A_Slab_of_Bacon
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ITT: Expert ticket salesmen who no doubt would have kept TCF full by selling themselves tickets for prices they would like to pay.
The cost of the supply far exceeded the size of the demand.
Seeing folks easily getting game day tickets for far less than you paid made some feel that they were taken advantage of and not appreciated.
The venue is terrific, the product on the field needs improvement and the game day experience lags behind the competition.
No big games at home this year against Michigan, Ohio State or Wisconsin could be a factor. Penn State is also away. What home game besides Iowa is going to be a big draw for casual fans?per Shama:
As of yesterday the Gophers had sold 22,706 football season tickets, according to an email from an athletic department spokesman. Those are season tickets that don’t include student sales and the figure represents a major decline in season sales from last year’s final total.
The spokesman also reported that nonstudent season tickets last year totaled 27,885. With less than three weeks to the start of the Gophers season, the athletic department is off about 19 percent from last year’s final sales.
The last few years the public season ticket total is believed to be in the 27,000 to 30,000 range. If the Gophers didn’t sell any more tickets in 2016 they would be down 5,179 tickets from last year at TCF Bank Stadium (with a capacity of over 51,000). The department will expect to boost its total of 22,706 but time is growing tight.
A drop-off of 15 to 20 percent is a significant loss in ticket revenue. The decline has the attention of athletic department leaders who have reportedly cancelled a 2017 price increase. They may have done so not only because of push back from ticket buying customers but also because of media reports earlier this year the Big Ten Conference has negotiated a rich TV deal for its schools. The Gophers’ future TV revenue share reportedly will be over $44 million annually and that would make it easier to hold steady with ticket prices.
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Go Gophers!!
Are you a big Saint Paul Saints fan where entertainment is more important than winning?The cost of the supply far exceeded the size of the demand.
Seeing folks easily getting game day tickets for far less than you paid made some feel that they were taken advantage of and not appreciated.
The venue is terrific, the product on the field needs improvement and the game day experience lags behind the competition.
The Saints win a lot of games...Are you a big Saint Paul Saints fan where entertainment is more important than winning?
It wouldn't matter. Have you been to one of their games? People are more concerned with watching the tire races in between innings. One game was all I could take of the constant noise and racket from the announcers.The Saints win a lot of games...
The Minnesota sports fan is a front-runner. Each sport or team has its own hard-core base, but beyond that base, overall attendance is determined by which team is perceived as being "hot," or "popular," or generating a lot of "buzz" in the market.
It wouldn't matter. Have you been to one of their games? People are more concerned with watching the tire races in between innings. One game was all I could take of the constant noise and racket from the announcers.
I've been to about a dozen since CHS opened and I guarantee you that most fans are in to the games and want the Saints to win. Many know the roster as well as most Twins fans. Bonus...you can have a drink with, and buy a drink for, most of the players b/c they hit the LT bars after games.
Dear Lord, have you been to a Gopher football game? Have you been Energized, Case Red zoned, Old Dutch Wheel of Fortune, MN Corn Grower Famlied, Snickers fan of the game, etc?It wouldn't matter. Have you been to one of their games? People are more concerned with watching the tire races in between innings. One game was all I could take of the constant noise and racket from the announcers.
Yep, completely unnecessary.Dear Lord, have you been to a Gopher football game? Have you been Energized, Case Red zoned, Old Dutch Wheel of Fortune, MN Corn Grower Famlied, Snickers fan of the game, etc?
The Minnesota sports fan is a front-runner. Each sport or team has its own hard-core base, but beyond that base, overall attendance is determined by which team is perceived as being "hot," or "popular," or generating a lot of "buzz" in the market. The Gophers were starting to trend upwards with back-to-back 8-win seasons. But, last year's losing record meant they lost any momentum with the front-running fans. It will take something big to regain that momentum. For this season, they just need to hope that they can get hot and generate some single-game tix sales. Then, if those single-game ticket buyers have a good experience, maybe they can flip some of those into season-ticket buyers.
CHS is one of the best non-MLB stadiums in the country, and the attendance is one of the highest non MLB in the country as well including AAA.Has it changed since they moved to CHS?
At their old place it seemed like it was at least 3/4 empty by the 7th or 8th inning.
Worry about the product. Win the B1G West division, beat Iowa and Wisconsin in the same year for the first time since....? This program hasn't done anything truly noteworthy in most of our lifetimes. There was an article on this site recently about Purdue having $5 tickets. Purdue has had four 6-2 conference season since Joe Tiller took over in 1997 (and an overall winning conference record during his tenure that ended in '08) and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Minnesota has zero 6-2 conference seasons and not a single coach with an overall winning conference record in many of our lifetimes. It's tough for Minnesota fans to be front runners when many of us have never actually experienced a top team. The team doesn't have to be great every year, but it needs to be great some years to make the other years worth it. When the "highs" are splitting the rivalry games and going 5-3 in conference play that's not going to be something many people are going to support long term.