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After 3 pretty piss poor years, I'll live with flat!
 
I was cautiously optimistic, to me getting to the 24k mark would have been acceptable for where we've been. Would have liked to see more considering how much Diaco's been hitting the road (which I love and find completely refreshing). Hopefully some more W's on the board will get us higher up on the season ticket #'s for next season.
 
A small drop was to be expected with the schedule and 3 win season. We make a bowl this year and I can see a jump to 30k. Connecticut is ready to be excited for UConn football.
 
it is what it is. Its not really gonna get better by "winning" but rather by getting invited to a real conference. Until then this may be a high water mark. Because they are not going to have a schedule better than BYU and Boise at home, as sad as that it is to say.
that being said, I bet there are more mini-packs sold this year than in years past
 
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DSquiz said:
A small drop was to be expected with the schedule and 3 win season. We make a bowl this year and I can see a jump to 30k. Connecticut is ready to be excited for UConn football.
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Agreed. UCONN fans are hybrids of Pats/G-ment/Jets (we all know our football, we hate losing, and we win championships (less the JETS). UCONN should be selling more tickets, but it'll come when Diaco pulls this W against BYU next Friday!!!!!
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
21k is not horrible when you take everything into consideration.
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The low mark in actual attendance since 2003, and the opening of Rentschler was the Memphis game, only 9 months ago. We've got no where to go but up, and 21k season tickets sold, prior to season, is most certainly a positive thing as we go forward.

What the high water mark is? Until a winning, national ranked and relevant program (which is possible in this conference - happened last year) is combined with actual promotion and support and publicity - what the high water mark is - is unknown. I disagree that we have seen a high water mark for UCONN football when it comes to this stuff, ESPECIALLY because of this new conference.

Just win.
 
21k is tad disappointing, but last year's start, particularly at home was tough for the casual fan. We need a break out season in football similar to our 1989-90, hoops team.
 
So after the students season tickets get added in it looks to be an increase over 2012 sales, and either on par or a slight lag to 2013 (which included Michigan and FHCRE's return to the Rent with Maryland). Seems about right to me, although I was hoping it would be a little higher. Bigger question in my mind is how the game to game sales go as season progresses.
 
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Winning get us to 30k. A p5 conference, while still winning, takes us to 40k. For high profile games, e.g. Michigan we will sellout the 55k that the rent will be expanded to.
 
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Is 21000 acceptable. Of course not. However when u consider we have no bandwagon yet it is not that bad. Once we get a bandwagon going by hopefully winning some games we should get to 28000 easily
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
True, and I guess we'll find out how big the Michigan bump really was.
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Michigan bump was 5,000 people not dropping their tickets after year two of the dark times.
 
I wonder how the 3-packs sold. I couldn't make all 7 home games so I picked up a 3-pack with a friend. I hope lots of others did too.
 
Not happy with the numbers but this is a rebuilding job. The team has got the energy now we just need to transfer it to the fanbase.
 
The thing about the Michigan bump is we can now point to the fact we sell more tickets when we have a better schedule.

If Michigan is worth 3,000 season tickets, what are Michigan, OSU, Penn St, and the return of Rutgers worth? 5-10k? I think so.

So when people wring their hands over our season ticket sales, it's not necessary. We've sold out plenty of games, and with more stability, and big names, we'll have no problem selling 25-30,000 season tickets, and selling every game out.

If the B1G expects that BEFORE the invite, we'll never get it. They have to see the potential for growth at UConn, which isn't that hard of a sell.
 
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I was at a gas station in Ashford today and realised something. The worst people in the state are the fake rednecks from Ashford/Willington/Tolland and etc who do everything to try and pretend they're from Alabama or Louisiana EXCEPT support the state university in their background. There's about 60k people across 4 or so towns there that need to be introduced at the very least to the tailgate culture they'd love it. If you can buy a $60,000 truck with another few grand worth of mods on it you can buy football tickets.
 
BoatShow said:
I was at a gas station in Ashford today and realised something. The worst people in the state are the fake rednecks from Ashford/Willington/Tolland and etc who do everything to try and pretend they're from Alabama or Louisiana EXCEPT support the state university in their background. There's about 60k people across 4 or so towns there that need to be introduced at the very least to the tailgate culture they'd love it. If you can buy a $60,000 truck with another few grand worth of mods on it you can buy football tickets.
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Someone needs to volunteer to roll down their windows of their pick-up truck, blast Kenny Chesney, drive through those towns and then lead a convoy of rednecks to the Rent for grilled meats, ice cold brews, country music and pigskin. Don't git much more 'Bama than that!
 
In 2005 we sold over 30k season tickets and there were a handful of single game tickets left before we sold out the season. That was with a drastically different schedule from what was originally intended in the BE. Of course, that was also a product of a very large number of fans overpurchasing - we always had huge gaps of open seats in the stadium. I think a preseason top 25 squad with at least one decent OOC opponent should net 28-30k season tickets, even in the AAC. Year one of the Big or ACC - I guarantee that would result in the temp bleachers getting a home for the season.
 
BoatShow said:
I was at a gas station in Ashford today and realised something. The worst people in the state are the fake rednecks from Ashford/Willington/Tolland and etc who do everything to try and pretend they're from Alabama or Louisiana EXCEPT support the state university in their background. There's about 60k people across 4 or so towns there that need to be introduced at the very least to the tailgate culture they'd love it. If you can buy a $60,000 truck with another few grand worth of mods on it you can buy football tickets.
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Difference is the non-college grads in the South feel welcome at their State U tailgate. If you ever listened to Feinbaum they act like they own the place. Not sure what the dynamic is here but if the team ever became "big-time" you wouldn't be able to find room on the bandwagon. Right now we're not good enough for them.
 
Dooley said:
Someone needs to volunteer to roll down their windows of their pick-up truck, blast Kenny Chesney, drive through those towns and then lead a convoy of rednecks to the Rent for grilled meats, ice cold brews, country music and pigskin. Don't git much more 'Bama than that!
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I'm sure you're at least half kidding but it would have been genius of the school to promote at the country conert tailgates this summer. "Hey its what they do in the south!!"
 
Honestly, the facts are we came off of 3 pathetic seasons, lost our conferences and still maintained the status quo basically shows their are about 22k die hard fans and your students out there as a baseline.

I know winning isn't the end all be all, but I don't see why after a couple good seasons even in the AAC we can't flirt with 30k again.
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
Honestly, the facts are we came off of 3 pathetic seasons, lost our conferences and still maintained the status quo basically shows their are about 22k die hard fans and your students out there as a baseline.

I know winning isn't the end all be all, but I don't see why after a couple good seasons even in the AAC we can't flirt with 30k again.
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The beautiful thing about the casual fan is they likely don't even get/realize how bad our conference situation is. They'll see "Huskies Win" when they open the Courant and buy tickets.
 
Confident Carl said:
UCONN needs to up it's game in Corporate ticket sales. Someone needs to pound the pavement calling on HR offices selling a combo of football and Bball packages. Companies could entertain clients and also give as performance incentives. There should never be an available sky box. UCONN football and basketball has great overall entertainment value. Simply have to sell it! I recently spoke to an HR director of a large corporation who told me they would love to get involved with UCONN. There is a point where marketing alone is ineffective and you just have to press the flesh!
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Simply have to sell it? Who knew it was that easy!
 
On a related note: From Des's article in the Courant-
"The school will make another push before the season starts at 42,000 seat Rentschler Field..."
Did the seating capacity change or do I see a typical Courant typo?
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Simply have to sell it? Who knew it was that easy!
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Not inferring that it would be easy. Emphasis is on the solution as in "Just Do it" Having been engaged in B to B sales and marketing for almost 40 years, I have lived the basic 4 P's of Marketing: Product, Price, Promotion and Place or (Channels of Distribution) From what I have perceived about the current process coupled with the fact that most of my life, I have eaten what I have killed, I believe more effective target marketing to business's in CT would result in greater season ticket sales. In fact, with 40,000 seats, IMO, there should be a waiting list!
 
coachcap said:
On a related note: From Des's article in the Courant-
"The school will make another push before the season starts at 42,000 seat Rentschler Field..."
Did the seating capacity change or do I see a typical Courant typo?
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Maybe that includes the temporary bleachers they can put in. It is also probably part of a new push to change the capacity perception. 42,000 is optically better than 40,000 and puts the rent on an equivalent basis with some of the P5 schools. Wasn't caapcity 38,500 when it opened?
 
coachcap said:
On a related note: From Des's article in the Courant-
"The school will make another push before the season starts at 42,000 seat Rentschler Field..."
Did the seating capacity change or do I see a typical Courant typo?
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Or maybe Dez inflated the number to make UConn look worse?
 
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