Three straight sellouts

[JayJ79]

First time in Dome (and probably UNI) history that we've had back-to-back-to-back capacity crowds.
That's just plain awesome, especially considering an 0-10 Indiana State team isn't exactly a big draw in comparison to other games.

So far this season, we've had crowds of:
15056
17074
16528
16624

That's an average of 16320.5 people per game.
Not bad.

While I can't find a table of average attendance for previous years, I'm certain this will far exceed any previous years average.

And I'd really like to see a 4th consecutive sold out Dome next week! (though with the students starting thanksgiving break on friday, I don't know if that will happen)

[dragon]

I'm there next week! Hopefully another sellout.

[01PantherFan]

RH said at half time that they actually sold more tickets for last nights game then before because of the unclaimed student tickets, but great attendance considering all the other things that were going on yesterday !

[Barnstormer]

Especially sweet since both Iowa and Iowa State had homegames. (Good Saturday for the big three by the way..)

[Newsbreaker]

Especially sweet since both Iowa and Iowa State had homegames. (Good Saturday for the big three by the way..)

And Wartburg pulled in almost 7,000 for their game as well...lots of traditional reasons for a small crowd yesterday, and yet we sold out again.

The fan support this year has been something I personally though we'd never see...absolutely incredible.

[01PantherFan]

I hope they come out and play next week like last night because S Utah has played tough but I see in their last game they had 7 turnovers

[Blue42]

The support has been unprecented this year.

I walked into the dome about 5 minutes before kickoff and couldn't believe the packed house. For a game that was a very high probability of being a blowout, I was really impressed with the crowd.

There was a line outside the dome of at least 200 people waiting for tickets as I walked in. I had two extras that I couldn't get rid of so I handed them to a guy standing in that line about 150 deep.

[JayJ79]

stupid question: for those attendance numbers, do they use the amount of tickets sold, or the amount of tickets taken/scanned at the door?

Just curious, since we have an extra ticket that rarely gets used because one of our people usually has to work on Saturdays. But I kind of like having he extra room instead of being packed in there. (we sit in one of the end sections, so don't worry, we're not wasting a prime seat. And we won't be getting the extra one for the playoff games)

[UNIPNTHR]

At the bball game tonight, it was announced as 'Paid Attendance'. I would assume that's how they always figure it - tickets sold.

[Potsey]

Well, I think when they say paid attendance they mean the people who attended the game who have paid, AKA they don't count the people who are working there who haven't paid. It wouldn't be that difficult to add it up that way if all they were doing was scanning tickets, but sometimes they like to rip them and you'd think it would be hard for them to keep track of that without turnstiles with counters.

[9YRPLAN]

not to derail this thread, but i hate how the donors who pay for the great seats in mcleod dont seem to ever show up. it looks like crap on tv.

[BCPanther]

AMEN 9year...

We have actually found something to agree on...

[unigriff]

i concur...
coach jake even paid for 2 (supposed to be 3) games of pizza for the student section (40 pizzas a game) however, the student attendance was so awful he didnt get us any for tonight...and I don't blame him a bit. A sunday night game on campus, there is no reason more students couldn't have shown up. I have two tests monday and a paper to write (and it is currently 1am) and i was sill there. Hungover is a horrible excuse and NFL football is not as great as Panther athletics!