home game attendants

[Braziliangirl]

Are we working on improving the game attendants? I understand UM is a small private school, small alumni base, and fans want to see them win National Championships. I get it. Miami could do what Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, did. Arthur is a founder of Home Depot. Arthur had a "sale" on tickets to get sellouts. He had season tickets for $100. He kept the sale on for a few years. Sellouts eliminated TV blackout in the Atlanta area. Television and a better team create fan interest. Selling out UM games would help with recruiting.

 

[9210]

We won't sellout unless it's against Marquee teams or we're competing for championships.

 

[cane305]

we can theoretically sell out

but there will be, there are, and there always have been people who buy tickets and just no have enough ***s to actually show up that day.

no cure for that.

 

[rok]

Valet attendants?

 

[CaneShades]

Even win miami was great they diddnt sell out the bs games only the big time games sold out.It will never change.

 

[cane305]

Yeah, some of the attendants can be ****s. I've been threatened with getting thrown out for standing up for big plays and such.

i worked as one of the dudes selling beer/water/soda

**** is hard as fuhhh

 

[Shogungts]

we can theoretically sell out

but there will be, there are, and there always have been people who buy tickets and just no have enough ***s to actually show up that day.

no cure for that.

There is a cure, at least a partial one, become a better team and more people will show up, but against crappy teams there will always be seats open. To back you up on the people who buy tickets and don't show, Miami's home average was 49K+ this year. Even with the FSU game, there is no way we came close to averaging that number in terms of actual fans at the game.

 

[hoops156]

tickets are 95 bucks for young alums. actually cost me more for parking than it did for season tickets. also as someone else said before, we never sold out every game. it was only the big games

 

[hoops156]

we can theoretically sell out

but there will be, there are, and there always have been people who buy tickets and just no have enough ***s to actually show up that day.

no cure for that.

There is a cure, at least a partial one, become a better team and more people will show up, but against crappy teams there will always be seats open. To back you up on the people who buy tickets and don't show, Miami's home average was 49K+ this year. Even with the FSU game, there is no way we came close to averaging that number in terms of actual fans at the game.

yup nowhere close to that many per game. we always report the inflated tickets sold not turnstiles number

 

[Picksix]

I think the focus should be on increasing attendance. I feel there is already too many attendants. Price of admission could be lowered if there weren't so many attendants and cops.

Fewer Attendants and cops = cheaper tickets = more attendance
More wins + Cheaper tickets = even more attendance

 

[WhatTheHell]

Small school
Alumni base mostly out of state
Front-running town full of transplants


You have the core group of us die-hards (yeah I'm elite), but other than that, the formula in so Fla is always the same - just win. If you win, people show up. It's an event town. If your team is a huge story and is good and in the news, people will come out.

 

[Port Knox]

Are we doing this again?

 

[whoopingcane]

home game attendants

 

[TRock305]

Yeah, and the attendant-fan ratio is way out of control. If we don't increase attendance, they'll have no choice but to layoff some of the attendants.

 

[AZHurricane]

Yeah, some of the attendants can be ****s. I've been threatened with getting thrown out for standing up for big plays and such.

i worked as one of the dudes selling beer/water/soda

**** is hard as fuhhh

Dude, I sold beer at the OB. From '79 - '81. You have no standing to complain.

 

[Nopain]

Yeah, some of the attendants can be ****s. I've been threatened with getting thrown out for standing up for big plays and such.

i worked as one of the dudes selling beer/water/soda

**** is hard as fuhhh

Dude, I sold beer at the OB. From '79 - '81. You have no standing to complain.

Hah! I sold soda at the OB from 76-80. Carrying those racks up and down the stands sucked. I remember we had to have rolls of nickels, dimes, and quarters to make change- a soda was 60 cents. Long live Zum Zum!

 

[Nopain]

Yeah, some of the attendants can be ****s. I've been threatened with getting thrown out for standing up for big plays and such.

i worked as one of the dudes selling beer/water/soda

**** is hard as fuhhh

Dude, I sold beer at the OB. From '79 - '81. You have no standing to complain.

Hah! I sold soda at the OB from 76-80. Carrying those racks up and down the stands sucked. I remember we had to have rolls of nickels, dimes, and quarters to make change- a soda was 60 cents. Long live Zum Zum!

Do you remember that the drinks didn't have lids? They had something like saran wrap over the top of the cup.

 

[SebastianTheIbis]

It's not the ticket prices, never has been. These days you can scalp a ticket to just about any game for $10-15.

 

[JHallCanes]

Cotton candy guys are ********. Needs to be fixed immediately.

 

[hoops156]

astute observation by the OP lol. selling out games will help recruiting - no **** lol problem is we never sell out (last sell out was FSU in 10) and ticket prices r low as for young alums they start at 95 bucks without parking. the problem is no one wants to go and the majority of the alumni base isnt in South florida.