Bball Vent...

[TheWhizzz]

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My mom and my uncle both went to uni so i like to keep up with them on sports. Was a huge fan of Coleman, Ali, and Kwadzo. Also use to have season tickets for football when i was little until we got Iowa ones. Im not a super fan by any means and cant stand some of your fans sometimes (but you cant stand some of us so its fair haha) but i like to see them succeed. Just not when they play iowa haha. Its always good to have a team repersent the state of Iowa and for the last couple years its been you guys.

[TheWhizzz]

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And the only reason i said i dont think he is as athletic is because i have never really seen that explosion or leaping ability from him like ive seen with white.

[jnutt]

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My mom and my uncle both went to uni so i like to keep up with them on sports. Was a huge fan of Coleman, Ali, and Kwadzo. Also use to have season tickets for football when i was little until we got Iowa ones. Im not a super fan by any means and cant stand some of your fans sometimes (but you cant stand some of us so its fair haha) but i like to see them succeed. Just not when they play iowa haha. Its always good to have a team repersent the state of Iowa and for the last couple years its been you guys.

tell Coach Lick "Thanks" for telling Ali he didn't have a spot on the bench at Iowa

[TheWhizzz]

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Mannn lets not bring up lick haha

[williebat]

My mom and my uncle both went to uni so i like to keep up with them on sports. Was a huge fan of Coleman, Ali, and Kwadzo. Also use to have season tickets for football when i was little until we got Iowa ones. Im not a super fan by any means and cant stand some of your fans sometimes (but you cant stand some of us so its fair haha) but i like to see them succeed. Just not when they play iowa haha. Its always good to have a team repersent the state of Iowa and for the last couple years its been you guys.

Nice. Have you been to the McLoud to see a game yet? It is pretty impressive.

[TheWhizzz]

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Yeah we have been to quite a bit. Went to the iowa game last year with a couple of my college buddies and also went to sCUm game when Aj hit that game winner. Other then that i have been any since Highschool. All time favorite game though was when they played Missouri st 2010-2011 even though it was a loss.

[jnutt]

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Mannn lets not bring up lick haha

Lick is a good guy good coach but just a bad fit in Iowa. He's a solid mid-major coach and there is nothing wrong with that

[williebat]

Yeah we have been to quite a bit. Went to the iowa game last year with a couple of my college buddies and also went to sCUm game when Aj hit that game winner. Other then that i have been any since Highschool. All time favorite game though was when they played Missouri st 2010-2011 even though it was a loss.

My son and I were at that cu game. The crowd was phenomenal.

[unifan]

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I'm sure this has been talked about in another thread somewhere, but are they increasing the ticket prices for some of the basketball games now too? Had heard that Drake tickets were $30. Seems a bit much.

[BCPanther]

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Drake, Wichita, and Creighton are $30.

Typical UNI attitude. We want great programs and expect to compete but we don't want to pay for it.

[9YRPLAN]

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i think they did the same thing for football

seems like a reasonable test of supply and demand.

[06panther10]

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$30 is a lot to watch UNI and Drake play--two mediocre MVC teams at the moment. I think in general, BC Is right and UNI fans need to be willing to shell out more dollars for events, but I can also understand being frustrated about Sunday afternoon basketball tickets against Drake costing $30 a piece.

The issue I have with it, if the ticket website is to be believed (huge assumption), is that there are no youth prices. $30 to get in the door. If you have a family, that's a huge cost for some Sunday entertainment.

I guess I am just overall frustrated with the entire game atmosphere, production, attendance etc of UNI basketball right now. Our attendance sucks, the atmosphere sucks most of the time, the pregame productions are just awful, we barely have a pep band. I liked how over break we offered cheap bleacher tickets while the students were gone. I thought we had some pretty decent walkup crowds sitting in the bleachers for those games, and I would love to see those people still come when the students came back but I highly doubt those people are going to purchase $30 tickets.

I was actually looking forward to Sunday as I thought we might finally have a decent sized crowd being that we are playing Drake on a Sunday afternoon, the band should be there, the student should be there. But with this now, I'm sure (like usual) the crowd will suck again...

[06panther10]

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Attendance average for every year in the McLeod:

'07: 6298
'08: 5096
'09: 4212
'10: 5642
'11: 4767
'12: 4406
'13 (thus far): 3743

Laughably bad for a program as good as we have had, and it seemingly continues to trend downward. Something needs to be done (I don't know what), but bumping prices up to $30 for a few games doesn't seem like it is going to help.

[9YRPLAN]

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Attendance average for every year in the McLeod:

'07: 6298
'08: 5096
'09: 4212
'10: 5642
'11: 4767
'12: 4406
'13 (thus far): 3743

Laughably bad for a program as good as we have had, and it seemingly continues to trend downward. Something needs to be done (I don't know what), but bumping prices up to $30 for a few games doesn't seem like it is going to help.

iowa state and iowa have a better product now as well. we compete directly with them for a decent % of casual fans.

[BCPanther]

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06 is right. The whole gameday atmosphere, football and basketball, is terrible right now. There is absolutely no excitement being generated by anything the gameday staff is doing.

They botched the football entrance at every home game. The basketball intro video and music is just absolutely god awful. The basketball video is that awesome combination of slow and quiet, just what you are looking for. I don't care if the speakers can't handle it, muddy loud is better than quiet clear in these situations.

I believe they hired a 'Game Day Coordinator' about a year ago. That person needs to be shown the door.

And if I have to see/hear that lame ass 'Purple/Gold' cheer one more time I may need to be medicated. Lets take 15 minutes to get on the floor, 10 more to lift up the cheerleader and then leave at least 2 minutes between the two words. Lets make it as quiet and hospitable as possible for the opposing team.