Is nobody else excited for ISU tomorrow, or what?!?

[06panther10]

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Based on ticket sales from what I can tell online...

There are a couple seatbacks available (they weren't last week), and there are some lower level bleacher seats. That's not a good sign that there will be anything close to a sellout. I can't expect alot of walk-ups for $40/ticket. Let's hope the students show up in large numbers and can fill the bleachers.

Its gonna look real bad for UNI if we can't sell out this game, or something close to it.

But, I would not blame people for not coming. 40 bucks for a ticket to a UNI basketball game? wtf? Its between two mediocre teams at 8 PM midweek. Nobody wants to pay that much for a ticket. Especially considering you can just stay home and watch it on TV. 40 dollars is rediculous and I think when the athletic department sees how many people come to the game on Wednesday, they will never do this again.

[joecooll6]

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Based on ticket sales from what I can tell online...

There are a couple seatbacks available (they weren't last week), and there are some lower level bleacher seats. That's not a good sign that there will be anything close to a sellout. I can't expect alot of walk-ups for $40/ticket. Let's hope the students show up in large numbers and can fill the bleachers.

I would be surprised. Theres just no buzz around here.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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joecool-

That's amazing...how can this game not have a buzz? Are they not informed, or just disinterested?

[dustin86]

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The students have been getting emails about this game for like 2 weeks, or atleast i have

[dustin86]

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What does everybody think the reaction for coach Mac will be tommorrow night?

Lots of BOO's and throwing paper monopoly money at him

[in_the_stands]

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Its gonna look real bad for UNI if we can't sell out this game, or something close to it.

But, I would not blame people for not coming. 40 bucks for a ticket to a UNI basketball game? wtf? Its between two mediocre teams at 8 PM midweek. Nobody wants to pay that much for a ticket. Especially considering you can just stay home and watch it on TV. 40 dollars is rediculous and I think when the athletic department sees how many people come to the game on Wednesday, they will never do this again.

I hope that someday in the not-too-distant future UNI puts a product on the floor worth a $40 ticket. That day isn't here yet.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081203/SPORTS020604/812030378/-1/ENT06

The McLeod Center holds 7,000 fans. A crowd of 9,517 attended the game. At $30 a ticket, that brought an extra $75,000-plus to the Panthers' athletic budget.

Today's game will be in the McLeod Center, with tickets $42 apiece. As of midday Tuesday, 3,513 tickets had been sold.

[TH1974]

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Lots of BOO's and throwing paper monopoly money at him

Classy....

[Panther789]

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I think it will be a good game...not because both teams are good but quite the opposite...both teams seem like they are young and not very good...we just barely beat UC-Davis and had a meltdown in Hawaii... If i was a betting man, id put my money on the panthers.

Hopefully i'm wrong,

For what its worth, if you were a betting man, you might have to give 5 points.

UNI is favored by 5 tonight.

[jman2004]

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joecool-

That's amazing...how can this game not have a buzz? Are they not informed, or just disinterested?

I host quite a bit of UNI students in my classroom. None of them seem to care a thing about basketball.

They're pumped about football though . . .

[jman2004]

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I hate getting drawn back into this argument but I can tell you if someone offered to triple (or was it quadruple) my salary and still stay close to my family, it would be an easy decision. Oh and also have access to better facilities and have more tv exposure and a bigger budget.

I have no problem with him leaving for a bigger salary, I just wasn't impressed by the WAY he chose to leave. Trust me, his players weren't either.

[run&blade]

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/art...30378/-1/ENT06
The McLeod Center holds 7,000 fans. A crowd of 9,517 attended the game. At $30 a ticket, that brought an extra $75,000-plus to the Panthers' athletic budget.

Today's game will be in the McLeod Center, with tickets $42 apiece. As of midday Tuesday, 3,513 tickets had been sold.

OMG, the new AD really overplaid his hand with basketball ticket prices this year. The economy is not good and the product is not exciting so very few are going to drop $40 a ticket. It would be $200 to bring my family, to watch meat grinder slow down basketball on a week night. I think the new AD came dangerously close to pricing out fans for football also, if the W's dip even a little bit crowds of 8000 will be the norm at $26 a ticket.

Why are these game never on a weekend? You would get more people to come.

It is going to be sorry to see that building empty on TV.

[run&blade]

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I have no problem with him leaving for a bigger salary, I just wasn't impressed by the WAY he chose to leave. Trust me, his players weren't either.

What 'WAY' is that? They offered and he took it? Did you want him to put on a dog and pony show with tears?

IMO he got a great job offer and took it, I don't need anything to be said for me to enjoy the trip.

[jegbomb52]

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UNI people found out he left the University (a University he proclaimed was "his University") at a press conference where he almost biffed it going down the stairs only to hear him say he had always "been a Cyclone" at heart.

Get excited about your new position. Talk about how excited you are to coach in the Big XII, and how excited you are to coach at Iowa State University, a college that has had a fair amount of relative success.

Don't however walk into persons home, ask them for money to build a new basketball arena on Monday, then turn around on Wednesday and tell the entire state that "you've always been a Cyclone at heart."

I HATE MAC

[jman2004]

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What 'WAY' is that? They offered and he took it? Did you want him to put on a dog and pony show with tears?

IMO he got a great job offer and took it, I don't need anything to be said for me to enjoy the trip.

It's not NEAR as black and white as you make it sound. He did not simply accept a job offer.

He talked and talked and talked up UNI. This was his "dream job". The least he could've given his players and recruits was some respect. Most of his players found out about him leaving at a press conference on KWWL. That's not cool in my book.

Take another job. I don't care about that. He earned it if he wanted it. But he handled the situation pretty poorly from this end.