West Side

[Matt Trump]

What is up with the lack of people in the West Stands? Normally that side is close to full. Are season ticket sales down? What is going on?

BTW- the student section looked great from what I saw on tv and heard from others.

[pantherclaw]

from what I saw the west side was pretty full, and was rather nosiy, escpecilly right behind their bench. which was very nice when their coach got a little excited.

[jegbomb52]

from what I saw the west side was pretty full, and was rather nosiy, escpecilly right behind their bench. which was very nice when their coach got a little excited.

The west side was a joke for attendance, I don't know what you were looking at but there were probably 7,000 people (packed in) on the East side and 4,200 people (scattered) on the West side.

My question...

Why can't they position the sideline (majority of the game) camera on the West side of the dome as to show the packed East side. It might actually create the illusion that people that are not at the game are missing something instead of saying "well, nobody else went, I won't go either".

[Panthers to the Bone]

The West Siders continue to not impress me with their numbers...but us East Siders are doing our thang well!!! The students were great, and even got their parents into it.

[JCPanthers]

The West Siders continue to not impress me with their numbers...but us East Siders are doing our thang well!!! The students were great, and even got their parents into it.

You come down and sit down where I'm at PTTB....and you will know that Alleycat and I do our part in getting those in our area fired up. Ask BAP...she could see JC was getting just a little animated during the game.

[GonzoCat]

This talk about the crowd always suprises me. From my perspective (sitting on the west side) it seems the west side is near full and the east side is half empty. I can clearly see the east side and it is nowhere near full, but my view of the west side is quite distorted I guess. On the east side the end sections are empty, the top rows are empty, there are big chunks of empty seats visible throughout, and about 15% of the full seats are empty when the band takes the field.

Are those of you who say the opposite judging it from sitting on the east side or do you have some kind of official attendance numbers for each side?

What was the attendance figure for the game today anyway, I didn't hear it announced.

[pantherclaw]

that's what I was saying in my earlier post, except my perspective is from the east side(west side seems empty, while the east side is packed, I guess it just depends on vantage point.)

[Matt Trump]

I'm just used to seeing the West Side full in the middle and empty on the ends. The student section is usually inconsistent over the years, but has been great this year.

All that really matters is how much noise the people tare making!!!

[Panthers to the Bone]

JC, I know you and your possee are doing a great job. But we both know that the majority of the West Side aren't as into the game as the East Side. In between the 30's, the East Side was packed about 3/4 of the way up. On the West Side, it was pockets of fans throughout the whole West Side. When I see the color of the bleachers consistently through one side, I know that there aren't as many fans, as when I look over at the other side at halftime and see no colored back chairs in b/t the 30's, I have a better idea of how the attendance is. Of course, this is my opinion, and no I haven't put numbers on how many each side had.

[alleycat]

JC did his part yesterday. He had his section up and making some noise.

[jegbomb52]

This talk about the crowd always suprises me. From my perspective (sitting on the west side) it seems the west side is near full and the east side is half empty. I can clearly see the east side and it is nowhere near full, but my view of the west side is quite distorted I guess. On the east side the end sections are empty, the top rows are empty, there are big chunks of empty seats visible throughout, and about 15% of the full seats are empty when the band takes the field.

Are those of you who say the opposite judging it from sitting on the east side or do you have some kind of official attendance numbers for each side?

What was the attendance figure for the game today anyway, I didn't hear it announced.

I am judging by the view from the television, the same view that thousands of other people saw yesterday. The rare view they showed of the east stands made them looked packed and that you couldn't sit over there if you wanted to. The views they showed of the West side made it look as though you could have any seat in the house.

[Tango Charlie]

Westside

Ever since we went to the afternoon games the Westside has been less than packed in the middle areas. My take on why:

Many season ticket holders have businesses and jobs that keep them at work Saturday afternoon. I have 2 friends that can't come to the day games. Both are season ticket holders and big givers to The Athletic Club.

I've met a lot of "Dual" fans that in the past(nite games) would do a double header. Iowa or Iowa State In the afternoon UNI at night. They were "dual" tailgaters to.

Late afternoon games really mess up the day for those of us that live away from Cedar Falls. If you want to tailgate (& who doesn't ?) You can't get anything done at home on Saturday.

Until this year I haven't seen any great turnout by the students for the afternoon games they requested.

The East side really clears out at half-time even when the outcome is in doubt. Are they really fans ?

The area I sit in (for 30 yrs) always gets into the game, cheering wise. We're old so we don't stand the whole game but believe me we do jump to our feet and stand at the right times.

[Newsbreaker]

I agree with a lot of that Tango. I had a work thing on Saturday, at which I had something of a choice as to when I went. I selected a 12:30 - 3:30 shift, thinking that would give me 30 minutes to get to the dome, not realizing this was a 3:00 kick, not a 4:00 kick. We drove by right at halftime and I couldnt' believe how many people were leaving from the East Side Stands. Most looked like UNI students with their family however, probably off to catch a bite to eat, but I think it's a sadly typical thing to do.

UNI needs to, IMHO, pick a set of kick-off times and run with it. I understand TV has a loud say in who plays when, and that's not going to change, however then UNI needs to schedule in that mold all the time.

We don't have the luxury of complicating things for people...hell, I'm very motivated to be at every home game, and until late Friday I didn't realize it was an earler kick off. We need to establish 2 or 3 kick times, and run with those and only those in the future...say 1:05, 4:05 or 6:35...then people only have to wonder if it's an "early", "afternoon" or "evening" kick time. This 4 or 5 different kickoff times over 5 or 6 homegames is not very wise on our part.

I agree, much of the West Side Stands are people with 'other' things to do on a saturday (my season tickets are actually tickets provided to my gf's parent's business for purchasing advertsing in the dome), and I think late afternoon (4pm ish) or early evening (6 or 6:30) are the ideal kickoff times for us.

[Matt Trump]

We've been down this road before with the later kickoff. Most of us have agreed that the earlier kickoff is better. People not showing up for the games in the Dome with nothing else going on in the state is apathy at its finest and very frustrating.

I also think the fact that it was on TV was really a deterrent for people to show up on that side.

[Newsbreaker]

Maybe I should be more clear...I'm not saying that an 'earlier' or 'later' kickoff is better, as there are certainly advantages to both. I'm saying we need to be consistent as to what constitutes an 'early' or a 'late' kickoff, to avoid confusion.