ISU Football Tickets - NDSU game - Nov 18th .. buy now !!

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The sad reality of Bloomington-Normal is how quickly people forget. After the National Championship run, the community was buzzing about ISU football through April. As summer came and went, it diminished, and by kickoff on opening day it was the same fans who had been out the previous year. It will be the same with men's hoops this year. People were excited. We didn't lose at home. Once momentum picked up in the NIT and the crowd was really nice for the UCF game, we lose. By opening tip next season we'll be back to that 4,000 number we have learned to live with.

If we are in contention to win the Valley or are top 3 in the conference, which would likely put us at 8-12 in the country, this will be a hot ticket locally. However, there won't be tickets available at that time because NDSU will have bought them months before.

 

[fourthandshort]

The sad reality of Bloomington-Normal is how quickly people forget. After the National Championship run, the community was buzzing about ISU football through April. As summer came and went, it diminished, and by kickoff on opening day it was the same fans who had been out the previous year. It will be the same with men's hoops this year. People were excited. We didn't lose at home. Once momentum picked up in the NIT and the crowd was really nice for the UCF game, we lose. By opening tip next season we'll be back to that 4,000 number we have learned to live with.

If we are in contention to win the Valley or are top 3 in the conference, which would likely put us at 8-12 in the country, this will be a hot ticket locally. However, there won't be tickets available at that time because NDSU will have bought them months before.

Largely agree with your point ..... and all the more reason to copy SDSU and USD ... they do it for exact same reason. This will help draw attention and marginally help build fan base ... all positive attention.

Suppose this plays out like I think .. we're competing for conference champs and better top 8 seed. Now imagine we do this right a d end up with 10k Redbird fans and 3k bison fans .. and then we win game. Imagine what that does for program. A sell out and big win for a game we usually draw maybe 6k .. senior day no less.

Also imagine if spack has some big recruits at this kind of game and atmosphere .... beating 5 time champs. Got to plan for this possibility with the upside in mind.

 

[Source]

Care to share what SDSU and USD do for those of us too lazy to go over to AGS

 

[fourthandshort]

It's buried above ... t
Each year they put all homes game on sale publicly except when the game when they host NDSU. For that one game, they both delay making that game publicly available, while they let their own fans buy up what it can. Eventually they open the Home NDSU game to public which is when Bison have to wait to scoop up whatever is left. This year SDSU hosts NDSU on Nov 4th. Private ticket sales are going well but the remaining tix won't be open to public (i.e. Bison) until Sep 18th.

I'm not as crazed as some of you might think .. let's learn from the southern Dakotans. They did this for very good reason.

 

[Redbird78]

Just bought 4 in Section 102. That means at least 4 won't be green and yellow in that section!

 

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It's buried above ... t
Each year they put all homes game on sale publicly except when the game when they host NDSU. For that one game, they both delay making that game publicly available, while they let their own fans buy up what it can. Eventually they open the Home NDSU game to public which is when Bison have to wait to scoop up whatever is left. This year SDSU hosts NDSU on Nov 4th. Private ticket sales are going well but the remaining tix won't be open to public (i.e. Bison) until Sep 18th.

I'm not as crazed as some of you might think .. let's learn from the southern Dakotans. They did this for very good reason.

I'm on board! How do they sell privately? On sale at ticket office only? ID required at purchase?

 

[ChiRedbirdfan]

The sad reality of Bloomington-Normal is how quickly people forget. After the National Championship run, the community was buzzing about ISU football through April. As summer came and went, it diminished, and by kickoff on opening day it was the same fans who had been out the previous year. It will be the same with men's hoops this year. People were excited. We didn't lose at home. Once momentum picked up in the NIT and the crowd was really nice for the UCF game, we lose. By opening tip next season we'll be back to that 4,000 number we have learned to live with.

If we are in contention to win the Valley or are top 3 in the conference, which would likely put us at 8-12 in the country, this will be a hot ticket locally. However, there won't be tickets available at that time because NDSU will have bought them months before.

You are on point but likely overstating the level of the"buzz" on football success and underestimate the impact basketball success could have on tickets. I was looking at ISU donations relative to the impact of the national championship football run and it no impact on donations...actually during that time donations went down.

2011 $2,023,959
2012 $1,743,917
2013 $2,095,334
2014 $2,095,669
2015 $1,573,236
2016 $1,115,307

I believe a meaningful NCAA basketball tourney run (not going to the tourney via winning the MVC tourney and losing by double digits in an opening game) can have an impact on ISU athletic donations and new fan interest however ISU FCS football, playing in or even winning a national championship, will have little or no impact on picking up new fans and donors. The above annual donation amount is eye opening given the fact ISU football was in the national championship game on January 2015.

As for this NDSU game again in the future ISU needs to really work its schedule to try and get this type of game earlier in the year when new potential fans/students may be more likely to attend than having their bigger games in November when the environment is poor and students are bogged down with Thanksgiving vacation and semester finals just around the corner. ISU should even have a big discount for students on a select early season marque game in order to start to build some much needed long term fan following.

 

[ChiRedbirdfan]

The sad reality of Bloomington-Normal is how quickly people forget. After the National Championship run, the community was buzzing about ISU football through April. As summer came and went, it diminished, and by kickoff on opening day it was the same fans who had been out the previous year. It will be the same with men's hoops this year. People were excited. We didn't lose at home. Once momentum picked up in the NIT and the crowd was really nice for the UCF game, we lose. By opening tip next season we'll be back to that 4,000 number we have learned to live with.

If we are in contention to win the Valley or are top 3 in the conference, which would likely put us at 8-12 in the country, this will be a hot ticket locally. However, there won't be tickets available at that time because NDSU will have bought them months before.

You are on point but likely overstating the level of the"buzz" on football success and underestimate the impact basketball success could have on tickets. I was looking at ISU donations relative to the impact of the national championship football run and it no impact on donations...actually during that time donations went down.

2011 $2,023,959
2012 $1,743,917
2013 $2,095,334
2014 $2,095,669
2015 $1,573,236
2016 $1,115,307

I believe a meaningful NCAA basketball tourney run (not going to the tourney via winning the MVC tourney and losing by double digits in an opening game) can have an impact on ISU athletic donations and new fan interest however ISU FCS football, playing in or even winning a national championship, will have little or no impact on picking up new fans and donors. The above annual donation amount is eye opening given the fact ISU football was in the national championship game on January 2015.

As for this NDSU game again in the future ISU needs to really work its schedule to try and get this type of game earlier in the year when new potential fans/students may be more likely to attend than having their bigger games in November when the environment is poor and students are bogged down with Thanksgiving vacation and semester finals are just around the corner. ISU should even have a big discount for students on a select early season marque game in order to start to build some much needed long term fan following.

 

[Redbird78]

It's buried above ... t
Each year they put all homes game on sale publicly except when the game when they host NDSU. For that one game, they both delay making that game publicly available, while they let their own fans buy up what it can. Eventually they open the Home NDSU game to public which is when Bison have to wait to scoop up whatever is left. This year SDSU hosts NDSU on Nov 4th. Private ticket sales are going well but the remaining tix won't be open to public (i.e. Bison) until Sep 18th.

I'm not as crazed as some of you might think .. let's learn from the southern Dakotans. They did this for very good reason.

I'm on board! How do they sell privately? On sale at ticket office only? ID required at purchase?

Goredbirds.com Tickets
No ID required that i can see. Was logged in from my ticket account, though.

Probably should have to have your Redbird DNA tested.

Green/yellow DNA not allowed!

 

[Redbird28]

As for this NDSU game again in the future ISU needs to really work its schedule to try and get this type of game earlier in the year when new potential fans/students may be more likely to attend than having their bigger games in November when the environment is poor and students are bogged down with Thanksgiving vacation and semester finals just around the corner. ISU should even have a big discount for students on a select early season marque game in order to start to build some much needed long term fan following.

No. Fan turnout aside, they should hope that they run in to the best teams at the end of the season when they are moving into peak form before the playoff run. It gives them a full season of work to be ready to play their highest profile game aside from playoff games.

At some point it's about the actual football being played and not about the fans. Win, and people will come. I'm not talking about a 1 season title game run and then begin backsliding from that high water mark, but actually establish a true winning culture as a dominant team year in and year out just like NDSU has done. People won't take a winning program for granted, and the fact that we are even having this discussion about withholding tickets from an NDSU fanbase that has bought in completely to the program proves exactly what I am talking about.

 

[Birdfan 4Life]

I will go out on a limb and say that if we are as good as hyped and get off to an expected start ( 4 - 0 or 3 - 1) I think we set an attendance record this year for Football. Comm/University Day, Homecoming, Family Weekend, and then Sr. Day with NDSU all being at the end of the year is brilliant. . . we are going to get the usual casual fan in the beginning of the year and force the other event game crowds to bide their time. I believe they will.

Most of the games are showing pretty strong sales on the East Side 1 month before the Season even starts, IMO https://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=FBSINGLE&linkID=illinoisst&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode= - BUY TICKETS.

We are always going to have casual/non committed/ walk up/ day of fans until those fans start getting burned. The NDSU game will probably be a wake up call to most ISU fans in attendance and those who can't get tickets. As stated only about 3,500-4,000 ISU fans were able to get tickets to the 2015 National Championship game. These were probably mostly season ticket holders who already have their tickets and Add On tickets for this years game. This NDSU game is looking like it will be another trial by fire for the ISU fan base that is used to waiting till the week of.


For students, a RED ALERT PASS is $50 for the year or $5 Student tickets per Football/Basketball game. The price is not the problem for the students coming to the games.

ISU pushes that Red Alert Pass at every Preview Session over the summer for our new students and usually on the Quad the first couple weeks of the semester. The only thing I wish they did was take every Preview group and their parents up into the Hancock Stadium Club and then had a message/hype video play on the North End Zone video board for Football and Basketball, then sign up the Red Alert Pass.
https://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/EVExecMacro?linkID=illinoisst&evm=myac&msgCode=32000&shopperContext=ST&returnURL=/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList%3FlinkID%3Dillinoisst%26groupCode%3D%26RSRC%3D%26RDAT%3D%26shopperContext%3DST&url=/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList%3FlinkID%3Dillinoisst%26groupCode%3D%26RSRC%3D%26RDAT%3D%26shopperContext%3DST -RED ALERT

 

[Redbird28]

For students, a RED ALERT PASS is $50 for the year or $5 Student tickets per Football/Basketball game. The price is not the problem for the students coming to the games.

ISU pushes that Red Alert Pass at every Preview Session over the summer for our new students and usually on the Quad the first couple weeks of the semester. The only thing I wish they did was take every Preview group and their parents up into the Hancock Stadium Club and then had a message/hype video play on the North End Zone video board for Football and Basketball, then sign up the Red Alert Pass.
https://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/EVExecMacro?linkID=illinoisst&evm=myac&msgCode=32000&shopperContext=ST&returnURL=/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList%3FlinkID%3Dillinoisst%26groupCode%3D%26RSRC%3D%26RDAT%3D%26shopperContext%3DST&url=/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList%3FlinkID%3Dillinoisst%26groupCode%3D%26RSRC%3D%26RDAT%3D%26shopperContext%3DST -RED ALERT

Inflation sucks. When I was a student it was $35, and we had a couple of the best football and basketball teams ISU has seen. (95-99)

 

[fourthandshort]

It's buried above ... t
Each year they put all homes game on sale publicly except when the game when they host NDSU. For that one game, they both delay making that game publicly available, while they let their own fans buy up what it can. Eventually they open the Home NDSU game to public which is when Bison have to wait to scoop up whatever is left. This year SDSU hosts NDSU on Nov 4th. Private ticket sales are going well but the remaining tix won't be open to public (i.e. Bison) until Sep 18th.

I'm not as crazed as some of you might think .. let's learn from the southern Dakotans. They did this for very good reason.

I'm on board! How do they sell privately? On sale at ticket mom office only? ID required at purchase?

First .. they need to disable the link for buying tickets for NDSU game only on goredbirds. Then develop a priority reservation system. Next they need to do emailers to their entire Redbird database like they did for pre-selling season tickets and the 2-packs ... limited offering to students, alumni, BloNo residents .. what ever criteria they want .. just disable that one game .. same as SDSU and USD have been doing for years.

 

[Freebird]

Have we ever come close to selling out to the last game of the season when the students are typically off campus? I don't think so. Usually, the crowd is awful for this game. I think the athletic department should sell tickets to whoever wants to buy them right now. If we see a tremendous uptick in sales from the state of North Dakota, ISU can then adjust and disable sales.

 

[fourthandshort]

Have we ever come close to selling out to the last game of the season when the students are typically off campus? I don't think so. Usually, the crowd is awful for this game. I think the athletic department should sell tickets to whoever wants to buy them right now. If we see a tremendous uptick in sales from the state of North Dakota, ISU can then adjust and disable sales.

Not anytime recently . But you need to flip your logic ... NDSU will buy them either way down to last minute, if game means anything.

Only way my approach backfiires is if we tank season early and bison fans decide not to invade Hancock. At that point, who cares if we're out the extra money a thousand tix bison would have bought but not used.

If MVFC championship and better playoff seed looks to be at stake as season progress, they will devour the open seats like locusts in an open field ... and they will easily get over 5k there, if we do nothing. Plus they will out tailgate us in our backyard as most of them know very well how to travel.

Time to choke the Bison pipeline now. SDSU and USD do it for very good reason .. they got tired of being outdrawn and seeing all the yellow and green for their home games.

 

[Redbird78]

+1.

 

[Phantom]

I can't remember the last time we drew more than the 6-8K range for the last home game of the season. It's Thanksgiving break and the weather is always a factor that time of year too. But if we're in the playoff picture and this game carries that extra weight, combined with the NDSU crowd, it should draw pretty big. Just hope there's more red than green in the stands.

 

[BEAT THE BISON]

If somebody came up with a freaking cool Tee-Shirt Idea, started selling them at the Butler Game Tailgate, promoting the game, something cool the Students would buy, to generate enthusiasm.

"Bird feast the Bison" with a cool cartoon of Reggie stomping Bison with the Date of the Game. For MVC Championship!!!

This is a copycat of the ND vs Miami(convicts) 1980's shirt on ESPN 30 for 30 show........

Don't tell Me this has to be licensed............

 

[ChiRedbirdfan]

As for this NDSU game again in the future ISU needs to really work its schedule to try and get this type of game earlier in the year when new potential fans/students may be more likely to attend than having their bigger games in November when the environment is poor and students are bogged down with Thanksgiving vacation and semester finals just around the corner. ISU should even have a big discount for students on a select early season marque game in order to start to build some much needed long term fan following.

No. Fan turnout aside, they should hope that they run in to the best teams at the end of the season when they are moving into peak form before the playoff run. It gives them a full season of work to be ready to play their highest profile game aside from playoff games.

At some point it's about the actual football being played and not about the fans. Win, and people will come. I'm not talking about a 1 season title game run and then begin backsliding from that high water mark, but actually establish a true winning culture as a dominant team year in and year out just like NDSU has done. People won't take a winning program for granted, and the fact that we are even having this discussion about withholding tickets from an NDSU fanbase that has bought in completely to the program proves exactly what I am talking about.

"Fan turnout aside" ....that is what it is all about.

 

[ISUBU]

.....I think the athletic department should sell tickets to whoever wants to buy them right now.

Largest crowd for the last regular home game in the Spack era (8 seasons) is 8006 vs UNI in 2013. That includes our game with #1 ranked and eventual national champ NDSU in 2012. We too were a playoff team that season when we drew 6793 for the game with the Bison.