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The University of Minnesota is hoping attendance for Gophers home football games bottomed out in 2016.
The announced average of 43,814 for seven home football games at TCF Bank Stadium last season is the lowest mark in the nine-year history of the U’s on-campus stadium, which holds 50,805.
Crowd figures for 2017 improved by 544 fans to 44,358 in coach P.J. Fleck’s first season, which ranked ninth in the 14-team Big Ten.
“We need to do more,” Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday.
The Gophers have capped the scholarship seating increase that boosted both season-ticket prices and complaints from fans before last season. They’ve started a Fan Advisory Board for feedback on ways to improve the game-day experience, including more diverse food offerings and the Gopher Garden Pregame Fan Fest on the plaza in front of 3M Arena at Mariucci.
The athletic department has launched the Gopher Loyalty Program where donors, and now season-ticket holders, can built a custom benefit package rather than a single standard allotment of perks. Whatever your favorite sports are, the benefits can be tailored to them.
The Gophers bill this program as a one-of-a-kind offering across the country, and they recently added season-ticket holders as benefactors of the loyalty program in an effort “to do more,” as Coyle said.
The best way to fill TCF Bank Stadium is the home team winning games. The Gophers were 5-7, including 2-7 in the Big Ten, in Fleck’s first season.
“Right now, people are saying, ‘Oh, well, I told you, there is another excuse of why we can’t go,’ ” Fleck said about his view of some fan reactions.
But Fleck and Coyle are simpatico in their belief wins will come eventually.
“I think that’s where in due time, it will happen to change people’s perceptions,” Fleck said earlier this season. “But that takes awhile; that doesn’t happen at one time. … Sooner or later it’s going to be, ‘Well, why couldn’t you get a ticket? You had the season tickets and you gave them away! Why can’t we get a ticket now?’ Hopefully there is a problem, three, four, five, six years down the road. … That’s what we want to get to. That’s the dream I have here.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/12/01/gophers-football-attendance-ticks-back-up-but-still-not-enough/
Go Gophers!!
The University of Minnesota is hoping attendance for Gophers home football games bottomed out in 2016.
The announced average of 43,814 for seven home football games at TCF Bank Stadium last season is the lowest mark in the nine-year history of the U’s on-campus stadium, which holds 50,805.
Crowd figures for 2017 improved by 544 fans to 44,358 in coach P.J. Fleck’s first season, which ranked ninth in the 14-team Big Ten.
“We need to do more,” Gophers athletics director Mark Coyle told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday.
The Gophers have capped the scholarship seating increase that boosted both season-ticket prices and complaints from fans before last season. They’ve started a Fan Advisory Board for feedback on ways to improve the game-day experience, including more diverse food offerings and the Gopher Garden Pregame Fan Fest on the plaza in front of 3M Arena at Mariucci.
The athletic department has launched the Gopher Loyalty Program where donors, and now season-ticket holders, can built a custom benefit package rather than a single standard allotment of perks. Whatever your favorite sports are, the benefits can be tailored to them.
The Gophers bill this program as a one-of-a-kind offering across the country, and they recently added season-ticket holders as benefactors of the loyalty program in an effort “to do more,” as Coyle said.
The best way to fill TCF Bank Stadium is the home team winning games. The Gophers were 5-7, including 2-7 in the Big Ten, in Fleck’s first season.
“Right now, people are saying, ‘Oh, well, I told you, there is another excuse of why we can’t go,’ ” Fleck said about his view of some fan reactions.
But Fleck and Coyle are simpatico in their belief wins will come eventually.
“I think that’s where in due time, it will happen to change people’s perceptions,” Fleck said earlier this season. “But that takes awhile; that doesn’t happen at one time. … Sooner or later it’s going to be, ‘Well, why couldn’t you get a ticket? You had the season tickets and you gave them away! Why can’t we get a ticket now?’ Hopefully there is a problem, three, four, five, six years down the road. … That’s what we want to get to. That’s the dream I have here.”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/12/01/gophers-football-attendance-ticks-back-up-but-still-not-enough/
Go Gophers!!