Tulane new stadium ticket sales v. Ticket Sales at Ford

[ponyinNC]

I will pay attention to one number - actual butts in seats at tulane.

I have never once seen even 20k at a Tulane game in the Superdome, unless they play LSU.

[StallionsModelT]

The game that was last played between SMU-Tulane in the Superdome looked like maybe 3,000 were in the stands.

[LA_Mustang]

A stadium with a capacity of 30,000 is not going to be very attractive to the Big 12 or SEC.

[lwjr]

I would be shocked if 13,000 extra tickets were actually bought for business gain, particularly with the Yellow Jackets being the best opponent on their schedule. If that actually happened in real life than A&M would unquestionably help us sell out our season ticket alotment for this year.

23,000 is just really surprising to me for Tulane

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Congrats to our ticket sales staff for setting a single-week @SMU_Football season ticket sales record! We can't wait for new fans! #PonyUp
Your A&M comment coming true

[CalallenStang]

I would be shocked if 13,000 extra tickets were actually bought for business gain, particularly with the Yellow Jackets being the best opponent on their schedule. If that actually happened in real life than A&M would unquestionably help us sell out our season ticket alotment for this year.

23,000 is just really surprising to me for Tulane

They've had 20k season ticket holders for years and years. That's why they always report 20k and change as attendance when turnstile attendance is rarely more than 8k.

Tulane has a lot of alumni that live far away from NOLA but will buy a few season tickets as a way to support the school, then not show up to more than 1 or 2 games a year

[Stallion]

You got to remember that the Hurricane destroyed the Tulane program-believe it or not Tulane had a pretty darn good program in the years before it hit. I do remember they had about 28,000 or so when we played down there in what 78 or 79. There is no reason Tulane can't have a competitive program. they are doing exactly what they should be doing-circling the wagon around Southern Louisiana recruits

[East Coast Mustang]

Back in '98 when they went undefeated and were a top ten team, they still didn't draw that well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Tulan ... tball_team

[ojaipony]

Back in '98 when they went undefeated and were a top ten team, they still didn't draw that well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Tulan ... tball_team

Yep, my best friend was a big booster (was a bball GA when they had their Jerald Honeycutt bball NCAA run) and is a "somewhat" prominent alum of theirs. They have had a few really good years in both sports, but I don't see them able to do much sustainably. Personally, I hope they are dogshit for years to come in both sports and we beat them by 50 every year in all sports.

[Digetydog]

Guys, all of the Big 12 stuff was for background context. My real reason for posting was that I was astonished Tulane booked 23,000 in season ticket sales next year since Stallion confirmed for me that we never have much more than 10,000 for Ford. As I recall the 20-25K was all TCU had when they were winning 11 games per year in the Mountain West for a sustained period. If 23,000 is a real number then it indicates to people who don't know better that Tulane's fan base doubles or triples SMU's fan base.

My best friend and his wife are Tulane grads. Their new stadium goes beyond football. To them, it is a symbol of Tulane's (and New Orleans') survival of the Katrina destruction. That stadium says "we are here to stay."

[mustangxc]

Back in '98 when they went undefeated and were a top ten team, they still didn't draw that well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Tulan ... tball_team

Yep, my best friend was a big booster (was a bball GA when they had their Jerald Honeycutt bball NCAA run) and is a "somewhat" prominent alum of theirs. They have had a few really good years in both sports, but I don't see them able to do much sustainably. Personally, I hope they are dogshit for years to come in both sports and we beat them by 50 every year in all sports.

So I take it you would be perfectly happy moving to the Sunbelt conference??? Every time one of our conference mates is mentioned you say you want them to be terrible for years to come! I would love to have multiple teams in the Top 25 like we did last year in basketball and I want SMU to be in the top 25 consistently. Even if we aren't winning conference championships, but win 8-10 games a season against stout competition I would be very excited.

[orguy]

The best (and probably only) chance for SMU to have a shot at P5 is some sort of agreed-upon mandate by the P5 to adopt the 5x14 or 5x16 model. As long as membership numbers are at the conference's discretion, we won't be getting an invite to move up unless we go on some otherworldly tear and rip off a couple 11 win seasons and basketball is a consistent national title contender (very possible). If each of the P5 agree that there must be 16 schools in each conference then I could see SMU being added. It really is a numbers game. There are, IMO, only a handful of G5 schools that add any real value to a P5 conference:

BYU
Cincinnati
UConn
UCF
USF
SMU
Houston
Boise State
Memphis

After that you get into schools with extremely shoddy academic problems or budgetary concerns like SDSU, Fresno State, UNLV, Colorado State, Temple, ECU, Tulsa, New Mexico.

After that everyone else is totally irrelevant.

Boise Junior College is far behind schools like SDSU, CSU, New Mexico etc. Its the unspoken dirty little secret about why they never were tendered an invitation to the PAC imho. US news has 268 nationally ranked universities. Every school mentioned here makes this list except one. Boise Junior College is still nothing more than a football program attached to a community college level academic institution.

[orguy]

Guys, all of the Big 12 stuff was for background context. My real reason for posting was that I was astonished Tulane booked 23,000 in season ticket sales next year since Stallion confirmed for me that we never have much more than 10,000 for Ford. As I recall the 20-25K was all TCU had when they were winning 11 games per year in the Mountain West for a sustained period. If 23,000 is a real number then it indicates to people who don't know better that Tulane's fan base doubles or triples SMU's fan base.

My best friend and his wife are Tulane grads. Their new stadium goes beyond football. To them, it is a symbol of Tulane's (and New Orleans') survival of the Katrina destruction. That stadium says "we are here to stay."

Wish Tulane all the success. Great school in a great city.

[Stallion]

Here's an Update on Tulane season tickets. AD says they only have 4,000 left. However, that probably doesn't include students and visiting allotment. Also from what I've been reading the actual non-standing room capacity maybe far lower than 30,000-i've read it maybe only between 25-26,000. but sounds like they should be over 20,000 "season tickets' which is a big shot in the arm for Tulane

https://t.e2ma.net/message/7mewh/vdrmvs

[SMU 86]

How many season tickets did we sell to Ford Stadium in its first year of 2000?

Reason for question:

I have a close friend that is a board member for the Tulane Athletic Foundation and he has been going on and on about Tulane's strategy of making a temporary move to AAC, building their new stadium, and then pumping up ticket sales and posting some winning records as a way to gain Big 12 entry since Tulane has been assured that the Big 12 really wants more access to SEC country.

Just yesterday he said something shocking to me, however. Tulane has already sold nearly 23,000 season tickets for football next year. If you have ever watched Tulane in the dome you know how shocking this number is for that program.

I wonder what there basketball season tickets sales are like.