FWST: TCU Aiming for 30,000 Season Tickets

BIGHORSE · Post by **BIGHORSE** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:21 am

PonySnob wrote:Guessing our ticket office won't have to worry about this.......

So what great solution do you have for us?

SmooBoy · Post by **SmooBoy** » Wed May 16, 2012 12:38 pm

In speaking with Terry Hemme yesterday, we are up 20% in season tix sales, compared to this time last year. The home schedule is the best in years (Captain Obvious here). Does that compare to tcu's 30K? - no. Still think if we could get the Boulevard peeps in the stadium, our numbers would improve dramatically.

Bergermeister · Post by **Bergermeister** » Wed May 16, 2012 3:17 pm

SmooBoy wrote: Still think if we could get the Boulevard peeps in the stadium, our numbers would improve dramatically.

We need to win a couple of home sellouts to generate some momentum - give part-timers or some-timers a reason to come back to Ford. Our most recent opportunity was against Army and we laid an egg. An awful day for SMU football. We had a "chance" to develop a following as a result of the last Ford win over TCU but then we hit the skids in subsequent games and returned to afterthought status. Can we average 25,000 per this year?

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Wed May 16, 2012 4:11 pm

25,000. SMU Fans? Or including Aggies and Frogs? 25,000 is a ridiculous low goal when the Aggies and TCU fans will fill Ford. That's 2 guaranteed sellouts. We'd probably only need to average 20,000 in our other 5 home games to reach 25,000 average in 2012.

Frog Barrister · Post by **Frog Barrister** » Wed May 16, 2012 8:10 pm

SmooBoy wrote:In speaking with Terry Hemme yesterday, we are up 20% in season tix sales, compared to this time last year. The home schedule is the best in years (Captain Obvious here). Does that compare to tcu's 30K? - no. Still think if we could get the Boulevard peeps in the stadium, our numbers would improve dramatically.

A 20% increase is a great bump. Fanbases aren't grown overnight. I think SMU's athletic department has done a masterful job with the ooc schedules. Keep winning more often than not and your ooc schedules plus BE slate should give you a solid season ticket holding baseline.

Do you all sell SMU-TCU tickets individually? Or are they only available as part of a "game plan" or season ticket package? Probably a moot point for me anyways as I'm sure the game will get moved to a Thursday or Friday.

Junior · Post by **Junior** » Wed May 16, 2012 8:35 pm

They'll be available as single game tickets.

Frog Barrister · Post by **Frog Barrister** » Thu May 17, 2012 11:22 am

Junior wrote:They'll be available as single game tickets.

Thank you.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Thu May 17, 2012 11:23 am

Junior wrote:They'll be available as single game tickets.

Which is a total mistake on our part

SmooBoy · Post by **SmooBoy** » Thu May 17, 2012 1:08 pm

Unless we charge $100 per game ticket with an additional required $100 donation to the Mustang Club, for those two games.

Bergermeister · Post by **Bergermeister** » Thu May 17, 2012 2:24 pm

SmooBoy wrote:Unless we charge $100 per game ticket with an additional required $100 donation to the Mustang Club, for those two games.

.....which is commonplace. Good dollars and sense.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:38 pm

SmooBoy wrote:Unless we charge $100 per game ticket with an additional required $100 donation to the Mustang Club, for those two games.

Make the Frogs and Aggies buy a freakin' season ticket and sell out the stadium for each and every game.

Bergermeister · Post by **Bergermeister** » Thu May 17, 2012 3:43 pm

CalallenStang wrote: Make the Frogs and Aggies buy a freakin' season ticket and sell out the stadium for each and every game.

Best idea. You can buy a season ticket for $98 (pretty good deal for 7 home games). That's less than the face value of a ticket to the Texas vs. OU game. People got money - and they will pay to see these 2 games.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Fri May 18, 2012 7:03 am

Junior wrote:They'll be available as single game tickets.

yeah. But not until 2 weeks before the season.

goldenstang · Post by **goldenstang** » Fri May 18, 2012 8:34 am

CalallenStang wrote:
Junior wrote:They'll be available as single game tickets.

Which is a total mistake on our part

Terrible terrible mistake