Lynah Attendance

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What about a truly random drawing for 2-4 tickets to a future game (excluding Harvard, obviously) at every game?
I bet that would draw more people in
Just my opinion

[BearLover]

They also should only sell Harvard seats as part of a four-game package.

[insert legacy vomit emoji]

What's wrong

My opinion is that such a thing would backfire. You want the Harvard game sold out and packed, rather than risking empty seats because some people (understandably) didn't want to spend $80 on the Harvard game and some games they might or might not even be able to attend, much less want to, instead of spending $20. It works for Harvard to sell the Cornell game only as part of a package because Cornell fans in the Boston area are vindictive and spiteful, and gleefully spend the extra money, then fill Bright with red and white and outshout the few Harvard fans in attendance at games that are relatively meaningless to Cornell. Harvard fans won't do the same at Lynah.

Wait, I'm confused. Who said anything about Harvard fans? I'm talking about selling tickets to Cornell fans. They already do sell Harvard tickets as part of a package of 2 (alongside the Dartmouth game that weekend). The result has been a completely sold out Dartmouth game. My suggestion is that anyone who buys a Harvard game ticket must also buy Dartmouth (this is already in place) plus select one additional weekend set of games.

[abmarks]

find a time machine, go back to 2019 and make sure the pandemic never happened.  It's not the entire reason for people going out less, we've still got our cell phones, but the world is a fundamentally different place pre-and post pandemic.

[Trotsky]

What about a truly random drawing for 2-4 tickets to a future game (excluding Harvard, obviously) at every game?
I bet that would draw more people in
Just my opinion

Fuck it, include Harvard.  That is a great idea.

[Trotsky]

find a time machine, go back to 2019 and make sure the pandemic never happened.  It's not the entire reason for people going out less, we've still got our cell phones, but the world is a fundamentally different place pre-and post pandemic.

Not forever.

On a reasonable time scale, the pandemic has zero impact.  It's a local perturbation.

[Trotsky]

Ban cell phones for all undergraduates.

Five minutes to change your life.

[Trotsky]

I always wondered why they don't make a limited set run of Cornell hockey cards. Give away two or three players' cards each home game. That way, to complete your collection you have to go to every home game, or at least enough of them so you get all the players. (You'd probably have some repeats, especially over intersession and the like, and maybe last home weekend is a "hey, if you're missing cards, show us your binder and we'll fill you up".) Hell, have the players sign 50 cards each randomly out of a run of 5000 or so.

Another great idea.  And by someone actually within living memory of undergrad age.

The keeeds are fine.  They're the same as we were.  They want to have fun, be social, rub against whatever weird segment of the population they find erotically disquieting. 

They are the same as humans 16-25 have been since 10,000 BC.  Give them something to show up for.  Turn off the fucking mall music and let the band off the chain.

And win.

[jts15]

Not to bring up BU friend again, but over there, they do something where if you go to like, I think the number is 10 hockey games (M or W), you can get a free jersey. Which helps!

Just to back up Stereax's comment.  My daughter is a freshman at BU (I know, I failed as a parent).  Tickets are free to students.  They do give you a free jersey but I think you have to attend almost all of the home games.  Her roommate is on track to get the jersey and never watched a game before she got to BU.  The do t-shirt tosses, free face paint for kids (although they get more adults), and I think she mentioned random food giveaways.  Maybe this is the way.

[BearLover]

Not to bring up BU friend again, but over there, they do something where if you go to like, I think the number is 10 hockey games (M or W), you can get a free jersey. Which helps!

Just to back up Stereax's comment.  My daughter is a freshman at BU (I know, I failed as a parent).  Tickets are free to students.  They do give you a free jersey but I think you have to attend almost all of the home games.  Her roommate is on track to get the jersey and never watched a game before she got to BU.  The do t-shirt tosses, free face paint for kids (although they get more adults), and I think she mentioned random food giveaways.  Maybe this is the way.

Wait, BU student tickets are free?

[Beeeej]

They also should only sell Harvard seats as part of a four-game package.

[insert legacy vomit emoji]

What's wrong

My opinion is that such a thing would backfire. You want the Harvard game sold out and packed, rather than risking empty seats because some people (understandably) didn't want to spend $80 on the Harvard game and some games they might or might not even be able to attend, much less want to, instead of spending $20. It works for Harvard to sell the Cornell game only as part of a package because Cornell fans in the Boston area are vindictive and spiteful, and gleefully spend the extra money, then fill Bright with red and white and outshout the few Harvard fans in attendance at games that are relatively meaningless to Cornell. Harvard fans won't do the same at Lynah.

Wait, I'm confused. Who said anything about Harvard fans? I'm talking about selling tickets to Cornell fans. They already do sell Harvard tickets as part of a package of 2 (alongside the Dartmouth game that weekend). The result has been a completely sold out Dartmouth game. My suggestion is that anyone who buys a Harvard game ticket must also buy Dartmouth (this is already in place) plus select one additional weekend set of games.

Do you imagine that a response to your post must address the exact things you said and only those exact things? My use of "some people" above was intended to address the suggestion that Cornell fans/townies would spend more to see games they may not care about, but I also thought it would be useful to point to a situation that is more successful at Harvard than a parallel solution would be at Cornell and explain why. Your point about Dartmouth is well-taken, but at the same time, it's the same weekend as Harvard. Asking people to eschew other plans or make additional travel plans for a second weekend is a bigger lift, and I think it would backfire, resulting in fewer package purchases.

[Weder]

I was scrolling through tickets for the winter break games and did not realize they charge $50 for a single-game ticket for the box seats.

[chimpfood]

One fun idea that would never happen is to cancel classes on the Friday of the first home game and have the game at noon. Pretty much just make it a holiday for the purpose of the hockey game. Not really practical because it would hurt townie attendance but it would be fun as hell.

[Beeeej]

One fun idea that would never happen is to cancel classes on the Friday of the first home game and have the game at noon. Pretty much just make it a holiday for the purpose of the hockey game. Not really practical because it would hurt townie attendance...

...and ESPN+ viewership.

[BearLover]

I think maximizing revenue is at odds with maximizing atmosphere. It's a shame our tickets are way more expensive than most other schools'. I like the one free voucher per student idea from the other thread.

[ugarte]

One fun idea that would never happen is to cancel classes on the Friday of the first home game and have the game at noon. Pretty much just make it a holiday for the purpose of the hockey game. Not really practical because it would hurt townie attendance...

...and ESPN+ viewership.

sounds like someone takes their job a little too seriously