Win another WAC title this year, and head into C-USA with crazy momentum.
do that, and you'll have people filling those stands.
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Win another WAC title this year, and head into C-USA with crazy momentum.
do that, and you'll have people filling those stands.
What we want is their money!! Unfortunately they have to attend for us to get full value i.e. concessions, motels, food, gas, etc.Originally Posted by Reckless Abandon
I get that. I guess I'm just ready for consistent sell outs so we won't care how many they bring.
I guess folks think we can't sell out with our own fans.
Surely you jest.
We definately want our opponents to sell out their allotment of tickets.
Not only does it line our pocketbook a little....but it adds to our season attendance average....and most importantly it adds to the gameday experience.
Don't worry about them taking up seats that Bulldog fans could be sitting in....Lord knows we have plenty of empty seats for our own fair weather fans to wander in to.
Money, for Ruston and Tech athletics. Game atmosphere. Bring the thousands on!
Oh...and lets not forget the uptick for the local economy. The more opposing team fans that roll into town, the better.
Someone call me when we start marketing this program we're building. I'm talking full-scale assault marketing.
Advertise the A&M game every day on tv at least one local station in Shreveport this summer. WAC champ billboards and Tech-CUSA billboards from East Texas to Vicksburg down to Alexandria. All ads mentioning season tickets as well. Seems like basic stuff to me.
Winning is still the best thing you can do for tickets. People want to come to watch the home team win- big games, lots of drama. National pub helps, pre-season hype will help, but nothing goes as far as winning the games. We also have to continue to work on the game day experience. Thousands and thousands of SEC fans who show attend games don't actually care about the football game (as long as their team wins, of course).
Each game needs to be an Event, an event where we Win. That'll take care of butts-in-seats.
Yes. Do this and how few fans UAB or Tulsa bring won't matter one bit.
Fan base isn't built off visitors from other schools.
This!
We have raised ourself to a level I never dreamed we would attain when I was in college way back in the stone ages.
But the area where we lag is in attendance. We should easily draw 25,000-plus in football and 4,000 plus in basketball every time we host a game. Our students and alumni need to get on board and support (with their presence) a great thing that is going on at their school.
Good old Memorial Gym
I'm not kidding when I say that half the student body doesn't know we're in the CUSA. I'd go as far as saying that half of those don't know why being in the CUSA is good. The administration needs to optimize the game atmosphere for students to really get excited. Plus, as other have said, winning helps.
On a similar note, I was thinking back to the Ole Miss game last season. Their student section takes up the lower South endzone. Our student section takes up the greater part of the lower stands on the East side (including the BoP). Over the last 5 seasons, I've been proud of the increase of students coming to and participating in the games! It's exciting to imagine what winning 7 in a row in the regular season and a WAC title will do to this year's student attendance.
I never want our campus student to not have acess to the home games. This is one of the thing wrong in college athletics, and as soon as we need to add seats to insure the students always have their place and we should not chase the dollar at all cost.
Our student section is always great. I wouldn't change it a bit. We need to keep bringing in casual fans and alumni. Those are our two biggest potentials for attendance growth.
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