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Wear do visitors sit???

I'm an IOWA fan about to buy tickets...want to stay away from THAT area...

The prior reply should keep you away from most visitors, so don't take this to be a refutation of Hawkeyestate81's answer. You'll have a pretty good chance of avoiding opposing fans by sitting in the west stands (press box side) as well. There are a lot of decent seats available there, as long as you don't mind going up a few steps.
 
There is a band across the North end zone, about 75% of the way up, that is visitors.

For the Illinois State game, the NW corner of the North end zone was a big group of red.

There are visitors in the very bottom rows on the East side, both at the North and South ends.
 
There is a band across the North end zone, about 75% of the way up, that is visitors.

For the Illinois State game, the NW corner of the North end zone was a big group of red.

There are visitors in the very bottom rows on the East side, both at the North and South ends.

Anybody know the logic behind this seating arrangement? Is 75% of the way up worse than all the way up?
 
Anybody know the logic behind this seating arrangement? Is 75% of the way up worse than all the way up?

I have no way to know if this is correct, but my assumption was that the visitors will be given the entire upper part of the north zone this year. Illinois State, however, could only sell the first few rows. This wouldn't be surprising for a visiting FCS team (nor for most of our visitors this year). ISU then gave the rest of the tickets back to Iowa and we sold what we could. That left a "band" of ISU fans who bought the tickets from their own school, then a sprinkling of Iowa fans above them who bought their tickets late, but from the Iowa ticket office.
 
The band was there all of last year, even for schools like Wisky and Nebraska who surely sell their entire allotment. It appears that the plan by the ticket office is to prevent a large group of visiting fans together, which I like.
 
So we stopped giving the visiting team prime, sideline seats by their bench?

We are even getting better in the marketing department!
 
The band was there all of last year, even for schools like Wisky and Nebraska who surely sell their entire allotment. It appears that the plan by the ticket office is to prevent a large group of visiting fans together, which I like.

Definitely was a band last year. Knew some folks who got bumped higher up due to it.

I get the logic of keeping them relatively small and spread out...but why not at the top? Better to surround them?
 
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