Attention Jen Cohen

DerekJohnson

I hear that you're frustrated with home attendance. Here's an idea for you to try without making wholesale changes until you see that it works (and it will).

Next season have a "Turn Back the Clock" game at Husky Stadium. Don't have any piped in techno or rap music in the stadium. Let the marching band provide 100% of the music on the day. Don't have flashing lights pulsating throughout the stadium. Have the players wear throwback uniforms. Do little things to generate a college football environment instead of the NFL/WWF type of product you have now. You know exactly what I'm talking about because you experienced it too. Bring the soul back to Husky Stadium.

YellowSnow

I told a higher up in the athletic dept yesterday that the piped in music is terrible and we need to cut the NFL atmosphere BS.

phineas

And bring back the shaky camera angle that made you think the stadium was about to collapse

TommySQC

These are all things we gave up to keep pace with college football today.

I hate the banners but they pay the bills. I miss old shaking Husky Stadium but it was a dump. The old uniforms wouldn't sell to recruits today.

You guys sound old poor and white.

DoogieMcDoogerson

I think throwback unis would be cool. Maybe do some cheap hot dogs, too.

dhdawg

Or you can continue to play Abba at halftime except make the quality so bad that you can't even hear the singers

phineas

TommySQC said:

These are all things we gave up to keep pace with college football today.

I hate the banners but they pay the bills. I miss old shaking Husky Stadium but it was a dump. The old uniforms wouldn't sell to recruits today.

You guys sound old poor and white.

If you have to "sell something" to recruits you've already lost

DerekJohnson

TommySQC said:

These are all things we gave up to keep pace with college football today.

I hate the banners but they pay the bills. I miss old shaking Husky Stadium but it was a dump. The old uniforms wouldn't sell to recruits today.

You guys sound old poor and white.

That's exactly the UW mindset. And how's that working out?

There are other ways to sell advertising without seizure-inducing lights and techno music.

whuggy

Thought the halftime band show was good last night.
The constant rap music is awful.
They have toned down the flashing lights a bit.
Paying to get into the Zone is a farce. No one goes anymore.
Too many stupid promotional events during timeouts. Be creative or bag them.
They introduced a new fan tradition with Harry Husky last night. I had no idea what was going on. Scrap it.

YellowSnow

Husky Legend should happen between the 1st and 2nd quarters.

Doogles

Disagree the croots wouldn't like traditional uniforms.

Bama has never changed. We don't even do edgy well. The sleeves and alarm clock numbers gotta go.

whatshouldicareabout

UW is trying to appeal to the younger crowd, not the older crowd.

They know the older crowd will continue to buy season tickets, even with all these lights and noises.

UW wants money from the kids, and they think the only way to do this is to have random prizes and shitty music.

HTH

ToddTurnerLIVES

whuggy said:

Too many stupid promotional events during timeouts. Be creative or bag them.

This. Just another example of our athletic department being ran by accountants rather than fans. I get it... we have to pay the bills and money is good but some of this promotional shit that is probably generating $5-10K a year... is that sort of stuff really moving the needle for the athletic department? Is an extra $100K really making or breaking our ability to run a competent organization?

Getting more real Husky fans in the stadium creates a better atmosphere which makes the team better which in turn drives ticket sales which generates income.... it's a feedback loop that starts with attracting real football fans who care about the product on the field and not about having a smokey merlot in the zone.

Not all things that can be measured are important and not all things that are important can be measured. Bring the soul back to Husky football and good things will happen for our program/athletic department. the AD's finances might take a slight dip in the short term but, in the long term, it's clear that it's what going to create sustainable growth in the program.

You'd have to think Jen and Pete have a long enough leash that they can sell this vision to boosters and University faculty...

haie

The stadium and gameday experience is never changing. At any school.

Schedule aggressively to make it worth it.

DawgWagonDan

Jen, please bring back King Beers with the saran wrap lid, Bill the Beer Man, and Rick the peanut guy.
Thank you

backthepack

I just want fucking noise. Bring it you fucking pussies, old or young, bring the fucking noise or go the fuck home. Make being loud at games the standard again.

ToddTurnerLIVES

backthepack said:

Make being loud at games the standard again.

I stopped going to games after being told for the 80th time to sit down during key 3rd downs. It's no fun to have the people around you get pissed for being an enthusiastic fan.

HuskyJW

DerekJohnson said:

I hear that you're frustrated with home attendance. Here's an idea for you to try without making wholesale changes until you see that it works (and it will).

Next season have a "Turn Back the Clock" game at Husky Stadium. Don't have any piped in techno or rap music in the stadium. Let the marching band provide 100% of the music on the day. Don't have flashing lights pulsating throughout the stadium. Have the players wear throwback uniforms. Do little things to generate a college football environment instead of the NFL/WWF type of product you have now. You know exactly what I'm talking about because you experienced it too. Bring the soul back to Husky Stadium.

You misspelled "lower the fucking ticket prices"

Doog_de_Jour

We had an intern at my company that is currently going to UW and I asked him what he thought about the gameday experience and what could be done to improve things and he said the AD tries too hard. College kids want the 12:30 kickoffs back (late enough to sleep in, yet the game is done early enough to go out and party on a Saturday), and really good internet access for their smartphones. That’s it. Not rocket science.

I say this because the AD, by chasing after the young ones with things they *think* they want but don’t, has needlessly antagonized the rest of the fan base. I don’t see any harm in trying the throwback night (I went to a Mariners game years ago and they did something similar ー it was a big success).

MakaDawg

Think she needs to start with finding a way to get everybody in their fucking seats before the start of the 2nd quarter. Christ, apparently we? have to bribe the students to stay until the 3rd quarter with Echos and gift cards now. The fans make the atmosphere, and most of em, including Lee and Li, just don't give a fuck.

I'm also too young to remember a football stadium without loud music and all that mumbo jumbo that offends the sensibilities of fat, old honkies. Nonetheless, I do agree there is a certain faggoty ambivalence about the gameday presentation at UW. Anybody who thinks a cunty Drake song or Miley fucking Cyrus is good music to get psyched up for sports is fucking retarded.

A game against a top 25 team (even if they're Mormon dreck) should have more electricity, and that electricity should be coming from the fans, not the speakers.

Ballz

You sound old.