11-15-2012, 04:08 PM
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Gator Country Silver
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Originally Posted by tupacbiff
The Usa made a crucial error in judgment making student tickets free. It was supposed to attract more students but had the inverse effect.
Try this mental exercise:
Are you more likely to attend a ticketed event if
A) the ticket was given to you for free
B) you paid a significant amount for the ticket
By making tickets free they extinguished the inherent value of the event.
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No, the error was in making students sign up ahead of time instead of camping out. When they changed that is when we saw the drop off in student attendance (and energy).
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11-15-2012, 04:33 PM
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#42
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I'll bet when we go to Wisconwsin net year, their stands will be full. Big 10 fills their arenas; ACC other than fsu will fill arenas. Florida is not a basketball state. If it's not football, it's not a spectator sport.
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11-15-2012, 04:34 PM
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#43
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Gator Country Silver
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Originally Posted by philnotfil
No, the error was in making students sign up ahead of time instead of camping out. When they changed that is when we saw the drop off in student attendance (and energy).
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Well that is another example of Lowering the perceived value.
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11-15-2012, 07:20 PM
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#44
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I am new to Gainesville and move here from champaign Illinois. I am u of illinois alumni and have had season tickets for football and basketball since my dad graduated in the 70's. Went to 90 percent of basketball games. I now have season tickets for gator football and basketball. Been to all the gators home games so far and it is different here. Games like this in champaign are sold out and crazy even on weeknights. Assembly hall is 16,000+ capacity too. I am kind of suprised by attendance at bball here, but then again not. Florida is a football school primarily and Illinois is basketball although Florida's program has been better the last 15 years by far. I got season tickets here that are much better than I had in Illinois and am so excited. If I wanted seats at Illinois were I have them at the o dome I would have had to donate 10,000. Here it's 1000. I hope to move up a little every year and enjoy the games. I am still kind of confused by the attendance thus far though.
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11-15-2012, 08:43 PM
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Heisman Finalist
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I am in raleigh and occasionally see the Pack, UNC and Duke play.
I would give my left nut to attend the ball games in G'ville.
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11-15-2012, 09:11 PM
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Sellouts should be an entirely logical problem to solve. If you don't sell all the tickets to a game, reduce the price as it gets closer to tipoff. If the paid attendance is under 10K, I don't think no-shows is really the problem. But still, it's more fun to be with a 9K crowd with energy than a 12K crowd that's flat.
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11-15-2012, 09:20 PM
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#47
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Der König der Grube
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL (Ft. Myers)
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Originally Posted by yankgator
I'll bet when we go to Wisconwsin net year, their stands will be full. Big 10 fills their arenas; ACC other than fsu will fill arenas. Florida is not a basketball state. If it's not football, it's not a spectator sport.
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It's Madison Wisconsin. The only thing to do there is drink and fornicate
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11-15-2012, 09:33 PM
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Premium Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Originally Posted by GatorPlanet
Mr. Foley may not realize it yet, but he has a crisis brewing. You can't watch the fan base shrink each season and try to make up the difference by annually raising ticket prices, but that seems to be the approach.
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Maybe he's taking lessons from nobama
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11-15-2012, 09:56 PM
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Junior
Join Date: Apr 2007
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let's not go there.
Let's instead focus on the brunette cheerleader.
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11-15-2012, 10:30 PM
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Heisman Winner
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Originally Posted by beanfield
Maybe he's taking lessons from nobama
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Wow, such wit.
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11-15-2012, 11:09 PM
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#51
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Freshman
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 180
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yankgator
I'll bet when we go to Wisconwsin net year, their stands will be full. Big 10 fills their arenas; ACC other than fsu will fill arenas. Florida is not a basketball state. If it's not football, it's not a spectator sport.
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Yes, Wisconsin sells out every game and was 7th in attendance last year at a bit over 17k (ie capacity of Kohl Center). While not immune to lackluster crowds for lesser games, I can almost guarantee it'll be full & rocking for the return game next year.
And to give you ample prep time, I highly recommend you make the road trip! There's actually plenty to do in Madison - very cool city even beyond the university. Bigger than Gainesville, but to me it feels like a bigger city than it is due to being sort of squeezed on the isthmus between the big lakes. Don't worry though - next fall I'll be here further pushing for the trip and providing more details. 
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