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DerekJohnson
Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 60,139
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.
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.
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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.
There are other ways to sell advertising without seizure-inducing lights and techno music.
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.
Bama has never changed. We don't even do edgy well. The sleeves and alarm clock numbers gotta go.
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
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...
Schedule aggressively to make it worth it.
Thank you
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).
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.