I'll be the first to apologize for the student section

[Bison bison]

Pretty sure this has been shown to be false by others in the past.

There is no additional cost for a student to attend a game. There is no guarantee that a student will get a ticket.

What is the cost of student ticket?

[CyPanth]

Hopefully the recruits that are visiting are escorted out with the students at half...wouldn't want them to get bored.

Would really like to hear BigDaddyKane and CyPanth or any others perspectives of this thread. I have to imagine you guys just shake your head at this.

Pretty sure BDK is long gone from your site. Now I only get to observe his childish ways on Cyclone Fanatic. I still hop on occasionally.

As I stated earlier in this thread, even in blowouts (unlike you, ours are in losses), I stay because that is when you get to see the future play in actual game situations. It is like Spring football scrimmages and summer league basketball. Sure they are boring at times, but you get to see the redshirt guys play. That alone would keep me at a game to the end.

All the talk about leaving early reminds me of the phrase "first world problems." I would love to win so much that it gets boring and makes me want to leave early to do something else.

When I go to a game, I go to a game. I want to see the whole thing. However, I admit that it is more of a deep, philosophical thing for me. On August 30, I was still there, talking to Tatanka and others right to the end. As I recall, even Lakes stayed almost to the very end of that one (beating FBS teams must be less boring). I was still there when your team made its victory walk along the row of fans in the end zone.

One of my favorite threads on Cyclone Fanatic is about the guy who left the Oklahoma State MBB game early, then heard the stadium exploding in applause while he was in the parking lot, and came on the forum to admit it (and to take his well-deserved abuse). That will never happen to me.

I have nothing better to do during a game than watch the game. And I admit that I just don't understand those who think they have something better to do. Last year, I went to the UNI / Drake game and was amazed at how many UNI students left by half-time. Sure it was a blowout, but who doesn't want to see a blowout of a local "rival?" And are there really better things to do in Cedar Falls that watch the second half of a blowout in a football game?

[JMB]

That's is bullshit and you know it! Just like Alabama, NDSU WILL NEVER EVER EVER BE AVERAGE AGAIN in football unless we move up. We are one of the HAVES in the league. We don't rebuild, we #$#$ing reload. Have you seen the stud recruits we have? NDSU going 6 6 in 2016 is absurd. We have too much $, too much talent, too good of a program, and too good of facilities to become average ever again.

I would expect we would have a future much like D2. A yearly championship threat, sometimes a significant threat, sometimes an outside threat.

[NDSUBowler]

There is no additional cost for a student to attend a game. There is no guarantee that a student will get a ticket.

What is the cost of student ticket?

I'll have to have someone more in-the-know answer this instead of me. It's just what I remember seeing.

Just because students don't pay extra on top for the tickets, doesn't mean they don't pay at all. Whether that is right or wrong is a totally different matter that isn't relevant to this thread, just wanted to point out that they DO pay some.

[Bison bison]

It makes all the difference in the world.

Choices are made on the margin.

The marginal cost of tickets is ZERO.

[56BISON73]

That's is bullshit and you know it! Just like Alabama, NDSU WILL NEVER EVER EVER BE AVERAGE AGAIN in football unless we move up. We are one of the HAVES in the league. We don't rebuild, we #$#$ing reload. Have you seen the stud recruits we have? NDSU going 6 6 in 2016 is absurd. We have too much $, too much talent, too good of a program, and too good of facilities to become average ever again.

Alabama after Brear Bryant? How long did it take them to regain the old glory? What happened to TX? LSU? The list is long and impressive of teams who have gotten knocked off the pedestal and had some down years. To think NDSU wont have some down years is just unrealistic.

[NDSUBowler]

Staying to the end is a show of respect and support for the players. For those that leave early and are "so close" with the players are you going to tell PGT he hurt himself playing in a boring, pointless game and that you couldn't be bothered to stick around until the end for? The bars are still open when the game is over and an extra 5 minutes of being stuck in the car listening to bison rewind hasn't killed anyone as far as I know.


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Are you saying leaving early is showing no respect or support for the players? That is pretty ridiculous.

You act like the bars are the only reason people leave early? There are many things that people may value more than an NDSU football game and just because their values are different from yours doesn't mean they are showing no respect by leaving early. It just means they value their time spent elsewhere when the situation dictates it.

Who are you to judge? Who am I to judge? Who is anyone but themselves to judge? If they are fine leaving early in a blowout, then they leave early.

I say this as someone who ALWAYS stays until the final horn blows.

[westnodak93bison]

Alabama after Brear Bryant? How long did it take them to regain the old glory? What happened to TX? LSU? The list is long and impressive of teams who have gotten knocked off the pedestal and had some down years. To think NDSU wont have some down years is just unrealistic.

Probably right. However, you have to admit it would be much easier staying on top in a watered down FCS than FBS.

[El_Chapo]

NDSU will be just fine no matter what happens in this bitchfest I guess that's all that matters . Like the song says " All we do is win "

[56BISON73]

Pretty sure BDK is long gone from your site. Now I only get to observe his childish ways on Cyclone Fanatic. I still hop on occasionally.

As I stated earlier in this thread, even in blowouts (unlike you, ours are in losses), I stay because that is when you get to see the future play in actual game situations. It is like Spring football scrimmages and summer league basketball. Sure they are boring at times, but you get to see the redshirt guys play. That alone would keep me at a game to the end.

All the talk about leaving early reminds me of the phrase "first world problems." I would love to win so much that it gets boring and makes me want to leave early to do something else.

When I go to a game, I go to a game. I want to see the whole thing. However, I admit that it is more of a deep, philosophical thing for me. On August 30, I was still there, talking to Tatanka and others right to the end. As I recall, even Lakes stayed almost to the very end of that one (beating FBS teams must be less boring). I was still there when your team made its victory walk along the row of fans in the end zone.

One of my favorite threads on Cyclone Fanatic is about the guy who left the Oklahoma State MBB game early, then heard the stadium exploding in applause while he was in the parking lot, and came on the forum to admit it (and to take his well-deserved abuse). That will never happen to me.

I have nothing better to do during a game than watch the game. And I admit that I just don't understand those who think they have something better to do. Last year, I went to the UNI / Drake game and was amazed at how many UNI students left by half-time. Sure it was a blowout, but who doesn't want to see a blowout of a local "rival?" And are there really better things to do in Cedar Falls that watch the second half of a blowout in a football game?

Students have different priorities than when we were in school.