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A new low for atendance this season

BTW kudos to Andy Katz for finding a job and getting the holy hell out of there.
 
UConnDan97 said:
I've been ranting about the ticket prices for years on here, and I kept hearing how it wouldn't change the attendance number. Well, that's nonsense.

UConn is being a penny wise and a pound foolish here. Drop the ticket prices to increase attendance, especially with families that help to create the next generation of Husky fans, even if you might decrease the revenue somewhat in the short term.

But filling the place with warm bodies creates a better environment. A better environment creates more excitement for recruits and fans, ultimately leading to a better product. A better product leads to even more fans and more revenue.

This isn't a hard formula to understand, especially in a stadium which is only averaging half capacity. Time to get this done and stop the nonsense...
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Amen.


Houston, USF, UCF all have better teams, better weather, competition for eyeballs with more events...and cheaper season tickets.

UConn sets these prices as if its 2002 and Miami & Virginia Tech are still someday going to come to the Rent.

THEY AREN'T. Drop the damn prices.
 
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zls44 said:
Oh, ok. Well, let me put it this way- it should cost a lot freaking less.
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That’s why I don’t think dropping prices would make more than a marginal improvement to attendance.

It’s not like you can’t buy Top of Rent of Young Alumni and sit wherever you want now.
 
whaler11 said:
That’s why I don’t think dropping prices would make more than a marginal improvement to attendance.

It’s not like you can’t buy Top of Rent of Young Alumni and sit wherever you want now.
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People who aren't currently in the building don't know that.

Plus, I know that UConn may not have a lot of control over parking prices or concession prices, but all together added, a family of 4 is dropping well over $100 per game. And as had already been mentioned, that's to see Tulsa and Holy Cross... :confused:
 
UConnDan97 said:
People who aren't currently in the building don't know that.

Plus, I know that UConn may not have a lot of control over parking prices or concession prices, but all together added, a family of 4 is dropping well over $100 per game. And as had already been mentioned, that's to see Tulsa and Holy Cross... :confused:
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Anyone who has ever been there knows it - and it’s not like the seats are bad if you actually sit in them.

I sat at the top of 206 for years to avoid listening to idiots like those around me in 100 yesterday.

Concessions aren’t really off what they cost everywhere - since most people tailgate that one doesn’t seem like it keeps people home. Keeps some drunks in the parking lot for sure but nickle night would be worse than ghost town.
 
whaler11 said:
Anyone who has ever been there knows it - and it’s not like the seats are bad if you actually sit in them.

I sat at the top of 206 for years to avoid listening to idiots like those around me in 100 yesterday.

Concessions aren’t really off what they cost everywhere - since most people tailgate that one doesn’t seem like it keeps people home. Keeps some drunks in the parking lot for sure but nickle night would be worse than ghost town.
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Alright.

I'll be back 6 months from now to say the same exact thing... ;)

(By the way, tell me you don't get fired up when you see that the 3-pack folks get twice as good of a deal as you do)
 
UConnDan97 said:
Alright.

I'll be back 6 months from now to say the same exact thing... ;)

(By the way, tell me you don't get fired up when you see that the 3-pack folks get twice as good of a deal as you do)
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This athletic department shoots itself in the peen every chance they get. It may be hopeless.
 
Been a season ticket holder since the year before the Rent. I’m a long ago alum as well. We have excellent 50 yard line seats. Our section tops is a third full. The UConn point system is all about revenue and nothing about loyalty. They need to wise up, but with this conference andespecially our recent history on the field,angling courses to a more loyalty friendly system would take time. The corporate friendly system yields a lot of empty but sold seats.

What they need to seriously consider are ways to getting more students involved (and to last past halftime). They are trying to build a fan base. Much better sideline seats, whatever they charge students cut the cost and up the volume. Have on venue events after the games that might keep students hanging around. If they aren’t doing it already, have the coaches and players speak at dorms and other venues the students populate. Then generally reduce ticket prices to some level that is economic in the sense that hopefully encourages significantly more buyers. Find a seating process that to some much better degree stresses loyalty.

I don’t know that we’ll ever get there, but having been exposed to game day in Ann Arbor and Blacksburg, it is a different world. Those are on-campus stadiums. But people come from all over and Blacksburg is near no big population areas.
 
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Yale football is easier on the eyes right now. Sad days in East Hartford.

Yale's historic (and awesome) football stadium is off campus. They've been renovating it. Wish I got a piece of a bench when I could have.

Despite what our own fans say about the AAC, the AAC still has excellent football talent. Prices should definitely be lowered to drum up interest in games. The home slate next season is brutal. And an excellent chance for us to continue our rebuild. Lashlee might be here 3 years, at least.
 
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Sucks that the home slate is over so early in November.

Weather's still warm, but there's no more home football to be had for our team? Lame.
 
UConnDan97 said:
I've been ranting about the ticket prices for years on here, and I kept hearing how it wouldn't change the attendance number. Well, that's nonsense.

UConn is being a penny wise and a pound foolish here. Drop the ticket prices to increase attendance, especially with families that help to create the next generation of Husky fans, even if you might decrease the revenue somewhat in the short term.

But filling the place with warm bodies creates a better environment. A better environment creates more excitement for recruits and fans, ultimately leading to a better product. A better product leads to even more fans and more revenue.

This isn't a hard formula to understand, especially in a stadium which is only averaging half capacity. Time to get this done and stop the nonsense...
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This.

I know money is an issue for us, but filling the rent is Job #1. (Okay winning is Job #1 but filling the Rent is a close second.) Here's the thing, they know that they are going to have to give tickets away next next year. They ought to give a great deal to the season ticket holders to keep them in the fold during the rebuild. JMO.
 
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Wy bother paying for tickets? When the games get closer and lots of unsold tickets remain, the UCONN ticket office gets desperate and offers two for one sales or heavily discounted single tickets. At that time, if anyone really wants to go, get a ticket at a heavily discounted rate. Or just buy one for $5 from a scalper.

There's no need to buy overpriced season ticket packages or overpriced single gam tickets when waiting mean a lot of bargains.
 
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SubZero said:
Wy bother paying for tickets? When the games get closer and lots of unsold tickets remain, the UCONN ticket office gets desperate and offers two for one sales or heavily discounted single tickets. At that time, if anyone really wants to go, get a ticket at a heavily discounted rate. Or just buy one for $5 from a scalper.

There's no need to buy overpriced season ticket packages or overpriced single gam tickets when waiting mean a lot of bargains.
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How many games did you go to this year using that strategy?
 
We didn’t even dip below 30k for a game until I think 2013, now its our benchmark for a good crowd. When will we see tarp? Is tarp too expensive? I’d love to tarp off the area where visiting fans used to sit.
 
UConn athletic prices may seem high, but they are very cheap compared to sporting events in Boston where I live. (Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, BC) For midfield football tickets at BC, it costs a $1000 donation per seat plus the cost of the tickets, which is close to $100. And, it cost $5000 per year to park one car on Shea Field for tailgating. Sure, BC has a better home schedule, but BC prices are well above UConn. And, has anyone checked out the price of the pro sports franchises? UConn sports is a relative bargain, but when your team is losing, and losing badly, it's hard to justify any price.

As for donating to UConn, I donate every year and the conference issues have motivated me to increase my donations as the athletic programs need to keep investing if we are ever to get the P5 call up.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Alright.

I'll be back 6 months from now to say the same exact thing... ;)

(By the way, tell me you don't get fired up when you see that the 3-pack folks get twice as good of a deal as you do)
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FWIW - the basketball tickets need a sharper adjustment than football tickets.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
We didn’t even dip below 30k for a game until I think 2013, now its our benchmark for a good crowd. When will we see tarp? Is tarp too expensive? I’d love to tarp off the area where visiting fans used to sit.
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If you believe the numbers they publish sure. Look at the opener against UMass coming off the Fiesta Bowl - there may have been 25k actually in the building. Maybe there is an athletic department who did less with athletic success from a marketing/sales standpoint... it would be impressive to do less than UConn did with 4 basketball NCs and what Edsall 1.0 did.
 
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whaler11 said:
If you believe the numbers they publish sure. Look at the opener against UMass coming off the Fiesta Bowl - there may have been 25k actually in the building. Maybe there is an athletic department who did less with athletic success from a marketing/sales standpoint... it would be impressive to do less than UConn did with 4 basketball NCs and what Edsall 1.0 did.
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Wasn’t the first game of the PP era vs Fordham and pushed from Thursday to Saturday because of Hurricane Irene and Rentschler being a Red Cross staging area? I know your favorite thing is to talk about how much we inflate attendance but everyone does it and we’re more honest than most. How else would you explain a tweet midweek last week saying 22k tickets had been distributed then a crowd of 18k? Vs SMU blah blah blah.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Wasn’t the first game of the PP era vs Fordham and pushed from Thursday to Saturday because of Hurricane Irene and Rentschler being a Red Cross staging area? I know your favorite thing is to talk about how much we inflate attendance but everyone does it and we’re more honest than most. How else would you explain a tweet midweek last week saying 22k tickets had been distributed then a crowd of 18k? Vs SMU blah blah blah.
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Maybe that was the first game of 12 then. Doesn’t really matter. The crowds started shrinking in 2011 after the AD gagged the hire and the momentum of going to the Fiesta Bowl.

Some seasons UConn inflated, other seasons they release a true gate count, this season I have no idea what they did because there were more people in the building for USF than Missouri but the published number was 3k less.
 
huskymedic said:
How many games did you go to this year using that strategy?
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I was about to say the same thing. No way you found someone selling $5 tickets. I sold my extras to scalpers for $10, they sell them for $10, promo codes were going for $20-30.
 
Irish Loop said:
I was about to say the same thing. No way you found someone selling $5 tickets. I sold my extras to scalpers for $10, they sell them for $10, promo codes were going for $20-30.
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No way you found a ticket from a scalper selling for $5, maybe. But $5. tickets from non-pros is common. Last game there was a guy at Gate C that literally couldn't give his extra ticket away.
 
Waquoit said:
No way you found a ticket from a scalper selling for $5, maybe. But $5. tickets from non-pros is common. Last game there was a guy at Gate C that literally couldn't give his extra ticket away.
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Yeah fair enough.
 
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