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Chip has a column on sagging attendance at local sports venues around town. On the Gopher football program he writes:
The reality is simple: Win and fans will return.
The Gophers football situation, however, is more complicated than their record. A major miscalculation by former athletic director Norwood Teague caused many fans to drop their tickets.
Teague mistook one good season and Jerry Kill’s popularity as an opening to squeeze more money out of fans by instituting his ill-fated “scholarship seating” price hike.
Teague sold his plan as something common in college athletics, but he underestimated backlash from a fan base that has had its patience and loyalty stretched thin by generations of mediocrity.
New athletic director Mark Coyle wisely scrapped the final installment of price increases before this season, but the damage was already done. Judging by attendance this season, Coyle and the football program have a lot of work to repair that disconnect.
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-ticket-buyers-sick-of-hope-hype-only-wins-will-do/404899576/
Go Gophers!!
The reality is simple: Win and fans will return.
The Gophers football situation, however, is more complicated than their record. A major miscalculation by former athletic director Norwood Teague caused many fans to drop their tickets.
Teague mistook one good season and Jerry Kill’s popularity as an opening to squeeze more money out of fans by instituting his ill-fated “scholarship seating” price hike.
Teague sold his plan as something common in college athletics, but he underestimated backlash from a fan base that has had its patience and loyalty stretched thin by generations of mediocrity.
New athletic director Mark Coyle wisely scrapped the final installment of price increases before this season, but the damage was already done. Judging by attendance this season, Coyle and the football program have a lot of work to repair that disconnect.
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-ticket-buyers-sick-of-hope-hype-only-wins-will-do/404899576/
Go Gophers!!