Is the Iowa St game a gold rush or stripe the stadium?**
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It is not a stripe the stadium and I do not think it is a gold rush. It may be a wear what every you can to keep warm. The later in the season you do the special games it get harder to do because of the weather.
funny you mention warmth...my wife and I braved the KSU game last year. 22 degrees at kickoff and we were up in secton 202 dressed in our subzero Adirondack Mt hiking gear. We were warm as can be but everyone around us was miserable.
Let's just see if we can sell some of those student tickets. I love the way WVU treats their students as first class...50 yardline tickets are unheard of in college football. Unfortunately, for this thanksgiving game (unless it is Pitt), it is a problem since they are all gone and it does not help that that section is the first thing the camera sees when the game comes on.
I've been asking this for years: Why can't the school simply flip the seat assignments to the opposite side of the stadium, so that the less-filled student section is no longer visible on TV?
It is a good idea. The reason that it will never happen is that there is a certain crowd that parks and enters the boxes on that side of the stadium who want nothing to do with the students. For that reason, you are correct; It will never happen.
Seems like the TV folks could flip a switch and change the camera feed. Heck, they might even convince the talent to walk to the other side of the field. Just a thought.
What I mean is switch them all. Everybody with season tickets on that west side gets switched to the same seats on the east side, and vice versa. This should eliminate most, if not all, complaints by ticketholders in the regular west-side seats.
You couldn't switch anyone who sits up in the press box, of course, but an exclusive entry point for those people ought to alleviate most concerns about being nearer the students.
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If you're talking about leaving the seats as is and flipping the cameras across the field, I believe the necessity of broadcasting the game from the press box side probably eliminates that possibility. I've never seen a venue whose standard game view is from the side opposite the press box. Not sure whether it's a technical issue or a matter of being too disorienting for the announcers, but I've never seen it.