NC State Attendance

[Viet Vet]

Those choosing not to support the football team in person.

Sorry, but including free distributed tickets in "attendance" is a fraud.

 

[superjohn]

25k attendance wouldn't shock me, although I think it will be a little lower than that.

That having been said, would someone please explain to me why anyone will care how many tickets we give away that go unused?

Lower than 25K would be pathetic. I have to imagine they'll get over 25,000.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Sorry, but including free distributed tickets in "attendance" is a fraud.

At this point, If the people sit in the seats, does it matter whether they paid or not?

 

[Huskydog45]

Sorry, but including free distributed tickets in "attendance" is a fraud.

Really? So what would your approach be to get more people in the seats before season starts? Been saying they should do this all summer….you have to market tickets to basketball season tickholders….think it’s a very effective marketing strategy!

 

[ZooCougar]

I didn’t say scold them, but being more firm shouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

Stop it. You don’t discipline your fans. Particularly these fans.

 

[ZooCougar]

Sorry, but including free distributed tickets in "attendance" is a fraud.

It’s time to get you to bed Grampa.

 

[UCTitleTown]

We need a good start to the season to build momentum and maintain strong attendance. It starts with a big crowd on Thursday night.

 

[KembaKek]

how we get people there doesn’t matter yet. just need hug crowds. as many eyed as possible, as good of a performance as possible.

 

[RC111]

I hope one day UConn figures out a way to sell the upper level blue chair back seats.

Same, but I'm not going to lie -- when mid 3rd quarter roles around and my back starts hurting, I have no shame shuffling over a few sections and climbing some stairs to whatever is left there. I'll miss that. Or I'll pony up a little extra money and buy them for a change.

 

[Caronimo]

I hope one day UConn figures out a way to sell the upper level blue chair back seats.

Maybe don’t charge double? Tack on 5-10 bucks instead of 19 and they’d sell quick.

 

[Palatine]

A nice day would help.

 

[DMTCYNAW]

I question your commitment.

fair! I am def not an OG husky fan, so not ashamed to say that i'm not willing to fly across the country and buy hotels/car rental for a single uconn game. life calls and inflation is real. But i am rooting hard from afar, on my ipad. have fun y'all

 

[Waquoit]

how we get people there doesn’t matter yet. just need hug crowds.

You can't force it, though. I'm thinking if we get folks in the building and get some nice wins; the hugging will come.

 

[AllHusky]

Sorry, but including free distributed tickets in "attendance" is a fraud.

Google (Don Canham (1987) - University of Michigan Hall of Honor - University of Michigan Athletics) how former Track Coach and Athletic Director Don Canham(Woverine Sports) used ticket giveaways at Michigan to build an electric atmosphere that led to the modern day Big House. Canham credited with being the forerunner of the Businessman Athletic Director. Also used to sell out NCAA Indoor Track at Cobo Hall in Detroit until the NCAA in all its wisdom took it away from him and destroyed the annual 19k attendance(ever try to get to Fayetteville Ark??)

 

[PopcornHatKid]

Have confirmation that tickets out are over 30k now. Going to be the best crowd in years. Expect something similiar to the Syracuse game in 2016.

 

[cttxus]

This thread makes me feel like I'm watching a horse race.

"They're coming around the final turn now, 21-25k and 26-30k are neck and neck, but here comes 30k+ making a strong move on the outside!". "Under 20k has faded badly so it looks like we've got a three horse race now as they head into the final stretch!" "Can 30k+ pull it out, does he have anything left in the tank?"

 

[outlaw]

Go to uconnhuskies.com/myaccount, make sure you are logged in and then you can click on transfer tickets and just enter the name/phone number of the person you are sending them to and it’ll transfer directly to their phone.

there we go - they needed to be delivered first I had checked my account early. thank you

 

[huskymedic]

-> According to a UConn spokesperson, the program has distributed over 28,000 tickets as of Tuesday morning. That includes a season-ticket base of about 14,000, the highest since it was about 16,000 in 2017…

… Even as the reported number of tickets distributed slipped in recent years — an average of 14,686 in 2021 and 18,216 in 2019 — the number of people in the seats appeared even less at the 40,000-seat Rentschler Field. <-

 

[huskymedic]

 

[businesslawyer]

Have confirmation that tickets out are over 30k now. Going to be the best crowd in years. Expect something similiar to the Syracuse game in 2016.

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Ugh. You mean the game where their WR transfer from Maryland with an African name had like 300 yards receiving and so ate up our all-AAC corner that he was never the same again?

 

[Dooooooomed]

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The kids are alright

 

[dvegas]

It's called papering. Plenty of extras to go.out to the car at halftime for free beers

 

[Viet Vet]

At this point, If the people sit in the seats, does it matter whether they paid or not?

Yes, it does. If UConn (or any other school, for that matter) would publish "paid" attendance alongside "turnstile" attendance, I wouldn't complain. But incorporating those who did not pay for tickets inflates the truth.

BTW, I sell for a living. Giving away free samples does not qualify as a "sale". It has marketing value, introducing prospective customers to the product, just as giving away free football tickets does. In both cases, they are designed to generate demand for future revenue producing sales. I'm OK with that, as long as we don't hide the freebies in total current attendance/sales.

 

[businesslawyer]

Yes, it does. If UConn (or any other school, for that matter) would publish "paid" attendance alongside "turnstile" attendance, I wouldn't complain. But incorporating those who did not pay for tickets inflates the truth.

BTW, I sell for a living. Giving away free samples does not qualify as a "sale". It has marketing value, introducing prospective customers to the product, just as giving away free football tickets does. In both cases, they are designed to generate demand for future revenue producing sales. I'm OK with that, as long as we don't hide the freebies in total current attendance/sales.

This. Is it better to fill seats by giving away tickets than to play in front of an empty stadium. Probably (only to a point because if you give away too many free tickets too frequently you'll lose your paying customers). But to think that you have a meaningful data point when you compare how many bodies you can get into seats when you're giving away tickets to how many you can sell tickets to is just silly. Giving away tickets, short term, doesn't generate revenue and what power conferences want to know is whether we can generate enough revenue to compete, not whether we can fill our stadium by giving away tickets to the right people.