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Post by usdcoyotes on Oct 20, 2014 23:19:10 GMT -6
Isn't the student section only 1500 seats? How do we get 5300 seats on the general admission side? The Dakota Dome does not actually hold 10,000. Around 8000 is the new max now that Coyote Landing is there. If the Dome only holds 8,000 now for games, how come we list 10,219 for a record ddays crowd? 2,000 more people must have bought tickets and decided just to tailgate! Not the worst idea for the 100th celebration! |
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Post by obc on Oct 21, 2014 4:02:01 GMT -6
The Dakota Dome does not actually hold 10,000. Around 8000 is the new max now that Coyote Landing is there. If the Dome only holds 8,000 now for games, how come we list 10,219 for a record ddays crowd? 2,000 more people must have bought tickets and decided just to tailgate! Not the worst idea for the 100th celebration! The announced attendance can be whatever a school wants it to be. It does not matter how many tickets are sold. It is not just USD, many schools do it (over-inflate their announced attendance). Jay Elsen tweeted out earlier on Monday that the USD ticket office estimated roughly 40% of the tickets sold to Bison fans in the main grandstand. It is disappointing we (USD fans) have not been able to buy up all of the tickets for our games like NDSU and SDSU considering there are really only 5300 grandstand seats available to sell. If the 60% number is true for the NDSU game that means only 3180 USD fans bought tickets (along with 2120 NDSU fans). The USD fans better be ready to cheer their asses off because their crowd like any traveling crowd are made up of their die-hards. Hate to say it but there is a chance they will be louder than the USD fans in the grandstand. The student attendance takes a lot of heat, but the attendance by "adults" on the main grandstand side is also weak. If USD can't get 5300 USD supporters to buy a ticket to home games (especially the marquee games of the season) it really bothers and worries me. |
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Post by qtip on Oct 21, 2014 6:51:33 GMT -6
My son just got tickets from a USD season ticket holder. Pretty sure your own fans don't wanna see this game! The ticket situation and the way your program handled it was adolescent! GO BISON!!!! 52-0
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Post by yoteforever on Oct 21, 2014 7:05:46 GMT -6
My son just got tickets from a USD season ticket holder. Pretty sure your own fans don't wanna see this game! The ticket situation and the way your program handled it was adolescent! GO BISON!!!! 52-0 Odds are you might be right on the results of the game, but I sense something going on inside the team. If I'm right, then anything can happen, and I sense an upset of major proportions happening. Regarding our administration, don't you dare throw stones. There isn't an athletic department in the MVC that has an arrogance that matches their fan base like NDSU. I get the fact you have won, good job. But you all need to learn the meaning of a word that you have no clue now what it does mean....humility. You are the absolute worst winners in college sports. The sooner you are knocked off your perch, the better as far as I am concerned. |
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Post by golfingyote on Oct 21, 2014 7:57:44 GMT -6
If the Dome only holds 8,000 now for games, how come we list 10,219 for a record ddays crowd? 2,000 more people must have bought tickets and decided just to tailgate! Not the worst idea for the 100th celebration! The announced attendance can be whatever a school wants it to be. It does not matter how many tickets are sold. It is not just USD, many schools do it (over-inflate their announced attendance). Jay Elsen tweeted out earlier on Monday that the USD ticket office estimated roughly 40% of the tickets sold to Bison fans in the main grandstand. It is disappointing we (USD fans) have not been able to buy up all of the tickets for our games like NDSU and SDSU considering there are really only 5300 grandstand seats available to sell. If the 60% number is true for the NDSU game that means only 3180 USD fans bought tickets (along with 2120 NDSU fans). The USD fans better be ready to cheer their asses off because their crowd like any traveling crowd are made up of their die-hards. Hate to say it but there is a chance they will be louder than the USD fans in the grandstand. The student attendance takes a lot of heat, but the attendance by "adults" on the main grandstand side is also weak. If USD can't get 5300 USD supporters to buy a ticket to home games (especially the marquee games of the season) it really bothers and worries me. How does Coyote Landing account for 2,000 seats? 200 I could see |
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Post by Yote 53 on Oct 21, 2014 8:31:55 GMT -6
I was just going to post that golfingyote. This revelation that the main grandstand only holds 5300 is nonsense. By the numbers here the Dome's capacity has gone from 10,000 to 6,800. That's an awful lot of seats that have gone missing. I swear, the Dome's capacity seems to shrink every single season. Not buying it. Oh, and what about all the people who are actually up in Coyote Landing? Guess they don't count towards attendance.
NDSU will have fans there, they might be about 40% of reserved seating, I really don't know. Seems like every poster on Bisonville has tickets in the first section of the south endzone, Section A...where the visitors always sit. If there was a bunch of Bison fans posting they had tickets in Sections C,D,E,F,G then I would be worried. Guess we'll find out. If the students show up en masse the Yotes will have 70% of the crowd. Still, shame on the USD fans for not buying these tickets up early. The Dome has limited capacity unlike SDSU or other outdoor stadiums with large SRO sections. You can't just show up the day of the game and expect to get in.
I hope the Coyotes show up Saturday and compete. That's all I really want is to be competitive. Put yourself in a situation where you have a chance in the end, maybe get a few bounces. If we pull off the miracle that will make up for a lot that has happened this season.
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Post by lakesbison on Oct 21, 2014 10:59:16 GMT -6
where are the coyotes coming from that they need a "coyote landing?"
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Post by fightsd on Oct 21, 2014 12:56:15 GMT -6
where are the coyotes coming from that they need a "coyote landing?" Well I usually end up landing there pretty shortly after I run out of beer at the tailgate. Then I'll land there again at halftime. |
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Post by obc on Oct 21, 2014 13:01:28 GMT -6
I was just going to post that golfingyote. This revelation that the main grandstand only holds 5300 is nonsense. By the numbers here the Dome's capacity has gone from 10,000 to 6,800. That's an awful lot of seats that have gone missing. I swear, the Dome's capacity seems to shrink every single season. Not buying it. Oh, and what about all the people who are actually up in Coyote Landing? Guess they don't count towards attendance. NDSU will have fans there, they might be about 40% of reserved seating, I really don't know. Seems like every poster on Bisonville has tickets in the first section of the south endzone, Section A...where the visitors always sit. If there was a bunch of Bison fans posting they had tickets in Sections C,D,E,F,G then I would be worried. Guess we'll find out. If the students show up en masse the Yotes will have 70% of the crowd. Still, shame on the USD fans for not buying these tickets up early. The Dome has limited capacity unlike SDSU or other outdoor stadiums with large SRO sections. You can't just show up the day of the game and expect to get in. I hope the Coyotes show up Saturday and compete. That's all I really want is to be competitive. Put yourself in a situation where you have a chance in the end, maybe get a few bounces. If we pull off the miracle that will make up for a lot that has happened this season. The good news is you can go count seats if you don't believe it - Or perhaps ask Herbie for the exact number. This is not something you really have to worry about guessing on - there is an exact number. Also everyone in Coyote landing has a seat in the Dome so you can't count them twice. |
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Post by golfingyote on Oct 21, 2014 13:19:28 GMT -6
I was just going to post that golfingyote. This revelation that the main grandstand only holds 5300 is nonsense. By the numbers here the Dome's capacity has gone from 10,000 to 6,800. That's an awful lot of seats that have gone missing. I swear, the Dome's capacity seems to shrink every single season. Not buying it. Oh, and what about all the people who are actually up in Coyote Landing? Guess they don't count towards attendance. NDSU will have fans there, they might be about 40% of reserved seating, I really don't know. Seems like every poster on Bisonville has tickets in the first section of the south endzone, Section A...where the visitors always sit. If there was a bunch of Bison fans posting they had tickets in Sections C,D,E,F,G then I would be worried. Guess we'll find out. If the students show up en masse the Yotes will have 70% of the crowd. Still, shame on the USD fans for not buying these tickets up early. The Dome has limited capacity unlike SDSU or other outdoor stadiums with large SRO sections. You can't just show up the day of the game and expect to get in. I hope the Coyotes show up Saturday and compete. That's all I really want is to be competitive. Put yourself in a situation where you have a chance in the end, maybe get a few bounces. If we pull off the miracle that will make up for a lot that has happened this season. The good news is you can go count seats if you don't believe it - Or perhaps ask Herbie for the exact number. This is not something you really have to worry about guessing on - there is an exact number. Also everyone in Coyote landing has a seat in the Dome so you can't count them twice. I still do not get how coyote landing reduced the seating from 10k to 8k. I used to run stairs in the dome, and coyote landing takes up nowhere near 2,000 seats....I just dont buy the 8,000 capacity deal. I dont buy the exaggeration of tickets sold or attendance numbers for every single game either. not by the thousands anyway- a few hundred sure. |
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Post by obc on Oct 21, 2014 13:24:17 GMT -6
The good news is you can go count seats if you don't believe it - Or perhaps ask Herbie for the exact number. This is not something you really have to worry about guessing on - there is an exact number. Also everyone in Coyote landing has a seat in the Dome so you can't count them twice. I still do not get how coyote landing reduced the seating from 10k to 8k. I used to run stairs in the dome, and coyote landing takes up nowhere near 2,000 seats....I just dont buy the 8,000 capacity deal. I dont buy the exaggeration of tickets sold or attendance numbers for every single game either. not by the thousands anyway- a few hundred sure. I am not asking for you to buy anything. Have you actually asked for the seat total and gotten an answer? Not asking for you to believe in unicorns and sasquatch. |
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Post by Yote 53 on Oct 21, 2014 13:51:19 GMT -6
If it's true then Dome capacity has never been anywhere close to 10,000. I've been going to the Dome for over 25 years. I've also ran every step in that grandstand. There have not been 2,000 seats that have disappeared.
Also, if what you are saying is true then we should probably divert some money from the arena project and put it towards constructing a new westside Dome grandstand. You know, start putting some resources towards the football program so we can compete at the top of the MVFC. I watch the video of Coach Glenn afer last week's game, I read the comments on other team's messsage boards. they actually feel sorry for us and wonder why we don't support our football program. Those fans of other schools are right. Time to start putting some $$ towards football at this school.
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Post by golfingyote on Oct 21, 2014 13:56:02 GMT -6
I still do not get how coyote landing reduced the seating from 10k to 8k. I used to run stairs in the dome, and coyote landing takes up nowhere near 2,000 seats....I just dont buy the 8,000 capacity deal. I dont buy the exaggeration of tickets sold or attendance numbers for every single game either. not by the thousands anyway- a few hundred sure. I am not asking for you to buy anything. Have you actually asked for the seat total and gotten an answer? Not asking for you to believe in unicorns and sasquatch. ABC, I understand your argument and what you are saying, but why report attendance numbers consistently by 30-35% more than what they actually are? Not alot of places are doing that. |
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Post by obc on Oct 21, 2014 14:08:20 GMT -6
If it's true then Dome capacity has never been anywhere close to 10,000. I've been going to the Dome for over 25 years. I've also ran every step in that grandstand. There have not been 2,000 seats that have disappeared. Also, if what you are saying is true then we should probably divert some money from the arena project and put it towards constructing a new westside Dome grandstand. You know, start putting some resources towards the football program so we can compete at the top of the MVFC. I watch the video of Coach Glenn afer last week's game, I read the comments on other team's messsage boards. they actually feel sorry for us and wonder why we don't support our football program. Those fans of other schools are right. Time to start putting some $$ towards football at this school. Agree with all that you just wrote there. It is time for the USD fans to step up. As bad as some of the football performances have been the support from the USD Alumni in general has been worse. If the Dome was selling out every game with USD fans and money was rolling in from ticket and merchandise sales - it sure wouldn't hurt things.... |
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Post by thesocalledfan on Oct 21, 2014 14:15:51 GMT -6
A bit of thread drift, but I just encouraged some of my Bison friends to check out the Over Museum. I was there once, and it was better than I expected, particularly the gun collection. Have they ever said what the estimated value of that gun collection is? I was very impressed by it.
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