Pantherclaw's thoughts on the WKU/UNI game

[pantherclaw]

1. Atmosphere-KICK freckin butt. Good job by the students and the East side on getting into the plays on a constant basis, West side did it on big plays which is a plus, but not every down but gotta take baby steps. Anyway Atmosphere was a major plus. Enthuasium from the students helped alot i believe.
2. US CELLULAR- first WTH making RED megaphones when we're playing a team that has RED as its main color???? second ummm thundersticks aren't allowed by the conference, someone dropped the ball on research about rules the dome people had to take the sticks away from this little kid who just cryed and cryed b/c he loved banging them together, though the USC people did come with a megaphone, so he didn't cry to much. So a couple negs from them, but i got beads, so YAY.
3. Refs-some questionable calls and ball spots escpecially on the WKU drive before halftime but we were able to cover so no problem. BTW Parsons after he came off the field went absolutly ballistic, he was pissed, but understandably so. don't worry about it Chris.
4.T.A-Alright im here to eat my crow i said bench him last week, but alas he has proven me wrong. Good juob Mr. Allen. So im here to eat my crow, if he contributes like this every week he'll give J.G a run for the top spot at reciever.
5.Band-call me a homer if you will, but IMO the band today played and marched better then we have all year. Also we were on top of things after we were embarrassed last week by WIU. We all got together and figured things out. BTW in the first half when the band stopped playing in the middle of a song during a T.O it was b/c a ref had come up and had said to quit blowing our drum major's whistle. BUT alas we had a fever and the only cure was MORE cowbell(we used our pits cowbell to count us off, and things were just fine)
6. Attendance-8,000 no comment.

All and all PC is satisfied with the WIN and the way the Panthers played and the way things went. Looking forward to SIU, GO CATS

THoughts?

[housecat]

Attendance-
10,000+ consistent plz.

I was in the student section, as I am a senior here at UNI. Really enjoyed the game. Attendance needs to be over 10,000 because this is the best program in the state.
Like Mcdonalds- I'm lovin it.

[Newsbreaker]

Hopefully a Conference Championship Game in 2 weeks brings a HUGE crowd with it!

[JayJ79]

What are peoples' thoughts on the jumbotron text message thing?
Part of me thinks it's just something else that people will pay attention to other than the actual game (like that dang helmet shuffle. ugh).

I've seen similar things done at baseball games. but of course, baseball by nature has long stretches of time between action, so people have plenty of time to kill. heh

[4N6]

Here's my thoughts. As long as Iowa and UNI are playing on the same date, UNI attendance will suffer. In other words, (my opinion says) that THE ONLY WAY attendance at UNI home games will be consistantly at 12 - 13K+ will be if they win. I remember several years ago, when Ron Steele and a co-broadcaster were bragging on the Friday night news that they had their tickets for Saturday's game. For UNI, that's huge (exposure.) Last week's loss hurt UNI's attendance this week. Plain and simple. UNI wins yesterday, goes to Southern for another win = attendance boost in two weeks. History at UNI sporting events has told me over the eyars that wins = bodies in the stands. That goes for men's and women's basketball, and volleyball to name a few. Let's be happy that those of us who were in the stands yesterday had fun, and saw an excellent game betweeen two very good teams. Brian and I were in the middle of the student section as usual, and it was damn loud in our section. See ya in a few weeks from row three, mid-court, and I don't care HOW many people show - I'm there to have fun.

[GoCats05]

Well, lets just hope that all these people that have season tickets to BOTH will realize that sittin' in drizzle and watching Hawks get beat by the bottom team was a poor choice yesterday.

All you fans going to Southern next week really make some noise for our beloved Panthers!! GO CATS!!

[lightnin49]

Sitting in Section B, I found the jumbotron text message thing extremely annoying. Similar to the "Wave", something for people to do who don't want to watch the game.
For 8,000 people, we sure were loud in the 4th Quarter when we needed to be!

[ubuntuCAT]

8,000 is pretty disappointing. (It sure seemed like more than that but easily our smallest crowd) I was also very impressed with how loud it got and how PUMPED the team got when we got loud. Now just imagine what that place will be like WHEN we start having sell outs!!!!!!!!

[uniwatcher]

Talked to an alum last night who was told by some girl at the ticket office that the "Buy one-Get one" coupon for football tickets could NOT be used for a single ticket to last nights game and a single to the ISU game. Was very dissappointed to hear this story, and the person will now not be attending the ISU game regardless of whether or not a playoff spot is on the line. This may sound petty to some, but I feel that things like this do nothing but shed a negative light on UNI football. Now, if we were dealing with a near sell-out for either game, I can somewhat understand, but our Athletic Department is doing all it can to get butts in the seats (UNDER 9,000 last night...). After getting home, I pulled out the phone book that had the 'coupon under question' in it, and found NO reference to anything about mandating that the tickets purchased be for the same game. This is the type of flop that has had me, and others questioning our ticket department for years now. For the Iowa State basketball game, the ticket department tried sticking a season ticket holder (myself) in the nose bleed section! Upon further discussion, I'm now sitting in the 5th row or so next to the court. Unbelievably poor work by the ticket department on that one as well...

[The Tight End]

And Western Kentucky thinks they are a 1A ballclub. I can't see it. Good 1AA club but that is about it. And remember a few years ago they were thinking about dropping football altogether. Go figure.

[Newsbreaker]

Talked to an alum last night who was told by some girl at the ticket office that the "Buy one-Get one" coupon for football tickets could NOT be used for a single ticket to last nights game and a single to the ISU game. Was very dissappointed to hear this story, and the person will now not be attending the ISU game regardless of whether or not a playoff spot is on the line. This may sound petty to some, but I feel that things like this do nothing but shed a negative light on UNI football. Now, if we were dealing with a near sell-out for either game, I can somewhat understand, but our Athletic Department is doing all it can to get butts in the seats (UNDER 9,000 last night...). After getting home, I pulled out the phone book that had the 'coupon under question' in it, and found NO reference to anything about mandating that the tickets purchased be for the same game. This is the type of flop that has had me, and others questioning our ticket department for years now. For the Iowa State basketball game, the ticket department tried sticking a season ticket holder (myself) in the nose bleed section! Upon further discussion, I'm now sitting in the 5th row or so next to the court. Unbelievably poor work by the ticket department on that one as well...

Wait, so they wanted to "buy one" for this week and "Get one" for the next home game? I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous request, it should be obvious that if you "buy one" to a home game you "get one" for THAT game, not some indiscriminate game in the future. People having unrealistic expectations is not the fault of the ticket office.

[Matt Trump]

Wait, so they wanted to "buy one" for this week and "Get one" for the next home game? I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous request, it should be obvious that if you "buy one" to a home game you "get one" for THAT game, not some indiscriminate game in the future. People having unrealistic expectations is not the fault of the ticket office.

Dang! I was just going to post the same thing.

[pantherclaw]

Wait, so they wanted to "buy one" for this week and "Get one" for the next home game? I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous request, it should be obvious that if you "buy one" to a home game you "get one" for THAT game, not some indiscriminate game in the future. People having unrealistic expectations is not the fault of the ticket office.

I agree its for THAT game.

[JayJ79]

At the end of the Panther Plus program (the plays from the UNI game, with audio from Rima and Peterson, produced by Greg Stuart, I believe) shown on Fox 28 on Sunday mornings (and also on CFU 17 later in the week), they name a Play of the Game and Player of the Game.

This weeks player of the game was....
the CROWD.
Undersized, yes. But twice as loud as last weeks.

I thought that was kind of cool

[uniwatcher]

Wait, so they wanted to "buy one" for this week and "Get one" for the next home game? I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous request, it should be obvious that if you "buy one" to a home game you "get one" for THAT game, not some indiscriminate game in the future. People having unrealistic expectations is not the fault of the ticket office.

I wasn't as upset about it until I read the wording of the coupon myself. It clearly states:

"Redeem this coupon after 8/1/06 at the UNI-Dome NW Ticket Office for One Free Ticket to a UNI Football, Volleyball, or Women's Soccer Event when an equal or greater value ticket is purchased."

While it may not have been the ticket office's intent to honor this ticket for different games, the way this reads, the person looking to use it for a GA ticket to two separate football games had a valid point. When you issue a coupon, you should realize its implications. For instance, a person should technically be allowed to purchase a GA ticket to a football game and request a free ticket to a Women's Soccer match! While you may be correct about the "intent", the ticket department was wrong in not honoring the way THEY worded a coupon. The only exclusion on this coupon appears to be the Homecoming game on October 7th.