No AD really cares about attendance anymore. They look at "touches" ... attendance, tv viewership, streaming, etc. The total package $ exceeds the value of attendance alone, so while it adds to the game day experience, it is not as important as it once was. As ESPN has said, they don't care if anyone shows up. It's programming.
i was dating someone at uga so i went to games a lot. i don’t think i will ever attend a game that is aired on CBS ever again. that game is a minimum 4.5 hour affair
Attendance is approaching a tipping point where it will have an effect on TV viewership. If few are in the stands, few are going to watch on TV. Note that they try to hide poor attendance by avoiding pictures of poor crowds. If ADs don't care about attendance, they will one day look back and regret their decision to squeeze every penny possible out of fans in the stands. They're forgetting about the fans, who make up a big component of the excitement of the game. And canned fan noise is not going to replace that.
per ESPN, they don't care about attendance. Look at the bowl games. The stands are virtually empty. The SEC telecasts are a valuable property because of the large installed base of viewers which make up the demographics they are selling content for. Tech makes far more from TV than they do from attendance. The paradigm has changed.
I know this is off topic, but I just want to ask one question which is puzzling me.
Re pricing, entertainment pricing is not elastic. It is inelastic. That means demand for the product does not change due to a change in prices. Lowering prices simply reduces total profit because the the volume does not make up for the discounted price. FWIW, there are ATL area apps where you can get a GT ticket for virtually nothing and ... there are few, if any, takers.
Theoretically, that means you could just jack the price up to $1,000 a game and attendance would not be affected. But we both know that wouldn't be the case.
If an AD doesn't care about attendance he will not be there long. Players want fans in the Stadium hopefully their fans
That's a good point. Players want to play in front of live fans, and the more the merrier Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a home field advantage.
TV is the current cash cow that ironically may prove to be the ultimate death of college football.
Playing in Atlanta could be an advantage if most fans in Atlanta were Tech fans, instead of Ugag.
Yep. The TV ratings may bring in more money than live attendance, but that’s because of people casually watching teams other than their own. But even casual fans or watchers have to care about college football somewhat. If no one at all cares enough to want to go to games in person, is there really enough interest to even watch games on TV? There’s a heck of a lot on TV that isn’t football or even sports in general. If I’m just looking for background noise or something to pass the time, there comes a point where even Seinfeld reruns become more appealing.
Its hard to agree with this without knowing our NIL strategy at all. All we have seen are a few minor NIL deals and one relatively small Tivo deal. Other programs are publicly organizing LLCs to remain competitive here. If we don't become major players in the NIL space then our program is just going to be a defacto farm program for the bigger schools. They will poach from us when they desire to. They will take the Gibbs and Ivey's, while we grab guys buried on their depth charts. There's no way that leads to parity.
I agree. The only thing that would lead to parity is a salary cap as in the pros. We all know the likelihood of that.
This was an argument many of us used to make years ago about Major League Baseball. You could fill up the TV sight lines with $2 tickets and everyone comes out ahead.
When the ratings go down, and they will, that will be the mother of all "paradigm(s)"
Slim to no chance. The only thing that gives me hope is the Ga High School talent that might stay close to home. Without that there are no positives for Tech- No full stadium (unless it’s uga) ACC is not a draw apparently, no recent history of successfully getting guys to the league, no recent success on the field, etc.
I have suggested multiple times to give away seats (or maybe asked for $100 donations for 10 tickets to be given away) in upper North Stands. We could easily give away 5-10K seats per games excluding very few games.. Give the tickets to football youth leagues, high schools, military, etc. Would help fill the stadium and maybe along the way create some new Tech fans.