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Re: Tulsa Attendance

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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby SMU Football Blog » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:19 am

One of my pet peeves is giving tickets away to people that won't ever come back. It is a waste of energy and money. They aren't going to buy concessions. They aren't going to buy tickets in the future.
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby Stallion » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:44 am

a complete waste of resources-remember you can't give away free tickets except to certain defined groups like recruits, family etc
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby SMU_Alumni11 » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:29 pm

I do think we need to lower ticket prices down to like 5 dollars for entry, and let people flood in, and hope you can make some money off of concessions but main reason is to eliminate barrier to entry. I remember I was able to drag my friend to a game (sadly went to SMU and has to be dragged) and he was like Im not paying 20 bucks. Fortunately we were able to buy someone's extra ticket for 10 bucks. I know 20 is pocket change to some, but for people like my friend it seems like an overpriced admission.
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby footballdad » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:29 pm

SoCal_Pony: "enormously naive to expect 'wins' to cure this."

Most logical comment ever made on the topic.
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby GreenbeltPony » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:47 pm

footballdad wrote:SoCal_Pony: "enormously naive to expect 'wins' to cure this."

Most logical comment ever made on the topic.


Depends on how far you're interpreting the comment. Of course, one flash-in-the-pan 10-2 season won't cure our attendance problems. A 10-2 season followed by heavy marketing over the spring & summer as well as continued success over the following season would probably make huge strides. No comparison is perfect for SMU, but take a look at Temple:

2013 (2-10): Averaged 20k
2014 (6-6): Averaged 21k-22k
2015 (7-1): Have averaged around 35k-36k

And that's not even including the huge home games like Penn State and ND, although the former was 60k+ with mostly Temple fans filling the stands.
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby blackoutpony » Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:47 pm

Pony Boss wrote:sb is a negative nancy and will never see anything positive relating to SMU. He relishes on the defeats and loves losing. That is what it seems sb, no offense.


You're so dumb it hurts. Insinuating anyone here wants SMU to lose is moronic. Literally, you're so dumb, you should wake up in the morning and punch yourself in the face and hope you knock some sense into yourself, since no one else can because it'll probably be a hate crime against a protected species of insanity and stupid.

What is wrong with you? Seriously??? Why do you think anyone on the damn board, who continually punches themselves in the nuts or ovaries by watching SMU sports, wants this? What kind of meth do you have? Must be some good stuff to send you so far into outer space, that you'd actually believe the garbage you write here.

Now put down the needle and STFU about saying people want to lose just because you don't like it that someone didn't fit into your wonderful and cute narrative where we are undefeated and 47 time in a row national champions.
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby Charleston Pony » Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:29 pm

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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby SMUer » Tue Nov 03, 2015 7:01 pm

Why do we even sell 2nd-tir seating? Just stop selling those tickets and both sides will look +15% more full. I honestly don't understand why they are even offered. We'd be forgiven by TV crews if the red seats were mostly full. The scattered out bit looks bad.
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby Pony Boss » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:18 pm

Lol bop
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Re: Tulsa Attendance

Postby whitwiki » Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:30 am

blackoutpony wrote:
Pony Boss wrote:sb is a negative nancy and will never see anything positive relating to SMU. He relishes on the defeats and loves losing. That is what it seems sb, no offense.


You're so dumb it hurts. Insinuating anyone here wants SMU to lose is moronic. Literally, you're so dumb, you should wake up in the morning and punch yourself in the face and hope you knock some sense into yourself, since no one else can because it'll probably be a hate crime against a protected species of insanity and stupid.

What is wrong with you? Seriously??? Why do you think anyone on the damn board, who continually punches themselves in the nuts or ovaries by watching SMU sports, wants this? What kind of meth do you have? Must be some good stuff to send you so far into outer space, that you'd actually believe the garbage you write here.

Now put down the needle and STFU about saying people want to lose just because you don't like it that someone didn't fit into your wonderful and cute narrative where we are undefeated and 47 time in a row national champions.

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