Exhibiton Game vs IWU - not included in the Season Tickets

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I am always appreciative of what the long time season ticket holders do for ISU basketball, especially the ones that have been riding through the bad times. While I was in the upper bowl Sunday, I teased a few of the ones that were my friends asking if they have ever been up here before. There were some elderly ones I actually felt bad for.

Now on the flipside, the excitiement that the families and causual fans showed in the lower bowl was fantastic. Many seldom get that opportunity because a) they can only make x amount of games a year or b) because of financial reasons. I talked to people yesterday that were thrilled with the oppornunity and were actually excited about ISU basketball. Maybe we will see a slight attendance boost as more of them come back and sit in the upper bowl. I am all for general admission in the upper bowl from now on. No assigned seats up there!
 
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Cindy00 said:
They have said since this beginning that seating was general admission and to get their early.

And those areas were all filled in by the start of the men's games. They had one area for the admins of both schools (most of it filled in before the women's game began) and areas for the players and coaches family and friends for each of the four teams. The two areas for the men's teams started to fill up during the end of the women's games. If you showed up before the women's game you could find a seat in the lower bowl. So let’s see, show up to watch the team that was unrolling a banner and receiving rings that day and sit in the lower bowl. Come later because you only care about a team that hasn't made a NCAA tournament in 20 years and you are regulated to the upper bowl. Sounds like maybe more people should jump on the bandwagon and support our winning programs. Also, from a marketing perspective, this is a game to show off both schools to everyone in the community. So you have some IWU fans that had a great experience at Redbird Arena and they decide to come back for another game or two. We tell them they can only sit in the upper bowl and all they remember is how badly we treated them. Also, even though ISU hosted it, this was a community event and a fundraiser at that. Both universities did a great job collaborating on this and I appreciate everything they did. Between this and Ballin' on Beaufort, our Athletics department has been hitting it out of the park lately.
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100%, as usual!
 
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Cindy00 said:
They have said since this beginning that seating was general admission and to get their early.

And those areas were all filled in by the start of the men's games. They had one area for the admins of both schools (most of it filled in before the women's game began) and areas for the players and coaches family and friends for each of the four teams. The two areas for the men's teams started to fill up during the end of the women's games. If you showed up before the women's game you could find a seat in the lower bowl. So lets see, show up to watch the team that was unrolling a banner and receiving rings that day and sit in the lower bowl. Come later because you only care about a team that hasn't made a NCAA tournament in 20 years and you are regulated to the upper bowl. Sounds like maybe more people should jump on the bandwagon and support our winning programs. Also, from a marketing perspective, this is a game to show off both schools to everyone in the community. So you have some IWU fans that had a great experience at Redbird Arena and they decide to come back for another game or two. We tell them they can only sit in the upper bowl and all they remember is how badly we treated them. Also, even though ISU hosted it, this was a community event and a fundraiser at that. Both universities did a great job collaborating on this and I appreciate everything they did. Between this and Ballin' on Beaufort, our Athletics department has been hitting it out of the park lately.
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Since April 30 th anyways
 
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Baltimore Bird said:
It is interesting. Dan Muller came in and started as a freshman from Game 1. Muller started Paris Lee rather quickly. I am sure there were a few others.
As time went on, the team was dominated by transfers and there were not many freshman to play.
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Didn't we miss out on Hersey Hawkins because he was told he wouldn't play as a freshman?
 
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TIMMY said:
Just a thought from the cheap seats. How about they do this every year and make it The Horton game? East side green west side red. No sense of entitlement. No hurt boo-boo feelings. Lots of cash for charity. I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin!
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It's a good idea. I figured it would be the horton game this year tbh
 
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Cindy00 said:
The women will play in front of a bigger crowd on November 15th.
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They could and likely will. I hope it’s 7k, even 8k+, but it’s all dependent on schools committing and coming, along with the community/students showing up.
 
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TIMMY said:
Just a thought from the cheap seats. How about they do this every year and make it The Horton game? East side green west side red. No sense of entitlement. No hurt boo-boo feelings. Lots of cash for charity. I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin!
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This will not happen unless they jack up ticket prices and fans still sell it out. A game like Horton is expensive to set up and run. Labor costs, equipment rental. Probably special insurance. It all adds up.

As we saw with the lower bowl, you would also be setting aside a significant amount of seats for the team guests. It’s easy to run this game at RBA or the Bloomington Arena and have it be a successful event. But you aren’t going to fit guests, dignitaries, students, bands, etc. and get the people paying money into Horton. The nostalgia may be there for a Horton game, but it wouldn’t be a successful charitable endeavor or profitable event unless sponsors step up to cover huge costs.

CEFCU certainly wants this game at “CEFCU Arena.” ISU would too with thousands more people paying for parking, buying concessions, etc.
 
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Gotta love it. We schedule the exact local exhibition game many people have been calling for for years, make it a really cool community event that showcases both schools--for a charity no less--the whole thing generates good support, we put almost 6500 in the arena for the first time since (embarrassingly), pre-covid., there's good energy in the building, a fun day, our team looked good...and people still find something to gripe about.

Lord, deliver us from bullshit and let's have a good, competitive season so we can all get behind that and get this program back on track.
 
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Phantom said:
Gotta love it. We schedule the exact local exhibition game many people have been calling for for years, make it a really cool community event that showcases both schools--for a charity no less--the whole thing generates good support, we put almost 6500 in the arena for the first time since (embarrassingly), pre-covid., there's good energy in the building, a fun day, our team looked good...and people still find something to gripe about.

Lord, deliver us from bullshit and let's have a good, competitive season so we can all get behind that and get this program back on track.
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So, you want me to start the fire pedon thread? ;)
 
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