How was the crowd?
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Really? Surprised to hear that is what they put it at. Didn't seem like that many, but entirely possible.
The smallish crowd on a perfect early spring day is just one more piece of evidence that apathy has a firm grip on many Iowa football fans. If there were any enthusiasm for the Hawkeyes at all, Valley would have been SRO. Alas, the only momentum Iowa has is down hill. The Hawkeyes really are in the valley.
That's a 13,000 seat stadium and no way was it 1/3 full. I'd guess there was about 2,500-3,000. You could find a seat wherever you wanted. Additionally, many left about halfway through the scrimmage.
I'm not saying my info isn't wrong, but I didn't pull it out of thin air. This entry says valley stadium is the largest HS stadium in iowa and seats 13,000. Compared to the UNI dome, which holds 16,000, I could believe it. The UNI dome seating doesn't look twice as much.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukee_Stadium
Apathy and a boring set up to watch. From the sounds of it, there isn't much to see. If only 1,000 people stayed until the end, something is wrong.
I'm not sure what Iowa is trying to do with this West Des Moines visit. Are they trying to reach out to western Iowa fans? They are obviously failing if only 1,000 people are hanging around one of two open viewings of a Big Ten practice with the type of following Iowa has.
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I'm not sure what Iowa is trying to do with this West Des Moines visit. Are they trying to reach out to western Iowa fans? They are obviously failing if only 1,000 people are hanging around one of two open viewings of a Big Ten practice with the type of following Iowa has.
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I sure hope we can nail down this spring practice attendance figure before the season starts
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It's basically throwing a bone to Hawk fans in the biggest city in the state/our state's capital. As well as a very minor attempt to win some of the fans on the fence, living so close to Cyclone territory, over to Iowa.
Change will be the only thing that will bring the fans back in. From what I read in the paper this morning, it didn't happen yesterday.
Sounds like Iowa's practice in D.M. outdrew ISU's home field spring game, for what that's worth.
Crowd numbers are hard to determine. I sat in a stadium yesterday for a spring practice game and the fan next to me said "looks like their might be 85,000 here, the fan on the other side said "no I thinks it's more like 70,000." I mean how can you tell. The official announcement then said 77,800 I think. Must have been because they allowed tailgating. Probably would have been more if they hadn't charged for tickets.
A 5k crowd for something that is not widely published/known about and is a scrimmage is now considered apathy? It was one of the first nice spring weekend days of the year and you expect 10,000 to show up for a practice. You guys have about as much reasoning as a 5 year old. Coming off a poor year, expecting good numbers is laughable. You come off the Orange Bowl year, then it is apathy. A poor year, numbers should be low and it would be delusional to think we have a fan base that isn't 75% fair weather fans like most schools.
No. This is the annual attempt by Iowa to get attention from ISU by holding a practice in Des Moines the day of the ISU spring game. It's pretty funny.
Iowa City and Des Moines is a hopping place in the spring! I forgot....your "bar scene" is amazing which explains why your fan support is so dismal. Only a Hogeye.
Actually the bar scenes in both cities is pretty good. Fusker, you guys are like a giant Texas team. You take your football too seriously, drop everything because of it, have shady back door politics going on, and you drive your coaches batty with your constant whining and pressure to win games.
Don't hate your big brother to the east, we are a loving folk. We hate you, but that's besides the point.
AKA "our football program sucks...and always has." Typical Hogeye talk. Hogeyes would kill to have similar fan support as NU brings to the table. "Big brother" interesting name for a team that plays like a sally when they step on the field. "Bullies of the big ten." bwahahahahahahahah
We do have similar fan support silly. I assure you though we wouldn't kill to have it at the level you believe you have over us, despite you being wrong about that.
That's the difference between us Fusker. You would literally kill, if your support wasn't already obsessive. Do you understand how disturbing that is? And you wonder why Pelini went mad.
Maybe in your dreams. Maybe it is why Pelini went mad? Maybe he just has anger issues? I don't know. And Maybe Kirk is the way he is while racking up those 7 wins a year because Hogeye fans are okay with it? But like I said, 7 wins a year for the Hogeye program in your eyes is an accomplishment.
