[NU Sports] Attendance ideas

[Roy S. Lamberton]

Chuck, I think you need to make an appointment with Dr. Murphy and talk about
your frustrations on the traffic and usher issue - you seem to have it nailed.

RW does do the WGN thing, and the Kaplan thing at night. But he doesn't do
anything much with WSCR [the Moronetty issue?] altho they are the Ill-noise [to
quote Zook] station.

If I lived in Evanston, I'd offer to produce a TV show for the cable, but its
hard to do that from where I live right now, unless I got southwest to sponsor
it in exchange for free flights.

It wouldn't be hard, get Eanet [or maybe Albrecht] to host and tape it on
Wednesday or Thursday. I'd almost try to do it 2 camera from Wolfgang Pucks' or
Tommy Nevins. Use a similar format to the Basketball Cat Chats.

Of course they'd have to give Coach Roy media credentials <g>

Go Cats

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of CHerron604 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:21 PM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Attendance ideas
> 
> 
> A couple of points.
> 
> Not sure how to raise this tactfully - but why is RW less of 
> a media presence in a major market city like Chicago ?
> 
> Is there something about personalities ?  GB, the likeable 
> rogue, drew well.  RW, the sober disciplinarian, draws not so well ?
> 
> GB was a Chicago media phenomenon - Chevy commercials, air 
> time on TV and sports-talk radio, etc.  I recall the Chicago 
> ABC affiliate had a season-long celebrity golf challenge, 
> with Bears, White Sox, Cubs, Bulls - GB was featured here 
> also.  And GB even had an eponymous restaurant/bar in 
> downtown Evanston.
> 
> RW talks on WGN-radio to the morning-drive guy (probably a 
> contractual thing), and I hear him sometimes on their 6-9pm 
> sports block, but he is not really a presence on the other 
> sports-talk radio outlets or on TV.  And it's probably a 
> personality thing, but he doesn't have nearly the 
> 'man-about-town' image (for good or bad) that GB had.
> 
> Also, I'll echo a lot of others - an 11:00 start time, 
> combined with miserable Chicago traffic and chaotic parking 
> can not be a boon to attendance.  As a 20-year season-ticket 
> holder (box 230), with a pass to the West lot, I am amazed at 
> how long it can take me to get from McCormick and Green Bay 
> Road to the West lot and (eventually) my seat.  The ride in 
> from Joliet isn't bad, til you reach the O'Hare area.  Then 
> it really gets bad right around the stadium (Evanston police 
> misdirecting traffic don't help).  Punching the parking 
> passes is slow and about as low-tech as can be - send out a 
> book of 6 parking coupons, and have us hand those over 
> en-route to the lot entrance.  Finally, the hoops you have to 
> jump through to get to your seats - gates closed, 
> student-only gates, non-helpful ushers, people seated in the 
> wrong seats, etc.
> 
> All of that said, I imagine I'll be back next year for more...
> 
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
> 
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