Tickets Sold, 4,400

[USF03]

Bulls fans yell at me when I'm driving in uniform...oh yeah, maybe that's why then! lol

You guys taking a bus?  Going up ahead of game day right?

[Don Toro]

Do you guys just think athletics has money floating around, growing on trees?  

 

  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.

[Cubanbull]

I dont think the 4400 includes band etc. This was the discrepancy on the 5500 and 6200 numbers given out for last years Bowl.

If you look at the seating chart locations USF received sections 32-34, half of 35 and section 12. So if you split 10,000 tickets by 4.5 sections it comes out to about 2200 per section.

The 500 student free tickets are spread out in front of all three sections 32,33,34 and a few rows are open between them and the buyers of tickets. As of right now USF has section 35 fand 34 full , 33 its about 20 rows from full. So that gives you a number close to 5000. Which would be 4400 tickets sold + 500 students

[WoolyBully]

The object of the game is to sell tickets. To collect revenue for each seat

available, preferably to persons who will actually attend the game and

adhere to the resepctive bowl city's chamber of commerce desires regarding

spending etc. It's a sales gig...hawk this thing as best as you can, and

try to create sufficient demand.  I'm not buying the improvished student who

can't come up with $30 and that's the [highlight]ONLY[/highlight] reason they're not going.

Otherwise, the question would be why doesn't USF purchase 10,000 tickets

and give them away to students. With a population of 40K, wouldn't it be nice

to have 25% of the school show up?

It's the same reason that recent grads may not be springing for season tickets. Not

because the info isn't availalbe (and yes there is a Young Alumni program in

place for recent graduates), it's just that now...the money comes directly

from YOUR  pocket! Not only the price of a ticket, but also your

respective donation to the Bulls club. No more just swiping the old id!  

If just being an alumni were enough to sell tickets, RayJ would have been sold

out from day-1 based on the number of alumni in the area.

Blame marketing until the proverbial cows come home, but I'm telling you,

the product is what the product is. You can't convince folks to buy what they

have no interest in to begin with.

How do you manage to go through college and NOT know about your

football team? I just can't get my arms around that one... 8-)

[USF03]

I dont think the 4400 includes band etc. This was the discrepancy on the 5500 and 6200 numbers given out for last years Bowl.

If you look at the seating chart locations USF received sections 32-34, half of 35 and section 12. So if you split 10,000 tickets by 4.5 sections it comes out to about 2200 per section.

The 500 student free tickets are spread out in front of all three sections 32,33,34 and a few rows are open between them and the buyers of tickets. As of right now USF has section 35 fand 34 full , 33 its about 20 rows from full. So that gives you a number close to 5000. Which would be 4400 tickets sold + 500 students

I hope it does not include them...

[USF03]

The object of the game is to sell tickets. To collect revenue for each seat

available, preferably to persons who will actually attend the game and

adhere to the resepctive bowl city's chamber of commerce desires regarding

spending etc. It's a sales gig...hawk this thing as best as you can, and

try to create sufficient demand.  I'm not buying the improvished student who

can't come up with $30 and that's the [highlight]ONLY[/highlight] reason they're not going.

Otherwise, the question would be why doesn't USF purchase 10,000 tickets

and give them away to students. With a population of 40K, wouldn't it be nice

to have 25% of the school show up?

It's the same reason that recent grads may not be springing for season tickets. Not

because the info isn't availalbe (and yes there is a Young Alumni program in

place for recent graduates), it's just that now...the money comes directly

from YOUR  pocket! Not only the price of a ticket, but also your

respective donation to the Bulls club. No more just swiping the old id!  

If just being an alumni were enough to sell tickets, RayJ would have been sold

out from day-1 based on the number of alumni in the area.

Blame marketing until the proverbial cows come home, but I'm telling you,

the product is what the product is. You can't convince folks to buy what they

have no interest in to begin with.

How do you manage to go through college and NOT know about your

football team? I just can't get my arms around that one... 8-)

I agree... but a little extra effort from everyone wont hurt

[Mag Pie]

I hope we can sell at least 6K from our allotment.  Remember, some people also probably got them from Ticketmaster--that's something that everyone needs to understand...buy them from USF!!!

I also don't believe that the 4,400 includes the athletics peoplem players and the band, ect....  Just no way...

[Don Toro]

 Sending postage to all graduating students letting them know about season tickets would be a waste of money.  What person doesn't know that they can buy season tickets to the USF events?

  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.

[USF03]

 Sending postage to all graduating students letting them know about season tickets would be a waste of money.  What person doesn't know that they can buy season tickets to the USF events?

  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.

Thank you

[chicky9914]

Yeah we're taking a bus.  There are 2 groups of cheerleaders going up on 2 different days.  Those who are competing at nationals won't leave until the afternoon before the game, and those who aren't competing will be leaving the 21st in the am, and should be there by 8pm that night.