Lake Placid Attendance

[underskill]

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10458047/next-generation-ticket-holder-concern-students-show-college-football-games

another good article on student attendance.

[Trotsky]

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10458047/next-generation-ticket-holder-concern-students-show-college-football-games

another good article on student attendance.

What this article tells me is that nobody is looking at the experience of the game as something the fans create.  The administration looks at it as just another pre-packaged and forced-marketed product, and the students have been trained all their lives to expect that and look for "added value," whatever the fuck that vacuity means.

The sad optic of the student body as a veal fattening pen for future season ticket holders and donors tells you how badly everybody is Missing The Point of fandom.  The only wonder is that something so sterile and generic attracts anybody.

[andyw2100]

Bevi's point early in the season was that it was unfortunate that the Harvard game was the last game this year, because she thought that some of these facetimers would be hooked once they experienced Cornell hockey, but that they wouldn't experience it until the last game of the season.

Make the exhibition game free.

That's an idea. The problem is that the energy and enthusiasm at that game is never what it is for regular season games, so the facetimers' first exposure to Cornell hockey wouldn't be what it might otherwise be.

But improving on your idea...

(And not that either is likely to happen, but...)

The students currently either get or can buy inexpensively some sort of all sports access pass that gets them access to basically all games except men's hockey and playoff games. (I may have these details slightly wrong, but that's the gist of it.) As long as the regular season games are not sold out, and not likely to sell out, why not allow each freshman and transfer student that has this pass the ability to go to exactly one regular season hockey game for free before winter break? If the Harvard game falls before break that year, exclude it. If there aren't enough home games before break for this to work, include the January games. But the idea would be to give them a taste for free, early in the season, in order to encourage attendance later in the season and later in their Cornell careers.

No student that buys season tickets is going to pass on them because they're getting one game free. And I just don't think the ticket office is selling that many single game tickets to students anyway for games other than the big games, which they could just exclude.

What do you think?

[Scersk '97]

Switch to electronic ticket cards instead of tickets. Have a "rush" line. Didn't show up before midway through the 1st? Too bad! You've lost your allotment of bench, which has been resold.

Or just get rid of student season tickets altogether; instead, go GA and lower the price.

[BMac]

GA!

GA!

GA!

A thousand million times, go GA!

[Trotsky]

A thousand million times, go GA!

There is a potential problem with GA, and it is rather finely demonstrated by this piece of vintage American art.

Ralph Edgar Date Rape the Third and his frat brothers don't care that you got to section B first because he and 800 lbs of general studies meat "have always sat there."

But if you police it, then yes, this would be a good idea.

[ugarte]

But if you police it, then yes, this would be a good idea.

This is the first eLynah comment with the embedded premise that the ushers are insufficiently zealous about rule enforcement.

[BMac]

Very true point. So... make bigger friends?

[marty]

I received another plea that I buy Frozen Four tickets by email today.

[profudge]

I also have received several Frozen Four - buy tickets now pleas in last couple of months -  and the cost to go is much higher then when I took my son out to Milwaukee.  I doubt I will make another Frozen Four in the near future.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

they're advertising the games on every Flyers telecast and also on billboards here in the Allentown area.

[KeithK]

they're advertising the games on every Flyers telecast and also on billboards here in the Allentown area.

The Flyers are advertising Lake Placid games on every telecast?  Wow!

(I know what you meant. Your post rolled over to page 2 of the flat view, so it just read funny.)

[marty]

I'm too lazy to start another poll, but you have to wonder what the crowd will look like today. I received this message at 12:10 PM this afternoon.

[Trotsky]

So by exactly one fan, the finals attendance was the worst non-AC final of the past 20 years.

I was thinking it was also the smallest increase from the first to second day until I saw 2008.

WTF?  Was there terrible weather the second night?  Even though we lost the SF we still played in the Consy.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I'm too lazy to start another poll, but you have to wonder what the crowd will look like today. I received this message at 12:10 PM this afternoon.

FWIW, the Wells Fargo center always has seats available, even during Flyers playoff games.  Usually those are in the luxury boxes, so nobody but corporate types want them.  So just because they're advertising "seats available" it doesn't mean that there won't be a crowd.