[NU Sports] Tell Us Something !

[Jonathan Hodges]

I admit, NU Athletic marketing generally does a poor job.  But, I
believe they are handling the bowl situation correctly considering the
circumstances.

AD Murphy has said that the Sun Bowl is a likely destination while the
Alamo Bowl and Music City Bowl are also in the realm of possibilities.
 The department has already put pages together telling fans to buy
tickets from either the department or the NU Alumni Association and
has publicized the bowls that NU could go to.  Everyone knows that we
are going to a bowl as well as our likely destinations.

They have not been premature in announcing specific sites we may go
to, which would definitely hurt us without any official word from the
bowls.  Also, none of the bowls we may go to will have a competitor
locked up (except maybe the Alamo Bowl, which won't happen for at
least a week) since they are waiting on the same things that we are -
the BCS pairings.  We are already speculating enough along with the
media, if the athletic department were to jump in and make any
definitive statement prematurely it would be anarchy.

I do think that the NU athletic department should be able to improve
attendance at men's basketball and football games.  At least they have
a more coherent marketing campaign this year than previous years, as
they have ads in numerous places in the media.

Also, it would be nice if they put potential dates and price ranges
for ticket packages now that we have it narrowed down to 3 or so
potential bowls.

Jonathan

On 11/21/05, cherron604 at aol.com <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:
> Since our game Saturday, I have received about 5 pages of e-mail (mostly from this list) discussing what happened, where we might be going, etc.  Also in that stretch, I received 1 official NU piece of email (CSTV actually) summarizing Saturday's game.
>
> >From the NU Athletic Department, silence.
>
> This group couldn't market food to gluttons.
>
> How hard is it to produce something short, describing the likely options, and a likely timetable of when a decision might be made ?  10-15 minutes for one staffer, then send it out to the whole mailing list.  That is one of the reasons e-mail has developed - much faster for mass communications.
>
> Everyone on the list (and we are probably better informed than the average NU ticket-holder) has wanted to know where we might be going, and when we might find out.  And it would be so easy for the ticket office just to pass along a note - but nothing.
>
> It would be interesting to know what (if any) communications the other 6 bowl-eligible programs had had with their season ticket holders since Saturday.  Since our marketing and attendance is somewhat challenged, our ticket office should be doing more to drum up interest and keep the season-ticket holders informed.
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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