Excellent Football Meeting

[billybud]

CL82...

I am an intelligent poster who is quite civil....

And I can call it as I see it...

And Chief...yeah, I did know about the discepancy between sold tickets and actual seats filled...The Courant reported 10,032 actually in attendance for 21,000 tickets sold.

 

[billybud]

And UConn responded to reporters that it was not scanned ticket data that had to be reported to the NCAA to document the 15,000 minimum requirement.

 

[Husky25]

Good question - First game is on Thursday night, most frequent times for home games going forward are Saturday 1pm and 3:30pm. TV contract to be finalize soon.

A question intended to mock you is a good one?

Whatever floats your boat, I suppose.

 

[CL82]

CL82...

I am an intelligent poster who is quite civil....

And I can call it as I see it...

And Chief...yeah, I did know about the discepancy between sold tickets and actual seats filled...The Courant reported 10,032 actually in attendance for 21,000 tickets sold.

I don’t know, Billy seemed kind of snarky on that post to me. I know when I am visiting opposing teams boards that’s an attitude I try to avoid. That’s just me though, Billy can do what he wants.

 

[billybud]

And Billy does.

And yep, snarky responses often beget the same.

And Billy thinks that this 3rd person shtick is kinda neat...Oh where have you been charming Billy?

 

[Husky25]

LOL, one day some of the geniuses in this thread will figure out how that they don’t have to read posts and threads from posters they don’t like or don’t find credible. Maybe someday they’ll even figure out how to use the ignore feature. In the meantime, I guess the rest of us will have to continue to listen to them whine. One wonders why it is so important to them.

"Ignore" is boring.

Reading responses to less than credible posts is entertaining.

 

[CL82]

"Ignore" is boring.

Reading responses to less than credible posts is entertaining.

Debatable. It can be when people are actually being funny, when they’re just whining… not so much.

Ironically enough, a lot of the people complaining in this thread have confirmed that a meeting happened, be that the points chief made were accurate. Kind of hard to be too critical about that. It’s pretty much the definition of credible.

 

[billybud]

When I went to college, "question authority" was the Boomer mantra...to question something, often is to be skeptical and that is a good thing. When someone offers you an idea or thought, it's good to ask where that idea comes from, to consider the evidence.

Yes...there was a meeting.

Yes, we learned from that meeting that scanned tickets are one half of allocated (but, we all knew that, right?, I did).

And, a kernel which was new was that games would be scheduled in early slots.

 

[CL82]

When I went to college, "question authority" was the Boomer mantra...to question something, often is to be skeptical and that is a good thing. When someone offers you an idea or thought, it's good to ask where that idea comes from, to consider the evidence.

Yes...there was a meeting.

Yes, we learned from that meeting that scanned tickets are one half of allocated (but, we all knew that, right?, I did).

And, a kernel which was new was that games would be scheduled in early slots.

Don’t disagree, but that’s different than Billy, who is a guest on the board, using the third person about himself to be snarky. When I was growing up guests were well mannered. Perhaps Billy feels differently.

 

[billybud]

The board is like a group of guys at a bar talking...and if a guy on the next stool over chooses a weird shtick like Chief does, he should expect a little ribbing. That's the "guy etiquette".

Sooo...Chief probably doesn't mind my mirroring of his weird third person use...that's the nature of boards and barstools.

And I don't mind if he occasionally mirrors my sometime use of awkward references and allegories.

 

[billybud]

Of course...a board is different in that you don't have to account for the fact that the guy you are ribbing goes 275, has scarred eyebrows and a pig mean look.

I have learned to be discerning.....the hard way.

 

[CL82]

The board is like a group of guys at a bar talking...and if a guy on the next stool over chooses a weird shtick like Chief does, he should expect a little ribbing. That's the "guy etiquette".

Sooo...Chief probably doesn't mind my mirroring of his weird third person use...that's the nature of boards and barstools.

And I don't mind if he occasionally mirrors my sometime use of awkward references and allegories.

And if Billy he’s kind of jerky as a guest, he should expect to be called out on it. It’s kind of a “guy etiquette” thing.

 

[billybud]

I don't mind...I get it that you have been Chief's second in these ongoing discussions...

But...I am no guest. I am a member of this board. Yes...I am not a UConn fan...and no...I am not an opponent's fan

I am a sports fan and have discussed UConn sports for some years on this board...I am not negative.

But, Chief is a big boy on the playground....if he wants to run his shtick, he should expect a little parody...We are of the SNL generation.

And I don't call people names.

 

[Chief00]

A question intended to mock you is a good one?

Whatever floats your boat, I suppose.

I try to avoid the Coronavirus like negativity of a small group of disgruntled posters on this forum. So whatever their cynical motivations are, they are basically irrelevant to me. I don’t say that to diminish them - I am just happy and trying to accomplish things in real life. Whatever games they play on their keyboards - aren’t really worth much effort to try to decipher from what I have seen.

 

[Chief00]

When I went to college, "question authority" was the Boomer mantra...to question something, often is to be skeptical and that is a good thing. When someone offers you an idea or thought, it's good to ask where that idea comes from, to consider the evidence.

Yes...there was a meeting.

Yes, we learned from that meeting that scanned tickets are one half of allocated (but, we all knew that, right?, I did).

And, a kernel which was new was that games would be scheduled in early slots.

There's a difference between having an impression and receiving the data to validate the impression. The season tickets scan numbers is the later. The game times is also useful information and being independent we can plan more than 2 weeks in advance.

But, the planning underway for next season is extensive. There is recognition that dramatic change is needed. Trying my best to contribute - the biggest headwind to overcome is CRDA. I recognize that they have supporters here and even perhaps employees on this forum. I will be blunt, that organization is a drag on UConn and an impediment to the type of progress we need to make.
At a Big East game tonight

 

[Madmannsucks]

So you knew the games were going to be at 1:00 and 3:30?
You also knew half of seasons tickets did not get scanned in 2019?
True, the truly exciting stuff that we hope to make real is still under wraps as it’s being developed and fine tuned.
But, that’s not unlike my experience in business.

One thing. And I am NOT poking fun or arguing or mocking you in any way. The season ticket issue is not even a slight surprise. Just from watching the games, that makes perfect sense. How much are student tickets? Need to figure out a way to get them there.

 

[ZooCougar]

LOL, one day some of the geniuses in this thread will figure out how that they don’t have to read posts and threads from posters they don’t like or don’t find credible. Maybe someday they’ll even figure out how to use the ignore feature. In the meantime, I guess the rest of us will have to continue to listen to them whine. One wonders why it is so important to them.

chief doesn’t need you to be a fluffer for him to keep posting his fan fiction.

 

[Chief00]

One thing. And I am NOT poking fun or arguing or mocking you in any way. The season ticket issue is not even a slight surprise. Just from watching the games, that makes perfect sense. How much are student tickets? Need to figure out a way to get them there.

Student tickets are $0. But, many dollars are allocated in the University Fee to athletics. This fee is charged to all students.
There are some good ideas being thrown around to help student attendance. The first thing that needs to change is the mindset. UConn needs to consider them as current and future customers. Forcing them to do something won’t work - they need to want to do it.

 

[CTMike]

There's a difference between having an impression and receiving the data to validate the impression. The season tickets scan numbers is the later. The game times is also useful information and being independent we can plan more than 2 weeks in advance.

But, the planning underway for next season is extensive. There is recognition that dramatic change is needed. Trying my best to contribute - the biggest headwind to overcome is CRDA. I recognize that they have supporters here and even perhaps employees on this forum. I will be blunt, that organization is a drag on UConn and an impediment to the type of progress we need to make.
At a Big East game tonight

Agree on CRDA.

 

[CTMike]

Student tickets are $0. But, many dollars are allocated in the University Fee to athletics. This fee is charged to all students.
There are some good ideas being thrown around to help student attendance. The first thing that needs to change is the mindset. UConn needs to consider them as current and future customers. Forcing them to do something won’t work - they need to want to do it.

So how do you make them want it? I’m all for straight bribery but that only goes so far.

 

[billybud]

Chief...The Courant has published the scan numbers vs "allocated ticket" numbers....it has been in the public realm a year.

To look at some scanned numbers vs allocated ticket numbers by individual game and the season...scroll through link...

UConn announced an average attendance of 21,000 at home football games last year, but only half of that number actually entered the stadium

UConn football struggled to get fans through the Rentschler Field gates in 2018, as the Huskies sputtered to a 1-11 record behind a historically poor defense. Though UConn sold or otherwise allocat…

www.courant.com

It is no new information that scanned butts in seats are half of sold/allocated tickets.

 

[huskypantz]

Had an excellent meeting, looking forward to next steps and a bright future. A sobering statistic is that half of season ticket holders tickets weren’t scanned at the average game last season.

Lots of work to do but it’s doable.

I have season tickets and did not attend a game last year. Part of that was related to vacation and then a nasty travel schedule, but the majority of it was the L's. I'm not driving almost 2 hours to watch us get embarrassed.

 

[Chief00]

So how do you make them want it? I’m all for straight bribery but that only goes so far.

Several ideas have been discussed - let’s see where it goes.

 

[CTMike]

Several ideas have been discussed - let’s see where it goes.

Whether it’s students, alumni, anyone... the games themselves can’t be wretched to watch. Different set of issues there.

For students... it’s 2020, they need reliable in-stadium internet for messaging and social media. The inside of the stadium needs to be a party that they want to attend and socialize at. Tricky, since they have other options with fewer restrictions without having to get on a bus.

Also, bribery. At the start of each 4th quarter, Chief should have a $1k giveaway.

 

[CL82]

chief doesn’t need you to be a fluffer for him to keep posting his fan fiction.

no, no he does not, but if the mean girls are going to resurrect the act that was ruining the site they can expect me to comment on it. Sorry, not sorry.