Basketball Attendace / Cohen

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

Let’s all discuss ideas for Cohen to increase basketball attendance, then hopefully, someone can get a list in front of his eyes and/or ears.

- $5 Parking / We are charging $5 bucks to park near the arena, stop this now. We are also charging $5 for ALL handicap people to park, stop this yesterday.
- Student entrance / Allow the students to go in either entrance. Security is making students walk around the Hump to enter in the “student entrance”. This is petty and needs to end. Little things like this will, unfortunately, deter some people from going.

 

[kphall11]

Where is it 5 dollars to park by the arena? All the lots close to the arena are parking passes I thought?

 

[wtw2400]

Move the student section to the seats that give them the most airtime on tv so that way the tv doesnt show our empty season ticket holder seats the entire time

What incentive do students have to come if they are stuffed in an endzone and upperdeck??? The games are all on TV so what is the point in getting in the car and going to see Hartford when you do dumb stuff like that??? Duke and Auburn succeed because of good student sections designed like I am discussing. We have one of the worst designed of all time. Students make the difference in a game period. And we have to ensure they have incentives so we can go from there.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There has for as long as I can remember a student entrance. I don’t see that as a big deal.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

I got a good idea to increase attendance. Win. CONSISTENTY! Last few years we would come close in games against good teams, we would win some big games then lay an egg against inferior opponents.

Let's be real have we traditionally had a big crowd for a Sunday afternoon game versus a team like Hartford? When we get to SEC games and we are in top 15, there will be huge crowds.

 

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

Where is it 5 dollars to park by the arena? All the lots close to the arena are parking passes I thought?

In front of the main entrance. Something new they started this year

 

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

There has for as long as I can remember a student entrance. I don’t see that as a big deal.

It’s not a big deal, until you don’t allow students to enter at all from another entrance. I’m not a student so I may be way off, just seems stupid to me

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

2 words: T-Shirt Cannon

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

They have never been allowed to enter from anywhere but the student entrance.

 

[Dawgg]

Baylor has the same setup. Bunch of loud *** students in gaudy costumes right behind the scorer’s desk and benches...

When Baylor started turning it around in that NIT game against State, the place really lit up, largely because the students weren’t some off camera sideshow to far left or far right.

 

[SHTRSFUL]

Go back to 2002-2005. whatever we did then, do it again.....part of that is winning some games... those years with Mario Austin (aks flopper), Timmy Bowers, Derrick Zman, Lawrence Roberts, Winsome Frazier and others were some exciting years. Went to almost every home game during that span and the Hump was always full and rocking!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CrookedLetta4Eva]

Zimmerman is a GA. Maybe he can give some insight to Howland

 

[philduckworth]

I will say that all those empty *** reserved parking lots piss me off.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

No it wasn’t. I went to almost every game during that time. Non conference games were horribly attended.

 

[DAWG61]

First come first serve till we have sellouts again. No more season tickets till we have sellouts again. Make the OOC games free till we have sellouts again.

 

[DowntownFrazier]

It'll be tough to get a big crowd to these type games now that everything's on SEC Network. The only schools with good attendance are the ones in larger cities. The new coliseum construction will help. None of these ideas will pack the Hump, but they may get a few extra people there:

1. Paid appearances by former stars (any sport). Tang Hamilton T-shirt Night, Mitch Moreland Mini-Helmet Night, Latoya Thomas Bobble Head Night, etc.
2. Half court shot prize pool. Every game a student misses, it adds more money to the pot.
3. Find a big franchise to do a deal for ticket holders the day after a game. For instance, free coffee at Dunkin Donuts the day after the game if you show your ticket. Several pro and semi-pro teams do something similar.
4. Atlanta Braves night, New Orleans Saints night, Memphis Grizzlies night, etc.