Orsini on Ticket 11:30 today

by **SMU89** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:22 am

With norm

by **2ndandlong** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:55 am

I only caught a piece of it. Any revelations?

by **SMU89** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:37 pm

I had to miss it. Was hoping someone would hear it and summarize.

by **westexSMU** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:59 pm

I'm sure Norm asked him what is the athletic dept. working on to improve SMU football ticket sales this year ? Hopefully Orsini has some new marketing strategies beyond a new promotional video and the same things we have been doing the past few years which have not worked very well....As an example, the 17,000 in attendance with a called "white out" for Marshall last year in a sea of empty blue seats was not very impressive.

by **Fresh** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:21 pm

westexSMU wrote:I'm sure Norm asked him what is the athletic dept. working on to improve SMU football ticket sales this year ? Hopefully Orsini has some new marketing strategies beyond a new promotional video and the same things we have been doing the past few years which have not worked very well....As an example, the 17,000 in attendance with a called "white out" for Marshall last year in a sea of empty blue seats was not very impressive.

First strategy: hire a marketing department.
Second strategy: give marketing department a budget.

So did anyone actually hear his interview?

by **PonyPlayer4** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:27 pm

Heard the teaser for it but not the interview. He was brought on to talk about being on the selection committee. I'm not sure if anything regarding SMU was discussed.

by **Dooby** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:50 pm

I listened but was doing something else so I was half-listening. Also had to miss very end. It was all selection committee stuff as far as I could tell.

by **Fresh** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:53 pm

Oh, OK. Never mind.
Thanks.

by **West Coast Johnny** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:12 pm

Wow, this thread is chaulk full of usefull information about what Orsini actually said!

by **The PonyGrad** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:09 pm

Did not know he was on the selection committee but things he could have talked about:
-push for SMU FB season tickets
- SMU BB post season game
- Recent NCAA major basketball violation

Anyone.. anyone??

by **cutter** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:08 pm

PonyPlayer4 wrote:Heard the teaser for it but not the interview. He was brought on to talk about being on the selection committee. I'm not sure if anything regarding SMU was discussed.

that's all I got. I listened for about the first 10-15 minutes. it was all selection committee stuff, ie process of team evaluations, restrictions of lobbying for your own conference, etc. I switched it off after that, so dunno how it ended, but it seemed it was all going to be focused on that.

by **Junior** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:46 pm

cutter wrote:
PonyPlayer4 wrote:Heard the teaser for it but not the interview. He was brought on to talk about being on the selection committee. I'm not sure if anything regarding SMU was discussed.

that's all I got. I listened for about the first 10-15 minutes. it was all selection committee stuff, ie process of team evaluations, restrictions of lobbying for your own conference, etc. I switched it off after that, so dunno how it ended, but it seemed it was all going to be focused on that.

Same here. Lost interest after not hearing much about SMU after ten minutes.

by **Mexmustang** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:36 pm

Now we know how UAB got an invite...

by **ponydawg** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:57 am

All committee talk. No smu talk. Kind of surprised he/they didn't even mention the basketball game that was happening later that night at moody.