Little brother not so little anymore?
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My posts are dependent on how isu and Nebraska fans post. I usually post more on other sites but have found clone and skirt fans to be highly entertaining as of late.
Newsflash no one finds you funny. In fact I can speak for most Iowa fans find you highly annoying keeping these same pissing match threads going. All you do is sling the same tired boring crap and in return hear the same old rebuttals. For the sake of everyone here give it a rest...
He's helped make my thread the longest running since the change to the new format. The mods should give me a discount for bringing so much action into here.
I haven't started any of these threads.
Yes I do my best to act and post as Nebraska and isu fans. Annoying is being kind with how those fan bases act. The best part is that they just can't quite figure it out. Mocking the behavior is very entertaining though.
I thought they may have caught it on where someone asked if this thread would die before 7 pages and of course clone fans just couldn't help it and they have kept it going.
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Jamies twitter
Season tix renewal rate is amazing. It will be over 100% if we account for mini-packs replacing hillside season tix. Cyclone fans ROCK!
Jamies twitter
Season tix renewal rate is amazing. It will be over 100% if we account for mini-packs replacing hillside season tix. Cyclone fans ROCK!
So now isu is counting mini-pack sales as the equivalent to season tickets. I knew it was only a matter of time.
Keep 'em coming I4. We want more. We want more. We want more.
You can spin these either way. There were a limited number of tickets available at this price point, thereby selling them out was not that surprising.
Hawkeye fans can tease about bargain basement ticket prices, but it's not like many tickets were available at those prices. Cyclone fans can brag about selling them out, when it really wasn't a lot of inventory on the market in the first place.
Only at isu do fans jump for joy when they sell out of discounted tickets. Having to sell single game tickets for a new club section is also something unique to little bro.
Quit laughing at them or Pollard will start screaming "it's not fair" again.
Iowa sells minipacks as well. Right now, If I buy 2 season tickets at Iowa it will cost me $790 for 7 games. If I buy 2 tickets from ISU it will cost me $950 for 6 games. And you accuse ISU of having the discounted tickets? And these are the minimum season ticket prices available at ISU.
Oh, and right now, there are only 67 season tickets left for purchase in Jack Trice. There are no seats available in the new SEZ except for very expensive club seats.
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Iowa doesn't trumpet how well the mini pack sales are going because it is like bragging about being smartest kid on the short bus. Something isu knows all too well.
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Thanks for sharing about the biggest rip off in college football for what you are paying to see. Don't know how hard it is for people to comprehend ticket sales it's apples and oranges. JTS is almost 10k less than kinnick so it should be easier to sell off. As I've stated numerous times last decade plus Iowa has had at least 61k, max in Ames, for every home game. It's like comparing kinnick sales to Ohio st or mich st now comparable with seating capacity. Or even Illinois or Minnesota on opposite end of the spectrum.
You guys sold seats out to watch your crappy program. Cool story...
It is amazing how some of the worst seats in the house are now being sold at a premium ($750 plus donation) just because they put an indoor club area behind them. Media people are making a big deal about the beer in the club, but I don't think that is as big of a deal as they think. The fact you can leave the stadium and re-enter allows people to get their alcohol fix, and at much cheaper prices. I think people (wives especially) like the fact they can have a place to stay warm in the late season games. Or cool off in the hot games. Or avoid the rain on the rainy days. It sounds like Iowa is going to do the same thing - transform the worst seats into the most expensive ones (excluding suites).
It is amazing that isu had to sell single game tickets in order to sellout a brand new club section. Iowa has never had to do that nor has any decent football program.
Now clone fans can tell us how it really is. Better yet they can explain how that is proof Iowa lagging behind little bro. I am ready to laugh how about you? Best bet is clone fans ignore yet again.
The restroom facilities are a big plus, too. Frankly, I'm a little confused over what's sold and what isn't. I don't think any Club Section seats are sold for single games, as I don't see how they would handle it, since a donation is required. I guess if somebody wanted to pony up the donation and only buy tickets to one or two games, but that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Feel free to prove the 12 year olds wrong then LC. Or just ignore what proves you wrong yet again.http://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206086
The Average game price in IC is $56. The Average Game price in Ames is $79. I don't think ISU is too high on prices, I think this says that Iowa has become more desperate. And yet they are claiming that ISU has the discounted tickets. ALL of their tickets are discounted at these prices.
isu is the only bragging about discounted tickets not Iowa. Then again little bro can't even sell out their brand new club section with season tickets. I am glad I don't know anyone who was dumb enough to buy Pollard's revenue bonds on the new end zone. If they can't sell out season tickets the first year those bond payments then become a much more risky investment.
Next up will be clone fans telling us that the basics of investment risk don't apply to isu.
Just wondering, if ISU has 50,000 students some day and Iowa has 30,000, is ISU still little bro?
The answer is "yes, of course," ISU would STILL be the little brother for reasons of reputation and academic excellence. Having said that, why would Moo U want to enroll that many students when they can't handle the ones they have now?
What I wonder is when are clone fans going to answer why it is isu has more enrollment than Iowa but spends substantially less on a students education than Iowa does. I am sure that is a source of pride for all isu students and alums alike.
But by all means do tell us how it really is. I expect this clone won't have an answer just as the many clone fans before him. Didn't either. Who wants to bet? Anyone, anyone Bueller, Bueller.......anyone?
Come to isu where we have more students than Iowa but will spend less on you education than they do.
What a great reputation that is. More CeMar we want more. We want more. We want more.
So you're butthurt because ISU didn't want empty seats, marketed, and got results? Got it.
Meanwhile....Kirkwood students getting handouts...
It all becomes easier to understand if you realize that Michael Corleone was Fredo's little brother.
Several reasons why ISU's enrollment increased faster than Iowa's. The floods of 08 limited the University of Iowa's capacity and led to a de-emphasis on enrollment for several years as it tried to recover The UI is only now close to being fully recovered and you will no doubt see a surge in UI enrollment with the building of several new dorms and the likelihood that UI will be forced to use its monetary leverage to recruit more students. While Iowa was hampered by flood damage, ISU saw a golden opportunity for aggressively student recruitment, to the point where it cannot adequately handle the numbers of students enrolled. Why would ISU want to do this? Why would ISU intentionally enroll beyond capacity? Drum roll please. Enter insider politics with the Regents president being an agri-business buddy of ISU's president, leading to the ill-advised proposal that the vast majority of state support should henceforth be based on in-state residency. This was a revolutionary proposal unlike that seen in any other state and was politically packaged as a "performance" based formula. This might sound politically appealing to some but it would revolutionize decades of state funding based on actual costs (it costs twelve times as much to educate a dental student as it does, say, a teacher yet the proposed formula simply ignored this factor and made no account for how the millions of dollars this would cost UI would be made up). Time will tell if this bad idea rears its ugly head again but for now it's been shelved by lawmakers who saw through the ruse. Unfortunately, this proposal has likely unleashed a game of competitive inn-state enrollment, unlike anything we have seen in history (the universities have traditionally appreciated their different missions and roles they play in the state's higher education system; that spirit of collaboration is now shaken and this new competitive environment could prove very expensive as precious limited resources are poured into recruitment). ISU may ultimately rue the day the funding formula change was put forth as the UI is very capable of playing this enrollment game too, especially once a new president is on board. UI is longer constrained by capacity issues (quite the contrary). Finally, the strong farm economy has been a factor as well, since that plays to ISU's program strengths.
Called it again. Clone fans can't tell us why isu has more enrollment but spends substantially less on their students' education than Iowa does.
It appears isu discounts everything in order to jack up volume.
I see we have another clone fan who can't seem to tell us why isu has to sell single game tickets for their new club section or why isu has more enrollment than Iowa but spends less on education than Iowa does.
More little bro syndrome please.
He tried peddling that snake oil before. He won't take his arguments to the HROT board because he knows he'd get schooled. Hell, the chairman of the Regents is an Iowa grad AND a major donor to the U of I.
I shouldn't have responded to him here, and I won't again. If he shows up on the board where this discussion belongs, I'll correct his misstatements.
But don't anyone dare to ask why isu has more enrollment but spends less on their students education than Iowa does.
Apparently such facts are just too hard for clone fans to accept.
Load of crap? What load of crap? That the floods seriously damaged the UI's capacity and was an enrollment setback? That ISU aggressively enrolled more students--many of them marginal--than it could handle (why else were there classes at 10 p.m.?). That the Regents proposed a revolutionary funding model that would have benefited ISU (and UNI) at the considerable expense of UI, all on the basis of in-state enrollment? That the strong farm economy has benefited ISU's enrollment numbers? Please enlighten us on your knowledge of these issues. BTW, I know the Regents president is a UI grad and has given to UI (athletics or academics, I'm not sure) but so what? Like all Regents in recent years, he was a political appointee with a political agenda. As of last year, he was quite willing to punish the state's flagship university in an unprecedented way for reasons that were deemed unacceptable by lawmakers.
LC will ignore all these points. It is what a so called "journalist" does, ignore anything that gets in the way of the agenda they are pushing forth.
What we also won't get from LC or any clone fan for that matter is if isu is as awesome as they say then why do they spend less on education than Iowa does even though they have more enrollment? Apparently at isu they fail to understand the basic concept that many times "you get what you pay for."
The "spin" will be very entertaining just watch.
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