and I don't see the students getting preemptively excited because that seems so long ago.
We just haven't had that excitement, and I don't see the students getting preemptively excited because that seems so long ago.
I'm 27 and lived in Kansas at the time Hoiberg was playing, and even though I was deep in Jayhawk country I still knew who The Mayor was. Was really excited to see him come back and the way the team has played so far has me even more excited. I realize that we won't win a lot of conference games this year, but these guys are setting the foundation for some great years to come.
I guess that depends how you define better? Record wise probably not. More fun to watch. Yes.
Ha ha, absolutely pathetic. I don't care if someone has 3 tests the next day, I'll never be convinced that you can't set aside 2 hours (or in the case of last night, leave at halftime and only go for one hour) to go support the basketball team. I know not everyone is blaming this on class/studying but those who are claiming those excuses are complete jokes.
