Attendance today was subpar

[BCClone]

11 am kickoffs for non big name teams generally have had the sucky attendance. It’s a balancing act, out this game at night on a lesser station and have less exposure and get better attendance or put it on at 11 and get it on major tv. We had a daughters VB tourney and my mom is in poor condition, so our oldest son took our younger son to the game and we ate two tickets.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

People need to figure it out that with all the games on TV, people are less willing to go to a game, and sit in the rain for most of it, instead of staying at home and watching it on the 65 inch HD. Unless its against a hated rival or a big game.
Are fans spoiled, maybe, but its difficult for many of us to make every game. We went yesterday, left home at 5:30 and got to Ames around 7:30, sat through the rain, and then go home around 7:00 PM.
It was great seeing the offense score some points, but I can also see why people would skip this game. TCU in two weeks.

GO CYCLONES

 

[Blandboy]

Were you there? There were large sections completely empty. I don't need reported numbers. I saw it with my own 2 eyes. It sucked. Own it.

Prove it.

 

[norcalcy]

The stadium looked pretty good on TV. I was pleasantly surprised. A lot of the fan base has to travel a pretty good distance to take in the game and there seemed to be a lot uncertainty around how the weather would play out. Continued winning and a drier pattern should fill the stadium for October.

 

[IcSyU]

A heartbreaking loss last weekend hurt.
Garbage weather making it a long day in Ames last weekend hurt.
Grass lots closed hurt.
Opponent no one cares about hurt.
Terrible forecast hurt.

Attendance wasn't good but it met my expectations. I'd have rather been there than watching on TV but with a 36 week pregnant wife my trips to Ames are done for this year.

 

[Urbandale2013]

I think people on both sides are being a bit extreme. Relative to other schools we still had good attendance but we had a lot of open seats and it was fairly disappointing. With the weather it’s semi understandable but it wasn’t really bad at the end of the day.

 

[Cydkar]

After 2 weather delays in basically 1 calendar year and the forecast we were given, I can totally understand not going. We had to be back at a certain time meaning leaving slightly early so we gave ours away since even one lightning strike screws up our entire day.

 

[Sirkruser]

This might be the case for the Kansas game depending on how good Kansas this year because it’s our last home game of the season which means probably cold weather and if Kansas is as good as they were previous years then it definitely won’t be a packed game.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

This might be the case for the Kansas game depending on how good Kansas this year because it’s our last home game of the season which means probably cold weather and if Kansas is as good as they were previous years then it definitely won’t be a packed game.

Kansas is looking much improved with Les Miles. I don’t think we can count that game as an automatic W anymore.

 

[cycloneML]

Is this thread a serious thread?

Looked empty on tv

 

[IcSyU]

Kansas is looking much improved with Les Miles. I don’t think we can count that game as an automatic W anymore.

They're still god awful. WVU is god awful and they found a way to blow that game on their own field.

 

[Trice]

I'm not going to read 100+ posts about this so sorry if this is duplicative, but to offer one example of why attendance falls off...my extended family buys ~14 season tickets in total, about half of which are Jr. Cyclone Club passes. Nobody misses the first game of the year because it's Labor Day weekend. Usually people don't miss Iowa. But any time after the first couple of weeks of the season it's a crapshoot because of kids' activities, people living too far away to make every game, game times that aren't known until 12 (sometimes 6) days prior, and so on.

Then you throw in a pretty exhausting day last Saturday, and 11am kickoff with a bad weather forecast, parking lots closed...given all that I thought yesterday's crowd was okay. Definitely better than I expected based on how many tickets and parking passes I saw for sale.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Nobody obsesses attendance like CF posters. It's ******* weird and kinda pointless other than for the guys boasting and fingerprinting with "Hey, look at me! I was there! Everyone else sucks!" I mean I get those guys.

 

[Stormin]

Attendance was actually better than I thought it might be. With 4 kids and 4 adults in our group there was thought of skipping out. Replay of last week’s scenario was possible and maybe even worse. But we went. Had fun. Left before game end as the end was not in doubt. We had Ponchos.

 

[alarson]

A couple weeks ago several posters were saying to not schedule UNI. Look what happens when a non power 5 Division 1 school comes to Ames that is not from the immediate area. Trice is not packed. Weather will frequently be an issue, too hot, too cold, too wet. If opponents are from Iowa or bordering states attendance will be higher than if the schools are farther away. And yes having a winning record and history also has a great impact. So until ISU is a perennial top 20 program, keep UNI on the schedule and keep playing MAC schools.

This is a special kind of dumb.

First, the official attendance was still 57k. That's not bad in any way, and in the upper percentage of our historical attendance. Secondly, yes, an 11am game with a ****** weather forecast will cause some people to show up. Other schools probably wouldve seen an even bigger dropoff tbh.

If you flipped the scheduling of the weeks, id bet ULM would have sold out and UNI wouldve had about the same attendance we did yesterday. Game 1 always gets a boost, as do good weather games.

 

[CyBobby]

We've officially entered a new era with entitled fans who never experienced 30,000 fans every Saturday of the football season and 2 wins a year. Take a look at nearly every stadium around the country. Coaches and AD's would DIE for our fan support.

I went to the Okie State game when CryMore Criner was coaching last game of the year...colder than a welldigger A**... JTS was full of snow with a 40 mph wind out of the northwest....and when the PA announced todays attendance at 36K....Some of the 2,000 attendees either laughed or Booed...I can tell you their were only 2 fans sitting in the upper deck west side... Me and my little brother in law who was a student at ISU.....CryMORE won by a 15-10 score.....

 

[CyBobby]

My senior year we were playing Missouri and all we had to do was win and we’d win the North and play in the Big 12 championship game.

We had like, 18,000 at that game.

That was the saturday after Thanksgiving ...I was driving back from CB,IA, and listened to the game on the radio....If pinkel had lost that game mizzou was going to fire him.....as usual we choked away another golden opportunity at home...typical ISU...

 

[CyBobby]

[QUO

Kansas is looking much improved with Les Miles. I don’t think we can count that game as an automatic W anymore.

AMEN Bro...dont you guys follow Les Miles on ESPN+......LOL.....its only 5.99 a month....

 

[NoCreativity]

Are ISU fans afraid of a little mist?

 

[FinalFourCy]

Nobody obsesses attendance like CF posters. It's ******* weird and kinda pointless other than for the guys boasting and fingerprinting with "Hey, look at me! I was there! Everyone else sucks!" I mean I get those guys.

I appreciate your monogamy to CF, but obsessing with attendance isn’t just a CF thing.