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Post by JeffAggieFan on Jan 5, 2012 16:33:15 GMT -5
Homecomming tickets will probably be $40 for general admission this year and with a good teams like Howard, Norfolk, SCSU, and FAMU how well will the Aggie Zone work.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jan 5, 2012 16:55:49 GMT -5
If we hire someone that can promote all our home games better than the clowns we have now, the Aggie Fan Zone will work fine. If we promote Aggie Football the Aggie Fan Zone will be a non event. Our "product" is the team, the band and the game! That's what will get people interested in coming out on Saturday. Those folks looking for a free place to hang out and "picnic" on Saturday will not show up if they have to pay. I'm okay with that as long as A&T markets the darn games better than they have in past years. Every game needs a theme and it needs to be hyped. If 90% of your fans show up and they didn't know this was "Hall of Fame Day" or "Senior Day" or "Small Business Day" then someone dropped the ball. Send out challenges to Alumni Associations, honor former band members, life-long donors anything to get people interested in the games again. Marketing and a good team not "free on-campus picnics" will put butts in the seats!
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 5, 2012 17:10:49 GMT -5
we can market our games all we want, but if we don't have a winning team, it won't matter. i think we'd be putting the cart before the horse if we placed our emphasis on promotions before we have a winning team.
for a program that has our record over the last 8 years or so, i think our ticket prices are too high. perhaps we have no other choice. but we sure as hail better hope broadway can turn our program around next season. cuz otherwise, all the promoting in the world won't increase our attendance figures. if we do a bunch of promotions, get a bunch of new folk in the stadium, and then lose the game, what's the chances of those folk coming back? more promotions would be like the boy who cried wolf.
and i disagree about the fan zone. why in the hail do we make it more difficult for folk to come to our games when we have an "atrocious" 8 year record is beyond me. but if it makes folk feel good to lockout the community and "imprison" those of us who pay, then so be it. how increasing ticket prices and fencing off folk help attendance, i'll never know...
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Post by aggiebred09 on Jan 6, 2012 8:57:10 GMT -5
OleSchool, I agree that team performance is paramount, and in essence if we cant win a game then why are we wasting a Saturday. But dare I say it, in regards to the overall Saturday Aggie Experience, the game is a factor, but is probably the only factor we have little control over. Its Broadway's factor. If the team aint winning all we can do is hire a new coach. But if the drinks aint cold, the chicken aint hot and the music aint live then those are factors that we can change in a matter of days.
Posts about Game Day are more about the Fan Zone, Band Placement etc because the game is the main attraction but there are three rings to the circus. If something is wrong with game play it would take alot to change Broadway, but if something is wrong with the experience the adjustment can be made quickly.
Since it began Ive been against the Fan Zone or at least a paid version this soon for an unproven team, but now that I see the concept is here to stay we need to realistically provide a product on and off the field that's worth an extra $15 or $20 bucks. Broadway and the band are doing what they need to do. This year we are playing the upper echelon schools in the conference at our house and we need to make sure we set the standard for Home Games in the MEAC.
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Post by ohsixrain on Jan 6, 2012 11:21:20 GMT -5
Well...the way I see it, if the team isn't winning, people aren't coming IN the game either way...whether we have a Fan Zone or not. The concept if fine with the Fan Zone...we still have to adapt to change which, we all know that we don't like change. We have to make sure that our football team is improving on a decent inaugural season for Broadway. As long as that is happening, eventually, you'll see the butts in the seats. We can definitely market our games better though.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 6, 2012 12:38:54 GMT -5
i agree with both of you (aggiebred, ohsixrain). but i don't like the fan zone, i think it was a waste of money that could've been better spent some place else. like "funding some of those scholarships" that a&t can't seemingly afford to fund.
i'm all for promotions. i'm just saying let's not put the cart before the horse. promotions are good, but if we bring in new customers and our team still stinks, it'll be harder to get them to come back. i just think our concentration right now should be on fielding a winning football team. if that happens, the fans will follow and then we can seek out new customers that will come back to see a winning team.
yes, let's promote our football games. but we need to make sure our program is heading in the right direction, or else we'll have a hard time getting those fans to come back...
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Post by Aggie Monster on Jan 6, 2012 13:07:47 GMT -5
With the home schedule we have coming up it's possible to have a stellar year in attendance if we win our first 3 games. Game Zone wont be a factor. This is one of those years where you say "Do we really want to schedule someone in the first 3 weeks we might lose to?" A lose could mean thousands of dollars later. We are already playing a tough Coastal team.
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Post by aggieclt on Jan 6, 2012 13:09:53 GMT -5
Hmmm, we are back on the Game Zone again. But that is what a forum is - differing opinions.
I, too, was highly against the Game Zone initiative. Yes, I thought it created a 'have' & 'have not' scenario (imprisonment is a harsher term but merited). Yes, I thought purchasing a game ticket just to be adjacent to the stadium was Black on Black crime. Now, I am of the opinion that the Game Zone is an excellent initiative.
When the 'community' goes to the Greensboro Coliseum, they have to pay to park. When the 'community' attends a basketball game at Corbett, they have to sometimes pay to park & buy a ticket. With the Game Zone initiative now in place, the 'community' can STILL come onto A&T's campus, park their vehicle along Laurel St. or any other location on campus, pull out the tents and grills & tailgate. But, to experience up close (Laurel & Sullivan Streets) our B&G Marching Machine, Golden Delights, Cold Steel drum line, world class tailgating & the football game (regardless of won-loss record), that should not be free. Requiring a game ticket for that experience is a bargain. Again, you can still tailgate for free on campus if you prefer. This past homecoming, Laurel St. lot was so full of tents, grills, people & plastic cups that you could not see the asphalt! What a great community partner A&T is after all!
If we took the same energy bashing the brilliant Game Zone initiative and used it instead to ask someone to donate to the AAF.................I'll end here.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 6, 2012 13:37:44 GMT -5
i'll say this about the game zone and then i'll leave it alone. i never did like it, still don't like it, never will like it. but i will support it because i'm a team player. but i will support it while "holding my nose".
and aggieclt, ya can't compare what the coliseum does to what a&t does. for starters, the coliseum was not created to serve our community and its not located smack dabb in the middle of our community. whereas, a&t was founded to serve "our" community and it is located smack dabb in the middle of "our" community.
never in our long illustrious history have we fenced out "our" community from gathering around our football stadium. over the years, a&t has benefited from a very loyal greensboro community. guess who shows up for our homecoming parades every year at 8am in the morning? certainly not us alums.
like i stated, i'm against, but will "hold my nose" and support it. by the way, welcome to the board aggieclt...
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jan 6, 2012 14:32:41 GMT -5
If the football team wins, A&T fans will show up. If the football team wins and we have a competent marketing approach, A&T fans and others will show up. But is alls starts with the football team winning. Let's focus our energy on helping the football team win and spreading the word about it and stop whinning about the darn Fan Zone. You guys really hate change. I bet some of you are still upset we left the CIAA.
Here's the question of the day, did the Fan Zone demish your A&T game day experience last year? It had no impact on mine! I had a ball but for over 30 years I've always had season tickets and only tailgate at Homecoming. In a few more years, after Broadway has a winning team we will all have a big laugh about how much time and energy was wasted on that discussing that darn Fan Zone.
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Post by JeffAggieFan on Jan 6, 2012 15:44:48 GMT -5
Professor,
You know with our home schedule, Aggie Fans, and not being on TV last year that ESPNU will grab us for a Thursday night game.
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Post by The Professor on Jan 6, 2012 22:20:48 GMT -5
I don't see it happening unless its earlier in the year. If we aren't contending for the MEAC no one is coming to the last 2 home games. FAMU band won't be here. So that game won't be a good one for Thurs. The SCSU game has potential, but again if we aren't in the MEAC race folk are going to save their money for NCCU. I don't see ESPN taking that risk especially since we have been blown out a few times on there
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Post by aggieclt on Jan 7, 2012 14:36:05 GMT -5
Yeah. I have not made it to the parade in decades. Very, very good point. I am praying for better marketing of our product, an increased number of donors to the AAF & the return of consistently winning. And thank you for the welcome.
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Post by aggieclt on Jan 7, 2012 19:18:49 GMT -5
The Spartans won't play MEAC opponents Florida A&M and North Carolina Central because of the conference's unbalanced schedule. Norfolk State opens against Virginia State and faces Southern Conference runner-up Liberty in a game that continues what Adrian considers Norfolk State's trend-setting scheduling.
While many MEAC teams have continued to value traditional rivalries - and the significant ticket sales they generate - others, like NSU and South Carolina State, have upgraded by playing good teams from other conferences.
"We're actually leading the way there," Adrian said. "We've played William and Mary, VMI, Charleston Southern and now, Liberty, home and home. In 2013 we'll have (Old Dominion). Us and South Carolina State have been doing it the longest. If you want an at-large bid, sometimes you have to get away from the traditional rivalries a little bit."
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Post by truthseeker on Jan 14, 2012 17:40:09 GMT -5
Hmmm, we are back on the Game Zone again. But that is what a forum is - differing opinions. I, too, was highly against the Game Zone initiative. Yes, I thought it created a 'have' & 'have not' scenario (imprisonment is a harsher term but merited). Yes, I thought purchasing a game ticket just to be adjacent to the stadium was Black on Black crime. Now, I am of the opinion that the Game Zone is an excellent initiative. When the 'community' goes to the Greensboro Coliseum, they have to pay to park. When the 'community' attends a basketball game at Corbett, they have to sometimes pay to park & buy a ticket. With the Game Zone initiative now in place, the 'community' can STILL come onto A&T's campus, park their vehicle along Laurel St. or any other location on campus, pull out the tents and grills & tailgate. But, to experience up close (Laurel & Sullivan Streets) our B&G Marching Machine, Golden Delights, Cold Steel drum line, world class tailgating & the football game (regardless of won-loss record), that should not be free. Requiring a game ticket for that experience is a bargain. Again, you can still tailgate for free on campus if you prefer. This past homecoming, Laurel St. lot was so full of tents, grills, people & plastic cups that you could not see the asphalt! What a great community partner A&T is after all! If we took the same energy bashing the brilliant Game Zone initiative and used it instead to ask someone to donate to the AAF.................I'll end here. one of the draw backs to corbett... there is no revenue generated from parking... maybe the new arena will address that problem...
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