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UC990411 said:
He just said he has 12 season tickets and you're telling HIM to support the program?
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The key is having fannies in those 12 seats. Give them away if you can't go but get some UCONN fans in those seats.
 
The math is a bit fuzzy.

In 2012, thru July 24, 2012 UConn sold 19,000 season tickets. The total sold for the 2012 season was 23,500 (Desmond Conner wrote 24,000, maybe rounding up?)

So from July 25, 2012 thru August 30, 2012 UConn sold approximately 5,000 tickets (going with the rounded up #).

That equates to about 138 tickets sold per day from 7/25-8/30.

The date of this year's sales number means that there has been 11 extra selling days for 2013 versus 2012.

Based on a sales rate of 138 per day, one would expect 1,500 more tickets to be sold in 2013 v. 2012, or a total of 20,500 tickets sold.

Instead we're told that the number is 23,000. That's 2,500 more sold than this time last year, not 1,400.

If we assume that UConn will sell 138 tickets per day from now until August 30 (25 selling days), then we can calculate a final season ticket sales figure of 26,450 (3,450 tickets sold for the balance of August + 23,000 sold to date). (No way to know for sure that demand for miniplans will cannibalize season ticket sales and alter the 138 tickets sold per day).

Let's say UConn gets to 27,000. That figure is mildly disappointing; however demand has been pulled from season tickets to mini plans. (On July 27, 2010 UConn had sold 24,500 season tickets). Given the incredible home slate I can't imagine that the demand pull is all that significant. Parenthetically, it isn't quite a 2:1 ratio of miniplan:season tickets since there are 7 home games. But I can easily see 3,000 miniplans sold for each block, 6,000 total. That would be a pedestrian sales rate of 115 miniplan tickets per day (6,000/52 sale days).

I have nothing to base it on, but my guess is that 10,000 (2 blocks of 5k) miniplans will have been sold by opening day.

This is all wild speculation and riddled with assumptions, but I guess that UConn will have sold 32,000 "season" tickets by the Towson game.

With 3,000 visitor allotments, that's 87% of capacity. That isn't too shabby.
 
UCweCONN said:
Ordered my season tickets today. Looking forward to it. I've never been to a game at the Rent. Planned to go last year but couldn't work out with my schedule.
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We got a code blue and white here guys. Swarm, swarm.....

Can we get you a cocktail and a shrimp platter?

If you are curious what it will be like, go out and smoke some crack. You'll be addicted after the first "hit".

Unfortunately your crack will be taken away in early December each year (if you're lucky they let you have a couple of "hits" around the begining of the year).

For the 9 months after they take away your crack you will turn into a blithering idiot and waste 50% of your day on here trying to convince everyone you are smarter than the coach, the AD and the president of UConn.

On second thought....don't do it.....look away....we're hideous.
 
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Rumrunner said:
The math is a bit fuzzy.

In 2012, thru July 24, 2012 UConn sold 19,000 season tickets. The total sold for the 2012 season was 23,500 (Desmond Conner wrote 24,000, maybe rounding up?)

So from July 25, 2012 thru August 30, 2012 UConn sold approximately 5,000 tickets (going with the rounded up #).

That equates to about 138 tickets sold per day from 7/25-8/30.

The date of this year's sales number means that there has been 11 extra selling days for 2013 versus 2012.

Based on a sales rate of 138 per day, one would expect 1,500 more tickets to be sold in 2013 v. 2012, or a total of 20,500 tickets sold.

Instead we're told that the number is 23,000. That's 2,500 more sold than this time last year, not 1,400.

If we assume that UConn will sell 138 tickets per day from now until August 30 (25 selling days), then we can calculate a final season ticket sales figure of 26,450 (3,450 tickets sold for the balance of August + 23,000 sold to date). (No way to know for sure that demand for miniplans will cannibalize season ticket sales and alter the 138 tickets sold per day).

Let's say UConn gets to 27,000. That figure is mildly disappointing; however demand has been pulled from season tickets to mini plans. (On July 27, 2010 UConn had sold 24,500 season tickets). Given the incredible home slate I can't imagine that the demand pull is all that significant. Parenthetically, it isn't quite a 2:1 ratio of miniplan:season tickets since there are 7 home games. But I can easily see 3,000 miniplans sold for each block, 6,000 total. That would be a pedestrian sales rate of 115 miniplan tickets per day (6,000/52 sale days).

I have nothing to base it on, but my guess is that 10,000 (2 blocks of 5k) miniplans will have been sold by opening day.

This is all wild speculation and riddled with assumptions, but I guess that UConn will have sold 32,000 "season" tickets by the Towson game.

With 3,000 visitor allotments, that's 87% of capacity. That isn't too shabby.
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There can't be two blocks of mini-plans.

I would guess 40% are Michigan-Maryland-Louisville. 40% are Michigan-Maryland-Rutgers and 20% are Michigan-Louisville-Rutgers. There might be a few Louisville-Rutgers-Maryland sold but I doubt it.

The number of mini plans that include USF, Memphis or Towson you can probably count on your hands and toes.

If they were close to selling out Michigan on mini-plans that would be the message. They priced the miniplans equal to season tickets they can't sell out. That tells you they aren't selling many mini-plans unless you think people are just stupid.
 
whaler11 said:
There can't be two blocks of mini-plans.

I would guess 40% are Michigan-Maryland-Louisville. 40% are Michigan-Maryland-Rutgers and 20% are Michigan-Louisville-Rutgers. There might be a few Louisville-Rutgers-Maryland sold but I doubt it.

The number of mini plans that include USF, Memphis or Towson you can probably count on your hands and toes.
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You're right. Really meant 10k of your combo, split mostly btwn mich-md-ru, mich-md-lville. With mich-lville-rutgers, 5/7 of a season ticket. Maybe gets UConn 30.5k.

I still want to see the "almost sold out" blitz to induce demand. Perceived scarcity is the nectar of demand as they say.
 
Rumrunner said:
You're right. Really meant 10k of your combo, split mostly btwn mich-md-ru, mich-md-lville. With mich-lville-rutgers, 5/7 of a season ticket. Maybe gets UConn 30.5k.

I still want to see the "almost sold out" blitz to induce demand. Perceived scarcity is the nectar of demand as they say.
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But if it's not true you look ridiculous in the end and no one ever believes you again.
 
whaler11 said:
But if it's not true you look ridiculous in the end and no one ever believes you again.
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I was thinking the same thing - a marketing campaign like that is nice idea in theory, but it'd better be true that it's almost sold out or it's something the school would never live down.
 
whaler11 said:
There can't be two blocks of mini-plans.

I would guess 40% are Michigan-Maryland-Louisville. 40% are Michigan-Maryland-Rutgers and 20% are Michigan-Louisville-Rutgers. There might be a few Louisville-Rutgers-Maryland sold but I doubt it.

The number of mini plans that include USF, Memphis or Towson you can probably count on your hands and toes.

If they were close to selling out Michigan on mini-plans that would be the message. They priced the miniplans equal to season tickets they can't sell out. That tells you they aren't selling many mini-plans unless you think people are just stupid.
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Our mini-plan is Michigan/USF/Memphis. Why? It came down to what games people could attend. The mini-plans are great for people that can't make every game, but want to attend multiple games.
 
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Progress... albeit slowly.

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Has anyone done a run down of the season ticket sales for all P5 schools + AAC?

I looked up Indiana the other day, they were estatic about 21k - new modern era high...
 
It's a disappointing number on the surface, but we'll see how the mini-plans affect the overall attendance.

If we are going to use a benchmark for P5 comparison......lets aim high. I'm not talking about #'s of seats in a stadium, I'm referencing % of season tickets sold to date.......then we'll know if the numbers are related to a national, regional, local economy influence.

How's Syracuse, and Pitt doing %-age wise. I know that is not a "high aim" but I'm also looking from a regional perspective.

Hey! It might be a tough season no matter if or how much the team is improved. But at least the group of six season ticket holders I'm with will be at all the home games.......regardless. The kids deserve the support despite perceived feelings of poor performance of those administering the program.

In otherwords....we're fans of the team whether the sun shines or rain falls on their efforts. (I'm not referencing meteorology im my allegory)
 
I saw the other day that Iowa state had set a new record with 40,600. That's impressive.
 
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J187Money said:
Remind me to tell you all a story about my time in Ames. It is basketball related. But one every UConn fan will enjoy.
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Go ahead.........sounds interesting
 
huskypantz said:
East Hartford, CT
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Connecticut constantly scores as one of the best places to live in the country, close to the ocean, the mountains, New York and Boston. Plus it is miles ahead of Iowa historically and culturally. You just take it for granted. Spend a week in Des Moines, I have.
 
Palatine said:
Connecticut constantly scores as one of the best places to live in the country, close to the ocean, the mountains, New York and Boston. Plus it is miles ahead of Iowa historically and culturally. You just take it for granted. Spend a week in Des Moines, I have.
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Des Moines is heavenly compared to Ames.
 
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upstater said:
IS the question, Which town was never within 5 miles of a professional sports franchise?
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The question is which school's season ticket count is almost 50% of the metro population for the city its stadium resides in?
Season tickets: 40,000
Population of Ames: 60,000
Ames metro area: 89,000

Season tickets: 23,000
Population of East Hartford: 51,000
Hartford metro area: 1,118,000

That's not impressive?
 
UC990411 said:
He just said he has 12 season tickets and you're telling HIM to support the program?
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Butch has never spent a penny of his money on the program yet he'll always pipe in on how we need to become better fans.
 
There are a number of things that we need to look at here:

1 - It would be a reinforcement of failure to look at schools like Indiana (or Duke, Wake, etc.) as reason not to be (at a minimum) disappointed in 23k season tickets sold at this point for the upcoming season. They are all in a conference that they want to remain in, we need to turn enough heads to earn an invitation. Attendance is only one of many criteria that will help or hinder our chances, at the moment it will not help.

2 - Yes, the past two seasons (even with the upcoming slate) has played a large role in fan apathy and I imagine conference
realignment (and that many casual fans may not be sure who is and who is not in our conference) is playing as large a role.

3 - As bleak as things may appear, this is not over. What was Rutgers' attendance fifteen years ago? What were people saying about Stanford before Harbaugh was hired as head coach (IIRC, many felt they would never again be able to compete in football)? Where was Navy before hiring Johnson? What did TCU's future look like when the SWC disbanded? While many want an immediate answer on the B1G and/or ACC adding schools, it still would be in our best interests if the next wave of realignment/major conference expansion did not happen for a few years. We have work to do and we need time to do it.
 
huskypantz said:
The question is which school's season ticket count is almost 50% of the metro population for the city its stadium resides in?
Season tickets: 40,000
Population of Ames: 60,000
Ames metro area: 89,000

Season tickets: 23,000
Population of East Hartford: 51,000
Hartford metro area: 1,118,000

That's not impressive?
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Kinda. There literally isn't anything else to do, however, so the community will rally around the university.

(Btw that isn't a slam. Just true)
 
huskypantz said:
The question is which school's season ticket count is almost 50% of the metro population for the city its stadium resides in?
Season tickets: 40,000
Population of Ames: 60,000
Ames metro area: 89,000

Season tickets: 23,000
Population of East Hartford: 51,000
Hartford metro area: 1,118,000

That's not impressive?
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I think you missed my point. Ames, Iowa is a barren wasteland.
 
FfldCntyFan is right...we need to step up as fans...overcome the damage Hathaway did to the program and show the P-5 we DO belong with them! I think UCONN meeds to do two things with tickets..first the student section always sells out and has a huge waiting list...give them that entire end of the stadium including the top tier. Second...increase the Top of the Rent packages if they sell out this season. Third...and I know a lot of you will kill me for this...look at increasing the family seating (alcohol free) areas if the need is there..offer a family plan with reduced pricing for kids under 12. The way to keep season ticket numbers is to entice people to come to the games. It has been said more than once on here the game day experience at the Rent is awesome...and I have to say outside of a over night RV parking area...atmosphere wise rivals what I have experienced at Penn State. Like a lot of you on here I have had my tickets since game 1 at Rentschler and I won't give them up till I die...numbers were high when it was new...numbers dropped when we got stagnant and lost..(a couple of winning seasons with a string product and the numbers will be back up in the 32,000 range) as fans we need to sell the Rentschler experience to others because if we do we can get the numbers up in no time! I will add to this post that my wife and I are perfect examples of what I said above...first 3 years we sat in front of the scoreboard..next 2 years same spot (we chose to stay and not give a seat donation)...every year we would get invited to the Club Level for the last game of the year..in Year 6 we had the advantage of sitting with our friends who had chairback seats in Sect 242. The view sold us (and truth be told...also not having to deal with obnoxious drunks who came during the game to sit with their friends in our section)..starting year 5 in 242.
 
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