I can’t give Purdue credit for anything. Their fans and alums are a mentally ill cult that has an unhealthy obsession with IU and Notre Dame.
The last football season especially broke them.
I rarely park close to the stadium so I usually don't have to deal with it, but I'm always surprised at the dissatisfaction level with parking and traffic flow. We've got a fairly small stadium with a lot of space around it -- it should not be as bad as it seems to be. Perhaps IU/Bloomington should give Speedway/Indy PD a call for advice on how to handle traffic flow and one ways in and out...
Two points:
I sit in traffic for at least an hour before moving as much as a 1/4 mile at the Speedway. I don't think there's some magical solution that those folks have, not to mention that ISP is involved in both endeavors (IU and 500).
I'm going to the Iowa game at the end of the month and was scouting out parking. We are so spoiled at IU with how close in proximity we can park. Iowa has virtually nothing close to the stadium and what they do have it pretty small and just for the highest level donors. Ohio State also doesn't have good parking options.
We're just a fan base that likes to bitch about everything because for so long, there wasn't much to be happy about.
IU has tons of parking around the football stadium- way more than most universities.
@tammany it’s really hard to accept that Purdue can get over 52k off a 1-win season and IU can’t get over 48k coming off a CFP appearance.
yes, Rome wasn’t built in a day, but a least there was some effort.
I have experience with both IU & Purdue students/fans.
I think it comes down to Purdue having so many engineering students while IU has a large # of Music majors as well as the the occasional Mongolian Studies major. Football fans tend to lean conservative, and are more often into football, band and similar activities. Purdue overall is just a more conservative place than IU.
There are less than 1,000 music majors at IU (undergrads). C'mon.
@gros-louis It's a light hearted comment and they do a pretty good job for 300K people.
And you need a new parking strategy! (this is a good-natured joke to be clear)
Agree our fanbase complains a lot, a lot of schools don't have the nice lots around the stadium we do, plus the option to park in town to free/cheap and walk a mile to the stadium.
@gros-louis It's a light hearted comment and they do a pretty good job for 300K people.
And you need a new parking strategy! (this is a good-natured joke to be clear)
Agree our fanbase complains a lot, a lot of schools don't have the nice lots around the stadium we do, plus the option to park in town to free/cheap and walk a mile to the stadium.
To be fair, re: the 500, I spend the night in an RV across the street from the Coke lot the two nights prior to the race. So I'm VERY close and have the furthest to egress and the benefits of that RV setup far outweigh any traffic concerns I have following the race.
All good and valid points. It’d be nice to have a bus (or train?) from Indy down to btown. Can serve drinks, TVs. Even with 69 done (so nice), parking is an issue.
Would be nice to have an Alumni “breakfast” downtown or something then bus to the game.
Ok, so now you've added 50 people to the crowd with a full bus.
@gros-louis Do you have a problem for every solution? Don't be that person. Parking is an issue in Bloomington. Having public transportation can help ease that bourdon. 50 people can turn into 500 quickly. People can spend the night in Indy and take a bus down too. It's not complicated.
@gros-louis Do you have a problem for every solution? Don't be that person. Parking is an issue in Bloomington. Having public transportation can help ease that bourdon. 50 people can turn into 500 quickly. People can spend the night in Indy and take a bus down too. It's not complicated.
I have realistic critiques of ideas that have very little chance to make an impact.
There's plenty of parking in Bloomington, people just don't like having to use a little effort once they park. There are free garages with free shuttles that barely get used and those are only about a mile or so from the stadium.
Curious if you all think we will have more, less or the same amount of fans this week for the game.
I can't attend this week and have posted my tickets for weeks. I've lowered them quite a bit and not having any interest. They're $63 tickets and I've lowered them to $25. Almost at the point I should just give them free than pay the comission to seat geek.
@eppy99 Less. 47K attended last week, and so far ~43.5K sold for this week
@gros-louis Why wouldn't it work?
For starters, you've got to market it and in a market like Indy, that's not cheap, obviously. And you're already marketing attending the games/buying the tickets, but now you have a whole other message to convey. Confusing messages to your audience. And, frankly, I think you're unlikely to find very many people that would choose the group travel option over just driving down themselves. We're independent people. We don't like to carpool or use public transit because we want to be in charge of our schedule and not leave that up to others to screw up for us.
Look, Big Ten games are selling very well. And it's not even a great Big Ten home schedule. It's fine...but it lacks any of the top 4 brands/teams in the conference. So as long as there is still ticket inventory for people to choose those games over ODU, KSU and ISU, they're going to choose that because it's the best of it all. Fall in Bloomington, competitive games but ones you can win now that you're good. Get to the point where those non-con games are the only way to get to see IU play football because the conference games have sold out, then you've got a better chance of selling more tickets to these shit games.
People aren't choosing to not buy tickets to these games because it's too hard to get to Bloomington from Indy but if we provided a bus, they'd go. They're choosing to not buy tickets to these games because the opponents suck.
What messages are getting confused with the fan base?
@eppy99 it’ll be way less. Noon kick. Kennesaw state. Tickets are overpriced.