if we cannot get them to cross the river for a game, you think they will show up two days after Thanksgiving for the season finale
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if we cannot get them to cross the river for a game, you think they will show up two days after Thanksgiving for the season finale
can we wait at least a day before pointing out the negatives even after a big win?--it gets tiresome---the glass is always half empty to some
I hope so and, if not, it hopefully changes next year. The point stands: you're going to get hit hardest in those 2 areas of seating when the team isn't playing well/when things have been bad for a while. It's always been that way, realistically, if you think back to even when we were in school (see: old stadium lol)!
Student attendance in relationship to the # of students etc is becoming worse and not good to see. Right now it's not the in thing and when students actually not have to pay or buy season tickets as opposed to being included somewhere in student fees it will be interesting to see if there is any change in student attendance. I think Barchi is wrong on this in pushing his agenda on the athletic department budget accounting.
RU fans must all be 60+ years old if they can’t figure out stubhub or PayPal. I’m guessing that money is a low factor on why people don’t come to games. People that complaint about pricing just want to come to the game for less. Dynamic pricing absolutely works. Tested and proven.
Dude please share whatever you are smoking. Do you really think the fair weather fan contingent was even thinking about attending this game? Grow up!
Do single game ticket buyers park at the RAC? Does the ticket office offer single game parking tags for color-coded lots?
The whole tailgating issue with the students, plus the fact that they never did resolve recreating The Alley, has led to the students tailgating on College Ave. and not coming to the games. That needs to be changed.
Actually...................yes.
Single game ticket buyers have to park in gameday lots. The only way to get into the color coded lots is to buy a pass being sold by a season ticket holder.
Wow took the words right out of my mouth. IMO the ‘walk-up’ is usually influenced greatly by the previous year’s record. l remember during ‘06 the UConn game (granted it was Sunday night) had about 37-38k even though we were undefeated/Top 20 for the first time in 30 years while the ‘07 team was pretty much at or above capacity all season long. The ‘03 squad also had decreased attendance as the season progressed IIRC even though we were clearly better. Add that in with ‘dynamic pricing’ and increased parking costs and it’s going to hurt the walkup.
...that all said, yeah we need to step up as a fanbase.
Joe P.
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Dynamic Pricing only works when Tickets are in Demand for a Event....like a Springsteen concert.
Maryland football game at HPSS is not a ticket in demand.
From Rutgers position forget about Stub Hub....those tickets were already sold by RU and no further revenue to be made. People just trying to get some money back and cut their losses.
Rutgers needs to bring in the casual / newbie fans by offering discounts and promotion. And how about Advertising ? Have not seen nor heard any Football ticket Ads this year from Rutgers.
Want to bring down the empty 25,000 seats eacjh from the last 2 home games: Advertise $25 Upper Deck and End Zone seats .
Yea good luck with that. It makes total sense for me, I have lower tier 40 yd. line seats. You think I got those by being nice? I paid a lot in donations for those priority points to get them over the years. So how does it make sense to throw thousands upon thousands of dollars away like you just did. Like I said good luck with your endzone seats or upper tier corner seats. I'll take my view from the 40.
I've seen commercials on TV for Rutgers football and know that some local radio stations had spots too.
Didn't the athletic dept send out promo codes for $35 tickets?
I'm not saying that they did a great job, but an effort was made. Hopefully they learned their lesson on trying to give away a home game.
Didn't the athletic dept send out promo codes for $35 tickets?
I'm not saying that they did a great job, but an effort was made. Hopefully they learned their lesson on trying to give away a home game.
Even if l could only go to 1 game a year l’d do whatever l reasonably could to keep my season tickets. We could move over a section or 2 but we love being in 130.
Joe P.
I had a few fair weather fans in my group come. Thanks for coming to 1 game, great job bro.
fair-weather fans are not ******.. better them than an empty seat even in fair weather.
You perfect fans need to work harder, make more money so you can donate enough to have the kind of program you so obviously "deserve", being that special kind of "real" fan.
Demand is higher for MD vs EMU. Why would newbie fans buy worst seats for the same cost? Like I said before. Money is a very low factor for attendance.
AGREED. And no way was there close to 35,000. I'd bet my house we didn't have 20k in the building. But, man, we were LOUD!
I fell into this category. Was not going to the Stadium and made alternate plans. (I was able to give my tix to a friend). I suspect there were many others.
LOL. They must have had a great time hanging with you. I am sure they will keep coming back until you deem them worthy.
I think this was a major factor. I think there may have been some die hard fans who weren't going to go to Yankee Stadium and made other plans.
Money is absolutely a main factor in attendance at sporting events, especially when the demand is low. And this version of modified dynamic pricing does not work for low demand games. The RU alumn who is a casual follower and isn't a big sports fan, but doesn't mind attending a game or two each year is going to scarletknights.com for tickets, not necessarily stubhub. Ditto to mom looking to do something to do this weekend with the family. Seeing $55 tickets as the cheapest option is a major turnoff for those people.
With the team having a rough few years, and with this technically being modified dynamic pricing instead of true dynamic pricing, it's not working as well as it could--as seen by the empty seats.
No wrestling only fan was going to pay $55 to get in. Ironically, when I walked to the gate at 11:45 a.m., they just waved everyone in. No ticket was needed. Go figure. $$$$
The NFL in general is certainly not immune anymore to the issue of getting fans to attend games.
Yesterday's tickets were for $44 on Stubhub. Maybe because of the Wrestling DH going on as well. MSU tickets are up to $26 and should be going up.
Dynamic Pricing only works when there is a demand for it. For our first 2 years in the B10 yes, it worked somewhat, however last year, and this year there's no reason for them to charge what they've been charging for "Marquee" games.
I think yesterday's game was an outlier because of the hardcopy tickets, which in all likelihood resulted in higher priced tickets on stubhub.
can I echo this? Saturday was a fantastic day for the program, and it seems like all people can do is to complain about what didn't go perfectly. I know that's the nature of all sports boards, but it is getting, as the man said, tiresome.
They're are waiting till the upper deck is built then they will all come out and pack the stadium.
LoL my friends got tickets for 20 bucks. It's not dynamic pricing or etc. It's that last season and then in before it was bad.
But these recent wins are huge for us. Win at least 1 vs mich state and Indiana and we will see much better attendance next season.
But these recent wins are huge for us. Win at least 1 vs mich state and Indiana and we will see much better attendance next season.