$10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

[unipanther2154]

Re: $10 Bleachers seats for Evansville

[QUOTE=UNIdadtobe;408685]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.[/QUOTE

Bad wording on my part maybe. What i meant was take away seats because they dont use them (not purposely upset them). At some point they will want to come and because they have been lazy they wont be available. It will take until that point where they are upset they cant be at a game for somthing to happy. its the good old supply and demand. Demand isnt high so limit the supply until demand goes up. I do like how they are doing it now, it just doesnt look as nice having adults mixed in with students. that is why giving the students just the middle two sections and making the wings general admission might work the best.

[unipanther2154]

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me! me! me!

i hope ppl dont take me asking who actually grew up uni fans the wrong way. My point to that question is there are many people like myself. I grew up in Ohio before moving here in high school. Had little to no exposure to the university. Many people are not born a panther fan in this state. of course some are, but for myself i became a fan the second i stepped on campus. I grew to love what UNI was. Its something that Alumni like most of you and myself must share with others to keep the support for this school up and to have kids having this school as their favorite.

[Newsbreaker]

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I'm over this student attendance thing, but what sort of marketing, if any, of these games has been occurring on campus?

[run&blade]

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Students know there is a game. Probably isn't 100 kids on campus that don't have a smart phone.

Wouldn't spend a dime. It would be better to run some tv and radio spots promoting the seats the students are too lazy to use.

[TH1974]

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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.

Let's not pretend there were a lot of students doing that.

[TravelingPanther]

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Let's not pretend there were a lot of students doing that.

I couldn't state exact #s but through my childhood we were in the group of people that waited for the doors to open to grab seats. There were a lot of people at both east entrances and people literally ran once they checked
their ticket.

No you can walk in 15 mins prior to kickoff and get great spots in the student section.

[Schack]

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[QUOTE=run&blade;408735]Students know there is a game. Probably isn't 100 kids on campus that don't have a smart phone.

Maybe the machines are the problem. Why make the effort to go to a basketball game when your whole life is in your hand or on your lap.

[PantherChic]

Let's not pretend there were a lot of students doing that.

Well considering I was among those students and typically they'd let us in the "lobby" on the east side and it'd be jammed shoulder to shoulder with students, while outside there would be a long line, I'm confident in saying there were a lot. This was 2 hours before doors opened and you ran to grab a seat after getting in finally. Exact number? No idea. More than our current basketball average student attendance? Most definitely.

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[UNIdad]

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[QUOTE=unipanther2154;408711]

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.[/QUOTE

Bad wording on my part maybe. What i meant was take away seats because they dont use them (not purposely upset them). At some point they will want to come and because they have been lazy they wont be available. It will take until that point where they are upset they cant be at a game for somthing to happy. its the good old supply and demand. Demand isnt high so limit the supply until demand goes up. I do like how they are doing it now, it just doesnt look as nice having adults mixed in with students. that is why giving the students just the middle two sections and making the wings general admission might work the best.

Thanks for the clarification. I hope the students rally now. Supply and demand will definitely work against them if they wait until the place gets filled each week by the public. It will be hard to take those seats away from the paying public in order to give them back to the students.

[TH1974]

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It will be hard to take those seats away from the paying public in order to give them back to the students.

The students have already paid, though.

[UNIdad]

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The students have already paid, though.

Sort of. The students have paid fees that include the opportunity to go to games. However, it isn't the same as new revenue when those seats are actually sold.

If Iowa State did what UNI is now doing (selling student section tickets to the public), they would actually be getting triple revenue. They oversold the student section by 1000, so if more than those 1000 skip the game, and the seats are sold to the public, they will have generated revenue 3 times for the same seat!

[panther_2017]

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As a current student, I'm not a fan of the $10 tickets allowing families and adults to sit all over the student section. I too am saddened by the lack of my peers who attend games, but as someone who hasn't missed a home football or basketball game during my first 2 years on campus, it's frustrating to show up before the doors open and still get stuck 7-10 rows up and have a family in front of or behind you! My group of friends and me are usually very loud and try to get those around us to do the same but its hard to be jumping up and down and screaming for the entire game when there are elementary students and their parents sitting in front of us. I believe the middle 2 sections should be student only seats and then make the outside two bleacher sections for the General public.

[vbfan19]

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My group of friends and me are usually very loud and try to get those around us to do the same but its hard to be jumping up and down and screaming for the entire game when there are elementary students and their parents sitting in front of us.

why should that stop you?
unless you are screaming something inappropriate for elementary-aged ears (which shouldn't be done anyway)

[Newsbreaker]

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They really should designate a certain lower portion of those sections as students only, and restrict the general public who buy up the rest to higher rows.

[CyCarp]

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They really should designate a certain lower portion of those sections as students only, and restrict the general public who buy up the rest to higher rows.

Agreed, I'm kind of surprised they haven't done this.