We argue about some of the dumbest **** around here.
Crowd For Saturday
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That was at Oklahoma. Not Jack Trice Stadium.
The game before that was at home vs. unranked Texas Tech on October 12. We had 51,852 people there when we averaged 45,524 fans per game that year. Our base fanbase is much bigger than that. So asking us to sell 60,000 tickets this weekend is not an unrealistic ask by any means. So let's do it.
That would be the top 20% I am talking about.
There were 43,257 in Ft Worth to see #8TCU versus #23 West Virginia. It holds 50K
Yep, being a good fan isn’t in the cards if you need to hunt to get calories. They should not even be a lame or T-shirt fan, let alone a good, program supporting fan. All of their resources should go to food and shelter.If they go pheasant hunting they can combine spending $$$ and getting food
And that's embarrassing. We have a better fanbase than TCU (or WVU). If we want to tout how awesome our fanbase is (it is) - its time to show it.
From the moment we secured the win over TTU, I thought to myself "I don't care what it takes I have to go on Saturday." It astonishes me there are other fans that don't feel that way.
All 40k of them?
JFC, no one is faulting them. With as little success as we’ve had, we should not have more than 20k good fans, but that doesn’t completely change what the metric of what a good fan is. Let me trivialize it for you, there are people that are not fans, and there people that are great fans. If we drew 5 people would you say we have good fans? Of course not. Someone that only watches on TV when convenient or when good, and ******* when otherwise, is clearly not a great fan. Great other things, but not a great fan. Those skipping the first top-25 matchup in 12 years when they have the time and resources to go, but choose not to, are lame fans.
Yep same 50,000 fans that still fill the stadium today and had their hearts ripped out time and time and time again.. Same 50k fans that have seen just 3 winning seasons since. Same 50k fans that thought Chizik would be great, then thought Rhoads was turning things around then thought Mangino would help Rhoads turn things around, then watched iSu piss away leads last year.
Those same fans have been trained by iSu to be let down for decades. So they have learned that dream games come and go and they have learned to reprioritize their lives
You are a farmer that has 70% of your crop in the field and won't get in the field today or tomorrow because it just rained. Crop prices are crap, and you are looking at a lean year and the weatherman has mentioned snow.
I can understand that guy not making the game
What is your point? Are you suggesting some of those 50,000 people will stay home instead of go to the TCU game?
We had 60k for UNI. We had 60k for Iowa. If we can't get 60k for a top 5 matchup for our own conference game then either 1) our fanbase isn't that big because if we can't get 60k this weekend, when can we outside of a UNI or Iowa game? or 2) we rely on UNI and Iowa fans to fill our stadium.
I have no idea what you are arguing or why you are arguing its acceptable to have a the same crowd this weekend as we did last year for a meaningless Oct 29th game against K-State (53,000)..makes no sense.
Or have kids but realize you can miss a few of their sporting events in their lifetimes and they will be just fine.
Those same fans then Lament about how ISU football sucks and cry about why they can't get a winning program. When the opportunity presents itself it'll be a shame if the fanbase misses it because they are to busy ******** about Herbstreit instead of doing something about it.
Maybe I should clarify, I can understand valid reasons for not coming to the game. However, if the number of people who wouldn't miss the game don't outnumber the number of people who have an extenuating circumstance, I would be disappointed.
Agree with all of this. There is no excuse for there to be empty seats at this game. It's as big a game as we could have and is before any of us could have dreamed of. You can buy them for $30. Iowa didn't sell quite all of their $95 tickets to a stadium that holds 10,000 more people and we had a thread ridiculing them.
The more and more you post, the more you sound like a really ****** fan.
You have a weird thing for Iowa.
Nevertheless, this is a big game. Something we’ve waited a long time for. I get not expecting CMC to have us in this position in 2017, so perhaps this weekend was booked with another event assuming we’d be poor. But simply choosing not to go because you’ve been let down previously is weak.
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I totally understand that some people can not make all the games. People have busy lives and things going on. I do, however, believe that if you are a season ticket holder and know that you are not going to the game ahead of time. It is your responsibility to get your tickets into the hands of people that will use them (selling them, a family member, friend, friend of a friend, anyone) even just giving them away if it comes to it. That helps with the difference between tickets sold and actual attendance. Football games are so much fun and empty seats in awesome sections are just a waste.
Those of us who farm don't have that luxury.
I sure as hell hope everyone that doesn't have to work Saturday feels the same way you do.
