[NU Sports] Saturdays at Dyche Stadium

[Jim Leonard]

Great point Herman. 

The main difference that I see is that Craigslist and Stubhub require the physical transfer of tickets. So, depending on who you buy from and how you mail them, you have to make your decision to go to the game in advance. 

A policy that all south end zone seats are $5 all day, every day, general admission, available at the gate would allow a family to make a last minute decision to go to the game. 

Go Cats!
Jim


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I'm not sure how much ticket prices are a factor.  For the Towson and
Eastern Michigan games, there were plenty of tickets available on
StubHub for under $10.  Some were going as low as $4.  I know this
because I'm a season ticket holder who lives in Washington D.C., and I can only go to about three or four
home games a year, so this year, for the first time, I tried to unload
my extra tix on StubHub.  No takers, even at drastically reduced prices.

I
realize that not all people interested in going to a game think to
check StubHub or other sources on the secondary market.  There are
probably some fans who go to the NUsports.com website, see the listed ticket prices and are turned off.  But there
are a significant number of fans who are aware of StubHub, Craigslist, etc., and still, our attendance stinks.

Perhaps
you might be able to point to our no-name opponents for the lack of
interest.  Towson and Eastern Michigan aren't exactly inspiring names
to the average Chicagoan sitting around with disposable cash and time. 
But the flip side of that is that those type of opponents help build
our win totals.  

Herman