Attendance

[Newsbreaker]

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I believe, and I am operating 100% from memory here, that UNI got a liquor license to sell beer at a non-athletic (ie, concert) even in the Dome some years ago and may even have had the vendor lined up but the administration killed it.

The NCAA is the bar to sales at athletic events (IIRC) but UNI's administration (lke so many other colleges and Universities) has never learned the lessons of prohibition and would refuse even if the NCAA didn't.

[oldandgrey]

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Now that we have that attendance thing figured out, hey DWaddle1983, did you ever find that Maid-Rite?

[DWadle1983]

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Now that we have that attendance thing figured out, hey DWaddle1983, did you ever find that Maid-Rite?

None in my part of Wisconsin. They closest is in Madison. Wausau had a couple but they appeared to have closed. My wife had some shipped up here for my birthday a couple years back. At least I have a Happy Joe's in Green Bay so that part of my Iowa food group is taken care of.

My nephew in Texas has a similar disease. He plotted his travel around the Midwest to see relatives and friends in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska based on where Maid-Rites were located.

[Panther-Sheik]

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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

Ordering online doesn't have the $5 charge either...I was told by the ticket person that it is just a "phone order charge" and you can avoid it by ordering online....and I did it and it actually worked!!!

[run&blade]

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I was going to order tickets for last nights game, 5 tickets, two adult at $13 each and 3 kids at $8 dollars. At the very end of the transaction is was going to charge me an extra $10 for additional fees or something like that. I just closed it out and bought tickets at the door. Maybe at the door the tickets are 15 and 10 and I didn't save a penny, I don't know. If that is the case they would be better off just selling them on the net for 15 and 10 and showing no fees. Seriously it drives people away.

As far as the beer goes I probably would have 1 a year if the sold them at the games, it is no big deal to me.

I would never say never, in this economy and shrinking funding lots of things will be put on the table. People are sick of taxes and funding state universities where the state workers get pay and benefit packages that blow what many in the private sector get for similar work. The janitor at the mall isn't getting 5 weeks vacation and IPERS but they do at UNI. (just using that as an example of what people are thinking in these trying times, not trying to start a political fight). 30 years ago there was no gambling in Iowa, now you can see the search lights from the casinos from almost every address in the state. The money is intoxicating.

The climate is changing and anything that brings money in will be considered. If the regents are done funding athletics then you can bet they will give the schools more wiggle room on how to raise money. If they stop funding athletics then IMO title IX should be gone.

[06panther10]

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I believe, and I am operating 100% from memory here, that UNI got a liquor license to sell beer at a non-athletic (ie, concert) even in the Dome some years ago and may even have had the vendor lined up but the administration killed it.

The NCAA is the bar to sales at athletic events (IIRC) but UNI's administration (lke so many other colleges and Universities) has never learned the lessons of prohibition and would refuse even if the NCAA didn't.

There has been alchohol sales at non-athletic events fairly recently. Last year, they sold liquor at the Jeff Dunham event in the dome.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I was going to order tickets for last nights game, 5 tickets, two adult at $13 each and 3 kids at $8 dollars. At the very end of the transaction is was going to charge me an extra $10 for additional fees or something like that. I just closed it out and bought tickets at the door. Maybe at the door the tickets are 15 and 10 and I didn't save a penny, I don't know. If that is the case they would be better off just selling them on the net for 15 and 10 and showing no fees. Seriously it drives people away.

I agree...and I have no idea why it shows this way on the internet, but I do believe it is the exact same price at the door ($15 and $10). Must just have the fees built in at the door and they have to disclose them differently over the internet???

[Newsbreaker]

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There has been alchohol sales at non-athletic events fairly recently. Last year, they sold liquor at the Jeff Dunham event in the dome.

Good to hear (and it's entirely possible I'm remembering that wrong).

[Victory_For_UNI]

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Iowa= East and West coast circa 1957. Sacrifice dollars for "morals and family atmosphere" when we cut staff, charge students an extra $100 per semester, ask faculty to take furloughs, and have a football team that goes $500k into the red per year. Makes perfect sense...... But the exposure we get on espn u is worth it. Let's be serious here... If we're going to continue claim to be a serious academic institution, we need to drop the "family enviornment"at our athletic events that few outside the uni family know of (and I speak of both the events and the atmosphere), because making negative 500k every August-November when asking other areas to cut back at a place that is ultimately an establishment of education is just plain stupid.

[Victory_For_UNI]

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and for the 100,000th time, there is NOT a rule against selling beer in a venue because it is on campus.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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In confirmation to others, UNI does sell beer at non-athletic events in the Dome/McLeod Center.

And also, tickets are normally $15 and $10 for bleachers, so the 'fees' seen at the end of the transaction are just normally built in.

[TH1974]

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Let's be serious here... If we're going to continue claim to be a serious academic institution, we need to drop the "family enviornment"at our athletic events that few outside the uni family know of (and I speak of both the events and the atmosphere), because making negative 500k every August-November when asking other areas to cut back at a place that is ultimately an establishment of education is just plain stupid.

I think selling beer is a good way to raise money for the department, but the claim that doing so will improve (or maintain) UNI's academic reputation is one of the more rediculous ones ever made.

[Kyle]

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Doesn't UNI already serve beer to the luxury suites?

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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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.

Young Arena also holds about 4500 people, almost half of which is standing room, markets itself non-stop, runs so many discounts that they are hard to count, and don't have to compete with Iowa for a fan base. The closest team is Cedar Rapids, which every one seems to hate as soon as they step in the door, even if they have never been to a hockey game before.

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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I agree...and I have no idea why it shows this way on the internet, but I do believe it is the exact same price at the door ($15 and $10). Must just have the fees built in at the door and they have to disclose them differently over the internet???

For the 100th time, ticket prices are the same at the door or online for every event. The only difference is that online it doesn't show the fees that are added to every ticket that is sold, regardless of event, until you check out. Yes, tickets are technically $13 and $8, for the ticket itself. However, there is a $2 fee that goes on to every ticket for every event of at UNI be it in GPBAC, McLeod, or the Dome.


Like I said earlier the fees UNI charges is actually on the LOW side among places that sell tickets, and it isn't UNI charging them...it is their ticket company