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KBCoug said:
So you have trouble with fans who show up late too? Here in Utah we have many people who go by MST (Mormon Standard Time). It runs about 45 to 60 minute behind local time. At kickoff the stadium looks about a third full and it doesn't fill in until halftime.
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Big problem here. The loudest (and fullest) that our stadium gets is between the mid of the 1st quarter to halftime. Late arrivals and early departures. The past 3 seasons have been especially poor with the exception of the Michigan game. Fans were actually in their seats before kickoff for the Wolverines. I think a lot of that had to do with the fan base's overall poor perception of the Pasqualoni regime (rightfully so). I'm very interested to see how our fanbase responds to Diaco and the new energy/enthusiasm. Also note: word is spreading that tailgate policies are going to be enforced this year (no tailgating 30 minutes prior to kickoff and during games). That might help get people to their seats on-time too. Crossing my fingers.
 
Looks like they're selling the rest of the stadium to donors and season ticket holders at $20 a seat. I just scooped 4 up in 239 (better than my seats) for some buddies that wanted to go. So if you didn't get the email and have season tix you can use the promo code FILLTHERENT and get the deal. And they look like they're selling decent....not as many big open blocks of seats that I saw last week.
 
PAGS said:
Looks like they're selling the rest of the stadium to donors and season ticket holders at $20 a seat. I just scooped 4 up in 239 (better than my seats) for some buddies that wanted to go. So if you didn't get the email and have season tix you can use the promo code FILLTHERENT and get the deal. And they look like they're selling decent....not as many big open blocks of seats that I saw last week.
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>>>Thank you for your ongoing support of the UConn Football program as a season ticket holder and/or donor.

We look forward to seeing you next Friday (August 29) at 7:00 p.m. as our Huskies open the 2014 season against BYU at Rentschler Field.

As a token of our appreciation for your loyalty, we want to provide you with an exclusive “Friends and Family” ticket offer. You can purchase additional tickets for just $20 each, a 50% discount off the regular reserved single game price. Invite your relatives, neighbors, and colleagues to experience the excitement of UConn Football for a very special price.

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PAGS said:
Looks like they're selling the rest of the stadium to donors and season ticket holders at $20 a seat. I just scooped 4 up in 239 (better than my seats) for some buddies that wanted to go. So if you didn't get the email and have season tix you can use the promo code FILLTHERENT and get the deal. And they look like they're selling decent....not as many big open blocks of seats that I saw last week.
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Just got 4 in that same section. Great deal
 
KBCoug said:
So you have trouble with fans who show up late too? Here in Utah we have many people who go by MST (Mormon Standard Time). It runs about 45 to 60 minute behind local time. At kickoff the stadium looks about a third full and it doesn't fill in until halftime.
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Well, a few too many purported UCONN fans feel the need to kick back their 12th pre-game beer before meandering into The Rent late and sometimes finding their seats. On the other hand, that might not be a reasonable excuse for tardy fans arriving at LaVell Edwards Stadium. What's their excuse? Exceedingly heavy Provo traffic?

... never quite understood why people buy tickers to any event, arrive late, depart early, drink so much they can't walk let alone the game, concert, etc., but call me crazy. If it leads to more people getting in their seats before kickoff, maybe the 1/2 cut off or encouragement to shut things down before kickoff has some merit. Don't see it working all too well, but it would be great of more people act like fans by finding their seats before kickoff versus the 2nd quarter. Yup, crazzzzy concept. Go Huskies!
 
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whaler11 said:
I have a dream. A dream that someday UConn will just price the tickets correctly, instead of annoying people who pay full price by slashing them at the last second.
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This isn't a UCONN problem. It is a problem for nearly every event (Broadway/sports/music) that exists in the age of free flowing information.

You either end up with our situation or a situation like the Super Bowl where all kinds of profits are captured by outside parties and not the league.

When you only have 20-25k people that really care what is the right price? You need to extract what you can from them and get what you can get from the rest.

The goal is making 40k people care. And the ticket office can't do that. That is the job of HCBD.
 
I'm going to offer a few radical statements that many will "hate my guts for" But that's o.k. because I appreciate everyone's commentary on every topic, whether or not I agree with the same rationalizations offered to support different thoughts.

First of all, arriving late at events isn't a universal trait. It seems some offer that a few extra beers or whatever before entering the stadium and or at halftime is more important that supporting UConn football for the duration of the event. This is a sporting event, not a drink fest!

I do agree with the pricing of the event. t is too much for the average family. I've heard this complaint from 2002 forward......we play at the highest level of NCAA football categories, and the average family can't afford to go. Add to that, the economy in Connecticut stinks, it is dead last in recovery from the great recession, one of the worst states to retire in, one of the worst states for business investment and job growth, in top five for highest cost of living........and we wonder why we can't fill the stadium? Add to that a lack luster program and conference. Drop the prices for all tickets!

Some have suggested Rutgers "gave away tickets" to fill the stadium. I have no clue as to if that is true or not. But if true, look who's laughing now.......Rutgers is in P5.......guess who isn't. Its not just the play on the field, but no P5 conference is going to add a program with what appears to be lack luster interest of fans. ....... aka half empty stadiums.

Sue, Warde, and Bob may do an outstanding job improving the performance on the field with a better focus on enhancing the quality of athletes and program perception. Fans have to stop making excuses for not showing up and do their part to help the program go where everybody wants it to go.
 
tduconn said:
I'm going to offer a few radical statements that many will "hate my guts for" But that's o.k. because I appreciate everyone's commentary on every topic, whether or not I agree with the same rationalizations offered to support different thoughts.

First of all, arriving late at events isn't a universal trait. It seems some offer that a few extra beers or whatever before entering the stadium and or at halftime is more important that supporting UConn football for the duration of the event. This is a sporting event, not a drink fest!

I do agree with the pricing of the event. t is too much for the average family. I've heard this complaint from 2002 forward.we play at the highest level of NCAA football categories, and the average family can't afford to go. Add to that, the economy in Connecticut stinks, it is dead last in recovery from the great recession, one of the worst states to retire in, one of the worst states for business investment and job growth, in top five for highest cost of living...and we wonder why we can't fill the stadium? Add to that a lack luster program and conference. Drop the prices for all tickets!

Some have suggested Rutgers "gave away tickets" to fill the stadium. I have no clue as to if that is true or not. But if true, look who's laughing now..Rutgers is in P5..guess who isn't. Its not just the play on the field, but no P5 conference is going to add a program with what appears to be lack luster interest of fans. .. aka half empty stadiums.

Sue, Warde, and Bob may do an outstanding job improving the performance on the field with a better focus on enhancing the quality of athletes and program perception. Fans have to stop making excuses for not showing up and do their part to help the program go where everybody wants it to go.
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The problem isn't arriving late. Everyone is there. They are just choosing to drink v. enter the stadium. That is because out of the 23K season ticket holders, probably half of them are diehard UCONN football fans and the other half are guests or merely addicted to the "experience" and not the football.

Pricing is not the problem. If it were, and a family really wanted to go, they would just go to 1 or 2 games instead of getting season tickets. Families don't go because they don't want to go. Getting 2 adults and two kids to be aligned on one thing they like is nearly impossible. I have 4 tickets for my family. 90% of the time it is just me and my older son. My wife stopped going when her friend died who was part of our group and once Sio left (who she taught when he was a student in West Haven) she has better things to do. My younger son hates sports. I keep the tickets on the off occasion that a friend wants them. But I have tickets and I can't get my family to go. I have tried to give away tickets to people that say tickets are expensive and they won't take them. The #1 problem is that filling stadiums requires 10s of thousands of people to develop a new habit. Which means they have to stop doing something else. My sister's inlaws (who have had tickets since the Rent opened) didn't renew this year. They had 3 weekends where they were going to be away so they didn't bother.

The economy doesn't help, but that is way overblown. If there are 1,000 people that would buy season tickets that don't because they can't afford it I'd be surprised. Sure there would be people that would take tickets for free, but I would guess if you gave 5,000 people free season tickets, you'd probably only get 2,000 of them to show up for each game. The amount of money that is spent on leisure in this state is astounding, and the cost of UCONN football is a pittance. It is a demand issue. It just isn't there.

With Rutgers, it was TV DMA and location. The rest is just noise. They didn't fill their stadium either, even with the giveaways.

And lastly - it isn't fans making excuses, it is that there aren't enough real fans. THAT is what we need to change. You do that, and the rest takes care of itself.
 
For the record, the economy in the Cleveland area is FAR worse...think you will find an empty seat in the Quicken Loans arena this year? 20,562 * 41 games...NOPE.
 
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Will gladly buy 2 for that $20 promo offer if anyone can hook me up.
 
The ticket question is an interesting one. If you charge high prices to the hard core fans, you assure a level of income. I saw this in Toronto this summer for the exhibition soccer games against top level European teams. The sponsors were quite happy to sell $90 tickets to 25,000 fans instead of $60 tickets to 40,000 fans. They knew 25k would pay that, and they needed that assurance for the fees to the club teams who made the trip.
 
At what point are people going to realize that the economy is not WORST/or BAD/or ETC... its just the way that things are gonna be from now on. Things are going to remain like this for a while so betta get used it and make adjustments. Just gotta be a little more conscious about your expenses and spend money wisely on things you enjoy so the economy is not a real excuse not to fill up the Rent.

What UConn should really aim for is to grow the loyal fan base who will follow the team in good and bad times... That is a really hard task to tackle in fair-weather fans' paradise (New England/New York area) but I'm sure UConn is well capable to create a larger loyal following with the success that it has had
 
J187Money said:
Pricing is not the problem. If it were, and a family really wanted to go, they would just go to 1 or 2 games instead of getting season tickets. Families don't go because they don't want to go.
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I hear this from multiple posters, and the thing that bothers me the most about it is that it's wrong. I mean, it's just straight up wrong. What UConn (and other institutions / sports teams / etc.) are doing is maximizing profits. That's fine. What other people are arguing is that UConn could maximize attendance instead of profits. And that can be done most simply by dropping the price to the point of sellouts every game, which can absolutely be done in CT.

Now we can have a discussion about whether UConn should try to maximize profits, maximize attendance, or find a happy medium between the two. But if you truly believe that we have maximized both criteria with a magical pricing strategy, then I have some land to sell you in the everglades...
 
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J187Money said:
This isn't a UCONN problem. It is a problem for nearly every event (Broadway/sports/music) that exists in the age of free flowing information.

You either end up with our situation or a situation like the Super Bowl where all kinds of profits are captured by outside parties and not the league.

When you only have 20-25k people that really care what is the right price? You need to extract what you can from them and get what you can get from the rest.

The goal is making 40k people care. And the ticket office can't do that. That is the job of HCBD.
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It just teaches people to wait for the slashing. Just because everyone does it that doesn't make it smart.
 
Back to the question from the OP...the Rent can get very loud, usually more so at night. I'm with Jimmy in that the Pitt game in '04 was the loudest game I've seen at the Rent. Palko's three false starts/delay of game penalties in a row were amazing!
 
whaler11 said:
It just teaches people to wait for the slashing. Just because everyone does it that doesn't make it smart.
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It teaches people that don't really give a crap about where they sit or if they go at all to wait for the slashing. And those people probably were last minute shoppers anyway. The kind of people that wouldn't pay 6 months in advance for tickets to anything.

There are always going to be the "let me walk around the parking lot and find $5 tickets or I'll go home" guys. And there are guys that pay for the luxury boxes or for the front row chairbacks, when in reality there isn't much value there. The only time you get completely rational behavior for pricing is when you have more demand than the venue holds. And we don't. At any rational price.

I just think this is a non-problem. Certainly not something to dream about. Or if it is a problem, it is a secondary problem caused by demand, not a problem that pricing in and of itself can fix.
 
Further - if price were that much of an issue, then why are the bench seats without donations not sold out? Shouldn't those sell out before the ones that require donations? The donations nearly double the price? They don't, because people don't want to sit there. And people care where they sit.

So if the price drops f0r some top of the rent seat that I don't want to sit in? Who gives a *^%&?
 
One thing I have noticed
that the same people arrive late and start cooking while we are walking into the stadium.
 
J187Money said:
It teaches people that don't really give a crap about where they sit or if they go at all to wait for the slashing.
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People that don't care "if they go at all" are not the type of people waiting for slashing, by the very definition. Clearly they care, and they are waiting for the right price point. But oh, I forgot, you told me in an earlier post that it's NOT about the price, so... :confused:
 
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UConnDan97 said:
I hear this from multiple posters, and the thing that bothers me the most about it is that it's wrong. I mean, it's just straight up wrong. What UConn (and other institutions / sports teams / etc.) are doing is maximizing profits. That's fine. What other people are arguing is that UConn could maximize attendance instead of profits. And that can be done most simply by dropping the price to the point of sellouts every game, which can absolutely be done in CT.

Now we can have a discussion about whether UConn should try to maximize profits, maximize attendance, or find a happy medium between the two. But if you truly believe that we have maximized both criteria with a magical pricing strategy, then I have some land to sell you in the everglades...
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One of the basic business "truisms:" A preemptive product notwithstanding, things required for tactical support of an "Increase Market Share" strategy are, in the short term, incompatible with "Increased Profitability." Based on what can be seen and perceived from the (way) outside, and given the long-term goals, UCONN might be better served sacrificing short-term profit on the market share alter. That may be what has already been decided.
 
FAIRTIDES said:
One of the basic business "truisms:" A preemptive product notwithstanding, things required for tactical support of an "Increase Market Share" strategy are, in the short term, incompatible with "Increased Profitability." Based on what can be seen and perceived from the (way) outside, and given the long-term goals, UCONN might be better served sacrificing short-term profit on the market share alter. That may be what has already been decided.
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I've argued this for quite some time, to no avail. What I will add to your comment is that I believe UConn still has a long way to go in terms of price point if it wishes to maximize market share. Lower the prices, get the next generation (and this generation) of fans into the building, and allow yourself to properly recover from all of the daggone conference realignment / Pasqualoni crap that we've been through. Rebuild, and then maximize later...
 
UConnDan97 said:
People that don't care "if they go at all" are not the type of people waiting for slashing, by the very definition. Clearly they care, and they are waiting for the right price point. But oh, I forgot, you told me in an earlier post that it's NOT about the price, so... :confused:
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I don't really think there are very many people waiting for slashing. I think that is a straw man. I do think there are marginal fans (or non-fans) that say "if I really want to go I can get cheap tickets either from StubHub/the school/friends for dirt cheap anyway so why buy ahead of time?" But you can't plan your pricing strategies around those people because they won't go if the wind blows the wrong way.
 
UConnDan97 said:
I've argued this for quite some time, to no avail. What I will add to your comment is that I believe UConn still has a long way to go in terms of price point if it wishes to maximize market share. Lower the prices, get the next generation (and this generation) of fans into the building, and allow yourself to properly recover from all of the daggone conference realignment / Pasqualoni crap that we've been through. Rebuild, and then maximize later...
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This is where you and I disagree. You believe there is a price point that maximizes attendance. I don't. I do think there is a price point that maximizes tickets sold. But I think at that price the opportunity cost for skipping a game becomes meaningless - like "I only paid $5 for the ticket so I don't care if I use it or not" so that you end up with lots of empty seats anyway. At the other absurd end, nobody is going to pay $2500 for a superbowl ticket and then not go to the game.
 
J187Money said:
It teaches people that don't really give a crap about where they sit or if they go at all to wait for the slashing. And those people probably were last minute shoppers anyway. The kind of people that wouldn't pay 6 months in advance for tickets to anything.
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Wait a minute, this promo is only available to UConn donors or season ticket holders, not for the average Joe Shmoe looking for cheap seats. It's an incentive to buy your regular priced season ticket.
 
So we offered to buy tickets for people that complained price was an issue, with the caveat that they had to use the tickets. We had 2 takers. 2.

So we have all sorts of people on this board that have argued that price is an issue. We have people here that have offered to buy tickets. And the people who tell us that price is an issue don't happen to know any ACTUAL people that want a free ticket and would commit to going to games if they had one. So you do see why I don't buy that argument?
 
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