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"
Christ. You telling me that an area of 4 million people cannot find 72k people willing to shell out $80 to watch a top 10 team?
This is exactly why the entire west coast sucks ass and will never be like the SEC. They will always get the worst TV deal and times because of this shit. That's fine but don't fucking bitch about 7:30 starts. That's what you get and like Herbie says, you are lucky they acknowledge you at all.
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.
I tried to have five the old bastard behind me after a big play last week...he just angirly stares at me and yells "I can't seeee!"
So throughout the rest of the game I would randomly shout "I can't see" when it was quiet and nothing was going on...
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.
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.
Fuck the old fuckers at husky stadium. I’ve been a few times and gotten death stares for making noise on 1st down. We need to market to the south sounders and maple valley hicks better. Those fuckers will bring it.
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).
3:30 or like 4 pm kickoffs are the best. You can get fucking destroyed at the tailgate enough time to sober up a lil bit to party. That guy sounds like a pussy.
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.
Meh never liked the band and I never notice all the lights in my seats. But I agree changes need to be made to improve game day.i don’t know what they should be but I don’t think just having band music will put butts in seats.
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"
Christ. You telling me that an area of 4 million people cannot find 72k people willing to shell out $80 to watch a top 10 team?
This is exactly why the entire west coast sucks ass and will never be like the SEC. They will always get the worst TV deal and times because of this shit. That's fine but don't fucking bitch about 7:30 starts. That's what you get and like Herbie says, you are lucky they acknowledge you at all.
You just summed up in 100 words what "consultants/advisors/experts" want (and probably are) charging the UW AD hundreds of thousand of dollars to lie and tell them if you only do ......... the crowds will come back in droves.
I was part of the "if you win they will come" mantra and couldn't have been more fucking wrong. In the last 35 games we are 29-6 which is 83% and a home game against BYU with really nice weather and a decent start time has 30k people in their seats 15 minutes b4 kick-off, and 35k people when the team runs out of tunnel 5 minutes b4 kick, AND that includes having 5k BYU fans (which is 3k more than the typical Pac-12 team minus SC/UO/WSU brings) and 3k cheer squad kids/parents there.
If you can't get true sell outs (and having 10k empty seats doesn't count UW Public Address Announcer no matter what your telling me) in this environment, your not ever going to and that's the reality of UW football crowd wise and "the greatest setting in college football" LOFL
The first thing they could do, which would put a little more excitement in the crowd that is there b4 we take the field, is to scrap that UW/Seattle shitty infomercial and put together highlight packages of past glories, highlights, and big hits. That is what gets people fired up. Running that shit in the SEC, and other places that care about college football would get the AD 70-110 thousand people booing the piss out of it.
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"
Christ. You telling me that an area of 4 million people cannot find 72k people willing to shell out $80 to watch a top 10 team?
This is exactly why the entire west coast sucks ass and will never be like the SEC. They will always get the worst TV deal and times because of this shit. That's fine but don't fucking bitch about 7:30 starts. That's what you get and like Herbie says, you are lucky they acknowledge you at all.
You just summed up in 100 words what "consultants/advisors/experts" want (and probably are) charging the UW AD hundreds of thousand of dollars to lie and tell them if you only do ......... the crowds will come back in droves.
I was part of the "if you win they will come" mantra and couldn't have been more fucking wrong. In the last 35 games we are 29-6 which is 83% and a home game against BYU with really nice weather and a decent start time has 30k people in their seats 15 minutes b4 kick-off, and 35k people when the team runs out of tunnel 5 minutes b4 kick, AND that includes having 5k BYU fans (which is 3k more than the typical Pac-12 team minus SC/UO/WSU brings) and 3k cheer squad kids/parents there.
If you can't get true sell outs (and having 10k empty seats doesn't count UW Public Address Announcer no matter what your telling me) in this environment, your not ever going to and that's the reality of UW football crowd wise and "the greatest setting in college football" LOFL
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).
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This is exactly why the entire west coast sucks ass and will never be like the SEC. They will always get the worst TV deal and times because of this shit. That's fine but don't fucking bitch about 7:30 starts. That's what you get and like Herbie says, you are lucky they acknowledge you at all.
So throughout the rest of the game I would randomly shout "I can't see" when it was quiet and nothing was going on...
Get your ass up and screaming or GTFO.
I was part of the "if you win they will come" mantra and couldn't have been more fucking wrong. In the last 35 games we are 29-6 which is 83% and a home game against BYU with really nice weather and a decent start time has 30k people in their seats 15 minutes b4 kick-off, and 35k people when the team runs out of tunnel 5 minutes b4 kick, AND that includes having 5k BYU fans (which is 3k more than the typical Pac-12 team minus SC/UO/WSU brings) and 3k cheer squad kids/parents there.
If you can't get true sell outs (and having 10k empty seats doesn't count UW Public Address Announcer no matter what your telling me) in this environment, your not ever going to and that's the reality of UW football crowd wise and "the greatest setting in college football" LOFL
That tore the roof off the place!!
God Seattle sucks