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OMG!! We should all be OUTRAGED!!!
On the other hand, It's really not a big deal unless you choose to make it one.
On the other hand, It's really not a big deal unless you choose to make it one.
We need a new stadium then. Build the zabel dome.
I've always said that I like it when 66,000 show up for a game. That way you can watch a game without having to sit on the lap of the person next to you. This is no joke, for one year my seat was next to a guy who needed three seats.
I'm totally fine with the new capacity ... because ... that North end zone is really looking nice ... Love the look and the vertical element of it. Heck, it's getting harder and harder to sell out games ... and will continue to get harder as technology allows us to sit at home ...
Yeah, we had season tix in the North end zone for quite a few years ... Ended up getting the seat backs as the seating spaces are just so freaking narrow ... I almost felt like I needed to have butter slathered on my arms to slide back down into my seat after standing up ...
This is exactly why I don't have season tickets anymore (albeit getting divorced was another key factor). We were in the North Endzone the year of the 12-0 season. We could almost lay down until the Minnesota game that year. Then the shoulder/shoulder sardine can came and I remembered why I liked watching from home. We had seatbacks too that year, but it didn't matter. People would find their way into your personal space the whole dame game.
I remember standing up ... turning around to sit down and my seat just "vanished" ... Ha! Sounds like we experienced the same thing!
Agree 100%... Sardines in a can is a good analogy..... Remember the grass seats, still my favorite, loved watching drunks guys fall on there ass and roll all the way to the bottom then try to get back to where they were, hilarious.
I remember standing up ... turning around to sit down and my seat just "vanished" ... Ha! Sounds like we experienced the same thing!
Yep. Almost sitting at an angle so my shoulders weren't smashed together by those sitting next to me.
Keep in mind 69,250 is paid capacity. They'll be 70K in Kinnick.
North End zone is great, except for those gaping wound exit tunnels on the upper deck.
North End zone is great, except for those gaping wound exit tunnels on the upper deck.
When I was in the NE there were times I wouldnt even bother going to my seats. Id see an open area in the tops of the corners and sit there
Fans will now sit higher than the former NEZ scoreboards! And they be a great deal closer to the field. Add to the the full enclosure and Kinnick just became that much more raucous for visitors.
For example, a buddy's son's strategy (which works often apparently at college student age) is that if a small group of guys all go at once, apparently, the ticket attendant will get one or two of them and if they, apparently, pick ones with legit tix, they all get in without all being scanned. Never tried and don't think I could, but "what's the penalty?" may be their thinking.
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Next improvement should be wide chairback seats between the 20s in both the east and west stands. No more temporary seatbacks in those sections. That could reduce capacity to around 65,000, which still might be a bit high given the future of technology.
Overall number is down, but it don't matter. In fact the new N endzone is going to direct and keep more noise in the stadium. I've outlined further renovations for the stadium in the next 15 years in another thread. Yes those people up at the top of the N endzone will be way up there. Love the way they stacked that thing up. the lower general seats are not very steep at all. And with the wall the Kinnick Leap may be instituted. Yes I know we would get a penalty so can't do it.
It's probably the way of the future... Higher end seating but lower overall capacity.
Plenty of people in the stadium on game day that don't have paid "seats" in the bowl or press box suites. Staff, media, sideline personnel, security, vendors, etc. Look on the sidelines of an average game and around the stadium including the press box.
I suppose. Something that's always made me wonder is how schools like Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas A&M and a few others frequently list attendance well over stadium capacity. Does that mean that more tickets were sold than seating available? Are people sitting in aisles and on top of each other? Or are they taking what you're saying into account and making a rough estimate of how many people are actually in the stadium?
Will the field goal posts shoot out fire and incinerate all opposing field goal and PAT attempts?
If so, then I'm sold.
Now you're talking about standing room only tickets...SRO. Those are also paid attendance. Not all places sell them, the stadium has to be set up to accommodate it.
This image really show how much of an improvement this project is. The new endzone is HUGE compared to the former.
I guess I do not see the appeal of this "improvement", That being said, only 2 games will sell out this year; ISU and WI. The rest will have plenty of tickets left. Even Nebby. Its generally freezing that day and not everyone is down with the Black Friday thing.
I live in CO so its not about technology for me....I'd make the trip and deal with insanely cramped seating more than once a season if the offense wasn't so hard to watch most years. So boring. I'd take 7-5 with Shaw/Banks/Dwight over 7-5 the past decade any time. But it's still 7-5....at least Barta is happy....
Higher, steeper and closer to the field... what they should have done in the South end zone
Damn, I'm afraid of heights, I will stick with my couch. LOLThis image really show how much of an improvement this project is. The new endzone is HUGE compared to the former.
Some of the newer stadiums are way outside of normal zoning regs. The left field stands at Target field would have you clinging to the hand rails.
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Last time I went to a college football game was at Jack Trice in Ames and I sat in like the third row from the field, so I had no heights problem. LOL That was back in the 80's and I got to see Barry Switzer's Sooners and Tom Osborne's Huskers decimate ISU. Never been to a game at Kinnick, but I have been there a few times back in my HS days of football camp and basketball camp with Hayden and Lute Olsen.
That bold part genuinely surprises me. You seem like a pretty diehard Iowa fan?
Had you ever been to a game in the fieldhouse in Lutes's day? That was a totally different experience as well. Remember going to a game when Payne and Stokes were freshman, and sitting part way behind one of those support beams. LOL! Much more involved crowd experience then today, though.......
Like looking out the window on an nice warm spring day. Almost like you are outside.
Will be interesting to see how close UNI game gets. Night game with the halftime show and it is a kids game ($25 kid tickets) and probably bring in some casual UNI fans as well. Bet that one might get there.
