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What UW can do to fix the game day experience at Husky Stadium

Purple_Pills
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If anyone from the UW Athletic Department lurks these boreds, here is some free advice to improve the game day experience:


Things UW/AD can fix on their own

- Schedule better teams. There should be at least one home game annually with a big name program. And no more scheduling FCS teams.
- Lower season ticket prices. The game day experience gets worse, ticket demand is down, yet season ticket prices aren’t dropping. UW needs to reward their best customers and encourage more season ticket holders by reducing prices. A 20% reduction would be a good start, especially with next year’s home schedule.
- Add way more entry/reentry staff at Husky Stadium, plus better crowd control leading up to them on the outside
- Bring back re-entry
- If you are selling beer in stadium, add beer men selling in the stands. Way too many people are getting up during game play to buy beer and it’s annoying. Plus people are holding/drinking beers rather than clap and cheer. A beverage cup holder at each seat may be a way to encourage people to set down their drinks more often.
- Calm down on the advertisements. Stop flashing ads on that LED “ad stripe” which horseshoes the field during actual game play. Use it instead to display school colors, etc.
- Too much noise and distractions on Jumbotron. The silly Jumbotron games and DJ Supper Slam are just too much. I’d rather hear the band play “Neck.”


Things UW/AD can fix with assistance from others

- Go back to as many 12:30 pm kickoffs as possible. It’s better for fans, better for traffic.
- Play no more than one night game at home each season
- No more Friday home games, except maybe the Apple Cup on Black Friday.
- TV timeouts are too frequent and too long in college football. Work with conference and TV partners and fix. NFL games are a better experience due to this.
- PAC-12 refs suck, and the conference needs to fix that. The replay reviews are too long, but I attribute that to the P12 doing a shit job of managing, cultivating, and properly equipping conference officials.
- More frequent light rail trains during games. Bring back bus shuttles to Federal Way that bypass the Rainier Valley snail rail portion of ST light rail.



Things UW/AD have no control over

- Horrible I-5 traffic in Seattle and on the way to Seattle. For example the perpetual Tacoma traffic shitshow has had a major negative impact on fans from the South Sound and Southwest Washington. Earlier kickoff times is one way to improve this.
- Outdoor mask & vax mandates are stupid, but it’s the fascist local health Nazis, not UW, who have control over these.


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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,857 Standard Supporter
    Second getting rid of bright, flashing ads, and getting back to kickoffs at 12:30.

    Give the band room to breathe and play music. The corny "blue thunder" thing at Seahawks game gets more of a chance to play than the UW band does.

    Cut the PA commenting down by 90%.

    I would also move the students back to midfield.
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  • fivehundredmileDAWG
    fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212
    Win

    That solves over 2/3 of the problems

    There are many other things that could improve... but that is the only one that truly matters.
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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    MikeDamone said:

    Purple_Pills said:

    If anyone from the UW Athletic Department lurks these boreds, here is some free advice to improve the game day experience:


    Things UW/AD can fix on their own

    - Schedule better teams. There should be at least one home game annually with a big name program. And no more scheduling FCS teams.
    - Lower season ticket prices. The game day experience gets worse, ticket demand is down, yet season ticket prices aren’t dropping. UW needs to reward their best customers and encourage more season ticket holders by reducing prices. A 20% reduction would be a good start, especially with next year’s home schedule.
    - Add way more entry/reentry staff at Husky Stadium, plus better crowd control leading up to them on the outside
    - Bring back re-entry
    - If you are selling beer in stadium, add beer men selling in the stands. Way too many people are getting up during game play to buy beer and it’s annoying. Plus people are holding/drinking beers rather than clap and cheer. A beverage cup holder at each seat may be a way to encourage people to set down their drinks more often.
    - Calm down on the advertisements. Stop flashing ads on that LED “ad stripe” which horseshoes the field during actual game play. Use it instead to display school colors, etc.
    - Too much noise and distractions on Jumbotron. The silly Jumbotron games and DJ Supper Slam are just too much. I’d rather hear the band play “Neck.”


    Things UW/AD can fix with assistance from others

    - Go back to as many 12:30 pm kickoffs as possible. It’s better for fans, better for traffic.
    - Play no more than one night game at home each season
    - No more Friday home games, except maybe the Apple Cup on Black Friday.
    - TV timeouts are too frequent and too long in college football. Work with conference and TV partners and fix. NFL games are a better experience due to this.
    - PAC-12 refs suck, and the conference needs to fix that. The replay reviews are too long, but I attribute that to the P12 doing a shit job of managing, cultivating, and properly equipping conference officials.
    - More frequent light rail trains during games. Bring back bus shuttles to Federal Way that bypass the Rainier Valley snail rail portion of ST light rail.



    Things UW/AD have no control over

    - Horrible I-5 traffic in Seattle and on the way to Seattle. For example the perpetual Tacoma traffic shitshow has had a major negative impact on fans from the South Sound and Southwest Washington. Earlier kickoff times is one way to improve this.
    - Outdoor mask & vax mandates are stupid, but it’s the fascist local health Nazis, not UW, who have control over these.


    Please add to this list!

    The schools don’t control game times. Once they sold their souls to TV, that ship sailed..

    That’s why I put it into the second category. The P12 can easily fix this when their deal is up. The era of streaming is the future so I hope the P12 leads the way into this future rather than continue to sellout to an older model that is alienating the conference’s best fans or be a Johnny-come-lately in the latest fads, such as conference TV networks, and then do a shit job with them.

    If they do sellout, they should be willing to take a haircut to demand set kickoff times and game times that best accommodate home fans. If every P12 team only does one 7pm kickoff, that is still 12 weeks of 7pm games the conference can offer. Plus some P12 teams, such as the Arizona schools may want to voluntarily play more night games.

    With Seattle traffic and weather, it is time to pull the plug on most night games at Husky Stadium.

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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    fivehundredmileDAWG said:

    Win

    That solves over 2/3 of the problems

    There are many other things that could improve... but that is the only one that truly matters.

    Not for me. I could watch them win at home on TV. They still need to dramatically improve the game day experience at Husky Stadium. They are real close to losing me as a season ticket holder.

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  • LawDawg1
    LawDawg1 Member Posts: 3,946
    TLDR

    Fucking win.
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  • fivehundredmileDAWG
    fivehundredmileDAWG Member Posts: 1,212
    Purple_Pills said:

    fivehundredmileDAWG said:

    Win

    That solves over 2/3 of the problems

    There are many other things that could improve... but that is the only one that truly matters.

    Not for me. I could watch them win at home on TV. They still need to dramatically improve the game day experience at Husky Stadium. They are real close to losing me as a season ticket holder.

    Night games are not going away.... so you may as well just give up your tix.

    Your list of demands is a bit comical at this point...

    No disrespect intended, but it is a bit funny. Without wins none of the other 'fan experience' extras matter.
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