Season tickets

[Trotsky]

Someone appeared to make newspaper dispersal a priority before tonight's game. 3rd star worthy...

I'll take credit for that. Sec. D is supposedly (second hand info) a general admission All-Freshman section. Some of the students I talked to didn't even know the tradition. Partially I blame the start of Sec. C for that. It's tough when you break up the student sections. When you're in D, B is not obvious to you. Having said that, I was impressed at how enthusiastic the "freshman' were. We can hope, after as exciting a game as it was, that we have captured a few of them.

Great job, Jim!

C should go back to the students, and I say that having had seasons in C for 2 decades after graduating.  It was very different when A-E were a solid wall of students in sync.

[ithacat]

Someone appeared to make newspaper dispersal a priority before tonight's game. 3rd star worthy...

I'll take credit for that. Sec. D is supposedly (second hand info) a general admission All-Freshman section. Some of the students I talked to didn't even know the tradition. Partially I blame the start of Sec. C for that. It's tough when you break up the student sections. When you're in D, B is not obvious to you. Having said that, I was impressed at how enthusiastic the "freshman' were. We can hope, after as exciting a game as it was, that we have captured a few of them.

Well done. Thanks.

[andyw2100]

I'll take credit for that. Sec. D is supposedly (second hand info) a general admission All-Freshman section. Some of the students I talked to didn't even know the tradition. Partially I blame the start of Sec. C for that. It's tough when you break up the student sections. When you're in D, B is not obvious to you. Having said that, I was impressed at how enthusiastic the "freshman' were. We can hope, after as exciting a game as it was, that we have captured a few of them.

It is general admission, but I'm reasonably certain they are not all freshman. (I'll check with my daughter to confirm.)

The cheer tip sheet that she had been asked to create, but then was not allowed to distribute WAS distributed by some group--possibly the band--with some modifications at the first game. "Paper during introductions" was covered, so the students you spoke to who knew nothing about it either weren't at the first game or didn't get the sheet or didn't read it.

[CowbellGuy]

The other thing that needs to happen (separate from the possibilities of new facilities) is for this website -- and most specifically, the Cheers page -- to increase its exposure. I don't think most students even know that ELynah exists. The cheers page hasn't been updated in a long time. And I think adding highlights and media to the proper places would show new fans how exciting Lynah can be (the recent Harvard games, the 2014 Clarkson game, Lynah East, Colgate, etc.)

I'll admit I've been horrible at adding and revising content here, but I'm not sure it would matter much. We're at around 1500 unique visitors a week. About 1000 followers on Twitter, most of whom probably overlap. That's about where it's been the last few seasons (and obviously WAY down from its heyday. Is it worth trying to advertise? I've considered buying a dasher board ad in the past, but it would cost more than all the donations I've ever received and it's not like I generate any revenue from the site. (Note: This is not a plea for donations; just stating the facts)

If I did make an advertising push, I think the whole site would need a complete overhaul since my focus has shifted away from photos and original content. But without more eyeballs, I'm not sure it's worth it. Ye olde chicken and egg.

[LGR14]

The other thing that needs to happen (separate from the possibilities of new facilities) is for this website -- and most specifically, the Cheers page -- to increase its exposure. I don't think most students even know that ELynah exists. The cheers page hasn't been updated in a long time. And I think adding highlights and media to the proper places would show new fans how exciting Lynah can be (the recent Harvard games, the 2014 Clarkson game, Lynah East, Colgate, etc.)

I'll admit I've been horrible at adding and revising content here, but I'm not sure it would matter much. We're at around 1500 unique visitors a week. About 1000 followers on Twitter, most of whom probably overlap. That's about where it's been the last few seasons (and obviously WAY down from its heyday. Is it worth trying to advertise? I've considered buying a dasher board ad in the past, but it would cost more than all the donations I've ever received and it's not like I generate any revenue from the site. (Note: This is not a plea for donations; just stating the facts)

If I did make an advertising push, I think the whole site would need a complete overhaul since my focus has shifted away from photos and original content. But without more eyeballs, I'm not sure it's worth it. Ye olde chicken and egg.

I think it is worth trying to advertise -- but not on the dasher board (students can't see most of them anyway, and the only one that sticks out is Boatyard). I think just sharing the link on Facebook - getting the Cornell sports page to post it every once in awhile, or teaming up with BRSN, would do wonders for the traffic.

Even something as small as putting up a piece of paper with "elynah.com" and a short description around campus or at Lynah would at least get more people viewing the site.

I have no idea how much of the current traffic is from current students, but I'd be willing to bet that there is very little from the group of kids currently going to the games.

It's my guess that if some of these steps were taken, you'd be able to find a couple interested students who would be willing to provide some original content and put up some videos, articles, pictures, audio, whatever. I know there is a group called "Ezra's Army" that's a sort of fan-club of all Cornell sports. There's also the Cornell Marketing Group. The ILR Sports Business Society. All of these groups have students that would love to get people back to Lynah and to educate the new fans.

[andyw2100]

I'll take credit for that. Sec. D is supposedly (second hand info) a general admission All-Freshman section. Some of the students I talked to didn't even know the tradition. Partially I blame the start of Sec. C for that. It's tough when you break up the student sections. When you're in D, B is not obvious to you. Having said that, I was impressed at how enthusiastic the "freshman' were. We can hope, after as exciting a game as it was, that we have captured a few of them.

It is general admission, but I'm reasonably certain they are not all freshman. (I'll check with my daughter to confirm.)

I did check with my daughter.

Section D is mostly (but not entirely) first time season ticket holders. But many of those students may have been regular attendees of games in the past, and even unofficial season ticket holders themselves, since students can purchase two season tickets each, so they could have had another student purchasing their season ticket for them.

[BearLover]

The other thing that needs to happen (separate from the possibilities of new facilities) is for this website -- and most specifically, the Cheers page -- to increase its exposure. I don't think most students even know that ELynah exists. The cheers page hasn't been updated in a long time. And I think adding highlights and media to the proper places would show new fans how exciting Lynah can be (the recent Harvard games, the 2014 Clarkson game, Lynah East, Colgate, etc.)

I'll admit I've been horrible at adding and revising content here, but I'm not sure it would matter much. We're at around 1500 unique visitors a week. About 1000 followers on Twitter, most of whom probably overlap. That's about where it's been the last few seasons (and obviously WAY down from its heyday.

What were the numbers in its heyday, out of curiosity?  And when was its heyday?

[KeithK]

What were the numbers in its heyday, out of curiosity?  And when was its heyday?

I'll go out on a limb and guess that the highest traffic numbers were March of 2003.

Edit: Not sure if the metrics are the same, but from this thread http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,15106,15111#msg-15111
the number of unique visits must have been on the order of 33k per month or 8k per week back in the 2002-03 season.

[CowbellGuy]

What were the numbers in its heyday, out of curiosity?  And when was its heyday?

I'll go out on a limb and guess that the highest traffic numbers were March of 2003.

Edit: Not sure if the metrics are the same, but from this thread http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,15106,15111#msg-15111
the number of unique visits must have been on the order of 33k per month or 8k per week back in the 2002-03 season.

Yeah, probably around that time. I think back then I was using a script to crunch the logs and I use Google Analytics now. I can run a history and see when the best numbers in GA were.