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OT: CFB attendance drops for 7th Straight Year
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"We have to continue to make sure we enhance the game day experience."
How about pricing the tickets so that middle class fans can afford to attend? It seems like every one of the "game day enhancements" are either designed for a small percentage of premium-priced seats, or coupled with an overall increase in ticket prices to pay for the enhancements.
An ever-increasing percentage of the college football revenue comes from the TV contracts anyway, so why continue to squeeze every last dime out of your loyal fans?
How about pricing the tickets so that middle class fans can afford to attend? It seems like every one of the "game day enhancements" are either designed for a small percentage of premium-priced seats, or coupled with an overall increase in ticket prices to pay for the enhancements.
An ever-increasing percentage of the college football revenue comes from the TV contracts anyway, so why continue to squeeze every last dime out of your loyal fans?
Playoff sucks. Old bowl system of the 80s would bring folks back.
No we’re competing vs several things, one of which is people raised by too much mama………Russia should invaded us vs Ukraine.
“When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.” ~ Max McGee
On the bright side it’s made it a easier to park now
Comfortable surroundings and superior amenities will bring people back. We should rip down the East Upper and build 3-story box seats in its place. Protection against heat and rain should be the focus along with very comfy seats and high end service is the key. Otherwise, people will stay home. It’s too expensive for a second rate experience. Old fashioned stadia are over.
I'd lay better odds on sensibly priced admission and fewer televised games pitting good programs vs. patently inferior opponents.
TV's are absolutely amazing nowadays, and the hunting/fishing is really smoking around here. Can't blame a man for realizing doing one thing always brings you pleasure, while the other brings more heartache than joy. And any joy comes with stress before and after with sports. Ha.
During the Covid year we went to 2 home games. Sort of enjoyed watching them on TV 75" Samsung. I like the baseball and men's basketball. They don't take all day like football. We still like to go to football. But as I get older, we will just get basketball and baseball tickets.
I haven't been to a game in years. Too inconvenient. Too expensive. And, if we lose, it all feels like a wasted effort. The gameday experience is fun, though. If I lived locally and could hop over to a game, I probably would. But it would be a minimum several hundred dollar investment for me, and unless it's a guaranteed win over a notable team, it just isn't worth the risk. I'm not traveling to see us play Akron and I'm not traveling to see us possibly lose to Missouri.
If boosters get the idea that NIL is how to hook good players, that's exactly what will happen. The only leverage schools have is tying ticket priority to donations for scholarships.
I loved going to home games even though I sat through some atrocious seasons. (90-04) It just got too expensive and the guys I split the costs with dropped out. I think a big difference today compared to my early years is literally every game is on TV. When I was young we were lucky to be on 1 or 2 times a season. I still look forward to catching the occasional home game.
Agreed. I think UNC just did this, and it looked good.
I would go to occasional games, but my kids were the ones that in the last year or two would argue the day was too long, and not enough fun. They argued that they could watch it on TV and still have the rest of their day.
That kind of did it for me. Although I do feel like there's a level of passion I haven't passed on.
When I was young, we were lucky to be on TV once every four years (and no, I did not walk 20km to school uphill each way
).
It's not just the size and quality of the TVs... the quality of the televised product has now surpassed the live experience.
Multiple high quality camera angles with instantaneous replays; on demand rules analysts; sideline reporters; background features on players and coaches; and the ability to pause live action, replay and fast forward all combine to make the at-home game-watching experience better than the live one. And for many, it's not even close anymore.
Multiple high quality camera angles with instantaneous replays; on demand rules analysts; sideline reporters; background features on players and coaches; and the ability to pause live action, replay and fast forward all combine to make the at-home game-watching experience better than the live one. And for many, it's not even close anymore.
I watched the a 10 minute video summary of the Sat game vs Clemron on Youtube. The camerawork from the ACCN crew at chigger field was fourth rate. Boy are we spoiled.
Ticket costs, HDTV, traffic, piss poor concessions/customer service, etc have driven many away. I’m going into my 40th year of four seasons tickets. The hassle of driving round trip about 3 1/2 hours, very drunk visitors/our fans, and sitting on Bluff Road are still trumped by the pre-game pageantry (band, GAME-COCKS cheer, 2001), and ‘sandstorm’. I think as we/if we improve the product on the field, some fans will return. At some point my 65 year old self is going to turn over the in-game stuff to my three offspring. They all like to go to WB.
You don't buy football tickets anymore? That's like the end of an era, you have always been such a supporter.
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