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In light of the recent stadium improvements and their unpalatability with some fans, and being that our fan base is already pretty wide spread in both geography and life priorities, I've thought of an idea that might help our AA address two simultaneous needs for our football and maybe also our basketball team. I've got a basic outline of the idea, but I wanted to put it in front of some fans to see whether it can be improved and/or whether it's worth developing into an actual proposal to set on Stansbury's desk. I'm calling the project BDS@Home for now, because nerd recognize nerd.

Here's the basics:

1) GTAA begins selling 'Home Seat' tickets that fans can buy (at a highly discounted price from stadium admission tickets) that will allow them to log into the GT Gameday App from home any time after kickoff to be counted in a new official 'Total Worldwide Attendance' number to be tracked and published by the GTAA. This number will be displayed on the jumbotron throughout the game to excite the players, and the fans and recruits in the stands. This monetizes and invests fans who want to support the program but are unable to do so or are unwilling to do so in currently available ways or at current prices.

2) A portion (or all) of the proceeds from the sales of 'Home Seat' tickets is used to purchase actual seats in the stadium which are then donated to organizations which can fill them, such as any number of local charity or social organizations or military and veterans organizations. These seats can come with optional complimentary fan gear for attendees to wear at the game if they desire it. This helps fill out the fringes of the stadium with enthusiastic new fans and skews the color scheme in the right direction.

There are other possibilities to be mentioned for these home seats, depending on how our media contracts are structured, many of which fall well within our wheelhouse as the Institute of Technology. There is the potential possibility of some kind of at home VR experience streamed from BDS, either from stationary cameras in the stands or from drones deployed in the stadium. We could potentially deploy our own sideline reporters to generate content from our sideline, like exclusive video and audio from exciting plays or exclusive interviews or soundbytes from players as the game goes on. At home viewers could also submit a video review of their own @home fan setups to be (curated and then) entered into a contest for 'Fan Cave of the Week/Year', which can be voted on by other fans online or on the app and honored on the jumbotron at BDS. These options could all be made accessible through the Gameday app with valid home seats, both live and for replay as an extra thank you to fans who choose to participate in the program this way even though they don't have to.

Let me know what y'all think. Good, bad, ugly, improvements, problems, etc. Hit me.

EDIT: I'll track suggestions here.

Improvements:
- Bumper sticker or other physical swag for home seat purchases.
- Potential to use home ticket data for improved coordination of watch parties.
- VR experience extended to pregame activities like YJA, FPV camera on The Wreck.
- If possible, VR feed skips commercials, does sideline footage instead.
- Potentially send tickets to high schools as well.

Problems:
- Folks can already give money to the GTAA without buying tickets.
- VR streaming the game may conflict with media rights agreements already in place.
 
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I like the idea. It feels like a cross between ECU's highly successful "virtual bowl" campaign and the original intent of Clemson's IPTAY.

One thing I would suggest is some sort of physical reward, like a bumper sticker, to entice people into joining and feel like they're at least getting a little something for their money.
 
andrew said:
I like the idea. It feels like a cross between ECU's highly successful "virtual bowl" campaign and the original intent of Clemson's IPTAY.

One thing I would suggest is some sort of physical reward, like a bumper sticker, to entice people into joining and feel like they're at least getting a little something for their money.
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Excellent idea. GTAA could certainly offer a wide array of items if they wanted to. Mugs, pens, buttons, flags, not out of the question. Maybe even some higher quality stuff for people who go in on the AT fund with their purchase.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
This monetizes and invests fans who want to support the program but are unable to do so or are unwilling to do so in currently available ways or at current prices.
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Cool idea for sure, but I feel like for your point above, people can already send money into the GTAA in any amount. I don't know if this would provide sufficient motivation to get folks who otherwise wouldn't spend the money to do so.

I do really like the idea of giving people a way to directly fund a portion of a seat or seats that are then used to allow local kids to attend.
 
Is the current stadium structure more profitable than a smaller stadium ie. if the GTAA tore down the upper north, would they be able to drive up ticket prices in such a way that the stadium would be more profitable per season?
 
coit said:
Cool idea for sure, but I feel like for your point above, people can already send money into the GTAA in any amount. I don't know if this would provide sufficient motivation to get folks who otherwise wouldn't spend the money to do so.

I do really like the idea of giving people a way to directly fund a portion of a seat or seats that are then used to allow local kids to attend.
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I think it's that latter point that will break through to more than a few holdouts. Reading over the objections, it seems more than a few people aren't content with contributions that benefit only the GTAA. Growing the community and enabling someone to enjoy the game who normally would not be able to do something like that would at least blunt those concerns. Throw in andrew's swag idea, and I'd be tempted to think it'd work. That said, I really do want to hear from the disgruntled folks ITT. Might have to go back through the other threads and remember who they are so I can @ them here.
 
While not disgruntled, I do have a toddler, infant and a wife who works Saturdays, so I'd be all over it as a way to help and be more involved. It would also be nice for the GameDay app to do something other than send me reminders that the basketball team lost again.
 
wrong. we need to make things harder on the fans, encourage visitors to buy our seats and let bimbos like Sportsbroad bitch about everything under the sun.
 
With this plan, will disgruntled fans have to move out of their house when they want to withold support of the program?
 
Could you recap what the GT Gameday App is and what it provides in it's current state?
 
ee8384 said:
Could you recap what the GT Gameday App is and what it provides in it's current state?
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It's an app I use to get parking on game day. I think it also lets you buy tickets and stinger seats and spend some kind of points on fan perks like buzz photos and signed items, but I've never used that so I don't really know. I think it also has links to game programs and some other items like that, but again, I just use it for parking.
 
As someone 2000 miles away, I would be up for this, especially for enhanced coverage of the games. Would be nice to link up with watch parties or alumni clubs in out of state areas. Don't know how that works, but it could work.
 
ee8384 said:
Could you recap what the GT Gameday App is and what it provides in it's current state?
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Other than what TIA said, it also provides streaming audio of games and of the weekly radio shows, and also has Gametracker-style live updated box scores from games as well.
 
I like the home VR BDS experience. Make that pay based. Lower donation for upper view. As you increase donation, you get access to the multiple views offered. But make them cheap, I'm already at home and have a way to watch the game without spending additional dollars. But a few extra bucks and I'd pay for VR for a little while. Set up VR for pregame stuff too so you can enjoy that, like the band and team walking to stadium. Then maybe stick a camera on the ramblin' wreck so you're riding in.

Depending on camera angle, watching a hoops game via VR might be pretty cool too.
 
killerB said:
I like the home VR BDS experience. Make that pay based. Lower donation for upper view. As you increase donation, you get access to the multiple views offered. But make them cheap, I'm already at home and have a way to watch the game without spending additional dollars. But a few extra bucks and I'd pay for VR for a little while. Set up VR for pregame stuff too so you can enjoy that, like the band and team walking to stadium. Then maybe stick a camera on the ramblin' wreck so you're riding in.

Depending on camera angle, watching a hoops game via VR might be pretty cool too.
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That camera on the wreck idea is freaking gold.
 
Depending on the price you pay, you get the VR experience sans commercials. Shots of sideline meetings, cheerleaders, etc instead.

Yeah, I like the idea.
 
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