*** Game 15 (Playoff Edition): @ James Madison ***

[panther-state]

If beer sales turns away families they must be Amish.

Oh god they sell beer, protect my snowflake kids.

I guess these families never eat out anywhere besides fast food. Even Pancheros sells beer.

Right on. I didn't make a game this year but I have a hard time believing public drunkenness was out of control and driving families away. Anyone who doesn't go to football games because there will be people drinking beer must look like human popsicles with those sticks up their butts.

Ticket prices and TV streaming access absolutely had a greater impact on attendance.

[Blue42]

I was at every home game and saw lots of folks enjoying a cold one...

And saw nothing at all in terms of behavior that would have scared away any fans.

It was a non-issue.

[Born-a-Panther]

Having every home game accessible on TV is absolutely hurting attendance, 100%. I have had so many comments from people saying, "It's on TV - that's why we aren't going."

[BCPanther]

Having every home game accessible on TV is absolutely hurting attendance, 100%. I have had so many comments from people saying, "It's on TV - that's why we aren't going."

I see what you're saying, however, that makes it incumbent upon Gameday marketing and oprerations to make the in person experience better than the one sitting at home. It's something that EVERYBODY is struggling with.

It's a tough one because Iowa exploded their fan base with the old Iowa TV Network in the 80s.

[run&blade]

Having every home game accessible on TV is absolutely hurting attendance, 100%. I have had so many comments from people saying, "It's on TV - that's why we aren't going."

And likely UNI makes little to nothing from ESPN3 or ESPN+

[vbfan19]

Having every home game accessible on TV is absolutely hurting attendance, 100%. I have had so many comments from people saying, "It's on TV - that's why we aren't going."

and it wouldn't surprise me if it was a conference mandate to have streaming coverage (ESPN3/+) for the games, and the individual schools aren't able to opt out. And if you no longer streamed your home games, there is a good chance you aren't going to have your road games streamed either. (well, NDSU would likely still televise their home games since it doesn't seem to hurt their attendance that much, but I'd imagine all the other schools are in a similar situation as UNI in terms of declining attendance (or not having much attendance to begin with for some of the schools)

[Trapped in California]

Part of the streaming deal is that softball, VB, WBB and wrestling are also streamed. Very few of those matches would be seen otherwise

[vbfan19]

Part of the streaming deal is that softball, VB, WBB and wrestling are also streamed. Very few of those matches would be seen otherwise

unless people, you know, actually went to the games/matches/meets.

[BCPanther]

Every Division I game is available on TV/Streaming somewhere. Ending that and thinking that people are going to magically show up is foolish. People will just stop caring altogether. Being a UNI fan is hard enough, the last thing we need to do is make it harder...

[Trapped in California]

Wasn't so long ago that you had a coin flip chance of finding the uni fb box score in a paper outside the WCF Courier. Just saying

[DomeIsHome]

Part of the streaming deal is that softball, VB, WBB and wrestling are also streamed. Very few of those matches would be seen otherwise

*Oscar from The Office voice* Actually...

This isn't really true for wrestling, but it's a pretty weird setup that UNI has for wrestling-rights since the Big 12 moved to ESPN (I think it will be in full effect next year).

Flowrestling has the broadcast rights for wrestling, which doesn't have anything to do with any of the other sports. Since UNI is an affiliate member of the Big 12 the new deal between the conference and UNI doesn't take effect until at least next year - if at all because, again, UNI's an affiliate member and the rules are different.

Anyway, it wasn't too long ago (say like two-three years) that UNI couldn't broadcast ANYTHING to ESPN/TV from the West Gym without a satellite truck being there, because literally all those connections are in the area between the McLeod/Dome and not on the east side of Hudson. And before you ask running cable that long isn't an option. With the broadcast changes that they've made though for Flo, hopefully they get it worked out so they can at least be on ESPN3 just like the rest of the Big 12.

[Born-a-Panther]

I see what you're saying, however, that makes it incumbent upon Gameday marketing and oprerations to make the in person experience better than the one sitting at home. It's something that EVERYBODY is struggling with.

It's a tough one because Iowa exploded their fan base with the old Iowa TV Network in the 80s.

Completely agree. And I know that the department is working very hard to look and work towards the future and take us into this "new" era we are in.

We all want instant gratification, but I do want people on this site to know that there are many things happening behind the scenes that are being worked on. We might not see the fruits of the labor for a while, but there is movement and there is effort.

[androidfreewares]

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[sevelev711]

hell yeah goo pantherrs