Student Section Moving

[cyfan92]

In 2023 hold onto your butts though.

Who happens to make the 2 hour drive East in 2023 but will not visit in 2022...

 

[HFCS]

IIRC when I was there 97-01 we were in similar corner as students.

I want to say 38 though, not totally in the corner. Definitely in the same general area.

 

[Cycsk]

This is where ISU fans seats are at in Kinnick. I think we repay anyone's visiting band and fans in the upper SEZ.

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On the last few times I went to games in Iowa City, it seemed like the ISU visitors "section" was scattered in various bad locations around Kinnick, not in a single location.

 

[ISUKyro]

I'm in section 22, students are going to be begging for beers over the railing.

It makes sense though from a money and safety perspective.

Now that you think about it, if I was a student, I would so be doing this. Likely willing to pay a nice tip to the wonderful alum who could hook me up! Drink up kids!!! But.... in a safe, non field rushing way

 

[Cycsk]

Didn't even Akron stick our visiting band up on the end of the upper deck in a half-empty stadium?

 

[carvers4math]

Seem to remember Kansas, Sooner and Texasssssss bands showing their faces at JTS. Not to mention UNI. Maybe OSU?

UNI played the FU song at JTS

 

[Sparkplug]

This is where ISU fans seats are at in Kinnick. I think we repay anyone's visiting band and fans in the upper SEZ.

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This map has visitors in SW corner

 

[LarryISU]

Oh no!!!! I think horn guy sits in 27. He leads the south end in cheering every first down. We are too far from the band. Now I guess we'll just sit there.....

 

[carvers4math]

This map has visitors in SW corner

We are in that corner, while it is technically visitors, there usually aren’t that many there. If there are, most are in the lower deck for whatever they give them down there

 

[brianhos]

I like it, it will be louder bottling up the noise.

 

[Lewey24]

This move is strictly being made for safety reasons. There is no financial gain in this move. The student ticket prices remain the same, as do the public ones. You are basically flipping the student section with a public seating area that did not require a donation, too.

“There is no financial gain in this move*”

*in 2022

 

[madguy30]

Dumb - The whole point of the student section is to harass the opponent during the game.

Did the former location do any better for this?

Basketball got it right outside of giving the students the lower bowl courtside but to me it never seems like the student section is all that noticeable for football.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

That one is usually the band

That's part of what seems weird to me. The visitor band usually sits next to the visitors...that's putting that whole group right next to OUR band.

 

[Cycsk]

I like it, it will be louder bottling up the noise.

I hope the students in the northeast corner of the lower level will stomp their feet. Ben Bruns talked about how the lower level SEZ was metal and could make huge noise, such as when the opposing team is trying to score at that end. When Campbell picked that end for an overtime, rather than near the student section, I think he assumed that our fans would make it unbearable for the opponent, but nobody stompled their feet. I'm still bitter about it.

 

[NWICY]

Other than Iowa how many visiting bands even travel to Ames? Can't recall many.

I think the ISU band only makes like 1 trip to a visiting team a season (not counting a bowl game).

Wasn't Tx there this year art least like a small pep band sized band? I just can't remember for sure.

 

[barometriclow]

Should really make for a loud south endzone ...

Why? South end zone fans are wimps who sit inside.

 

[Cyclone06]

The student section did occupy some sections that will likely be donor sections in the future. The mirror of sections X and Y (V and U) are donor sections. The mirror of sections 37, 38 and 39 (28, 29 and 30) are donor sections. Non donors may get moved there this year but they will likely have to donate to keep those seats in future years. None of the seats that the students are moving to were donor sections up to this point.

Have you seen the cyclone club donations vs our conference peers? Brutal. Frankly it is disgusting the amount of fb tickets that don’t require a donation.

 

[NWICY]

They can’t staff to sell pop and popcorn how could they staff to sell beer now?

Self serve with a jar there for you to throw your 5 bucks in?

Actually a vending machine to pour and serve beer would be pretty cool, I remember seeing a bottom fill cup at Wells Fargo that poured just about a perfect head of beer. The biggest drawback would be minors people under 21 buying beer, but at $10 bucks a cup or whatever they would charge not many students would be buying them.

 

[barometriclow]

This totally s***** the students.

 

[Clonefan32]

The year is 2032:

“To avoid any potentially dangerous situations we have annexed the student section to a viewing party inside Hilton Coliseum.”