Okay, you're UConn's new head of athletic marketing - aaand, GO!...

[Adios]

Should we start an email/phone campaign to ban DJ boy from the Mich. game?

Absolutely. We don't want Michigan fans talking about the DJ ad nauseam when UConn gets mentioned as an expansion candidate.

 

[NHRich]

I'd get rid of "... what's is spell? Uconn ,louder .. let's go Huskies!!!

Please, please get rid of this.

 

[epark88]

I'm in favor of sending the entire AD staff/marketing department on an all-expenses-paid trip to a college football game in SEC or B1G country.

Once a year.
Every year.
Until they get this thing right...

 

[CTMike]

No forced Blue - White chant with 100 people in the stands! And definitely not "Whose house? Dogs House!"

 

[J187Money]

I actually heard an advertisement for UConn Football tickets on Pandora yesterday. Have to say, I like that they're targeting a more tech-savvy crowd using popular applications like that. Plus, I suspect Pandora is a cheaper platform than traditional media outlets.

I've really been enjoying the marketing videos as well. Way better than the old stuff.

Unfortunately I think a lot of these suggestions are sort of pie in the sky stuff. It's a good idea to get everyone in their seats by kickoff, but logistically quite difficult to make drunk students do much of anything.

Overall I think we're moving in the right direction, though I do wonder why we still have the DJ. Was this focus grouped? I mean, who thought this was a good idea?

Was it a voice ad along with a banner?

 

[J187Money]

Okay, I know for a fact that my radio is not special. The ones in both my wife's and my car are of the stock factory Toyota variety. Why is it I've been able to tune into games on WTIC-AM in NYC, Preston CT, North Jersey, Albany NY, and Central Worcester County, but the first complaint about Huskies' advertising is about radio coverage?

Don't know why. But it starts breaking up in Hamden and by Milford it is about dead. In every car I've ever owned. And since I work in the city and sometimes drive if a game isn't on satellite I have no shot picking it up driving home.

 

[BoatShow]

Make the Subway "find the ball" challenge more difficult. No one respects that! Too easy.

New graphics at the XL

Fix the damn ceiling at Gampel

Have two drunk businessmen do the "Dress Like a Husky Challenge"

Band. Band. Band.

Have speakers set up in tailgate areas to blast Celine Dion beginning at ten minutes before kickoff.

Let me do the layup, freethrow, 3pter, halfcourt challenge

Win a date with Noonan.

 

[BoatShow]

Don't know why. But it starts breaking up in Hamden and by Milford it is about dead. In every car I've ever owned. And since I work in the city and sometimes drive if a game isn't on satellite I have no shot picking it up driving home.

UConn itself is in an absolute radio deadzone. Once I hit Andover on my to work in the morning I got nothing but static.

 

[upstater]

I get WTIC in Buffalo.

When I lived in Washington DC, I used to hear it down there.

 

[zls44]

I get WTIC in Buffalo.

When I lived in Washington DC, I used to hear it down there.

Nothing to interfere with the signal from CT to Buffalo (despite what the ACC's idiotic market measurements tell you).

 

[djct1999]

I would send Kevin Ollie bobblehead dolls to delaney, every president and ad in the big ten. Can't say no to this guy!

 

[pj]

I get WTIC in Buffalo.

When I lived in Washington DC, I used to hear it down there.

At a sufficiently oblique angle the radio waves will bounce off the ionosphere and back to earth. This happens at night.

Fairfield County is too close to receive that way and too distant to receive by direct line of sight. There is a need for a station in Fairfield County.

 

[J187Money]

I used to get a Cleveland station when I lived in Wisconsin. Doesn't mean I can listen to a UCONN game in Milford. Sucks.

 

[CL82]

Make the Subway "find the ball" challenge more difficult. No one respects that! Too easy.

New graphics at the XL

Fix the damn ceiling at Gampel

Have two drunk businessmen do the "Dress Like a Husky Challenge"

Band. Band. Band.

Have speakers set up in tailgate areas to blast Celine Dion beginning at ten minutes before kickoff.

Let me do the layup, freethrow, 3pter, halfcourt challenge

Win a date with Noonan.

There is some true genius here. Maybe combine these two?

 

[CL82]

No forced Blue - White chant with 100 people in the stands! And definitely not "Whose house? Dogs House!"

Best chant of all time is the U C O N N - UConn! UConn! UConn! When the crowd is behind that, it is amazing. Sometimes I think that the school needs to spend less time making up "new traditions" and more time focusing on the excellent ones that we already have.

 

[husky91]

I would try for a power play to get Manuel fired w/12 months

 

[huskymedic]

Two of these with boodles of new logo t-shirts and fan towels:

 

[Husky25]

I would try for a power play to get Manuel fired w/12 months

This goes immediately to among the top of the list of posts I would dislike, given the opportunity, time and time again. You probably blame Buckner for the Red Sox losing the the '86 World Series. Sheesh. Take a pill.

The Athletic Director, Hand picked by the University President, is most likely the de facto boss of the Head of Athletic Marketing. Don Draper himself (assuming he was a real person) couldn't get this accomplished without irreparable harm to his/her own career.