Recent content by Dkayak

Excellent analysis as usual. There’s one dimension missing from all of these comparisons. Iowa has no competition for fans from any pro league. If you live in Iowa and are a sports fan, it’s Iowa or Iowa State (and maybe the Chiefs?). Otherwise, Iowa is a sports desert. We compete for fans with...

Good points, but the bolded portion isn’t quite so black and white, to me anyway. When I buy season tickets, I don’t plan to “break even” on any I resell and I’ve never had to “eat the cost”. They can be readily sold for an amount below the single game price, or at worst slightly below my...

The imbalance is indicates the relative pricing needs an adjustment. Supply and demand. Econ 101, literally. Increase Horseshoe price while decreasing East Main (upper tier).

Sure! It would represent not only Cat, but also Boeing, Citadel, and others. It’s a futureproof.

We’re playing a broad probability game instead of placing a fewer, bigger bets. The resulting “developmental culture” not only draws athletic talent, but they arrive knowing they have a good shot ant earning their way into the national spotlight and a pro career. We could be seen as an NFL boot...

After a century, Cat still has a very big presence in Illinois, but moved its headquarters to Texas in 2022..

Sure, understood. But when the professional oddsmakers differ that much from a single online ranking, one of them is WAY off. EA is the “flier” data point among all prognostications. Never lose sleep over an outlier.

This is simply too bad to be remotely credible, so it’s not worth reading. For example, compare it to our over/under of 7.5 (same as Iowa’s btw). Does EA has sharper insights than the oddsmakers? If you wouldn’t place a bet based on EA’s ranking, I wouldn’t lose sleep over it either. It’s nonsense.

This is why you don’t add seats yet. Until the surplus is consistently soaked up, ticket revenue is effectively capped. Every seat sold in an expanded SEZ is one less sold elsewhere. Alternatively, spending money to give away more seats to local groups doesn’t help the business financially. And...

More turbulent and less predictable than if it fully enclosed the SEZ, especially with small shifts in wind direction.

But you still haven’t been able to articulate any reasons why we’d need to expand the Horseshoe South, particularly given it already sits outside the stadium with massive unused space in front of it. What problems do you hope to solve? Please explain your objectives for this space and what you’d...

Take a look at the red lines encompassing the four towers. Why does the Horsehoe sit so far beyond the stadium boundaries today? It was only put back so far from the field to accommodate a long-gone oval track. How does extending this already unnatural appendage even further beyond the...

Seats as far back as Kirby would be too far from the field, 80-90 yards from the south goal line (and nearly 200 yards from the north one). Look at your overhead photo. Kirby isn’t nearly close enough to see the game. IMO they’d be terrible seats, tough to sell, and wouldn’t generate much...

Good illustration from X. Texas Tech’s compassionate, not at all self-serving video hasn’t aged well.

Would you trade better stadium access for 7 football games for impeded SFC access for 19 basketball games (plus other events)? This reroute would consume a lot of SFC parking too. Kirby would still need to be closed on football days to allow fans parked south of your reroute to cross to the...