June looking to get all Night home games in 2010 and beyond

[ontheedgeofmyseat]

...this sort of reminds me of my "early days" as an assisitant golf pro at a club...literally had "750 bosses"..could NEVER make everyone happy...all good points, let's tee it up and play some smash mouth!

[i phone money]

Night games are okay early in the season to beat the heat but all night games is a bad idea. You better get use to losing half of the crowd at halftime because the families, old people and stidents will leave. And I have news for the people who want a loud stadium, kids are the loudest ones there. Most of the kids never stop yelling, blowing airhorns, or stomping their feet. They really do make most of the noise.

[Dooby]

Time to relearn some old lessons around here-plus you will deplete road game ticket purchases from schools like Tulsa, Rice and UH fans who like to do daytrips but don't want to spend a nite. I'll be there but I know from experience there is a large segment of our fans who will not show for a late October or November game if temperature dips below 60. Then there is the students who each will have better things to do on a Saturday Nite. Nobody in Texas voluntarily does this-unless they are on TV and of course I have no problems with it if we are on TV. Watch and learn

I agree; I don't like the late-November freezing my balls off night game.

[BrianTinBigD]

Kids also play sports. Football season for the local youth leagues run from September to mid-November. I assume kids still play that communist sport, soccer, but I could care less about kids that play soccer. Kids that play football love to watch football and are some of the best fans to have at a game. They are loud, know the game, and are at the game because they love football. I always wanted night games because of this. It allowed me to coach my game, clean up, get to the BLVD, tailgate, then haul the team down to Ford for the game.

[couch 'em]

When I go to a sold-out college football game (real sell out, not tickets handed out to 10000 DISD kids) I don't think I've ever gone "gee, these 8 year olds are the source of noise in the stadium".

I'm not saying I like all night games, but making the argument that we should be scheduling around kids is small-time, like hiring an up-and-comer coach. We should be past this. We hired a proven coach. We should be trying to get people in the stadium who are old enough to shave like a real program, not settling for the the bounce-house demographic.

[Dooby]

When I go to a sold-out college football game (real sell out, not tickets handed out to 10000 DISD kids) I don't think I've ever gone "gee, these 8 year olds are the source of noise in the stadium".

I'm not saying I like all night games, but making the argument that we should be scheduling around kids is small-time, like hiring an up-and-comer coach. We should be past this. We hired a proven coach. We should be trying to get people in the stadium who are old enough to shave like a real program, not settling for the the bounce-house demographic.

Nice, but until we start selling out consistently, we still have to worry about selling tickets.

[ponyscott]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but with the recent success of SMU, the Hawaii Bowl Game win and JJ in the public eye we shouldn't be surprised that we get a one or a few games moved to the Thursday night or middle of the week ESPN games of the week...thoughts about that?

[smusic 00]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but with the recent success of SMU, the Hawaii Bowl Game win and JJ in the public eye we shouldn't be surprised that we get a one or a few games moved to the Thursday night or middle of the week ESPN games of the week...thoughts about that?

Maybe SMU-TCU on Thursday night game of the week?

I am not opposed to a couple of these mid-week games. TCU went through a couple years of doing that while they were climbing the ladder.

[Stallion]

actually the ACC and other BCS conferences have basically got contractual commitments now for most of the Thursaday Nite games-we might see more Wednesday, Sunday and Friday games but don't expect many CUSA games on Thursday Nite

[RGV Pony]

just spare me the Tuesday night game. Could do without those.

[George S. Patton]

The point is you have to attract the fringe fans. SMU doesn't really have to worry about us longtime season ticket holders because they likely know we'll go come heck or high water. But you've got to be more appealing to get more bottoms in seats.

I really hope we can average about 23-26K per game next year, especially if the season goes the way we think it can.

Winning helps because I talk to a couple of FW fellow alums who have mentioned they would be interested in buying season tickets.

Oh, and I wouldn't be surprised if those ticket prices went up for the 2010 season. That's what happens when you win.

But if you refer an alum to call in about season tickets and they purchase them and mention your name, I think the ticket office should probably reward the referring season ticket holder in some way. It could perks in the Mustang Club or knocking off some $$ on season tickets or parking pass or something like that.

Just a thought.

[EastStang]

As we get better, the more night games we have, the less publicity we'll receive in the eastern press where all the votes are for rankings. I have no problem with night games in Aug/Sept/ early Oct., But in November, go for daytime games. Try to schedule UH, Rice, Tulsa in November every year so that fans can travel.

[Diamond Girl]

JJ's changing everything else, so this doesn't surprise me at all. And he isn't going to care what the alumni or the administration have to say about it.

[Alaric]

I assume kids still play that communist sport, soccer, but I could care less about kids that play soccer.

nice

[Alaric]

JJ's changing everything else, so this doesn't surprise me at all. And he isn't going to care what the alumni or the administration have to say about it.

just think of him as a benevolent dictator and support him until he turns malevolent (and please judge his malevolency on wins/losses)