Student apathy in a surprising place
I saw this and I immediately thought of the empty student sections for our early season games (and those games stupidly scheduled for the middle of winter break). Go Bruins!
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I don’t know if it’s overexposure (too many crappy games on TV) or the impact of the one-and-dones (no more dynasties and attachments to players), or quite simply, no one gives a crap until the tournament. Everything seems to be measured on how far a team gets in the tourney.
It really makes you wonder…where would college basketball even be today if UCLA hadn’t had its run of championships…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I know this puts me in the minority
but this is why I don’t like the idea of a college football playoff. No one will care until playoff time. There wouldn’t be the drama in the regular season games. It was awesome to turn on the TV at night and watch ISU crush Ok St’s national championship dreams. If there was a playoff, it wouldn’t have mattered, OSU would be in either way. The fans came to that game to see if the Cyclones could ruin the season of a great team, I think a playoff takes away the drama and hopes of smaller or less successful schools. Didn’t 13-9 feel great not just because we beat our hated rival, but also because we knew it destroyed their season?
by JimmyBurke on Jan 25, 2012 10:43 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Good points
If there was a playoff, I would only like to see a 4-team playoff. But the regular season drama is awesome.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
They still do it right.
Two comments came to my attention when I read this. Number 1:
"It has nothing to do with the revenue. We just want it to be full," Director of Marketing and Relations Mike Forman said. "If there were 1,200 students every game we would love it."
While they are suffering in ticket sales, they are still not making decisions based solely on the bottome dollar. That being said, since they have determined these tickets are not selling, they are not only being pro-active in their problem solving, they are doing so while trying to keep the student experience intact.
The general admission tickets are offered first to Iron Dukes and then to football and women’s basketball season ticket holders. If there were still to be tickets remaining after that opportunity, they would be opened up to the general public, though that situation has yet to arise.
I have to believe that if UCLA reaches this crossroads, they would immediately try to fill those seats with the highest bidders as opposed to Young Alumni, Grad Students or what have you.
Duke: cares about it’s programs.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
It's an its
Mexi, I love reading your commentaries, but one thing has been bugging me for a while. You use “it’s” for the possessive when the correct form is “its” (no apostrophe), as in, “Duke cares about its programs.”
Back to the theme of this thread…our illustrious Athletic Dept. should give away the tickets for our early-season games against small colleges, or use an auction system starting at $0, so we will get more fans to games and build a base among even the most economical of basketball fans. I don’t see why our Athletic Dept. doesn’t experiment more creatively with ticket options the way Duke’s has.
I am painfully aware.
Even though I am unaware that I am doing it when I’m doing it. What’s worse is that it seems to get worse when I try to pay extra attention to what I’m writing.
I like your idea about the auction. It would certainly get more butts in the seats. While someone might argue that it would drop our revenue, I can’t imagine it would get worse than what we’re seeing this year.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
It's easy to say it's not about revenue when you're making extra money
Since Duke students don’t pay for tickets, every one of these tickets sold is an extra $65 for Duke. Also, the spare tickets go straight to donors (“Iron Dukes”), rather than grad students or other groups. It’s nice of them to let students in free, but I don’t see how this part is really a benevolent move.
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