No more general admission

[9YRPLAN]

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After some of the most intense moments in Dome history the last few seasons...the west side is still the "Western Home"

Each person who has this opinion has probably NEVER sat there.

My favorite is that you also threw the students under the bus for leaving early to get their A$$ bit at Sharkeys!

what about the 31 year olds who leave early to get to sharkys?

[Newt99]

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My apologies, I didn't intend to insult those west-siders who are truly into the game. I know not everyone sits there and does crossword puzzles all game.

That said, several of you reinforced the point I was trying to make. I still enjoy standing throughout the game, and that obviously would not be tolerated over there in the season ticket area. The east side has the students and the band and (until this season) the "cheap seats" i.e. those who, like me, intentionally bought GA tickets so they could be a part of that atmosphere. The east side tends to stand and cheer and try to proactively insert themselves into the action throughout the game. The west tends to be more reactionary. They stand and cheer for big plays and for more obvious important downs, but otherwise are much more subdued.

There is nothing wrong with that, I don't expect the entire Dome to be like the student section at Cameron Indoor Stadium at a Duke-UNC game. But I still feel closer to the kind of fan that sits in the student section than the typical season ticket holder, and I am mad that they are taking that option away from me.

We are far, far away from the point of having so many season ticket holders that it would even begin to cut into the seats available for GA. I think Havok makes a good point that it makes it much tougher to organize a large group to sit together, whether it is a reunion of friends from college or just a bunch of co-workers you brought up to tailgate and to try to create some new Panther fans.

[Newt99]

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Buy a season ticket near where you wanted to sit GA and make it your home. The Dome is just becoming more like a real football stadium with less GA seating...deal with it.

This is the kind of opinion I was looking for, thank you. Probably what I am going to settle for. However I'd be a little more willing to "deal with it" if we were at 75 percent capacity on season ticket sales rather than 25 percent.

I'm afraid u have entered the real adult world.

Obviously you've never met me!

Darn tootin' you won't, Sonny.

Excellent post, thanks for the laugh. I think I may have been subconsciously hoping for this kind of response when I walked across the west side's lawn.

i think that there are GA tix, just not season GA tix. that was my understanding.

I hope you are right but according to the ticket office on Monday the GA section has been "eliminated" for this season. Not that I have trusted the ticket office for accurate information for years, probably since the day Kay Bukatz retired. If you find out that I have been misinformed, please let me know!

what about the 31 year olds who leave early to get to sharkys?

My favorite is that you also threw the students under the bus for leaving early to get their A$$ bit at Sharkeys!

I've been pleading with the students to stick around since my freshman year there. I don't know what we can do to get them to stick around, other than maybe hand out free drink tickets for the Hill at the exits after the final horn sounds. And 9YR, I like how you think, but the games start at 4:00 now so I think there is still time for us to go trolling for skanks after the game is over!

Thanks to everyone for the feedback, I'll try to sneak around to the west side for a quarter of a game or so and give it a chance sometime. I was in no way questioning anyone's rooting loyalties, just venting that the way I have chosen to root for the team for the past 15 years is getting turned upside-down.

[English77]

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Nice post, N99. How do you write coherently at 1:30 in the morning? I was sound asleep before the Cubs game entered the 6th.

Yeah, wander over to the west side once in a while this season. You *will* see a few fans, mostly seniors, sitting on their hands, but they're a small minority, and I've never heard any of them muttering the infamous "Down in front".

And even if we're normally on our feet only during big plays and big situations, from a distance we do love to see the student and nearby GA sections on their feet the entire game, and we especially love seeing those sections re-fill after half time.

I think last season was the best in that regard that I've seen in a long time (lots of students to start and a decent percentage staying longer into the game). Let's hope this year that trend continues.

[GonzoCat]

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My apologies, I didn't intend to insult those west-siders who are truly into the game. I know not everyone sits there and does crossword puzzles all game.

I resent this comment. Most of us west siders are confirmed sudoku enthusiasts.

[Big Cats]

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Our season tickets are in Section E three rows up from the concourse and on the aisle. Everyone in the section stands pretty much the whole game out of necessity since we are just behind the student section. Most of the folks around us are our age (my wife and I are in our mid 50's) and I've never heard of anyone having a problem with standing during the game. Try asking the ticket office about the availability of season tickets in that section if you want to be close to the student section and still stand and be loud.

[clenz]

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I don't mind the West side, and all of their stereotypes, sitting during the game as long as they are loud. I also don't feel that they should be able to complain about students not coming to the games/leaving early/basketball games when things aren't amazing (fair weather fans) when they would do the same. We are all Panther fans, as long as we are all loud, IDGARA who stands and who doesn't. But if someone wants to stand, they should be able to without someone *****ing them out.

[Marc Wigim]

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agreed. I think that more and more students treat UNI football like a social event. THAT'S what's starting to bring them in.

[TravelingPanther]

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I think Havok makes a good point that it makes it much tougher to organize a large group to sit together, whether it is a reunion of friends from college or just a bunch of co-workers you brought up to tailgate and to try to create some new Panther fans.

So true. This made our decision to buy reserved seats very difficult.

[TH1974]

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I think Havok makes a good point that it makes it much tougher to organize a large group to sit together, whether it is a reunion of friends from college or just a bunch of co-workers you brought up to tailgate and to try to create some new Panther fans.

I agree. I think there should be more GA seats.

[clenz]

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I'd like to focus on this sentence. How do you know if I don't come to games when things aren't "amazing"??? I'd come to every home game if the basketball team was 0-28. They're my team. That doesn't mean that YOU have to do the same (and I wouldn't expect that). What sticks in my craw is that you are basically saying that UNI has to be having an amazing season to demand the attention of the students. That's what I think is wrong about your line of thinking. I think students should generally see attending athletic events as a social function and feel that they add to the atmosphere of the arena when they are in attendance. In other words, it's something to do on campus that doesn't require additional money. Students help create atmoshpere. That's why I like them there.

That, in no shape or form is what I was saying. I was saying that the fair weather fans, I don't think I've ever called you one of them, have no right to ever talk about students leaving early, not showing up etc... when there isn't a great season, for many fair weather fans do the same as the students. Did you happen to see the half empty McLeod Center during every basketball game, outside of the student section? The students are not the only ones guilty here, and you know it. I was at the MNSU game last year for football, I saw how many people were there outside of the student section. Let's just say the students weren't the only ones lacking at that game. The students are also not the only ones to leave early, I hate it when people act like they are. I went to every basketball game except 6 last year at home. I missed the Ill-Chicago one, because I was on a date, and I missed the first couple home games due to work/school related things. I was there for the game where the was 13 students in the student section. I think to say that student's should be obligated to go to games is asinine as well. Would I love to see a full student section every single game? Hell yes I would. Is it honestly realistic, if we aren't winning every single week more or less? At UNI, as of right now, no, and I hate to say that. We, by HS,MS, and even a lot of UNI students believe it or not, are not thought to be on the same level as Iowa and ISU yet. You don't have to believe me when I say that, but I'm on that campus, I live right next to campus, I'm in this town and surrounding towns and I see all the Iowa and ISU stuff, and the little UNI stuff outside of Cedar Falls and Waterloo.

I in no way said anything that you just tried to pin on me...nice try though.

[Newsbreaker]

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The GA section getting small...I'll tell you what's next.



Club seats.



It's almost impossible for UNI to have a club section...there's nowhere to put it. But you CAN remove the seats below the concourse and between the 40's and replace them with box seats (and then charge a little more.)

[Newt99]

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Nice post, N99. How do you write coherently at 1:30 in the morning?

It requires a dangerous cocktail of alcohol, speed, steak, and porn. Or as I like to call it, the All-American Combo.

Our season tickets are in Section E three rows up from the concourse and on the aisle.

Thanks, I will check this out. The ticket office said there were seats available in Sec. F, around Row 24. Sounds OK but I wondered if being right above the concourse would be bad because of people going in and out all game. Is this an issue where you sit?

[UNIAlum95]

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The GA section getting small...I'll tell you what's next.



Club seats.



It's almost impossible for UNI to have a club section...there's nowhere to put it. But you CAN remove the seats below the concourse and between the 40's and replace them with box seats (and then charge a little more.)

You probably aren't far off on that. I believe the first change seen will be the suites up above the west side (although it doesn't appear that has started as of yet). If they were to take the seats between the 40s, I wonder if we would have the same problem we have with basketball where they go unused for most games...

[Newsbreaker]

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I think schools generally have had good success with filling club seats. The lower number of dates, plus the fact that they won't be promised to donors who helped to build a building will help.