Attendance

[r54uni]

Re: Attendance

I have season tickets but I have looked and a family of four going to a game costs $65 just for tickets. That is a pretty good chunk of change for a lot of families. With season tickets you really don't think twice about the cost after you have paid but for the average mom and dad trying to figure out what to do Saturday night??? You then add in food at the game and then if you travel from any distance away you will probably need to eat out. Gas.

People keep saying it's affordable compared to Ames and IC but it is not a cheap family outing.

[ubuntuCAT]

Re: Attendance

said this from the git-go, but I would have liked to see the student section a bit smaller than it currently is (exclude the corner wood seats for students) and open the rest up for the general adm. i'm sure there are pro's and con's for smaller/bigger student sections, but i would think that a smaller allotment for seats means the demand for those seats would be larger from the students.

i think one of the problems is that students know they can just show up at the last second and not have to worry about not getting any seats. they don't have to get tickets in advance, so a lot of them, especially now that it is televised more often, don't want to leave the cozy confines of their dorm/apt. or if they do, they'll wait till the last second to leave. lessen the allotment for students and raise the demand for those seats. there are probably a lot of holes in my argument, but that is only my opinion.

Agreed I think the corners should have been chair backs too.

[FOTY]

Re: Attendance

said this from the git-go, but I would have liked to see the student section a bit smaller than it currently is (exclude the corner wood seats for students) and open the rest up for the general adm. i'm sure there are pro's and con's for smaller/bigger student sections, but i would think that a smaller allotment for seats means the demand for those seats would be larger from the students.

I can understand your thoughts. However, IIRC, the agreement creating the Panther Pass requires that a certain percentage of tickets available be reserved for students. If they were to decrease the size of the "reserved" student section, they could be in non-compliance with the agreement.

In the development of the Pass, we had considered that students reserve tickets prior to games. With discussions that idea was killed as it would not have been student friendly (yes, I know, it should be up to the student to walk over the to ticket office before the game). Our goal was to make it as simple as possible for students and break down barriers. In addition, there would be costs associated to providing students with reserved seating for each game (ticket office personnel, ticketing, etc.).

[UNI MadCat]

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73-

You got it. Every ticket is pretty much full price now, with a few exceptions. Those 8K-10K days in the dome had a lot to do with the 2-for-1, bogo, & free ticket deals you could find in the yellow pages.

Good point.

Sigh.

[EVSPanther]

Re: Attendance

I can understand your thoughts. However, IIRC, the agreement creating the Panther Pass requires that a certain percentage of tickets available be reserved for students. If they were to decrease the size of the "reserved" student section, they could be in non-compliance with the agreement.

In the development of the Pass, we had considered that students reserve tickets prior to games. With discussions that idea was killed as it would not have been student friendly (yes, I know, it should be up to the student to walk over the to ticket office before the game). Our goal was to make it as simple as possible for students and break down barriers. In addition, there would be costs associated to providing students with reserved seating for each game (ticket office personnel, ticketing, etc.).

When is the Panther Pass up for renegotiation? Or is it? Is anyone tabulating how much the students are taking advantage of the % of reserved seating for games? Let's say if they are only filling, on average, 50% of their allotment, can the athletic department, or whoever is responsible for this, adjust the overall student % number?

[FOTY]

Re: Attendance

When is the Panther Pass up for renegotiation? Or is it? Is anyone tabulating how much the students are taking advantage of the % of reserved seating for games? Let's say if they are only filling, on average, 50% of their allotment, can the athletic department, or whoever is responsible for this, adjust the overall student % number?

I don't recall if there was a built-in clause for renegotiations. It's possible that it could be done nearly every spring during the Student Fee allocation process. My concern would be that if they were to decrease the % of available seating, the Student Activity Fee Committee could very well decrease the allocation. Fewer seats = less $$$. If I were in TD's shoes, that's not a discussion I want to start....

[Casey'sitsallgood]

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Those corner seats were my absolute favorite seats in the entire building. Sat there every game I went to unless it was reserved. (ex.: the time JE's whole town came) Now, I know I'm in the minority when I say this but I'd so much rather sit (ok, stand) there then on the baseline. The basket blocks a bit of your view no matter where you sit on the baseline but I could see it all. It was perfect. I'm extremely glad those seat were available to us. In fact, every basketball game I go to now, I try to get seats similar to those. Had one's like that in St. Louis for the Sweet 16 even. spent way too much for them but I'll never forget it. Having close to the same seats amongst 40,000 as I did amongst 6,000...

[Cannic88]

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I always though it would be cool if we could have the student section split on either side like Iowa State does. Creates a great home court advantage

[Khan4Cats]

Re: Attendance

I always though it would be cool if we could have the student section split on either side like Iowa State does. Creates a great home court advantage

Let's just try and get the one side filled for now.

And maybe even have a pep band for more than 1/3 of the season.