How do we get more Tech fans to the games?

dodd_54 said:
Get rid of the dumb promotional stuff at the game and have home games on Saturday with a 1:00 start. Thursday night games don't provide for out of town attendance, ie., Tech fans from Valdosta, Savannah, etc.
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Dumb promotional stuff at game - uhhh, tune it out. If you're a football fan (like me), you don't notice it (I don't). Until we start selling out and contributing more, then maybe the GTAA won't have to look elsewhere for revenue generation.

Thursday night games - tough sell considering our Thursday night attendance is probably higher than our average Sat attendance (nothing scientific here, just my opinion from going to the games and judging the attendance).
 
they want to go see a FOOTBALL Game, not a marketing zoo. from the first second they encounter anything that even suggests football they have had to skirt a mile of vendors selling everything from insurance to actual items of use, like food.

then they get inside, and hear the PA spouting non-stop about completely stupid things for half the game. then every commercial break is filled with some idiotic prize giveaway.

that should be kept to pro sports. college sports is about competition, valour, effort, boys to men type stuff, not hawking haircuts

if we sell out the GT history and tradition for a few measly $$, they why do you think it so weird that long-time Tech fans sell their seats when they dont even get a college football game anymore? they get a pro sports experience with a weak product.

you wanted suggestions, this is one i have heard from several older and wealthy Tech men; ridicule all you want, but i also wish that they would stop the incessant idiocy! in fact, i think they should "auction" away all the ads, by offering to alumni the opportunity to pay the money to replace any ad or stupid contest that ruins the college gameday experience. ill bet money that they dont do these things at Notre Dame or Auburn, and i know they dont do them at UGA. it does make a difference
 
One small suggestion that I think would help - mail out a football ticket order form to all alumni and contributors. For those who are not going to buy a season ticket encourage the purchase of single game tickets. I am told by fellow alums who have moved some distance from Atlanta and are not season ticket holders that they do not receive ticket applications.

This would help us sell out the big games with Tech fans, not fans of other schools. I think alums would pick a time to come to Atlanta for a game or two if they had the order mailed to them. I think it would help the crowds be larger and again, with Tech fans, at the games that typically don't sell out.

Nothing excites a fan more in the spring than to get the ticket order. This cultivates persons with Tech ties to try a game or two. Get them coming and they may join the season ticket base.

My Dad, an Auburn grad, always received his football order form in spite of not being a season ticket holder. He always ordered one or two single game tickets a year for our family. Their end zone seats were typically filled with Auburn grads and fans who had bought a single game ticket.
 
BuzzCzar said:
if we sell out the GT history and tradition for a few measly $$, they why do you think it so weird that long-time Tech fans sell their seats when they dont even get a college football game anymore? they get a pro sports experience with a weak product.

you wanted suggestions, this is one i have heard from several older and wealthy Tech men; ridicule all you want, but i also wish that they would stop the incessant idiocy! in fact, i think they should "auction" away all the ads, by offering to alumni the opportunity to pay the money to replace any ad or stupid contest that ruins the college gameday experience. ill bet money that they dont do these things at Notre Dame or Auburn, and i know they dont do them at UGA. it does make a difference
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Notre Dame, Auburn and UGA don't need the money. ND has a national fanbase and UGA and Auburn have student enrollment of 25k or greater (and more than 50% women at both schools, who go on to breed younger fans).

GT needs the money - the football program is run like a business because it is a business.
 
ContactBuzz said:
Thursday night games - tough sell considering our Thursday night attendance is probably higher than our average Sat attendance (nothing scientific here, just my opinion from going to the games and judging the attendance).
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Ok, so I looked it up. Avg attendance excludes the Thursday night game....

2007 avg Sat attendance - 49,960 (6 games)
Thursday night - 52,202

2006 avg Sat attendance - 50,540 (6 games)
Thursday night - 51,081

2006 avg Sat attendance - 51,642 (5 games)
Thursday night - 51,432
 
czar, if they're staying away due to the 'weak product', then that has nothing to do with the marketing stuff.....they're simply 'fair-weather'.

If they're actually staying away because of the marketing stuff that happens WHEN THE GAME'S NOT GOING ON, then yes, they're idiots.
 
I don't differ with that. I differ with the underlying assumption of the 1990 comparison - that the Tech fanbase now is as small or smaller than it was in 1990, and is as unexcited or more unexcited about football than it was in 1991.

Contactbuzz's numbers bear out my opinion.
 
The only thing I hate about the games during commercials are when they get the most unathletic guys out there to do the games. Sometimes it is embarrasing.
As for that being a reason to not come to the games, stay at home. Sit on your recliner so you will never have to stand up and actually cheer. At least your seat will be taken by somebody else who cares about the team and not how the game format is set up.
I live an hour and a half away and have been to the last 3 out of 4 Thursday night games. Thursday night games are an amazing atmosphere. Keep them coming.
 
I don't mind all geezers, just the fair weather geezers. We need butts in seats.
 
Just putting fans in seats:
1. Winning games.
2. Beating our market rival - UGAG - more than 3x out of 17, like 4-5x out of 10.

Building loyal fans:
1. Sell the program and the institute to new fans.
2. Win championships.
 
BuzzCzar said:
ill bet money that they dont do these things at Notre Dame or Auburn, and i know they dont do them at UGA. it does make a difference
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I dont know abt Notre Dame or Auburn but I do know that they do these things at FSU and they pretty much have a full stadium every saturday. If somebody refuses to go to the game because they are giving away free stuff or because there's vendors selling food and what not then that person needs to go have their head examined in IMO. We are going to put butts in the seats by having something exciting to offer both on and off the field.
 
dodd_54 said:
Get rid of the dumb promotional stuff at the game and have home games on Saturday with a 1:00 start. Thursday night games don't provide for out of town attendance, ie., Tech fans from Valdosta, Savannah, etc.
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Dude, 1pm is a tough start if you your driving in from 3 hours out and want to tailgate. 2pm would be much better.:biggthumpup:
 
ncjacket said:
If they don't go because of marketing stuff they probably just need to stay home.
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If they don't like the promotional stuff in the stadium, do you think they're going to watch a bunch of ads on TV?
 
beej67 said:
I don't differ with that. I differ with the underlying assumption of the 1990 comparison - that the Tech fanbase now is as small or smaller than it was in 1990, and is as unexcited or more unexcited about football than it was in 1991.

Contactbuzz's numbers bear out my opinion.
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beej,

The fanbase is bigger, but so is the stadium, so the comparison lies intact.
 
ramblingamblin said:
The only thing I hate about the games during commercials are when they get the most unathletic guys out there to do the games. Sometimes it is embarrasing.
As for that being a reason to not come to the games, stay at home. Sit on your recliner so you will never have to stand up and actually cheer. At least your seat will be taken by somebody else who cares about the team and not how the game format is set up.
I live an hour and a half away and have been to the last 3 out of 4 Thursday night games. Thursday night games are an amazing atmosphere. Keep them coming.
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The row in front of my season tickets (now ex-season ticket holder of 23 years) were filled with UGA pukes, as was my row and the entire row behind me. The fans in Section 124 rows 21, 22 and 23 (with the exception of me and my son) are worthless pieces of ****. Form the looks of BDS last year during the UGA game so were a lot of the puscatores who call themselves season ticket holders.
 
ContactBuzz said:
Ok, so I looked it up. Avg attendance excludes the Thursday night game....

2007 avg Sat attendance - 49,960 (6 games)
Thursday night - 52,202

2006 avg Sat attendance - 50,540 (6 games)
Thursday night - 51,081

2006 avg Sat attendance - 51,642 (5 games)
Thursday night - 51,432
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Contact, I'd wager those were tickets sold and not actual attendance on Thursdays. Also, all the Thursday games have been "good" games, i.e. marquee opponents. No Samfords, Dukes or Troys. Wait until you see that Jax State crowd.

:pat:
 
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