Attendance For The Rest Of The Season

[AppAlum1]

Yosef club and ticket prices are complements. Give back your MBA are retake ECON 101 if you think the price of one doesn't affect the other.

I think you need to retake Grammar 101.

My response to your statement above is: Nuh-uh.

[AppAlum1]

To appalum1, in an effort to be more clear, your position that an increase in "contributions" should have no impact on tickets sales is most likely true at the upper end of the Yosef contribution limits. However, at the lower limits of $250 and $100 it is not. Also there are significantly more contributors at these lower levels. The $250 contributor had to decide what to do: double commitment or move or drop. The $100 contributor was really in a quandary. Many of them became single ticket people and b/c of their number they hurt the attendance number.

OK, I'll agree to that.

[Goapps15]

It does not matter to me I will be there every weekend at the Rock! One thing that does hurt attendance is how little fans other teams bring to Boone.

[App91]

Actually everything here is true. Coach Moore, the move up, money, loss of old rivalries, geography, TV, and the rest. Again though not one of those things is a surprise. So the real question is not why because we know why. The real question is what is being done about it? What can be done about it. Expansion? Doesn't sound logical to me. Stadium improvements? Maybe depending on what they are. How about a survey. Has anyone asked the fan base? the alumni? Do we really know why people stopped coming? Do we know why people never started? We have a pretty large alum base in the 3-4 hour range of Boone. Do we know why such a small percentage come? I am not one who thinks people have to attend an event they either enjoy something or they don't. If I am an organizer of an event I think I need to know why or why not. Now I think that one of the reasons is that some are at games at State, Duke, Carolina, Wake, and VT. With that said I think I also need to know why.
We spend a lot of time talking about what the players want and that is fine. Do we ever spend any time investigating what the alumni want? You notice I didn't say fans I said alumni. Those folks who are not fans. We graduate more students each year and ticket sales go down. Not a great business model. We should not be looking so much at what WE want as WE are already here. We need to reach the folks who are not yet fans. We need to fill the funnel. Premium seating is fine but is that for NEW fans? I don't think so. If that is the case we need to fill the seats those premium buyers are leaving. Plain and simple our number one goal should be NEW fans. The alternative is even more price increases.

As i said before the ODU game, we have an attendance problem. Hell, half those who do come leave at halftime. Do we reach out to those who have bought tickets in the past? I would like to know exactly what IS the marketing strategy, because i dont really see one.

[AppDawg]

First we are all on the same-side ok?????? Now business people out there.... when do you double the cost of an item (service) and sell more? If diet coke went from $7/case to $14/case or big screen tv's from $600 to $1200.....you wouldn't sell more.
2007 24,219; 2008 28,727; 2009 25,969; 2010 29,449; 2011 28,031; 2012 27,964; 2013 24894; 2014 23,166; 2015 21,21459; 2016?????
There are many factors that affect attendances. you all have been citing them: increased access to games via tv/computer, home schedule, weather, the "national trends," and Cost. To be clear, our attendance number this season will somewhat higher due to the UM effect but the actual number ïn the stands" will be significantly less. We will probably experience the lower number in the 2017 attendance figures.

Agree on 2017 for 1 reason only. GaSo and Lafayette are most likely weekday games. IF those games are on saturday & with Wake coming to town, we may actually see a bump in '17. It all hinges on weekday vs. Saturday next season.

[97grad]

I agree with AppFan11 and think that we would see a spike in attendance if we brought back the mini season ticket package of 3 games.

I've been harping on this since the half-season packages were eliminated. We "stepped up" this year in both YC donation and half to full season ticket upgrade, the thought being that we would hopefully make one additional game and sell the others. But of course the reason we're all talking is because demand for tickets is low, which means we're unable to recoup any significant portion of the costs for games we can't attend. IMO for a large portion of the alumni/fan base that lives more than a couple of hours from Boone, and may have other fall commitments, 3 games is perfect. Our current thinking is that if half season packages don't come back next year, we will likely purchase individual tickets instead.

[appgrad95&97]

I'll say it again, five home games, about every other year (assuming we can schedule a winnable, regional P5 school on the road) might not be so bad.

[bcoach]

I'll say no way. I would never be in favor of giving up 6 home games.