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What is biggest cause of Husky Stadium fan apathy?

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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,942
    Maple Valley Starter Jacket hicks defected to the Seahawks
    Swaye said:

    YellowSnow said:

    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    Abundance.

    Yes, abundance is the easy answer, but still...pick one damn it.
    But it really is all of it. Night games, Crazy Larry, shit product for 15 years, Seachickens getting good, old logger Seattle > new hipster faggy Seattle, traffic, parking/tailgating challenges, the changing demographic of the student body (I swear only half the kids grew up in WA and even those are mostly the super smart nerds of their schools), and 70" HD TV's. Everything all culminated over the last 20 years to make much of this not worth fooling with.
    This is why I ended up at a women’s volleyball school.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,857 Swaye's Wigwam
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    Bread said:

    Watching from home is a better experience now. Stadiums suck. 60"+ HD TVs are the main difference from last time we were good.

    what he said

    plus I moved and it is a minimum of 2 hours each way to the game. So night games are the shits for living in the country - wife left alone with the neighbor boys isn't my cup of tea...
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  • Mad_Son
    Mad_Son Member Posts: 10,194
    edited September 2018
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    YellowSnow said:

    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    I would say the biggest problem, to channel DDY, is our marketing.

    We do shit like move the student section out of relevance.

    We do shit like fucking over long term tailgate fans who have invested in helping create a game day atmosphere.

    We do shit like fucking over long term season ticket holders.

    In summary, our AD and marketing is too focused on "growth of new fans" who won't be that invested unless we are winning instead of supporting and listening to an already rabid and long established core fan base.

    We need to send a crack team of expurts to places like Wisconsin, tOSU, Georgia, etc and observe what their game day experience is like. I feel that perhaps Seattle has changed too much since the early 90's for our? ever to truly get Husky Stadium back to 1990's form. But to your points, better marketing + mor winning can help.
    Wisconsin student section fills up super late (see picture and gameclock). Tailgating scene at Wisconsin is awesome despite having a less conducive set of giant parking lots available. The in game experience blows husky stadium out of the water. People are a lot more engaged in non game activities though. When husky stadium used to be focused on the game and into it first down would be louder than Wisconsin on third down. No flashing shit though, good band, just an overall college game atmosphere.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,893 Founders Club
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    Dennis_DeYoung said:

    AS A GUY FROM KENT WHO SHOPS FOR VINTAGE STARTERS ON EBAY LIKE A FAG HIPSTER I REALLY FUCKING RESENT THE MAPLE VALLEY HICKS STARTER JACKET COMMENT!!!!!!!

    I meant that for you AC/DC and Styx loving hick.
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  • minion_doog
    minion_doog Member Posts: 2,024
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    We're a lady's layup champeenship town. How can I possibly be enthusiastic about these boorish brutes when my fellow man has to walk entire city blocks just to shoot up indoors and wipe his ass with the curb?
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,695
    Husky Football Circa 2002- 15
    People out west don't give a fuck about football

    It's not a cool social event like other places

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