IUFB vs Charlotte - Saturday, 09.21.24 @ Noon on BTN

[Josh 12,541]

34 minutes ago, johnsoniu said:

Ahh, 4-0 coffee tastes sooo good this morning.

And by coffee, I mean a Folgers K-cup from the Keurig because I’m a down to earth guy like Coach Cigs. Not some fancy pressed crap made with a bean thats been covered in insect excrement like Stuhoo and Hoosierhoopster drink 

Folgers?  Oh la la Mr Name Brand Fancy Pants

[Naturalhoosier 15,407]

42 minutes ago, johnsoniu said:

Ahh, 4-0 coffee tastes sooo good this morning.

And by coffee, I mean a Folgers K-cup from the Keurig because I’m a down to earth guy like Coach Cigs. Not some fancy pressed crap made with a bean thats been covered in insect excrement like Stuhoo and Hoosierhoopster drink 

IUFB now has as many wins this year as the White Sox, huh?!  ;)

[rayl456 457]

11 hours ago, Lebowski said:

This type of thinking isn't what Coach Cig wants in his locker room.  JMHO. 

I’m sure that’s true.  :)

[OGIUAndy 759]

15 hours ago, rayl456 said:

I agree with the above quote.  But for IU that means, in my opinion, winning SEASONS and not simply four games against some seemingly weak teams.  To change the IU culture or the way people think, you need multiple winning seasons and some bowl games as well.  We’re off to a good/great start, but I don’t expect sellout crowds after four games.  We all know that we’ve had decades of miserable football and that’s why people leave at half or don’t show up at all.  Get some consistent winning and then people will react differently.  JMHO.

I get what you're saying but when I went to IU and the team was mediocre I went to all the games and that was when the team was also borrrrring. This team is exciting regardless of the competition and should be competitive in every game. Very rarely if ever has IUFB put up this many points and give up this few to start a season. I understand to get "fans" you need to be consistent for a longer period of time, but the students should jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. There should be A LOT of students in the stadium in each game going forward.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,769]

"It's pretty simple. I win. Google me," said Cignetti. 

 

[IU - Kaulie 1,891]

24 minutes ago, OGIUAndy said:

I get what you're saying but when I went to IU and the team was mediocre I went to all the games and that was when the team was also borrrrring. This team is exciting regardless of the competition and should be competitive in every game. Very rarely if ever has IUFB put up this many points and give up this few to start a season. I understand to get "fans" you need to be consistent for a longer period of time, but the students should jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. There should be A LOT of students in the stadium in each game going forward.

As a recent IU graduate, and having been to a few other campuses, the ‘game experience’ at IU is severely lacking.  It’s almost comical.  Those things matter to college students.  Have to give them a reason to get into the stadium and actually stay.  Winning consistently will certainly help, but more has to be done besides the play on the field.  I think as we get into fall and it becomes more tolerable to be outside along with the team doing well, more students will come and more will stay. However, student attendance will not really change until the total game experience changes.

[OGIUAndy 759]

Just now, IU - Kaulie said:

As a recent IU graduate, and having been to a few other campuses, the ‘game experience’ at IU is severely lacking.  It’s almost comical.  Those things matter to college students.  Have to give them a reason to get into the stadium and actually stay.  Winning consistently will certainly help, but more has to be done besides the play on the field.  I think as we get into fall and it becomes more tolerable to be outside along with the team doing well, more students will come and more will stay. However, student attendance will not really change until the total game experience changes.

I guess as a student I didn't care about the "experience" as much as kids do today. I went to watch the game and to hangout with my friends. But the game day experience seems to be much more important for people now so IU definitely needs to pick up the pace. But regardless of the game day experience lacking etc. taking a 4-0 start for granted is a mistake if you're a IUFB fan or student. Enjoy it when it happens. Make your own game day experience by packing the place. Just my opinion. 

[rayl456 457]

1 hour ago, OGIUAndy said:

I get what you're saying but when I went to IU and the team was mediocre I went to all the games and that was when the team was also borrrrring. This team is exciting regardless of the competition and should be competitive in every game. Very rarely if ever has IUFB put up this many points and give up this few to start a season. I understand to get "fans" you need to be consistent for a longer period of time, but the students should jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. There should be A LOT of students in the stadium in each game going forward.

I agree 100%.

[Hoosier987 1,062]

16 hours ago, rayl456 said:

I agree with the above quote.  But for IU that means, in my opinion, winning SEASONS and not simply four games against some seemingly weak teams.  To change the IU culture or the way people think, you need multiple winning seasons and some bowl games as well.  We’re off to a good/great start, but I don’t expect sellout crowds after four games.  We all know that we’ve had decades of miserable football and that’s why people leave at half or don’t show up at all.  Get some consistent winning and then people will react differently.  JMHO.

Sell outs would be great…but I don’t think any of us were expecting a sell out against Charlotte. But come on, the stadium was half empty for most of the game…that’s bad. We should’ve had a lot more fans in attendance for yesterday’s game. Why is Cig going to want to stay here if it’s going to take multiple seasons to bring back fans to the stadium? Ultimately it will be our loss.
 

I’m hoping against Maryland that we have a 90% full stadium. No reason not to. 4-0, outscoring opponents 202-37, a conference opponent and possibly ranked. 

[IUHoosierJoe 1,060]

3 hours ago, IU - Kaulie said:

As a recent IU graduate, and having been to a few other campuses, the ‘game experience’ at IU is severely lacking.  It’s almost comical.  Those things matter to college students.  Have to give them a reason to get into the stadium and actually stay.  Winning consistently will certainly help, but more has to be done besides the play on the field.  I think as we get into fall and it becomes more tolerable to be outside along with the team doing well, more students will come and more will stay. However, student attendance will not really change until the total game experience changes.

Fine.  Cig doesn’t seem like a guy who wants to finish his career winning games in a half empty stadium.  So I suspect a lot of folks will be able to go back to bitching about the quality of football before long.

[cthomas 6,299]

58 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Fine.  Cig doesn’t seem like a guy who wants to finish his career winning games in a half empty stadium.  So I suspect a lot of folks will be able to go back to bitching about the quality of football before long.

I don't think he intends to. He is a smart man and I think he fully knew what he was walking into. Right now, job 1 was to put a competitive team on the field in year one. I think he is doing that. I'm pretty sure that after this season, everything will be evaluated. It's up to the university to figure out what needs to be done to make the students want to go to games and to stay until the end. Eventually, with success, the team will sell itself. We are just at the beginning of a new era of IU football. It will take time, but we have the coach to get it done.

[go iu bb 5,461]

2 hours ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Fine.  Cig doesn’t seem like a guy who wants to finish his career winning games in a half empty stadium.  So I suspect a lot of folks will be able to go back to bitching about the quality of football before long.

When they start beating good teams more people will start doing to games and stay longer.

[Rico 2,979]

JUST WIN BABY!

[Lebowski 2,399]

@IU - Kaulie

What the puck does 'game experience' even mean?!  Attending a Big Ten football game in a large +50k seat stadium doesn't get more game experience than anything else that I can think of. For real. What the heck does 'game experience' mean? Give examples please. And to think waiting for the wheather to get colder will help with attendance is, as you put it, comical.  Ask the folks in Athens, GA or Gainesville, FL or any SEC or ACC southern team for that matter about how much the weather matters for their attendance. I'll bet my entire life savings that 9 out of 10 that you ask, answers, "It doesn't matter."  

 

Us IUFB faithful will never understand this type of mindset. I'd rather read from folks that they just aren't football fans and could care less about the program than read some of these sorry ars excuses. Eff sake, either get on this train or get off.  Enough with the excuses. Change your mindset. Take it from a guy that's watched this program since the 80s, this team is different. In a good way.  

[IU - Kaulie 1,891]

7 hours ago, Lebowski said:

@IU - Kaulie

What the puck does 'game experience' even mean?!  Attending a Big Ten football game in a large +50k seat stadium doesn't get more game experience than anything else that I can think of. For real. What the heck does 'game experience' mean? Give examples please. And to think waiting for the wheather to get colder will help with attendance is, as you put it, comical.  Ask the folks in Athens, GA or Gainesville, FL or any SEC or ACC southern team for that matter about how much the weather matters for their attendance. I'll bet my entire life savings that 9 out of 10 that you ask, answers, "It doesn't matter."  

 

Us IUFB faithful will never understand this type of mindset. I'd rather read from folks that they just aren't football fans and could care less about the program than read some of these sorry ars excuses. Eff sake, either get on this train or get off.  Enough with the excuses. Change your mindset. Take it from a guy that's watched this program since the 80s, this team is different. In a good way.  

Classy post.

Several points I can make, but I’m not going to address this right now.

 

[Lebowski 2,399]

3 hours ago, IU - Kaulie said:

Classy post.

Several points I can make, but I’m not going to address this right now.

I don't understand what you're talking about. What does "game experience" mean? You said IUFB is comical. Either explain what you're talking about or deal with a diehard like myself making the comments I made.  Sometimes ripping off the band-aid is the best way to address and expose things. If that hurts your feelings then don't make the 'almost comical' comments you made. 

[Hovadipo 54,885]

Students don’t need a special game experience or whatever, they just need it to be:

-Worth watching. We’ve checked this one off on our end, now we’ll have teams coming to town worth watching too. If the UCLA game was at home it would’ve been a sellout.

-Convenient for them.

-What everyone else/their friends are doing.

Not a thing IU or any other school that struggles to fill its student section (against bad teams on million degree days) can do about it. I don’t think it’s very complicated. Most if not all schools have been dealing with fickle student attendance for a long time.

On the other hand, I think the attendance shaming is getting annoying. It isn’t happening here, but anyone that looks at IUFB twitter sees it. I want the place to be sold out and rocking, but 1) I understand that that isn’t gonna happen against friggin’ Charlotte and 2) I understand that you won’t ever shame people into it.

[HoosierX 1,521]

14 hours ago, Lebowski said:

@IU - Kaulie

What the puck does 'game experience' even mean?!  Attending a Big Ten football game in a large +50k seat stadium doesn't get more game experience than anything else that I can think of. For real. What the heck does 'game experience' mean? Give examples please. And to think waiting for the wheather to get colder will help with attendance is, as you put it, comical.  Ask the folks in Athens, GA or Gainesville, FL or any SEC or ACC southern team for that matter about how much the weather matters for their attendance. I'll bet my entire life savings that 9 out of 10 that you ask, answers, "It doesn't matter."  

 

Us IUFB faithful will never understand this type of mindset. I'd rather read from folks that they just aren't football fans and could care less about the program than read some of these sorry ars excuses. Eff sake, either get on this train or get off.  Enough with the excuses. Change your mindset. Take it from a guy that's watched this program since the 80s, this team is different. In a good way.  

Here's what I predict:

1) The stadium will be close to full for the Maryland game

2) There will be as many IU fans as NW fans at the NW game (assuming there is enough secondary ticket capacity for their makeshift stadium)

[Lebowski 2,399]

22 minutes ago, HoosierX said:

Here's what I predict:

1) The stadium will be close to full for the Maryland game

2) There will be as many IU fans as NW fans at the NW game (assuming there is enough secondary ticket capacity for their makeshift stadium)

Yep. At the Rose Bowl we had a good showing too! 

On Vividseats there's only 4% of tickets left for the Maryland game and "Almost Gone" at iuhoosiers.evenue.net/list/FBM. 

Butts in seats! 

[Hovadipo 54,885]

53 minutes ago, HoosierX said:

Here's what I predict:

1) The stadium will be close to full for the Maryland game

2) There will be as many IU fans as NW fans at the NW game (assuming there is enough secondary ticket capacity for their makeshift stadium)

I looked at Northwestern this morning, just out of curiosity. Get-in price is about $150 and you can be down basically on the field for about $250. I think that place will kinda look like SoFi Stadium did yesterday when Niners fans took it over (at about 5% the size).