[NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

[cherron604 at aol.com]

I guess I am just a bit worried about the way this could eventually play out...
 
The University owns the seats - of course, they can sell them for whatever price they want.  And since we are all fans of he program, there are probably a few things we want in a football crowd:
 
a) fairly packed houses, with 
b) enthusiastic fans.
 
I am worried that we are maybe further from goal a) than we have been since the really bad old days.  I had not noticed this previously, but we fell to 80th (out of 119) last year in Div I attendance.  We were in the 60's as recently as 2001, and we were 47th back in 1998.  And 2007 attendance could be even worse...maybe 20K for the 3 non-conference foes as well as IU ?  25 for Minny, 35 for Iowa and 42 for Michigan ?  And the biggest problem with awful attendance is a lousy home-field advantage in the poorly attended games, and actually being outnumbered in big games (see OSU last season).
 
And while the NU fans at the games are enthusiastic (to a degree...), if we don't start packing the place with real, honest-to-goodness fans, we run the risk of drawing more affluent, less-attached fans, and this too will hurt us down the road.
 
Can we possibly start marketing this program to Chicago and Suburban fans and families who are our one hope for keeping out opposing fans ?
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
-----Original Message-----
From: artmiller1 at hotmail.com
To: rstetson at capps-assoc.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:55 PM
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?


Roy, there *are* good seats to be had at Camden Yards.  I sat right behind
the visitors dugout a couple summers ago.  Now, the tickets cost me $100
each through StubHub, but for people willing to pay the market price there
will ALWAYS be tix available for ANY event.  




-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Roy Lamberton
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:52 AM
To: 'Dennis W. Brandt'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

Ain't no diversity in the football or basketball stands...

And the problem extends far beyond college sports - you can't get a decent
seat
at Camden Yards because all of the beltway bandits who bought up the season
tickets and now give them to Yankee and Redsox fans AAAAARGH

Ravens seats are out of sight [as are daBears] and I wouldn't pay to see an
NBA
game unless Kuban was going to be tossed.

And I live where you can't get NU games on TV unless you watch on a
computer,
fuzzy picture and all.

I'd rather sit in the press box and watch HS Baseball.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:31 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?
> 
> 
> Every one of you who has written in support of seating fees, 
> hidden or 
> overt, is using the same logic:  Two wrongs make a right, 
> i.e., if Johnny 
> threw a baseball through Mrs. Smith's window, then I should 
> be allowed to 
> bust another.  Heaven forbid a publically-funded university 
> actually make 
> some decent seats available to the general public.  Does Penn 
> State think 
> they won't be able to sell them?  Universities allegedly 
> support fairness 
> and diversity but never on Saturdays. 
> 
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