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I know TStan has a lot on his plate, but the AA has to innovate or we will wither slowly.
A fan of any sport or team can now relax at home or a sports bar and watch the tv. The traffic to a stadium is now awful and stressful. The tkts are not cheap nor the food,drinks, and gasoline. Also at home you get replays, record it while you might take a nap or have sex with who ever. Oh; and the weather can be terrible thanks to pelosi and shoumer!
It is also how long games take to play. When ESPN is at a game, they generally are 3 1/2 to 4 hours. Obviously PJ shortened games some with a run oriented attacked. But last season when we played a more traditional offense, the games were extremely long. When you see the sideline guy with the sign posting 2 1/2 to 3 minute commercial breaks and see how many tv timeouts there are in a game, it really makes for a very long game. I realize TV revenue drives a lot of the revenue for athletic departments but again that pushes people to stay home. When you are in front of your TV, you can skip the commercial and go to another game. When you are sitting in the stands, you wait and wait and wait.
Agree would be nice to know game times before you buy season tickets.Beyond the obvious convenience with TV, I think the No. 1 reason attendance is down is the game times are not set until sometimes 5 days before the game. If everyone knew what time the game was going to be 6-8 months before the game started, people could plan their lives around fall football. Now, they have to plan football around their lives because they can't plan. Just my thought.
Agree would be nice to know game times before you buy season tickets.
The AA doesn’t even know the game times when they sell the tickets.
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It will settle down when there aren’t so many Neutral Site games. ESPN is obsessed with stacking week 1 with Neutral games and that hurts a bunch of teams schedules. When you take away a big home game from big programs every year it hurts attendance. Also the playoffs expanding to 8 teams would help, makes it easier to argue your team is still relevant and has a fighting chance making more people want to keep coming back and opposing teams wanting to watch your team when you come to their stadium. In the past any team could fill the stadium against a top 10 team but now it just doesn’t feel the same when only the top 5 maybe 6 teams are really the only ones drawing a big buzz for the matchups.
Can you suggest a Waffle House in stadium?So far tech athletics have taken two of my suggestions front the post season survey on improvements:
Beer sales (pilot program at least)
Moving September home games to night kickoffs (UCF)
I live a little over 2 hours from the stadium, and I sure don't think the experience at home is better than being there. I don't think it even comes close. If it were, I wouldn't continue to buy season tickets. I look forward to every home game .... the pre-game tailgating with friends, the meeting up with other long-time friends in the stadium, and the excitement (most games anyway) of actually being at the game, heat, sun, rain, or even freezing rain (1974 in Athens).Home is just so much better. I’m to the point where I like to just hit 1 game per year in person. I don’t think it’s because I’m out of state, I believe it’s just because the experience is so much better at home. Maybe if I were a half hour down the road I’d hit 3 games but no more.
Sooooooooo right. It's like going to a big rock concert for me, a real experience. And I don't tail-gate. I just like watching the games.I live a little over 2 hours from the stadium, and I sure don't think the experience at home is better than being there. I don't think it even comes close. If it were, I wouldn't continue to buy season tickets. I look forward to every home game .... the pre-game tailgating with friends, the meeting up with other long-time friends in the stadium, and the excitement (most games anyway) of actually being at the game, heat, sun, rain, or even freezing rain (1974 in Athens).
I believe TV has a lot to do with the drop - if someone is really interested in watching the game and not just wanting to be seen at an event then TV is WAY better
So are you saying that people go to events to "be seen"??? I don't go to anything in order to be seen; I go to see.I believe TV has a lot to do with the drop - if someone is really interested in watching the game and not just wanting to be seen at an event then TV is WAY better