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Man 23k is really bad. Honestly if they can't generate any sort of sales bump at the beginning of the week, I'd wish that the athletic department just gives away tickets to active duty military/police/firefighters/charities etc to get people into the stadium. If the school is going to have to eat the cost of 10k tickets, why not do that?
 
1999.2004.2011 said:
Man 23k is really bad. Honestly if they can't generate any sort of sales bump at the beginning of the week, I'd wish that the athletic department just gives away tickets to active duty military/police/firefighters/charities etc to get people into the stadium. If the school is going to have to eat the cost of 10k tickets, why not do that?
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yeah and at least the venue would be happy making it back up in concessions
 
JMick said:
yeah and at least the venue would be happy making it back up in concessions
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Yeah I mean if you aren't able to sell the tickets, what good does it do to just eat the tickets? Obviously I know that is terrible for the bottom line, but if you are able to get people into the stadium, you can possibly recoup the loss at the gate with concession/gear sales, along with helping to perception of UConn television wise with occupied seats vs. empty metal bleachers.
 
1999.2004.2011 said:
Yeah I mean if you aren't able to sell the tickets, what good does it do to just eat the tickets? Obviously I know that is terrible for the bottom line, but if you are able to get people into the stadium, you can possibly recoup the loss at the gate with concession/gear sales, along with helping to perception of UConn television wise with occupied seats vs. empty metal bleachers.
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As bad as I want a large crowd, you can't give tix away. It's bad business.

If you give tix away at the last minute for free it sets a bad precedent. People will stop buying them ahead of time if they think they can just show up on game day and get in for free.

Slash ticket prices, do two-for-ones or whatever, but you can't give them away for free.
 
NYUConn said:
As bad as I want a large crowd, you can't give tix away. It's bad business.

If you give tix away at the last minute for free it sets a bad precedent. People will stop buying them ahead of time if they think they can just show up on game day and get in for free.

Slash ticket prices, do two-for-ones or whatever, but you can't give them away for free.
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True. Can't get something for nothing. If people think they are getting a great deal, OK. But they have to pay for tickets, win them, etc.
 
It's not surprising that only 23k tickets have been sold so far. The key to attendance is season ticket sales and the weak product over the past 4+ years plus no real marquee teams on the home schedule this year has driven season ticket sales down. Winning one of the next two games and going to a bowl as well as a couple of interesting teams on the home schedule would really help season ticket sales next year.

One other point. College football teams have developed fan bases over time with successful seasons. UConn needs a couple of great seasons to build the fan base.
 
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This seems about right. We haven't been scintillating at home. It looks like another beating at the Rent. Not everybody believes.

With a little bump we get over 25,000, respectable given.....
 
Hey 30K spread out well looks a lot better than it sounds at The Rent... Also, if we can make some extra noise and have some help from the weather we might be able to have a decent home field advantage Saturday.
 
would they or have they targeted the BB fans that are already going to be in Hartford.
Maybe even offer a shuttle to and from the XL center. Offer them a $15 ticket to the rent with a coupon for a hot dog/coke.
Sell it as a party bus to the Rent... Wouldn't they have to run the buses anyway for the students if they go to both games?

thought BB game was in XL... could still target BB ticket holders, just not as convenient a sell.
 
Just printed tix for me and my wife. Will be working to 4:00 (maybe 3:45?) downtown but we'll be there by the 2nd quarter with bells on.
 
Marty Jackson said:
would they or have they targeted the BB fans that are already going to be in Hartford.
Maybe even offer a shuttle to and from the XL center. Offer them a $15 ticket to the rent with a coupon for a hot dog/coke.
Sell it as a party bus to the Rent... Wouldn't they have to run the buses anyway for the students if they go to both games?

thought BB game was in XL... could still target BB ticket holders, just not as convenient a sell.
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This would be great but the bb game is in Storrs
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Hey 30K spread out well looks a lot better than it sounds at The Rent.
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It looks a lot more full if people are in their seats instead of roaming in and out of the nooks and crannies. My advice is to stay away from the scoreboard area and get in your seats. And yell loudly.
 
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Well another problem is they are not publicly marketing the $15 promo code. Des' article references there is one out there but does not disclose it. It has only been sent to season ticket holders, donors and students. You need to draw in the general public not the people who already have tickets. Some other things I'd like to see them try:

Sell some tickets on Groupon- The Meadows does this regularly and the XL center just did it a few weeks back with Stevie Wonder tickets and the turnout was great. If people perceive they are getting a great value they are more likely to buy.

Rotate through the local radio stations and give away a pair of tickets every hour while also having the DJ's advertising the discounted seats

Uconn Facebook can run a contest to give away a pair of tickets if you "share" their ad. You'll reach a much wider audience. There are plenty of cheap creative ways to get the word out.
 
One thing to consider regarding giving away tickets, running mass promotions for discounted seats etc, is the possibility of disincentivizing the purchase of season tickets next year.

Like Joseph A. Banks. Who would buy a full price suit there, knowing every couple of months you can buy one and get 2 free?

They have to balance getting people in the seats for this week without giving some of their season ticket holders reasons not buy them again next year.
 
NYUConn said:
That excuse resonates in Week 6 when at 2-3 UConn is hosting Tulsa in conference play, but when there is something to play for not showing up is a reflection of fan loyalty no question about it.

If that means that UConn football will never see the fan loyalty we built last decade return, that's sad, but a reality we may need to accept.

I was just hoping that more people were real fans of the program as opposed to just showing up for what other people tell them is a big game.
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That fan loyalty was based on known entities coming to play here, the prospect that there was a path to the top of the college football world potentially, and the new-ness of it. That died when P was hired, we got kicked to the AAC with a bunch of nobodies, and the general fan perception became that UConn football turned more or less into the equivalent of minor league baseball. That's not the reality necessarily, but for the casual fan on the streets of CT - the ones who fill up seats 23,001-40,000 - that's what they believe. You can market all you want, but at the end of the day, as long as it says AAC on the field, and it's Houston, Temple, and Tulsa coming into town, getting those last 17K fans in the seats will be very, very difficult. The exact same argument is beginning to apply more and more to the basketball team as well, but with there being a 68-team tournament, the possibility of a highly successful season still exists there. Really, no one from the AAC is ever going to get into the four-team playoff. Let's be real, it's not happening.
 
Everyone chill. This is not an indictment on CT, or Marketing, or anything. Its a late November game against a team with ZERO name recognition(Go Cougs!) that has ZERO fanbase in CT and ZERO graduates in the state. Yes they are like #18(or something, whatever), and undefeated(I am a diehard and didn't know this until this week). No One Cares About That Outside of the Boneyard. No One probably even KNOWS about it.

There is also a UConn basketball game that day as well, and while we are all stoked the team is 5-5... uh... the team is 5-5 and just won an absolutely unwatchable atrocity of a game against a very, very bad team.

This is just a way of saying, just like the team is getting over some humps this year, so will the fanbase. We deserve at least as much slack as the team does, given the absolute garbage we have perservered through the past 5 years.

It takes time. For the players, for the fans, for the program. Chill. Enjoy the game, even though we are likely looking at cincinatti v2.
 
UConn's been promoting it, but how about the local news outlets? How much does UConn football ever get mentioned during sports on the 6pm or 11pm news? Could use their help on this.
 
Bmayuc is on the button. If we were 9-1 and #24 you can't beg a ticket to this game. But we are not. We are a .500 team that on paper looks like it is going into a mismatch and needs to compete with its own athletic department. 30000 would be great but with the hoop game that isn't possible.
 
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I can help with attendance if anyone has a Grey Parking Pass for sale...
 
I'm going; but, sorry in advance if I have to leave early. Taking my youngest son to his first college football game and I doubt no matter what the score is if he will be able to make it through an entire game as he's just 5.
 
freescooter said:
Bmayuc is on the button. If we were 9-1 and #24 you can't beg a ticket to this game. But we are not. We are a .500 team that on paper looks like it is going into a mismatch and needs to compete with its own athletic department. 30000 would be great but with the hoop game that isn't possible.
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If football playing a ranked in the teens conference game that could determine bowl eligibility is "competing" with a meaningless CBB game against Furnam....we have bigger fish to fry

But you keep banging that drum until your arm gets tired
 
My only hope at this point is that people are holding out for weather (which after the SMU finale last year, I couldn't blame them that much).

Our fanbase S-U-C-K-S.
 
23K blows but it's hardly shocking. We're 5-5, but we're not exactly "setting the world on fire" 5-5. We just limped out of a game against Tulane in which we failed to score an offensive touchdown. I love UConn Football, but they aren't exactly the most watchable team, are they?

The weather is getting cold and believe it or not, we're actually competing against the tailgating at The Game (stupid Harvard/Yale that nobody really cares about). I know all my New Haven friends are going there and are SHOCKED I'd prefer to watch a football game with a team I actually care about.

If we win some more games next year, attendance will rise. Having games against Syracuse, Virginia, and BC helps. The conference doesn't -- but we aren't exactly a P5 team right now, either. Let's all just try to get as many people to go to the Houston game as we can and hope that this team is moving in the right direction.
 
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Irish Loop said:
23K blows but it's hardly shocking. We're 5-5, but we're not exactly "setting the world on fire" 5-5. We just limped out of a game against Tulane in which we failed to score an offensive touchdown. I love UConn Football, but they aren't exactly the most watchable team, are they?

The weather is getting cold and believe it or not, we're actually competing against the tailgating at The Game (stupid Harvard/Yale that nobody really cares about). I know all my New Haven friends are going there and are SHOCKED I'd prefer to watch a football game with a team I actually care about.

If we win some more games next year, attendance will rise. Having games against Syracuse, Virginia, and BC helps. The conference doesn't -- but we aren't exactly a P5 team right now, either. Let's all just try to get as many people to go to the Houston game as we can and hope that this team is moving in the right direction.
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That's a good point. I'm from the New Haven area as well and I offered to buy a family tickets to the UConn/Houston game, but they opted to go to the Yale/Harvard game instead.
 
whaler11 said:
You could get a helicopter and drop 15k tickets from the sky all over the place. People don't want to go - it has nothing to do with $15 or $25 or $35. I'm not sure why every week people drive themselves insane trying to figure this out.
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Wish there was a super like button.
 
whaler11 said:
You could get a helicopter and drop 15k tickets from the sky all over the place. People don't want to go - it has nothing to do with $15 or $25 or $35. I'm not sure why every week people drive themselves insane trying to figure this out.
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Well duh the rotor wash would probably spread them out too far for people to find not to mention the blades shredding the tickets midair.....a Cessna 172 however....
 
If anything it's just really poor planning time wise for basketball and football on the same day. I don't understand how this happens. They really only overlap for a few weeks. Why couldn't the basketball game be on Sunday???

Whatever that being said can't wait for Sat. Still looking for a place to tailgate with me and UConnTrumbull.

And as always Females are Encouraged!


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