Danomatic Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Is it just me, or does attendance seem to be at an all time low? I can’t remember seeing so many empty seats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryno6284 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Quote Yeah, it does seem pretty weak. Especially for a B1G game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I would be curious to hear from a current student. They are the ones not showing up. It’s really sad. When my sister was at IU in the 90s, the tickets were in such high demand, they didn’t even get tickets to every game. When I was in school, in the lean Crean years, every other game was in the balcony. Now they have general admission seating and don’t even show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierJax Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 9 hours ago, Danomatic said: Is it just me, or does attendance seem to be at an all time low? I can’t remember seeing so many empty seats! I have seen that too,but not to many people are going to go see A game against Illinois with a start time of almost 9 pm on Wednesday night,some have to travel more than an hour or so to get to game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 7 hours ago, CauseThatsMyDJ said: I would be curios to hear from a current student. They are the ones not showing up. It’s really sad. When my sister was at IU in the 90s, the tickets were in such high demand, they didn’t even get tickets to every game. When I was in school, in the lean Crean years, every other game was in the balcony. Now they have general admission seating and don’t even show up. We have to be careful. When I brought attendance up earlier this year some kid came along and made up an excuse that it was a Monday night game and students have classes.....haha. Mind you it was the 2nd week of January. Classes barely started. When I was at IU we I received 6,4,4, and 6 tickets for my 4 years. Never missed one. Wouldn't think of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy1987 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Having a winning team will cure the attendance problem. It is sad that it's so empty though. I don't ever remember even in our bad years it being this poor. I love Assembly Hall but sometimes I think maybe we should have just built a new place with better viewing for all. I know I would rather watch on TV than in that balcony. Go Hoosiers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cohete15 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I was able to understand some of the adult fan seats being empty, as it was Valentines Day. But I took this picture of the student section just before tip off last night... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 That's absolutely pathetic. I was down for Michigan St, Maryland, and Northwestern games and looked nothing like that. Someone should cut/paste that photo to Fred Glass and ask him what's the solution to this eyesore of a problem. It's embarrassing. Just glad tv doesn't pick that up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cohete15 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 As you can see, the balcony on that side had about 2 people up there. Opposite balcony was 1/3 to 1/2 full. Time to cut back on student tickets. It was actually embarrassing to see the crowd last night. “Winning cures everything” is maybe true. But this isn’t the 2009 Crean team. We could/should have won 10 of our last 12 games. And did win 7 of them. This is pure garbage from a student fan standpoint. I don’t know how tickets are distributed these days, but it needs to change. Reward loyal fans. We all hoped maybe Romeo would come last night. I’m sure glad he didn’t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FW_Hoosier Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 What did the student section look like 5 minutes into the game? Students always show up late, especially for a late Wednesday game against a terrible team like Illinois. People complain about this every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indykev Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I was driving by AH 5 mins after halftime and the number of students leaving was embarrassing. If students don't want to go to or stay to support their school, its time to cut student tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Indykev said: I was driving by AH 5 mins after halftime and the number of students leaving was embarrassing. If students don't want to go to or stay to support their school, its time to cut student tickets. Sounds like the basketball games are starting to mirror the football games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cohete15 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 13 minutes ago, FW_Hoosier said: What did the student section look like 5 minutes into the game? Students always show up late, especially for a late Wednesday game against a terrible team like Illinois. People complain about this every year. Of course some more showed up, but the picture was still fairly similar because I remember thinking I should take another for comparison, but didn’t because it wasn’t that much different. It was really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKIM01 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Earlier in the season, a friend invited me to go with him and his boys to either a Pacers game or an IU game. The feedback he gave me when he went online was that the IU tickets were like 5-6X what similar Pacers seats were going for. Pacers tickets were like $25-30 and the IU tickets were way over $100?!! I didn't look for myself or question him, but if IU tickets are that expensive, it might explain why there are so many empty seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWatShot Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I think we can finally eliminate the excuse that a 7 p.m. tipoff is too early to expect people to show up on time, right? I've been saying this for awhile, but when your program is perpetually rebuilding and chasing its glory days, and you've gone through four different coaches spanning nearly two decades trying to make that happen, eventually people just give up and move on. This is just another one of the consequences. I do agree that student tickets need to be cut back, big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy1987 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 So how are student tickets done these days? When I was there in the 80's we had to camp overnight together to get about half the games. We got to pick which game we wanted the best seats. The rest were a mix of balcony and main level. We always got all the games because we had student friends that didn't want to go and we had them get the other games for us. Tickets were cheap but it was a chore to get them especially if you wanted to sit with your friends. It seems like it must not be hard for students to get them if they don't care enough to go. Go Hoosiers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 31 minutes ago, FKIM01 said: Earlier in the season, a friend invited me to go with him and his boys to either a Pacers game or an IU game. The feedback he gave me when he went online was that the IU tickets were like 5-6X what similar Pacers seats were going for. Pacers tickets were like $25-30 and the IU tickets were way over $100?!! I didn't look for myself or question him, but if IU tickets are that expensive, it might explain why there are so many empty seats. For the NW game I bought two tickets and the total cost was $170.00 and they were row 32 section F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 14 minutes ago, Indy1987 said: So how are student tickets done these days? When I was there in the 80's we had to camp overnight together to get about half the games. We got to pick which game we wanted the best seats. The rest were a mix of balcony and main level. We always got all the games because we had student friends that didn't want to go and we had them get the other games for us. Tickets were cheap but it was a chore to get them especially if you wanted to sit with your friends. It seems like it must not be hard for students to get them if they don't care enough to go. Go HooLandsiers!!! Last year my daughter got season tickets and she got around 8 games and she did not get to pick which games she attended. Each time they were in a different section and I think one time she go general admission tickets for seats behind the goal. Also to get basketball tickets you had to get football tickets as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoB2011 Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 36 minutes ago, FKIM01 said: Earlier in the season, a friend invited me to go with him and his boys to either a Pacers game or an IU game. The feedback he gave me when he went online was that the IU tickets were like 5-6X what similar Pacers seats were going for. Pacers tickets were like $25-30 and the IU tickets were way over $100?!! I didn't look for myself or question him, but if IU tickets are that expensive, it might explain why there are so many empty seats. Nope, those are empty student seats. They aren't anything close to that price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 36 minutes ago, FKIM01 said: Earlier in the season, a friend invited me to go with him and his boys to either a Pacers game or an IU game. The feedback he gave me when he went online was that the IU tickets were like 5-6X what similar Pacers seats were going for. Pacers tickets were like $25-30 and the IU tickets were way over $100?!! I didn't look for myself or question him, but if IU tickets are that expensive, it might explain why there are so many empty seats. Not for the students though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FW_Hoosier Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Student ticket package costs $380. That gets you tickets to every football game (which they force you to buy), 4 non-conference games, and 4 conference games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, FW_Hoosier said: Student ticket package costs $380. That gets you tickets to every football game (which they force you to buy), 4 non-conference games, and 4 conference games. According to the IU website, this package includes 16 home games. http://iuhoosiers.com/sports/2015/6/23/tickets.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Attendance is down across the board in every major sport sans the NFL. Cost and TV have a lot to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FW_Hoosier Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, CauseThatsMyDJ said: According to the IU website, this package includes 16 home games. http://iuhoosiers.com/sports/2015/6/23/tickets.aspx I never got anywhere close to that from 2012-2017, and no one else I knew did either. Says that “the quantity is subject to change depending on the number of tickets purchased,” so I would bet the website is overstating things to entice people to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, rico said: Attendance is down across the board in every major sport sans the NFL. Cost and TV have a lot to do with it. Just not an excuse for the students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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