Problem for Saturday's Attendance

[LitchMingo]

It's official, GameDay is coming to Iowa City...I would expect to see quite a few students from both Universities to travel down to iowa city for the big event...kind of sucks that it is the UNI-ISU game weekend...




http://hawkeyesports.cstv.com/sports...092406aaa.html

[PantherHawk]

Wow

This is gonna be one of the best games of the year! I assume a lot of people are going to make the trip down to Iowa City, but yet it won't draw that big of crowd like the ISU game did a couple of weeks ago. Its a big game, but with how much tickets are going for and just cops in general in Iowa City I doubt it makes that big of difference. Plus Gameday is gonna be located in a ****ty spot. I am still looking forward to going to ames this weekend and seeing a good game, but i will def have my headphones on listening to the Iowa game. I hope Both Iowa and UNI can pull off upsets!

[#1pantherfan]

I actually consider UNI lucky, if the Iowa, Ohio State game was October 7, it would affect UNI alot worse.

[unigriff]

i agree, homecoming----no one here...yea...that would suck.

[Matt Trump]

Get real. This is not going to affect attendance at all. The ISU and UNI fans who were going to actually go into the stadium, rather than sit outside and tailgate are going to go regardless of what happens on the eastern side of the state. All this affects is the marginal students who would go to Ames and sit outside and tailgate all day. Most of those people would be in Iowa City anyway.

[Newsbreaker]

Get real. This is not going to affect attendance at all. The ISU and UNI fans who were going to actually go into the stadium, rather than sit outside and tailgate are going to go regardless of what happens on the eastern side of the state. All this affects is the marginal students who would go to Ames and sit outside and tailgate all day. Most of those people would be in Iowa City anyway.

I don't know matt. Those students who were thinking about going to Ames, but didn't have a ticket yet, may have just made the decision. Iowa City was just designated the offical party spot and attention center of the state for next weekend.

I've always thought the prospect of Iowa/Ohio State has been part of the reason why UNI's ticket sales for this game have been so slow.

[uniwatcher]

i agree, homecoming----no one here...yea...that would suck.

That wouldn't happen even if this were a 1 vs. 2 matchup in Iowa City. A few years ago UNI and Iowa had their Homecoming games on the same weekend. Guess where A LOT of UI students partied that night? Of course, that was before the whole barricading of the Hill that is so "popular" now...

Granted, the impact of a night game in Iowa City would definitely be worse on a UNI homecoming game than their usual morning/early afternoon time slot.

[LitchMingo]

I personally just wish the UNI-ISU game was at 1105 so I would have time to take in both games that day...

[panther2317]

I personally wish people would TiVo the Iowa game and get over to Ames

[panther2317]

Or...if you really feel like you need to be a part of the party that day...show up at 7:00 AM, yell at Herbstreit, Corso and Fowler for a couple of hours and then when the show is over at 11:00 AM...drive to Ames and watch the Panthers beat ISU

[Panthers to the Bone]

Or show up at Gameday with your signs that say:
"UNI...The Only Team In Iowa To Have Played for a Division 1 National Championship"
"1-AA All The Way"
"Brian Wingert For Groza Award"
"Leaving In 30 Minutes To Watch UNI"
"Lee Corso Loves UNI"
"Herbstreit Wanted To Play at Youngstown, But Settled For Ohio State"
"WWW.PANTHERNATION.COM"
"AMESPANTHER IS MY HERO"
"Best Long Snapper In Iowa=Nick Matsen"
"Eric Sanders For Governor"

[Chitown Panther]

pretty good article on attendance in the Register this morning.....

ISU AD is expecting over 50K.....making it a top 10 attendance under Mac.....

[Flagship Girl]

Or show up at Gameday with your signs that say:
"UNI...The Only Team In Iowa To Have Played for a Division 1 National Championship"
"1-AA All The Way"
"Brian Wingert For Groza Award"
"Leaving In 30 Minutes To Watch UNI"
"Lee Corso Loves UNI"
"Herbstreit Wanted To Play at Youngstown, But Settled For Ohio State"
"WWW.PANTHERNATION.COM"
"AMESPANTHER IS MY HERO"
"Best Long Snapper In Iowa=Nick Matsen"
"Eric Sanders For Governor"

Those are all pretty awesome ideas! Now who's gonna do it?

[unigriff]

How I so wish I could be at the game

[Cap'n Cat]

Or show up at Gameday with your signs that say:
"UNI...The Only Team In Iowa To Have Played for a Division 1 National Championship"
"1-AA All The Way"
"Brian Wingert For Groza Award"
"Leaving In 30 Minutes To Watch UNI"
"Lee Corso Loves UNI"
"Herbstreit Wanted To Play at Youngstown, But Settled For Ohio State"
"WWW.PANTHERNATION.COM"
"AMESPANTHER IS MY HERO"
"Best Long Snapper In Iowa=Nick Matsen"
"Eric Sanders For Governor"

I Had Cap'n Cat's Love Child!