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Post by aggie2039 on Jan 16, 2023 16:07:29 GMT -5
It would be interesting to see if revenue increased playing on separate days. Long gone are the days of a 2 for 1 special š.
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Post by aggiechampd on Jan 16, 2023 16:11:56 GMT -5
Season tickets packages include the men's and women's games together. They are about $182 each for all the home games, men & women. You can not buy season tickets for just men or women; you have to buy both. That might need to changeā¦ |
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Post by A&T-roy on Jan 18, 2023 12:22:45 GMT -5
That was a nice crowd at the women's game on Sunday. I was pleasantly surprised this Sunday to see fans for Delaware sitting behind their team... 20 or 30 of them. And I was told that at other games this season, CAA opposing fans showed up. Hell, I don't remember seeing that many Morgan State, Howard or FAMU fans in numbers in the stand when we were in the MEAC. Is this the new norm? I liked seeing them there, especially since they bought tickets! Would have really liked them being there if we had won. Yep. Seems like more than we got from the MEAC outside of NCCU. That said, I don't like camera shots of them! |
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Post by Maxell on Jan 18, 2023 13:24:35 GMT -5
Two reasons I prefer separate as an out-of-town fan:
1. Get to see four days of basketball each week.
2. Separate games build a genuine fanbase for the women.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 18, 2023 14:06:16 GMT -5
i prefer doubleheaders "by far". first of all, it "increases" attendance for the women's game though the impact is felt mostly around the 4th quarter (which is the most important quarter) just before the men's game starts. our women's games against nccu traditionally has been a "packed house", not anymore, not even close. i think its great for "recruiting" when our ladies can play in front of a "packed house".
secondly, for alums like myself who live outside the state of north carolina, it really ain't worth my drive to greensboro just to see one basketball game that i can see on the internet. i believe the last home basketball game i attended was against norfolk maybe 3 years ago and over 4,000 fans attended that game, almost a sellout. norfolk brought a good number of their own fans for that game which was understandable since both their men and women's teams were strong. those 2 games (i believe we won them both) were very good games, well worth my 5 hour drive from the dmv.
but in that game our women's team had another chance other than nccu to play before a huge crowd at corbett largely because the men's game followed. so separate games get a huge "thumbs down" from me for those reasons. plus, i like that our women and men basketball players support each other when they play doubleheaders...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 15:02:43 GMT -5
There was a noted security concern per the admin with 4 teams in the building.
Also, I imagine the increased use of food vendors is good for the local economy.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 18, 2023 15:14:14 GMT -5
There was a noted security concern per the admin with 4 teams in the building. Also, I imagine the increased use of food vendors is good for the local economy. There is only one food vendor at Corbett and most of the time they dont have the food truck outside for the women's games. |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 18, 2023 15:30:49 GMT -5
i don't see how 4 teams in corbett poses any more of a security concern as 2 teams being in the building, especially since the games are played in the "afternoon" and fewer than 5,000 fans attend, often less than 3,000 fans. unlike "football" where typically more than 13k to 15k or more fans are in attendance with 2 teams comprised of more than "50 players" on each team.
must not have been much of a security concern given that we played doubleheaders for more than "50 years in a row", not even counting the ciaa years which was long before i even became an aggie...
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Post by bluehaze on Jan 18, 2023 15:44:23 GMT -5
i don't see how 4 teams in corbett poses any more of a security concern as 2 teams being in the building, especially since the games are played in the "afternoon" and fewer than 5,000 fans attend, often less than 3,000 fans. unlike "football" where typically more than 13k to 15k or more fans are in attendance with 2 teams comprised of more than "50 players" on each team. must not have been much of a security concern given that we played doubleheaders for more than "50 years in a row", not even counting the ciaa years which was long before i even became an aggie... It wasn't an attendance issue, it was a logistics issue with the locker rooms and how the teams would have to go through the same entrance at the same time. If there was an issue between the teams during the game, there was potential of a scuffle happening during halftime. Similar to what happened with us and FAMU at Tallahassee (football game) |
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Post by aggie94 on Jan 18, 2023 15:59:05 GMT -5
I like the double and miss it. Especially since I come from Concord, NC. 3 trips to AggieLand last week...Friday, Saturday & Sunday. I think it deters "out of towners" from coming to games they might, if there were doubles. You don't have to think... it does. And coming from N. Raleigh I am closer than you are. |
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Post by Aggie77 on Jan 18, 2023 17:16:03 GMT -5
I prefer singles on separate days. Six hours of basketball wears on this old butt even in my easy chair. I have more of an interest in the Women now. Before I might tune in the 3rd quarter to see what's what. Plus, it allows the Women to be the main attraction instead of the opening act.
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Post by aggierattler on Jan 18, 2023 17:24:56 GMT -5
Does it? That is more days on the calendar that you have to perform a separate duty ... instead of just getting it all over with on one day. Imagine telling your spouse you've got to work late this week on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday .. instead of just on Monday and Thursday. I would think extra work days would result in more staff burnout. They arenāt working late Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. They worked what 4 hours Sunday and 4 Saturday?With a double header on Mondayās they would put in 14 hr days.
As one who had to work a minimum of 43 (NBA) basketball gamedays for 14 straight seasons, if we as a staff could have cut that in half and somehow played doubleheaders, we would have gladly signed up for that.
And you mentioned, "They worked what 4 hours Sunday and 4 Saturday?" 'Thrilla and others can probably tell you that work on gamedays entails a lot more than just 4 hours of work for staff members for a single-game event. |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 18, 2023 18:21:25 GMT -5
i don't see how 4 teams in corbett poses any more of a security concern as 2 teams being in the building, especially since the games are played in the "afternoon" and fewer than 5,000 fans attend, often less than 3,000 fans. unlike "football" where typically more than 13k to 15k or more fans are in attendance with 2 teams comprised of more than "50 players" on each team. must not have been much of a security concern given that we played doubleheaders for more than "50 years in a row", not even counting the ciaa years which was long before i even became an aggie... It wasn't an attendance issue, it was a logistics issue with the locker rooms and how the teams would have to go through the same entrance at the same time. If there was an issue between the teams during the game, there was potential of a scuffle happening during halftime. Similar to what happened with us and FAMU at Tallahassee (football game) but that possibility has "always" existed, even when we played games in moore gym. certainly if that was a "major" security issue, we wouldn't have waited nearly a "century" to do something about it. i'm just sayin'... |
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Post by bluehaze on Jan 19, 2023 1:02:32 GMT -5
It wasn't an attendance issue, it was a logistics issue with the locker rooms and how the teams would have to go through the same entrance at the same time. If there was an issue between the teams during the game, there was potential of a scuffle happening during halftime. Similar to what happened with us and FAMU at Tallahassee (football game) but that possibility has "always" existed, even when we played games in moore gym. certainly if that was a "major" security issue, we wouldn't have waited nearly a "century" to do something about it. i'm just sayin'... Nothing could have been done. The conference dictated the double headers for conference games, not the schools. MEAC has doubleheaders. The Big South and CAA donāt. No one said it was āmajorā. The security was one of the many topics discussed when the AD presented the differences between the conferences and what those changes meant. |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 19, 2023 9:28:22 GMT -5
Security concerns was just another lame excuse to help sell the conference move to alumni. Just like travel costs and more time in the classroom.
No serious person believes the doubleheader games are less secure than the standalone games.
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