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colobobcat66
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Posted: 7/19/2010 10:26 AM
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I note that the deadline for season ticket holders to keep their seats from last year was July 15. I'm wondering (1) how many season tickets have been sold to date and (2) how many were sold in the previous 3-4 years.  Anybody have any hard numbers?  It would be intersting to me to see if the fan optimism about  a good 2010 season shows up in the season ticket numbers. 
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Posted: 7/21/2010 12:28 AM
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2-3K ballpark figure
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Posted: 7/21/2010 1:15 AM
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Wanny--That seems quite low.  Didn't we sell that many even during the 'desert' years?!
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Posted: 7/21/2010 1:30 AM
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Yes, but there has not been any huge swell.  Roughly the same number for basketball, and for the most part it is the same people buying both.
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Posted: 7/21/2010 8:03 AM
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Monroe Slavin, CPA wrote:expand_more
Wanny--That seems quite low. Didn't we sell that many even during the 'desert' years?!
Agreed, it is quite low. However, two div. titles do not a tradition make. Coach Solich and staff are doing very well, yet, they are still about .500 winning. They could not put a successfull season after their first div winning team. I expect much better this year. How many classes have graduated from Ohio with memories of more wins than losses? Football is better, but, not big time season ticket selling better. Finish on a winning note with a MAC title and a signature win over a Marshall type and fans should then commit to spending their Saturdays being hot or cold or wet in the stadium.
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Posted: 7/21/2010 9:16 AM
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Wow! If what Wanamaker says is true, then it looks pretty hopeless to me to ever get out of the bottom tier of the football world.  He may be right, but I'd like some official confirmation.  I thought it was much more based on the actual attendence numbers we see at some games versus the reported "official" numbers.  I just figured the difference was season tickets sold who didn't show up. 

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Posted: 7/21/2010 10:05 AM
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As much as I would like the extra revenue from more season tickets I would rather take a full student section for a whole game any day.  Looks good and sounds great on TV, if you win the students the paying customers will come too.  We know they can come out huge for a big game here or their, its getting them to come out every week, which means we need the offense to produce big this year. 
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Ohio doesn't have very many alumni near Peden Stadium. The figure I've heard quoted counting all counties in SE Ohio there is only 15,000 combined alumni. Athens proper can't have more than about 5,000 residents outside of students. I know more live in the Plains and Albany ect but I'm talking about walkable citizens here. Then if you draw an hour radius around Athens and an hour radius around Ohio State about half that radius overlaps.
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Posted: 7/21/2010 10:32 AM
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sargentfan wrote:expand_more
As much as I would like the extra revenue from more season tickets I would rather take a full student section for a whole game any day.  Looks good and sounds great on TV, if you win the students the paying customers will come too.  We know they can come out huge for a big game here or their, its getting them to come out every week, which means we need the offense to produce big this year. 


Students will come out if Ohio is in the BCS hunt every year. That would be enough to fill the stadium on its own accord.  I'm starting to agree with Bobcat Love the more I think about it though on how its important to get names into the stadium. The program is at the point where it can handle playing lower tier Big Ten and Big East teams on a 1 for 1 basis and come out victorious home or away.
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Posted: 7/21/2010 11:45 AM
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East Carolina has made it a policy to schedule regional BCS schools and its helped with season ticket sales. WVU, VT, UNC, NC ST on the books pretty much every year. Ohio could try to go the route of 1 for 1 with Duke, Wake, Maryland, UVA, Boston College, Syracuse, UConn, Army, Navy and bill the schedule to the public as a major eastern football schedule. Temple, Buffalo, Marshall are already on the docket every year. When an FCS school is needed to round out the schedule take one from the East. The football schedules lack identity right now. The MAC West schools do nothing for us (particularly Ball St, WMU, EMU).
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Posted: 7/21/2010 2:20 PM
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East Carolina has made it a policy to schedule regional BCS schools and its helped with season ticket sales. WVU, VT, UNC, NC ST on the books pretty much every year. Ohio could try to go the route of 1 for 1 with Duke, Wake, Maryland, UVA, Boston College, Syracuse, UConn, Army, Navy and bill the schedule to the public as a major eastern football schedule. Temple, Buffalo, Marshall are already on the docket every year. When an FCS school is needed to round out the schedule take one from the East. The football schedules lack identity right now. The MAC West schools do nothing for us (particularly Ball St, WMU, EMU).


Unfortunately, most of the named schools wouldn't agree even to a 2-for-1. Obviously, we got UConn and Pitt to come to Peden recently, but some of those schools simply would never agree to come to Peden. Not at this point anyway. And I'm not sure if any of them would agree to the proposed 1-for-1. Those schools still can stand to make way more money playing an FCS school at home.
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Posted: 7/22/2010 8:33 AM
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Keep scheduling opponents nobody wants to see...keep enjoying your 2-3k season ticket sales.
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Posted: 7/22/2010 8:49 AM
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Can someone actually confirm it is this low. The reason i ask is because when frank got here i remember season ticket sales being reported at a little over 5,000. I think if anything it has increased. And from what i have heard there have been many new season ticket holders this year that are locals.
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Posted: 7/22/2010 8:54 AM
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Keep scheduling opponents nobody wants to see...keep enjoying your 2-3k season ticket sales.


Unfortunately, we are in the MAC, and that makes up 2/3 of our schedule.  We are starting with the bar pretty low.
My take is that BCS schools have no incentive whatsoever to come to places like Athens to play.  Well maybe a 3 for 1 deal where they don't pay much for return games at home.


As for another post talking about getting the students out being more important than ticket sales-there is some logic here  because student fees pay for most of the athletic dept. budget.  Keep the students involved and hopefully keep them excited about athletics. 

My other point is that I go to Ohio games to see Ohio play- I'm really not too uptight about who they are playing.  But , hey, that's just me.
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Posted: 7/22/2010 2:24 PM
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Bobcat Love wrote:expand_more
Keep scheduling opponents nobody wants to see...keep enjoying your 2-3k season ticket sales.


What 66 said.

Plus what I've posted a million times in response to this thought which you've posted a million times...with your thought being even more boring than my responses.
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Posted: 7/22/2010 5:18 PM
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Isn't the non-conference football schedule being controlled by budgetary considerations at the moment...perhaps as important or more important than competitive considerations? 
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Posted: 7/23/2010 3:55 PM
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FWIW,Troop says about 5,000 last year on his 6/16 blog.  I'd rather believe that is closer than the  nay-sayers.
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Posted: 7/23/2010 5:06 PM
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With the solid play last year, the definite prospects for this year, and a seemingly decent marketing push--I'd expect 10-15% more season tix this season (vs last year).  Geez, we should be at 9k season tix.

What, $90 gets you a full season's slate in with a ridiculously good view?!

Look, in columbus they have about 75,000 seats--at about $90 per game--each and every one are worse seats than what you get in the best stadium in America, which just happens to be gloriOUS Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio. 
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Posted: 7/23/2010 7:23 PM
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Slightly off topic, but still related:  Anyone know what student tickets are going to cost for the Marshall game?  The 110 has a free weekend that week and hopefully, there will be a contingent of avid Bobcat fans making the drive to Huntington from our group.  Website only has "TBD" right now.
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Slightly off topic, but still related:  Anyone know what student tickets are going to cost for the Marshall game?  The 110 has a free weekend that week and hopefully, there will be a contingent of avid Bobcat fans making the drive to Huntington from our group.  Website only has "TBD" right now.


I think this may be the O Zone bus trip game (don't quote me on it), so hopefully we can a group discount and keep the total cost low for students.
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Slightly off topic, but still related:  Anyone know what student tickets are going to cost for the Marshall game?  The 110 has a free weekend that week and hopefully, there will be a contingent of avid Bobcat fans making the drive to Huntington from our group.  Website only has "TBD" right now.


I think this may be the O Zone bus trip game (don't quote me on it), so hopefully we can a group discount and keep the total cost low for students.

I like that thought!  Even though I'll probably drive down if it isn't.  FWIW, Marshall's website lists single game tickets outside their WVU contest at $22 endzone and $32 sideline.
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