$10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

[TravelingPanther]

On sale now. Pick em up so we can pack the place!

[CyCarp]

Re: $10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

As of 9 a.m., @UNImbb had 892 student tickets, 92 chair back seats and 68 north bleacher spots available for Wednesday's game.

[PantherChic]

Re: $10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

I am so over being upset with the students. My brain explodes trying to figure it out. #10 in the nation, for crying out loud!!!

[unipanther2154]

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is the ratio of students on campus/or close by and the number of seats available to them reasonable? we are a 12-13k student enrollment school. Iowa has what? 30k? how many seats are available to them? just wondering if maybe they maybe over did it a bit when they set that up. when i was in school, which was during the 08-09, 09-10 seasons we were able to fill it up nicely from what i recall. im not saying its not possible to keep it consistent, but are we asking too much? what if we just gave them the two middle wooden areas and kept the side wings as $10. its all about supply and demand. If you limit the amount of seats available to them i feel as it could raise interest. people will then understand they have to be on top of ordering those tickets if they want to be able to watch the game.

[otter]

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When you are ranked #10 in the nation you would think we should be beating away students due to lack of enough seats.

I will say that I was happy with the amount of students that stayed until the end of the game against Bradley.

[achrist70]

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Students should be camping in tents for weeks to get the best seats.

[pantherfan4ever]

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I was there at noon and got mine! Will be there early to get great seats! Can't beat front row seats for 10 bucks to the #10 team in the nation!!!! I know we aren't Kentucky, but you would pay over $800 for a worse seat to see a fellow top #10 ranked team.

[unipanther2154]

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Students should be camping in tents for weeks to get the best seats.

we are not Duke.....can we not pretend like we have a blue blood basketball tradition? i understand everyone's enthusiasm about the ranking and your feelings about how you would handle it if you were students. I am Crazy about this school and about this specific athletic program. Now is when that tradition is built. We are going to have growing pains like students not caring. if they dont care, take some of the seats away. get it to the point where you have 2-300 students getting upset about not getting tickets before you open the section back up. The big problem is this, Our program is now just coming into its own. How many people actually grow up UNI fans? i didnt, did you? its our kids and our kids, kids who will grow up UNI fans. They will be the ones who end up going to UNI and because they grew up UNI fans they will want to take advantage of being able to see their favorite program play. As a fan of UNI its our job to get people interested so we can have a solid fan base. The more success we have the easier it will be to get people to keep coming back and have a passion for this program.

[PantherChic]

Re: $10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

we are not Duke.....can we not pretend like we have a blue blood basketball tradition? i understand everyone's enthusiasm about the ranking and your feelings about how you would handle it if you were students. I am Crazy about this school and about this specific athletic program. Now is when that tradition is built. We are going to have growing pains like students not caring. if they dont care, take some of the seats away. get it to the point where you have 2-300 students getting upset about not getting tickets before you open the section back up. The big problem is this, Our program is now just coming into its own. How many people actually grow up UNI fans? i didnt, did you? its our kids and our kids, kids who will grow up UNI fans. They will be the ones who end up going to UNI and because they grew up UNI fans they will want to take advantage of being able to see their favorite program play. As a fan of UNI its our job to get people interested so we can have a solid fan base. The more success we have the easier it will be to get people to keep coming back and have a passion for this program.

Ok my take on your comments - in the early 90s you could potentially say the football program was just "coming into its own". And yet students "camped out" in the cold for 2 hours before each home football game. We ran for and fought over seats. Maybe not exactly an equal comparison, but we weren't #1 in the country in all Div 1 - we were #1 in what was then IAA football. This basketball team is going on how many weeks ranked in the top 25? And now #10 - and the students only clammored for tickets when we were playing WSU on national tv? That's what it took? Come on.

I agree - we need to build the fan base from the ground up. We need to catch the young kids. We need to do something when they are freshman to keep them coming back, make them proud of their school. I don't know how. Guess we'll see.

[otter]

Re: $10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

Will say that we were shopping a Scheels in CF before the game Saturday and I have never seen that many people shopping in the UNI section before....the fan base is growing and hopefully some of the bandwagon fans will stay around.

[vbfan19]

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How many people actually grow up UNI fans? i didnt, did you?

I grew up being a UNI fan

[UNIdad]

Re: $10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

we are not Duke.....can we not pretend like we have a blue blood basketball tradition? i understand everyone's enthusiasm about the ranking and your feelings about how you would handle it if you were students. I am Crazy about this school and about this specific athletic program. Now is when that tradition is built. We are going to have growing pains like students not caring. if they dont care, take some of the seats away. get it to the point where you have 2-300 students getting upset about not getting tickets before you open the section back up. The big problem is this, Our program is now just coming into its own. How many people actually grow up UNI fans? i didnt, did you? its our kids and our kids, kids who will grow up UNI fans. They will be the ones who end up going to UNI and because they grew up UNI fans they will want to take advantage of being able to see their favorite program play. As a fan of UNI its our job to get people interested so we can have a solid fan base. The more success we have the easier it will be to get people to keep coming back and have a passion for this program.

Not sure that I want 300 students upset about not getting seats. That seems like it could be counterproductive. I think I like what they are doing now . . . making the seats available to students, but releasing unclaimed ones to the public. Having a packed house consistently will probably be the best thing to help mobilize more students (well that and winning).

Iowa State had lots of empty seats in the student section for several conference games last year. Fans were calling for them to do the same sort of thing to release SRO tickets for the public to use in the student section upper deck.

[TravelingPanther]

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How many people actually grow up UNI fans? i didnt, did you?

me! me! me!

[BCPanther]

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UNI fan since birth here. Have been going to games since age 2.

[otter]

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Haven't been since birth, but am raising my daughters as UNI fans. My oldest daughter started signing the fight song when she was 2 or 3 and may be one of the few, if not only, 4 year old that knows knows most of the team and their numbers.