Hy-Vee buys 1,000 UNI tickets!

[BillRawz]

Cy Hawk

Just want to clarify for everyone why UNI was not included in the Cy-Hawk series. As i work for Hy-vee and was a member of the UNI student government when the cy-hawk series was created.

Hy-Vee had very little control over which schools were included in the series. Hy-Vee was not the company the initiated the idea of the cy-hawk series, hy-vee was approached about supporting the series from other larger corporations such as Coca-Cola and Kraft/Nabisco(if i remember correctly). Hy-Vee was brought into sponsoring the series for their name, since they have a bigger local influence in the state of Iowa then do any of the other sponsors. The other reason that UNI was left out of the cy-hawk series might have had something to do with it being a Pepsi campus, as well.

So, before you go start ripping on the largest employer in the state of Iowa you might want to get your facts straight.

And lets sell out this dome, go Panthers
Peace

[CanuckPanther]

I have NO concept of "premium" and "non-premium" seating, but online I just checked the website, and I could have purchased the same two seats (showing first premium seats, and then non-premium seats) in Section F, row 23, and it looks as if ten rows higher are still all unsold.....just wonder how many tickets really have been sold....
So, anyone know what the real difference is between "premium and non-premium" is when the same two seats are offered under both?
Thanks

[Newsbreaker]

FWIW...last night I went into the ticketing system and could've gotten a block of 20 seats together...I hope the numbers haven't been overblown by people who want to look cool.

In fact, I just went in and tried 50...the maximum allowed, and there was a block of 50 in section S.

[#1pantherfan]

premium seats are the seats in between the thirty yard lines and the non promium seats are at both of the ends of the field.

[Dynasty]

Tickets

I have the skinny. Around 12,000 actual tickets have been sold without counting students. The student average for the year is around 1,700 per game with 3,000 coming to the Drake game. So if the students come out, this game will be a sellout. Tickets are still being sold at a very brisk pace. I was in the Dome for the first playoff game this morning and the UNI Ticket Office has a seperate window set up for just UNI sales. That is a great sign. Hope this helps!

[Newsbreaker]

So it's going to be all about the students coming out...12000 + 2000 students means we need at least that many walkups tomorrow to get this thing over the hump.

Goes to show how difficult a sellout really is...I hope we get there!

[#1pantherfan]

dynasty, I would really love to have the student attendance for all the games. if drake was the largest with 3,000 and the average is 1,700 per game, then there had to be a game or 2 where we only had 1,000 or so.

Not trying to say negative things, just want to have facts to work with.

If you do have it dynasty, you could PM with that info

[Newsbreaker]

I missed Homecoming and YSU...was attendance that low for one or both of those games, from a student perspective?

[CanuckPanther]

If premium seats are between the 30 yard lines, why did the internet sales offer me the same seats, premium AND non-premium seat searches? That is what confused me.

[#1pantherfan]

they don't, you have to pick one, premium or nonpremium, before they will give you the tickets.

[Newsbreaker]

#1, what he's saying (and it did the same thing to me), is if you pick "premium" it gives you specific seats. If you go back and change that to "non-premium" it gives you identical seats.

[#1pantherfan]

i guess i have never had that happen to me.

[GonzoCat]

Bill -

HyVee put $1.5 million behind the syhok and their name on it, I'm pretty sure they had some say in it. If they had no control they could still have elected to support UNI is some other way on an equitable basis.

Once again the local CF/Wat HyVee stores have been good supporters of UNI. HyVee corporate has not and that is a fact. I don't know if they do anything at all for UNI and if they do I would be willing to bet it is less than 5% of what they contribute to each of the other two state universities, the syhok being just one piece of that support to the other two.

If they are the largest employer in the state they should be ashamed of the way they shun UNI.

[igo4uni]

Buying 1,000 tickets is something the local Hy-Vee stores did.

I appreciate the local Hy-Vee stores support. Hy-Vee corporate has some work to do.

peace

igo4uni

[4N6]

Someone needs to call KWWL. I've seen this once (1990) and not since ... I'd like to see Rone Steele, Ann Kerrian, and Rick Coleman dressed in UNI sweatshirts on the newscast tonight.