Ranking Big Ten schools on recruiting appeal

Donate To GopherHole
For those interested, ESPN had a series of articles a few years back (disclaimer: mostly written by Ivan Maisel) on the general challenges faced by college programs in markets with NFL franchises. There's probably a thread back there somewhere about this series, but it seems relevant to the current discussion.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?id=6676377

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=6680378

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=6690731

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=6695960

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncf/columns/story?columnist=powers_scott&id=6700553
 

Gopher Placenta said:
For those interested, ESPN had a series of articles a few years back (disclaimer: mostly written by Ivan Maisel) on the general challenges faced by college programs in markets with NFL franchises. There's probably a thread back there somewhere about this series, but it seems relevant to the current discussion.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?id=6676377

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=6680378

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=6690731

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=6695960

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncf/columns/story?columnist=powers_scott&id=6700553
Click to expand...

"With 190,000 living alumni in the Los Angeles area, according to Mitchell, the distance from campus is not important -- until you try to identify the ticket buyers of tomorrow.

"If you can't get a student to attend when they are on campus, it makes it damn hard if not impossible to get them once they leave," Mitchell said. "... You need to do what you can to get them to attend from the get-go."

UCLA sliced the price of a student season ticket from $149 in 2009 to $99 last year. The strategy worked. The university sold 7,761 such packages, the second-highest total in the last 50 years. Throw in single-game tickets and, despite the price cut, UCLA generated $1.03 million in student sales, a 45 percent increase over the previous year."
 


You must log in or register to reply here.



Top Bottom