Attendance

[TravelingPanther]

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Don't write that off to city size. The Waterloo/CF metro area is larger than the Peoria metro area.

No it's not. Ive spent a lot of time in Peoria. Not even close. WCF metro area might be as big as Peoria, but not the Peoria metro area (E Peoria, Pekin, etc).

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Wow PttB, I am shocked at those SIU attendance numbers. Absolutely shocked.

My information was way off, wasn't that an extremely tough ticket a couple of years ago?

There were games where the tickets were tough to come by, but they really struggle at times to draw at a high level consistently. The Creighton games, Indiana game a couple years ago, and some of the Bracket Buster games have done well at selling out or close to it. You would think based on how solid their teams have been, with a large student population, etc...that they would have better attendance.

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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Attendance would be higher if the ticket office wasn't always screwing people over with their fees


Seriously though, there are no extra fees if you do it online as opposed to over the phone. The price will be the same, trust me I've done orders both ways. The only difference in price is between phone/internet and walk up. Walk up doesn't have the $5 fee at the end. Now if you want to complain about the $5 fine, but the ticket office doesn't control that, as far as I know. That is something that whoever they go through has made them put on. In fact many other ticket offices do the same thing.



The booths for tickets were poorly built because the University cheaped out on the construction of the place and forgot to add them until the last minute. Then instead of actually putting a real booth in they just added a walk up booth. I've been inside the booth on the south end of the McLeod and the ladies that work there don't have heat in there. There is nothing in there to keep them warm. So while you may have to stand there for a couple minutes, they are stuck there all night

[Chitown Panther]

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DU is a private institution with a basketball arena on campus.
http://www.du.edu/events/MapConcert.html

They sell beer in their arena....its also not exclusive to Coors...

[run&blade]

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For football I would close off the West side of the UNI dome. Don't allow UNI students on that side of the building and serve beer. If UNI students want to drink then they would have to purchase real tickets to sit on the West side of the dome.

The West side would serve beer. You could do this without much trouble IMO and it would solve UNI's money problems PDQ. You could stop the selling of beer when the third quarter started and your sales would be huge.

Put up a huge jumbo tron and let people come early and enjoy the big game of the day while they kick back a few drinks before the game starts. If UNI has some sort of culinary degree let them prepare and sell food during this pregame time.

[UNIpanther99]

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you would have to sell about a half million beers per game to solve our money problems.

That sounds like a challenge to me!

[run&blade]

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I think selling beer would bring more people to the games for sure.

If the West side of the UNI dome sold $5 bottles of beer during games how many do you think they would sell each home game? I would 1500 to 2000. Figure the cost of the beer is a $1 a bottle you could swing a profit of maybe $8000 for every home game so maybe enough money to fund a couple of scholarships every year.

I really wonder what they would sell in beer for each game.

I wouldn't have any problem if they sold it at basketball and volleyball games either.

[cydave]

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I think selling beer would bring more people to the games for sure.

If the West side of the UNI dome sold $5 bottles of beer during games how many do you think they would sell each home game? I would 1500 to 2000. Figure the cost of the beer is a $1 a bottle you could swing a profit of maybe $8000 for every home game so maybe enough money to fund a couple of scholarships every year.

I really wonder what they would sell in beer for each game.

I wouldn't have any problem if they sold it at basketball and volleyball games either.

You are forgetting the increased costs for additional security and an increase in liability insurance for alcohol sales.
I'm not sure how much those things cost, but I gurantee it's not cheap.

[Pantherpower]

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Not a perfect comparison, but the W'loo Blackhawks sell beer at their games and I believe they have quite a few sellouts. I don't have strong feelings about it one way or the other, to be honest.

[Kyle]

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Not a perfect comparison, but the W'loo Blackhawks sell beer at their games and I believe they have quite a few sellouts.

This is probably the best indicator to determine if selling beer will increase attendance.

[06panther10]

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This is probably the best indicator to determine if selling beer will increase attendance.

No kidding.

People are willing to go out, and watch high school kids play hockey in a tiny little minor league hockey league, simply because of the good atmosphere, and the alchohol.

If we could sell beer, it would help greatly.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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The Black Hawks averaged 3,012 per game last year (link). Young Arena has a seating capacity of 2,985. I've been to a game in the past there, so others who have been there more recently or frequently may be able to give a better perspective, but it seems as though there is alot of standing room and 'party deck' area that people go to. With the Black Hawks it may not be as simple as saying it's b/c of beer sales. They are attracting alot of fans due to 1.) A good string of successful teams 2.) cheap tickets 3.) multiple promotions 4.) only show in town in Waterloo 5.) great atmosphere with fights nightly 6.) beer sales 7.) more cowbell. But seriously, don't discount #5 as I have heard several people who go to Young Arena b/c there are fights.

I don't know what the answer is regarding beer sales. I still think there is some underlying NCAA rules/regulations on this.

[DrewDog]

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I have heard multiple times from folks in the know at UNI that there is no way in h@ll UNI will consider selling alcohol at a sporting event. I do not blame them for various reasons, including liability issues and the message it would send to a student population where the majority are minors. I went to a college for undergrad which had a pub on campus and the insurance costs kept escalating to the point that they were forced to close it. I also do not think the Bd of Regents would allow it. Additionally, just imagine the press coverage if a student death was in some way tied to drinking at a sporting at UNI, Iowa or Iowa State where the school sold alcohol.

[cydave]

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I have heard multiple times from folks in the know at UNI that there is no way in h@ll UNI will consider selling alcohol at a sporting event. I do not blame them for various reasons, including liability issues and the message it would send to a student population where the majority are minors. I went to a college for undergrad which had a pub on campus and the insurance costs kept escalating to the point that they were forced to close it. I also do not think the Bd of Regents would allow it. Additionally, just imagine the press coverage if a student death was in some way tied to drinking at a sporting at UNI, Iowa or Iowa State where the school sold alcohol.

I agree.
Risk>>>>>Reward

[Purple member]

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When I was at UNI (early 80's), they still sold beer at Hardee's in the Union. They didn't sell it at sporting events, but they did have sales on campus. Of course back then the drinking age was 19 and we could also smoke in the Union. Yes, I'm kinda old.