If you did not receive an email for the survey here is a link below. I like those new loge box seat options!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HuskieStadiumSurvey

Thanks - I went online and filled it out.

+1 Yes, thank you for posting this. I was really hoping to fill it out after reading the other forum topic.

Took it. Fun to see the school brainstorming on suites and indoor clubs, hope they are able to move on it soon..

I want them all... Although I'll never be able to afford one

They just sent out another email for the survey, but now if you supply your personal info, you are entered in a drawing for various items.

(06-26-2014 12:02 PM)goniu1523 Wrote:  They just sent out another email for the survey, but now if you supply your personal info, you are entered in a drawing for various items.

At the bottom it also notes...

*if you have already taken this survey please reply to this email with your name and contact info to enter the drawing*

Had my wife take it without my input. It did not ask for contact info.

Can't really afford them...but they look nice.

(06-26-2014 02:24 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Can't really afford them...but they look nice.

For my family group I would love the lodge box or table row (I have mentioned before) for 6 but they are suggesting a $3000 - $1500 per seat donation. Considering the skybox is a $1000 per seat donation that seems quite high for a group of outdoor seat at Huskie Stadium especially if it is not connected to an indoor club. I think a $2400 - $1500 per box donation would be the highest they could get out of our current (cheap) fanbase with what else is currently offered as far as OOC opponents and weeknight games in November.

These seats would be taking up 2-3 times the space of the regular bench seats. To make double of what the area of 12-18 bench seats make that's a $220 - $330 per seat donation. On top of that you make more on the sales of offering the premium food/drinks. If it sells out then the next year you raise the price to meet the demand.

(06-26-2014 02:24 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Can't really afford them...but they look nice.

+1 But I am perfectly happy with our section C seats. After 9 years in the same seats they have become "home" for us.

I kept answering that I was not interested in suites, skyboxes, club seats etc. Not that I don't want them to be built, but because I enjoy sitting near HFA and others. Have since 2000, and don't want to change seats.

(06-26-2014 03:59 PM)beachboy Wrote:  I kept answering that I was not interested in suites, skyboxes, club seats etc. Not that I don't want them to be built, but because I enjoy sitting near HFA and others. Have since 2000, and don't want to change seats.

That is totally fine if you don't want it and/or cant afford it. Just realize that athletics is going to be looking for added money from any place possible. If they don't get enough demand to justify building a new/real skybox I can just about guarantee you that most seats in section C/D/E will be based on donor points and a reshuffling could happen as soon as next year.

(06-26-2014 04:19 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 03:59 PM)beachboy Wrote:  I kept answering that I was not interested in suites, skyboxes, club seats etc. Not that I don't want them to be built, but because I enjoy sitting near HFA and others. Have since 2000, and don't want to change seats.

That is totally fine if you don't want it and/or cant afford it. Just realize that athletics is going to be looking for added money from any place possible. If they don't get enough demand to justify building a new/real skybox I can just about guarantee you that most seats in section C/D/E will be based on donor points and a reshuffling could happen as soon as next year.

It would seem to me that yanking the seats away from long time season ticket holders is not the best way to build up the fan base & increase season ticket sales. How many people have been in the same seats for many years? How happy will those people be if athletics now comes to them and basically blackmails them for more money/donations to keep those seats? We always talk about getting the DeKalb Sycamore community to come to games - buy season tickets. I doubt that will happen if "points" are required to get a "decent" seat. I am not a wealthy person by any means. Being able to go to DeKalb for football requires me to save up just to cover travel/gas/tickets/parking/etc. I can't get any "loyalty points" myself other than for having season tickets year after year. I'm not an alumni, can't donate to NIU. But I am as loyal a fan as you can find!

Bradley University (men's BB) did this 2 years ago & lost MANY season ticket holders. They jacked up the prices & required pretty big donations for people to have season ticket seats. It backfired on them & now they are scrambling to fill seats again.

BTW, Our section C seats are on the aisle. They are practically section B. I chose that area to be across from the Huskie Band because my son was in the band when we started going to games.

While I agree with some of what you are saying.. Football programs cost $$$ and lots of it.. Better stadiums, better food, better schedules, etc..

So I think there should be some sort of point system for determining access to premium seats.

(06-27-2014 09:46 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 04:19 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-26-2014 03:59 PM)beachboy Wrote:  I kept answering that I was not interested in suites, skyboxes, club seats etc. Not that I don't want them to be built, but because I enjoy sitting near HFA and others. Have since 2000, and don't want to change seats.

That is totally fine if you don't want it and/or cant afford it. Just realize that athletics is going to be looking for added money from any place possible. If they don't get enough demand to justify building a new/real skybox I can just about guarantee you that most seats in section C/D/E will be based on donor points and a reshuffling could happen as soon as next year.

It would seem to me that yanking the seats away from long time season ticket holders is not the best way to build up the fan base & increase season ticket sales. How many people have been in the same seats for many years? How happy will those people be if athletics now comes to them and basically blackmails them for more money/donations to keep those seats? We always talk about getting the DeKalb Sycamore community to come to games - buy season tickets. I doubt that will happen if "points" are required to get a "decent" seat. I am not a wealthy person by any means. Being able to go to DeKalb for football requires me to save up just to cover travel/gas/tickets/parking/etc. I can't get any "loyalty points" myself other than for having season tickets year after year. I'm not an alumni, can't donate to NIU. But I am as loyal a fan as you can find!

Bradley University (men's BB) did this 2 years ago & lost MANY season ticket holders. They jacked up the prices & required pretty big donations for people to have season ticket seats. It backfired on them & now they are scrambling to fill seats again.

BTW, Our section C seats are on the aisle. They are practically section B. I chose that area to be across from the Huskie Band because my son was in the band when we started going to games.

If loyal fans are displaced from their long-time season tickets, I for one, am officially done supporting NIU.

(06-27-2014 10:11 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  While I agree with some of what you are saying.. Football programs cost $$$ and lots of it.. Better stadiums, better food, better schedules, etc..

So I think there should be some sort of point system for determining access to premium seats.

I absolutely agree. Bigger $$ should equal premium seats. My current seats are NOT premium. No benchback, no chairback. On the very edge of section C...almost section B. Nowhere near the 40 or 50 yd. lines. Not even on the 30 yd. line.

It would not help NIU to over charge for everything & price themselves out of "regular" people's reach. NIU is not - never will be IMHO- an elite school. NIU is a school within the reach of the common folk..the working class people So while I agree that premium seating should cost more they need to also be respectful of the rest of us and also not make NIU football unreachable for the DeKalb /Sycamore community.

I can't give money to NIU. But I can be deeply loyal to NIU. That's all I have to give.

(06-27-2014 11:16 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  

(06-27-2014 10:11 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  While I agree with some of what you are saying.. Football programs cost $$$ and lots of it.. Better stadiums, better food, better schedules, etc..

So I think there should be some sort of point system for determining access to premium seats.

I absolutely agree. Bigger $$ should equal premium seats. My current seats are NOT premium. No benchback, no chairback. On the very edge of section C...almost section B. Nowhere near the 40 or 50 yd. lines. Not even on the 30 yd. line.

It would not help NIU to over charge for everything & price themselves out of "regular" people's reach. NIU is not - never will be IMHO- an elite school. NIU is a school within the reach of the common folk..the working class people So while I agree that premium seating should cost more they need to also be respectful of the rest of us and also not make NIU football unreachable for the DeKalb /Sycamore community.

I can't give money to NIU. But I can be deeply loyal to NIU. That's all I have to give.

I agree HFA, I do think NIU is capable of elite-type achievement like we have seen past 2 years, but resource wise we obviously won't ever compete with the bigger programs. This is why I completely agree with you. You cannot run NIU like you would Ohio State. It doesnt matter who OSU schedules, you know that stadium will be filled every September game. Whereas, the plight of a school like NIU, we do not have that type of fan base and interest in the program is not solely a function of prestige. NIU has to run their athletic programs in a more innovative and unconventional way to generate this interest. We have had leadership over the past 12 years that has tried to apply an OSU model to the Huskies, and it doesnt work. Our season ticket base has steadily declined. You have to go out there and annoy other ahtletic departments and call every week and be pestering asking about future schedule possibilities, you cant necessarily create ticket policies that exclude a certain group of people as we can't afford to lose people, etc. The cookie-cutter approach brought in by recent ADs needs to be adapted toward the specific institution, or you get what we have seen, a rapidly declining season ticket base.

(06-27-2014 11:16 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  

(06-27-2014 10:11 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  While I agree with some of what you are saying.. Football programs cost $$$ and lots of it.. Better stadiums, better food, better schedules, etc..

So I think there should be some sort of point system for determining access to premium seats.

I absolutely agree. Bigger $$ should equal premium seats. My current seats are NOT premium. No benchback, no chairback. On the very edge of section C...almost section B. Nowhere near the 40 or 50 yd. lines. Not even on the 30 yd. line.

It would not help NIU to over charge for everything & price themselves out of "regular" people's reach. NIU is not - never will be IMHO- an elite school. NIU is a school within the reach of the common folk..the working class people So while I agree that premium seating should cost more they need to also be respectful of the rest of us and also not make NIU football unreachable for the DeKalb /Sycamore community.

I can't give money to NIU. But I can be deeply loyal to NIU. That's all I have to give.

The base price...as long as you don't have kids and were used to getting them the pup club ticket...didn't go up that much.

I don't think it will overall BUT I think that some of the first few rows in section C/E and all of D could very easily have a donation requirement and point shuffling to them in the next season or two. If you are in those first few rows and cant do the $60 donation then you will likely have to move up a few rows or move over to section B.

I get it about sitting around people you like...we have a group of people in front of us that is extremely understanding of our 3 little ones moving around for most of the game. We had an opportunity to move up 10 rows but decided to stay where we are just because the people in front of us renewed their seats.

(06-27-2014 01:19 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(06-27-2014 11:16 AM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  

(06-27-2014 10:11 AM)cartershaw Wrote:  While I agree with some of what you are saying.. Football programs cost $$$ and lots of it.. Better stadiums, better food, better schedules, etc..

So I think there should be some sort of point system for determining access to premium seats.

I absolutely agree. Bigger $$ should equal premium seats. My current seats are NOT premium. No benchback, no chairback. On the very edge of section C...almost section B. Nowhere near the 40 or 50 yd. lines. Not even on the 30 yd. line.

It would not help NIU to over charge for everything & price themselves out of "regular" people's reach. NIU is not - never will be IMHO- an elite school. NIU is a school within the reach of the common folk..the working class people So while I agree that premium seating should cost more they need to also be respectful of the rest of us and also not make NIU football unreachable for the DeKalb /Sycamore community.

I can't give money to NIU. But I can be deeply loyal to NIU. That's all I have to give.

The base price...as long as you don't have kids and were used to getting them the pup club ticket...didn't go up that much.

I don't think it will overall BUT I think that some of the first few rows in section C/E and all of D could very easily have a donation requirement and point shuffling to them in the next season or two. If you are in those first few rows and cant do the $60 donation then you will likely have to move up a few rows or move over to section B.

I get it about sitting around people you like...we have a group of people in front of us that is extremely understanding of our 3 little ones moving around for most of the game. We had an opportunity to move up 10 rows but decided to stay where we are just because the people in front of us renewed their seats.

You're right - the base price didn't go up much. I have no problem with season ticket prices increasing a bit. But it needs to be within reason. what they did to families with the pup club? That was just wrong. I strongly feel that they made a big mistake with that and likely ticked off some people. IF they do that same thing next year or 2 years from now with other long time season ticket holders they are going to hurt season ticket sales. You cannot grow a fan base by pissing off the people who stuck with you thru even the bad times.