Lynah Attendance

[Pghas]

The appearance of scarcity is enough to create scarcity.   

The only way to forever boost up student ticket buys is to bring back the line and the outdoor campout. Everyone on campus would hear that it's almost time for that annual ritual. And it's safe to assume that anyone new to campus who heard students were camping out overnight for tickets to something would ask what was going on.

If people are willing to camp out in line for tickets, they must be something really worthwhile right?

I arrived in fall of 1985, and though the procedure changed several times during my years on campus, the student tickets generally sold out from the line.  If you thought you might even want tickets at all you really needed to get in line for fear of being locked out. It's a self perpetuating cycle.

Realistically, I don't think there's a snowballs chance of that tradition coming back.

But I'll ask this:  If Duke banned the season ticket campout for hoops and switched to some form of electronic lottery or something like that, don't you think that 10 years down the line there would be a significant reduction in "on campus craziness"?

Hot Truck started taking phone orders and was gone within two years.

Rituals matter.

I agree, but hot truck sold out to Shortstop Deli.  I'm not sure it was out of desperation.  But I could be wrong. But I can zip over to SS in a Sunday afternoon and woof down a little Sicilian

[RichH]

Hot Truck started taking phone orders and was gone within two years.

Rituals matter.

More like 15 years (after 40+ years without a phone), but nonetheless I agree with your point.

Thanks for the correction, Will! Time has no meaning.

And yes, the point is that sacrifice and a certain amount of suffering are important to institutions like 2am Hot Truck and Lynah season tickets. Even the band once had a priority point system to determine who could get in the hockey band. Those who would commit to play for lightweight football and women's volleyball would have a better shot at getting one of the band hockey tickets.

[Jim Hyla]

The appearance of scarcity is enough to create scarcity.   

The only way to forever boost up student ticket buys is to bring back the line and the outdoor campout. Everyone on campus would hear that it's almost time for that annual ritual. And it's safe to assume that anyone new to campus who heard students were camping out overnight for tickets to something would ask what was going on.

If people are willing to camp out in line for tickets, they must be something really worthwhile right?

I arrived in fall of 1985, and though the procedure changed several times during my years on campus, the student tickets generally sold out from the line.  If you thought you might even want tickets at all you really needed to get in line for fear of being locked out. It's a self perpetuating cycle.

Realistically, I don't think there's a snowballs chance of that tradition coming back.

But I'll ask this:  If Duke banned the season ticket campout for hoops and switched to some form of electronic lottery or something like that, don't you think that 10 years down the line there would be a significant reduction in "on campus craziness"?

Hot Truck started taking phone orders and was gone within two years.

Rituals matter.

Agreed. But it's not just the ritual.  It's the effort required.

That's the psychology behind fraternity pledging. It works.

Maybe for some.

[chimpfood]

Colgate game is sold out. The kids love throwing shit, that's for sure.

[Jim Hyla]

Colgate game is sold out. The kids love throwing shit, that's for sure.

First I thought you were talking about the next game, @ Colgate and I thought "You got to be kidding."

Then realized you meant @ Lynah.

Maybe all that has been said about attendance may come down to:

JUST WIN!

And I guess that means again lugging in 2 tote bags of papers.

This may be the season where accumulating Syracuse Post-Standard, Ithaca Journal, New York Times and whatever else I can grab for a year, may not be enough.

So try bringing some of your own and grab some extra Sun's and IJ's if you can.

[stereax]

So try bringing some of your own and grab some extra Sun's and IJ's if you can.

Copy that. I'm usually at trivia on Thursday nights at Ithaca Bakery, so I think I can nick a good stack from there, plus the law school tends to have a bunch of Suns floating around that nobody uses...

[stereax]

So try bringing some of your own and grab some extra Sun's and IJ's if you can.

Copy that. I'm usually at trivia on Thursday nights at Ithaca Bakery, so I think I can nick a good stack from there, plus the law school tends to have a bunch of Suns floating around that nobody uses...

Reminds me - for anyone on campus, I'm fairly sure the Dairy Bar has a bunch of newspapers too.

[BearLover]

Lots of empty seats last night even though the team hadn't been home in a long time. Listed attendance 3,762 but it looked emptier than that. Maybe you can chalk 50 of those to basketball, but you still need to find 500+ more fans for a sellout. Hopefully tonight is a sellout...

[ugarte]

Lots of empty seats last night even though the team hadn't been home in a long time. Listed attendance 3,762 but it looked emptier than that. Maybe you can chalk 50 of those to basketball, but you still need to find 500+ more fans for a sellout. Hopefully tonight is a sellout...

watch the bball highlights from last night's win over Yale on ESPN and tell me if you still think hockey only lost 50 people to a competent basketball team. big red basketball improving in the last 20 years has probably been bad for hockey attendance. for students who didn't come in a hockey fans it's more accessible and the fans don't have the chants but do have energy.

[upprdeck]

no tickets on cornellbigred.com for the game now.  there were a 1-200 earlier in the week.

[BearLover]

Lots of empty seats last night even though the team hadn't been home in a long time. Listed attendance 3,762 but it looked emptier than that. Maybe you can chalk 50 of those to basketball, but you still need to find 500+ more fans for a sellout. Hopefully tonight is a sellout...

watch the bball highlights from last night's win over Yale on ESPN and tell me if you still think hockey only lost 50 people to a competent basketball team. big red basketball improving in the last 20 years has probably been bad for hockey attendance. for students who didn't come in a hockey fans it's more accessible and the fans don't have the chants but do have energy.

I watched much of the game live, Newman wasn't that full and I just don't think there's much crossover between hockey and basketball fans. Your last point about accessibility for not-yet-hockey-fans is fair though.

[chimpfood]

As one of the people that missed the first for basketball there were probably 100-200 of us. And it will be the same today. Nothing to panic about, just big games for basketball.

[stereax]

As usual, C was only half full. I suspect a good amount of STMs just don't show up... wish there was something like, if you're at the door at 7 and X amount of seats aren't full, they could sell those X tickets. I get why it isn't a thing (people run late, go between sports, etc), but it'd help.

[BearLover]

As usual, C was only half full. I suspect a good amount of STMs just don't show up... wish there was something like, if you're at the door at 7 and X amount of seats aren't full, they could sell those X tickets. I get why it isn't a thing (people run late, go between sports, etc), but it'd help.

Yeah, all the student sections except B looked half full, all the sections behind the StL goal looked half full...even later in the game, long after basketball ended. Yikes

[BearLover]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.