Attendance

[Big_Al]

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Imagine that UNI is the only live sports option within 3 hours in every direction. With their history of success in football, volleyball and now men's basketball...people in the community would go "ga-ga" over the Panthers.

I remember driving through Aberdeen once and reading a local paper or somesuch -- half of the "cultural" events for the summer were rodeos and stock car races. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'd just like a few more options.

[MediaPanther]

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I must have missed that section, but what I saw buried with about only 5 or 6 different choices for Drake clothing. What is your definition of huge? The Scheels in CF makes that section in DSM look like it is about the size of Delaware in relation to everything else.

I grew up in NW IA, and when I go back I hear nothing about UNI. There is no UNI stories in the papers or acknowledgement UNI exists. However, Iowa and Iowa State manage to pull full page sections of the sports paper.


The popularity of UNI is growing, I'll give you that. However, to say that UNI is widely popular outside of the Cedar Valley is dumb

Who said UNI is widely popular outside the Cedar Valley??

[clenz]

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I remember driving through Aberdeen once and reading a local paper or somesuch -- half of the "cultural" events for the summer were rodeos and stock car races. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'd just like a few more options.

I grew up right next to South Dakota, about a 40 minute drive to Sioux Falls, and it isn't just SD that has that. Much of NW IA focuses around the races during the summer.

[clenz]

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Who said UNI is widely popular outside the Cedar Valley??

You are right, I used the wrong wording.


To say that UNI is even thought of outside the Cedar Valley, except when they play Iowa or ISU is out stating UNI's reach to the rest of Iowa. I wish I was wrong on that.

[Big_Al]

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I grew up right next to South Dakota, about a 40 minute drive to Sioux Falls, and it isn't just SD that has that. Much of NW IA focuses around the races during the summer.

Yeah I grew up in Britt, so I remember when the big highlight of the summer was the fair. When we moved to Cedar Rapids when I was 8, I thought I'd just moved to one of the biggest cities ever.

It was just entertaining to see the stock car races listed as a cultural event right next to the art fair.

[Big Cats]

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[QUOTE=Big_Al;160364]Yeah I grew up in Britt, so I remember when the big highlight of the summer was the fair. QUOTE]

What?! Not the Hobo Convention?