Don Toro

Or Alabama.

Interesting comment by CJL: When asked about money games, he said that we have never scheduled money games, rather just to get exposure. Then he went on to say that the Auburn game was going to be the last game without a home and home. Are we going to drop the Gators or was it just an oversight? Also Finebaum, was asking CJL that if its harder to schedule teams now that we are not the punching bags that we used to be to the Alabamas, Arkansas, etc. wtf?

Try this link: www.finebaum.com , the other one had a typo.

Alabama is going to hire Nick Saban at the end of the NFL season. Otherwise they wouldn't be waiting around just to take a chance. He must have told them he would take the job once he was done with the regular season. It makes too much sense, why risk losing even more recruits and even more national ridicule?

Los Toros over EZU 38 - 13 429 TJ

Welcome to the board Paul Wall. ha. Yeah, it was posted before, but with so many topics started each day is hard to know it if you don't spend hours here. As for the ranking it will be tough because some voters may vote FSU and UM back in, plus Rutgers if they win their bowl game big.

Hey, that was one of the best OTL segments I've ever seen!

Again, I do not think is that hard to get an estimate on how much things will cost. You can give an approx. for each scenario and take one deposit. You don't need to stay at the team hotel, you can book at a cheaper place and prepare for a rate increase. We already have 3 bowls within driving distance so again, you can estimate how much it will be to charter a bus. We are only talking about a 4 month difference, the only unknown would be gas price and you can price the package at the worst case scenario. As for the other two bowls, well, will just not offer the package in advance.

Not to worry, we are going to have some back up from UAB's students wearing their green.

There is a lot of things that we know but yet we do not think about them. People know that we play at RayJ but they don't think about it when they drive through Dale Mabry because there is nothing there to associate the stadium with us. People know they can buy season tickets but a nice letter can be that reminder. My sister just donated some $$$ to WUSF just because she got a letter, she has known for a while that she can donate to WUSF but the letter gave her the extra push. We need to stop waiting for that fan base to magically grow. We need to be more proactive.

They are spending 150K to eat up about 5K tickets. I think investing 10K in marketing for the bowl game is not going to kill the budget. Stamps and envelopes are still cheap.

Let's stay on topic here. Bulliever doesn't ask much from us but this is one of his few requests and we should honor it and take it seriously.

Hey Joe, I don't think too many people are frustrated with fans like you. You have a solid reason for not making it. It is the fans that could care less about the bowl game that frustrate us.

Mike I think it can work because it will be a lot easier for somebody to convince some friends to go to the game when they have a few months to plan it. I could have fielded a few calls to some of my fraternity bros to purchase and donate travel packages to the undergrads. I'm not talking about a simplre pre-sale but a real effort to get the students moving. Is not going to magically change things, but even if we get a few hundred people more to the game it will still be worth it.

I think whatever reasonable price Bulliever asks for the right to advertise here will be well worth it considering the huge following this board has. Everywhere I go all I hear is "Yeah, I read on the board..."

And that's sadly what will end up happening if we don't improve attendance within the next few years.

I'm frustrated with everyone in charge of promoting/selling tickets at USF. Given our unique situation we need a more creative marketing department. And don't talk to me about budget 'cause you can market to students for almost nothing. Promoting travel packages during student meetings is free, and you don't even have to wait for the day of the invite for this. You can start talking about possible bowl plans during the start of the semester: "If we make the Bham bowl this would be the cost of the package $", or "If we make the Gator bowl this would be the approx cost of the package: $ That price will go up the day the bid is announced though. So get your package early, you will get a refund for the difference." Is that so hard to do? I think we are starting to see a trend with bowl bound teams: pre-sales. If by the end of the season we have sold a good amount of tickets then we won't be turned down by the bigger bowls.

813.975.BULL

call 'em up and ask them to mail you one.

they're 64.99 and i dont think they have grothe's name on the back due to licensing problems witht he ncaa Hey, what if we are just big fans of FlipFlop?

Blackwell's number.

And on the same radio show one of the hosts mentioned how great it would be if Marve ended up in Miami. And he said that during our recruiting segment!

I think the guy I talked to today over at the ticket office is more reliable. Hope I'm wrong though.

what's the link?

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