Student section

[It'sNotAFakeID]

If they do not want to come to the games, it is their business. Time to give the seats to fans who want to come to the games.

 

You mean to people who can come and complain to people standing up and making too much noise?

 

As Enhance said, what's the difference between the people who show up and sit on their asses and make hardly any noise than the students who stand the whole time and make a lot of noise?

[Enhance]

I've heard the 'move the students' argument, but college football is so different today. They're not going to give up the money they make off the seats on the 50 yard line and pass that along to the students. And when they see students do stuff like this, it doesn't help anything.

[C N Red]

I would agree to move some of the student seats to the lower visitor section in SW corner and move visitors to up top of SE corner of south endzone. Are our visitor seats at other B1G places any good??

[QMany]

I would agree to move some of the student seats to the lower visitor section in SW corner and move visitors to up top of SE corner of south endzone. Are our visitor seats at other B1G places any good??

 

Those aren't visitor seats in that lower corner, they are visitor family. I'd say they are the same or better at other venues. We were 1st row on sideline at 5 yard line at Iowa. Very similar at Wisconsin.

[NUpolo8]

These kids today. Far too busy playing with their tamagotchi's and listening to their Chumbawumba to go to a football match.

[teachercd]

Early game (Basically eliminate 75 of girls)

Parties last night on campus (basically eliminate 75% of girls)

 

Yes...I am good at math

[Haspula]

Im a student and we have 25,000 that go to this university. At the most the student section holds 8,000 people. So we must have "the greatest fans in college football" if we cant get 1/3 of the university to go to a football game. Anyone says that this number of students that should go to games is outrageous needs to stop.

Don't forget that out of that 25k only 19k are undergrads. Most of the grad students come from other countries/schools and don't even care about the huskers or football...

[teachercd]

Im a student and we have 25,000 that go to this university. At the most the student section holds 8,000 people. So we must have "the greatest fans in college football" if we cant get 1/3 of the university to go to a football game. Anyone says that this number of students that should go to games is outrageous needs to stop.

Don't forget that out of that 25k only 19k are undergrads. Most of the grad students come from other countries/schools and don't even care about the huskers or football...

Those students live in Neidhart!

[Goal-line]

If they do not want to come to the games, it is their business. Time to give the seats to fans who want to come to the games.

 

You mean to people who can come and complain to people standing up and making too much noise?

 

As Enhance said, what's the difference between the people who show up and sit on their asses and make hardly any noise than the students who stand the whole time and make a lot of noise?

The first issue is showing up. If you don't show up, you can't make noise. Use the seat or give it up.

[KJ.]

Sorry didn't see a thread about it and just got home from the game. Didn't know that a lot of empty seats wasn't a big deal. Just a sad display

 

It was cold. We pay very little for the tickets. It was 11am. It was homecoming. We were up by 20. Sorry we have other things to do.

 

I was there for the whole game, but people need to shut-up when they talk about the student section. There were also rows in the SW corner of the stadium that were empty, too.

 

Wouldn't paying little for tickets and Homecoming attract more students?

 

SW corner is visitor tickets. Very poor showing by Illinois.

 

Generally, paying less for a ticket makes you feel less bad if you choose not to go.

 

You would feel worse for missing something that cost you $100 than you would $20

Sunk cost, Nate. Sunk cost.

[RedSavage]

Sorry didn't see a thread about it and just got home from the game. Didn't know that a lot of empty seats wasn't a big deal. Just a sad display

 

It was cold. We pay very little for the tickets. It was 11am. It was homecoming. We were up by 20. Sorry we have other things to do.

 

I was there for the whole game, but people need to shut-up when they talk about the student section. There were also rows in the SW corner of the stadium that were empty, too.

 

Wouldn't paying little for tickets and Homecoming attract more students?

 

SW corner is visitor tickets. Very poor showing by Illinois.

 

Generally, paying less for a ticket makes you feel less bad if you choose not to go.

 

You would feel worse for missing something that cost you $100 than you would $20

 

Yea and if you paid $100/ game we'd have no one there so quit being stupid. That was a pathetic showing by the students end of story and this is coming from a not so far removed student.

[HSKR]

If they do not want to come to the games, it is their business. Time to give the seats to fans who want to come to the games.

 

You mean to people who can come and complain to people standing up and making too much noise?

 

As Enhance said, what's the difference between the people who show up and sit on their asses and make hardly any noise than the students who stand the whole time and make a lot of noise?

 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of full season ticket payments and booster donations. Use it or lose it kids, because if this happens a few more times, they will take seats away from you to sell to regular season ticket holders. They won't take the top rows either, they will take the bottom ones and move you guys up. It happened in the 90's, it can happen again.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

If they do not want to come to the games, it is their business. Time to give the seats to fans who want to come to the games.

 

You mean to people who can come and complain to people standing up and making too much noise?

 

As Enhance said, what's the difference between the people who show up and sit on their asses and make hardly any noise than the students who stand the whole time and make a lot of noise?

 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of full season ticket payments and booster donations. Use it or lose it kids, because if this happens a few more times, they will take seats away from you to sell to regular season ticket holders. They won't take the tops rows either, they will take the bottom ones and move you guys up. It happened in the 90's, it can happen again.

 

Doubtful. If the athletic department doesn't understand the extenuating circumstances behind why the students don't take up the top rows, then they are really, really stupid.

[HSKR]

If they do not want to come to the games, it is their business. Time to give the seats to fans who want to come to the games.

 

You mean to people who can come and complain to people standing up and making too much noise?

 

As Enhance said, what's the difference between the people who show up and sit on their asses and make hardly any noise than the students who stand the whole time and make a lot of noise?

 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of full season ticket payments and booster donations. Use it or lose it kids, because if this happens a few more times, they will take seats away from you to sell to regular season ticket holders. They won't take the tops rows either, they will take the bottom ones and move you guys up. It happened in the 90's, it can happen again.

 

Doubtful. If the athletic department doesn't understand the extenuating circumstances behind why the students don't take up the top rows, then they are really, really stupid.

 

At one time the student section was about 14,000 if my memory is right with the same attitude you have. Keep it up and they will whittle it down 6000. The only people who are stupid are the students who think nothing will happen if that top stays empty. The athletic dept doesn't see empty student seats because of extenuating circumstances, they see empty seats to sell to season ticket holders next year.

[Blackshirt39]

I'll tell you one thing. It's gotten to be the quietest 90,000 people I've ever heard. Something needs to happen.