dpodoll68
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Well they can’t do it easily and seem less like other big 10 venues do
How do you figure?
Well they can’t do it easily and seem less like other big 10 venues do
The student "section" issue will only become worse when they add the second deck on the North and East sides
Those lots around the Stadium are used throughout the week for commuting students, therefore at the minimum being an urban campus means we will always have some surface lots.
Attended a great game at da missus alma mater last weekend. Stadium of similar size to TCF - recent renovations included a plaza/lounge on home side and relevant, other-market look-ins. A large amount of parking/tailgating occurs on adjacent parking with assigned parking slots. Very convenient for early arrivers and late comers. But, it couldn't touch the restroom facilities of TCF - spent part of a quarter in line.
My quick wish list for TCF:
As others have mentioned, show me more, and more relevant clips of other BIG10 and significant games. The scoreboard at the plaza end is horribly misused. Between content and space, its predominately an advertising vehicle. I can get that in my big chair at home, why travel to the stadium to be pummeled by marketing and PSA messages. I attend to see FOOTBALL.
Turn up the band, turn down the "Hey fans, its time for .....!" Let me talk to my guest about a run scheme, a passing stat., or a hot recruit, without having to scream over some irrelevant announcement about the top corporate soy bean grower family. This is suppose to be college football...outdoors..., not the NBA marketing machine.
Motivate the concession workers! I'm not sure whether any or all are volunteers, but too many appear listless and untrained and move at a snail's pace, particularly annoying during those between quarter crunch times. Com'on workers, get energized!
I love how so many of the suggestions are in the vein of dropping ticket prices (losing revenue), minimize/lose the ads (losing revenue), allow students to bring in their own alcohol (losing revenue), make tailgating cheaper/more accessible (losing revenue), and so on. I get the feeling that if some people were given free suite tickets on the 50 yard line, a free limousine driver dropping them off at the curb, free limitless food and drink delivered to their seat, and zero ads throughout the game, they would still find a way to complain.
And then, to top it off, we are supposed to pay P.J. Fleck whatever it takes to keep him here. When you cut all the revenue streams to the bone, where is the money to pay him supposed to come from? "Not my problem!"
Some day, Gophers fans will figure out that you have to pay your fair share if you want to have a premium program.
Certainly. I wonder what that tipping point is in terms of 'winning'. I think people often forget that even Camp Randall was a ghost town before Wisconsin won multiple Rose Bowls.
I always wondered why they didnt get gold anodized aluminum for the bench seats. Not that much of an expensive upgrade and it would have looked fantastic compared to that dull silver they are now....
That's the only change I am wishing for.
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Lowering ticket prices to attract more long-term STHs would grow revenue.
It's beyond obvious the prices are out of whack.
There are endless ways marketing can be more thoughtfully integrated into the gameday experience that would be less obnoxious.
These things are not either/or propositions.
I totally understand from a revenue standpoint why Wisconsin wants to have premium seating of this kind and also think it is being done in part because the capacity at Camp Randall Stadium might be a hair too big at 80,000 plus. They sell out a couple of games per season, but have thousands of empty seats for others. It upsets the supply/demand situation too much. However, aesthetically it looks bad and a similar design at our stadium would look even worse due to how it would interrupt the seating bowl.
Interrupting the bowl would help with the student overflow / migration problem. Keep them all contained in one place and add a plaza above. People would love to hang out in a space like that.
I realize that structurally it may not even be possible, but it's a bye week and I'm allowed to dream.
Could just do part of it on the roof and take up a handful of rows.
I think it is doable.
Interrupting the bowl would help with the student overflow / migration problem. Keep them all contained in one place and add a plaza above. People would love to hang out in a space like that.
I realize that structurally it may not even be possible, but it's a bye week and I'm allowed to dream.
I love how so many of the suggestions are in the vein of dropping ticket prices (losing revenue), minimize/lose the ads (losing revenue), allow students to bring in their own alcohol (losing revenue), make tailgating cheaper/more accessible (losing revenue), and so on. I get the feeling that if some people were given free suite tickets on the 50 yard line, a free limousine driver dropping them off at the curb, free limitless food and drink delivered to their seat, and zero ads throughout the game, they would still find a way to complain.
And then, to top it off, we are supposed to pay P.J. Fleck whatever it takes to keep him here. When you cut all the revenue streams to the bone, where is the money to pay him supposed to come from? "Not my problem!"
Some day, Gophers fans will figure out that you have to pay your fair share if you want to have a premium program.