attendance was DOWN last year....

I think most GT fans were taking a wait-and-see approach with CPJ before plunking down $$$ for tickets... If I lived in Atlanta, I'd have bought season tickets last year... I did make it to the Duke game and CFA Bowl. Hopefully this season will be different :fingersx:
 
Like you mentioned lawbee, that was a direct result of our home slate, which did not provide a lot of opportunity for traveling fans.

I doubt it had any real effect on our overall revenue, as we make far, far more on TV and merchandising than on ticket sales.
 
On the flipside, this years attendance should be way up. We've got Clemson, VT and Ugag at home as well as coming off a 9 - 4 season.

The question will be how much of an increase in season ticket sales?
 
We played 2 FCS teams
Duke
a bad Uva team that we made look good
Miami on a cold, cold Thursday night
a bad Miss St team

FSU was the only game last year I would have expected a sell out or even close to a sellout on. We should sellout 4 games next year. Ugay, VT, UNC(if both teams are 3-0), Clemson.
 
it was a non UGA year.

The attendance is ALWAYS down on those years. Couple that with the fact that we play Clemson at home the same year as we play UGA...you will get down attendance.
 
JWE37 said:
We played 2 FCS teams
Duke
a bad Uva team that we made look good
Miami on a cold, cold Thursday night
a bad Miss St team

FSU was the only game last year I would have expected a sell out or even close to a sellout on. We should sellout 4 games next year. Ugay, VT, UNC(if both teams are 3-0), Clemson.
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Put whatever happy face on this that you want but the fact is we as a fan base don't buy tickets. The same characteristic that kept David Braine employed and that kept Chan Gailey employed is still influencing Georgia Tech. As an overall fan base we are less enthusiastic about our program than most of our competition. I am not addressing the members of this board, but the overall fan base is not as inclined to purchase tickets as most of the schools that we play.
I am afraid we are all going to find out that the business of Georgia Tech athletics is no where near as solid as we had hoped. I will also suggest that despite all the good news and optimism, ticket sales will drop again this year.
 
--Georgia Tech ranked No. 48, drawing 47,489 per game...

Attendance at Division I-A games nationwide totaled 37,483,158, or 46,971 per game--


Down a bit over last year but slightly higher than the nationwide average --not a big deal.
 
Yukonwreck said:
I will also suggest that despite all the good news and optimism, ticket sales will drop again this year.
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Season ticket sales will probably jump by at least 5k due to UGA/Clemson fans. That would completely wipe out the 3k/game loses we had this year.
 
Yukonwreck said:
I will also suggest that despite all the good news and optimism, ticket sales will drop again this year.
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With U[sic]GA and Clemson coming to town, not to mention UNC? You're insane. Ticket sales from TECH fans might indeed drop this year, but overall it will be much higher than last year.
 
My season ticket request came this past Sat. I sent off for the same 2 I've had for years. Season tickets were a little higher this year because we've got better games at home. I can't remember if it was $520 or $540 for the two. There was also an increase of $20 per seat for the "fee" for the seats in that section.

They must be expecting an increase for the demand. I'd say there will be due to better home games and coming off a good season with a win over UGA.
One thing's for sure, it's not getting cheaper even in a bad economy to fund a top D1 program. I'm concerned with the kind of money some of these schools are throwing around for paying even assistant coaches now. UT just blew the doors off of expectations by paying someone like Lance Thompson $400,000 a year. It's getting out of hand, and programs that don't have the money are going to be left behind I'm afraid.
 
GTland03 said:
it was a non UGA year.

The attendance is ALWAYS down on those years. Couple that with the fact that we play Clemson at home the same year as we play UGA...you will get down attendance.
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I have no doubt that your explanation is accurate. My whole point is ---IS IT ACCEPTABLE? We, collectively, cannot sell out our stadium without help from the visiting bigger, more prestigious teams. And you report this as a historical fact. Always been this way and isn't going to change.
The fact is as far as fan bases go, we are the Chan Gailey's of ticket buying--mediocre at best. We just won nine games, beat Georgia, went to a decent bowl game, are predicted to be in the top dozen teams for next year, signed a bunch of good recruits, and we can't sell out but one or two games a year in one of the smaller major college stadiums in our region. Is that acceptable?
 
I hope ticket sales don't decrease...especially after the year we had. The economy is down, no doubt, but people will spend for the things they want. As a whole, I think our fan base is "less rabid" than most...I don't really expect ticket sales to decrease, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. My gut feeling is that season ticket sales will increase slightly but we'll have MUCH better average attendance this year.
 
With UGA and Clemson coming to BDS this season, and no Gardner Webb this season, the average tickets sold per game will increase. Now, the fact that there are six home games instead of last years seven may affect overall ticket sale figures and overall revenue from sales.

'mover wrote:
Take away the North Upperdeck and we are good to go.
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GT would 'sell out' more games, there would be less opportunity for the UGA, Clemson, FSU and VT fans to invade BDS ..but you will lose revenue.

I don't like the upper north stands, aesthetically speaking, it's asymmetrical and simply unappealing, plus there are usually spots of empty seats. But, for those certain games they will be filled up ...which equals $$$'s.

I guess it comes down to $$$'s over the opponents fans, which do you prefer? As much as I wish the structure would have never been added --or at least added as it turned out-- I think the revenue is more important.

Of course the panacea to all of this is an increase of a few thousand in the overall fan base that will come and buy up those upper north seats.
 
Yukonwreck said:
the President isn't providing bailout money for football tickets. I am very confident that attendance at Georgia Tech games will decrease this year over last.
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That is a good point, but I'd still bet they go up on average, due to UGA and Clemson at home. Two guaranteed sell outs can do wonders for your average.
 
Yukonwreck said:
I have no doubt that your explanation is accurate. My whole point is ---IS IT ACCEPTABLE? We, collectively, cannot sell out our stadium without help from the visiting bigger, more prestigious teams. And you report this as a historical fact. Always been this way and isn't going to change.
The fact is as far as fan bases go, we are the Chan Gailey's of ticket buying--mediocre at best. We just won nine games, beat Georgia, went to a decent bowl game, are predicted to be in the top dozen teams for next year, signed a bunch of good recruits, and we can't sell out but one or two games a year in one of the smaller major college stadiums in our region. Is that acceptable?
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We just don't have that big of a fanbase. I'm not convinced we have 50,000 fans in a 100 mile radius of ATL.
 
The only way I could see actual attendance decreasing would be if we just get off to a terrible start with that tough early slate. How could ticket sales NOT increase though?
 
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