Attendance

[Spathicle]

I am usually one of the first ones to complain about empty seats in the McLoud. I don't see why we can't sell out on a regular basis.

But seeing the SC St @ Morgan St game on ESPN makes me thankful for what we do have. We have a great place to watch a game and we make it look decent more often than not with butts in the seats.

This place looks like a high school game, though I've seen bigger crowds at high school games!


Another reason I'm proud to be a Panther.

[Moose39]

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I just don't understand why more students don't want to be a part of this ya know?

[CyCarp]

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I could be wrong, but being up against a Packers playoff game tonight and last week don't really help. Hopefully after NFL at least, it gets better.

[Marc Wigim]

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I just don't understand why more students don't want to be a part of this ya know?

It's not just the students, believe me.

[cydave]

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It's not just the students, believe me.

And its not just UNI, believe me.

[TravelingPanther]

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A lot of empty seatbacks tonight. But we even had people in the 200 seats.

[achrist70]

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Lot of Packer fans in the area, but if we keep winning, people will start to overflow the McLeod again.

[Cat80]

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A lot of empty seatbacks tonight. But we even had people in the 200 seats.

Yup. Finally made it to one. Bought one of the mini-packs of 5 games. View from the 200's not as bad as one might think. Best thing about this game? The greatest giveaway ever at UNI. Foam paws! Great for fight song percussion on spouse's head and amused a toddler who was perched on mom's shoulder on the way to the parking lot.

[Moose39]

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I <3 those foam paws

[achrist70]

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The foam paws might be the best give away I have ever seen at UNI, (of the ones that everyone gets)

[UNIChippewa]

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In watching the game last night, it seemed like most of the empty seats were the best seats in the house; the ones right behind the benches.

How can that be?

[UNI83]

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In watching the game last night, it seemed like most of the empty seats were the best seats in the house; the ones right behind the benches.

How can that be?

Right behind the benches are team pass tickets for recruits and family. If they aren't used by the team they aren't sold. Much like the visitors section for football.

It really is a shame that the best seats in the McLeod (I think the sight line from every seat in there is pretty damn good though) aren't used. The two center sections are supposed to be reserved for PSC only, so the seats not being used are PSC members, which is very disappointing. Given the location of the seats and the number of seats that appear together it would seem that seats are companies that have season tickets only so that they can have precedence when it comes time for post season, or Iowa/Iowa State games.


Oh well, they don't know what they are missing, sadly when people want to buy tickets they are left with the bleachers under the alumni suite or the 200s.

It would be nice if the ticket office/ticket holders/athletic department could find a way to set up a ticket exchange where if a person knows they can't use tickets that they have (season or single game holder) they could return them for resale. There is a ton of logistics for that though and probably wouldn't happen anytime soon

[run&blade]

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people have other things to do and nothing is cheap anymore so it doesn't suprise me. The rise of AAU/Club sports means many people are busy almost every Saturday. What I don't understand is why students dont' go, it if free (I think) and close by.

[achrist70]

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people have other things to do and nothing is cheap anymore so it doesn't suprise me. The rise of AAU/Club sports means many people are busy almost every Saturday. What I don't understand is why students dont' go, it if free (I think) and close by.

It wasn't the seats that are usually bought on a game by game basis that were empty, it was the ones that are usually season tickets or bought by a company, so price really had nothing to do with it. I agree Saturday's are busy for a lot of people. I wish I knew why more students aren't showing up.

[UNI83]

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It wasn't the seats that are usually bought on a game by game basis that were empty, it was the ones that are usually season tickets or bought by a company, so price really had nothing to do with it. I agree Saturday's are busy for a lot of people. I wish I knew why more students aren't showing up.

You should know this by know, as should all UNI fans.

It isn't "cool" to follow UNI unless we are in the NCAA tournament, ranked in the top 5 of the FCS and in the national semi-finals (at least), and beat Kansas in basketball.