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Rad on Increasing Attendance

SpikeUM said:
Winning is a no brainer, but what else? Advertising? Food trucks in the tailgate area? I would love to see more replays, and more nationwide scores.
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One thing we can do is get rid of that horrible game show crap they do in between plays or during timeouts. I realize the guy that does them is trying real hard, but it’s just cringe
 
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AUcane said:
It’s part of it but not the whole picture. Even in the early 00s, we averaged 40-50k for clunker games. I suppose he can make the overall game day experience better but there’s a limit to what he can do bc of location
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We averaged mid 40s across the entire seasons
 
supacane said:
Miami needs to do a better job of marketing the program. I was going to the GT game and wanted to buy a shirt. I figured ill get one at a store close to the stadium. 2 miles out and not one store had any Miami gear in there. They need a visionary to change these things. They have relied on, we the U for decades and seen us fall behind. Every gas station in south Florida **** near should have even a Miami hat. And since they are using business people i expect them to address these things.
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In Costco the rottiserrie chicken and the hot dogs are sold at such a low price they don’t make profit. They are loss leaders, that draw people into the store to then spend money on tons of other items. Miami needs to use a similar philosophy. Right now the fee for miami gear is likely too high for gas stations and other places, for it to be worth stocking. I believe university should try to pump out merch as much as possible even if we have to temporarily make lower fees/royalties on it.
 
AUcane said:
It’s part of it but not the whole picture. Even in the early 00s, we averaged 40-50k for clunker games. I suppose he can make the overall game day experience better but there’s a limit to what he can do bc of location
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Location? What do you think an ideal location would be that could help with attendance?
 
supacane said:
Miami needs to do a better job of marketing the program. I was going to the GT game and wanted to buy a shirt. I figured ill get one at a store close to the stadium. 2 miles out and not one store had any Miami gear in there. They need a visionary to change these things. They have relied on, we the U for decades and seen us fall behind. Every gas station in south Florida **** near should have even a Miami hat. And since they are using business people i expect them to address these things.
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Perfect analysis!!! I dig that idea and approach.
 
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Starts with the SPRING GAME in 2022 .. THAT needs to be an epic event to welcome Mario back to "Da U" and to welcome THE FANS to a reinvigorated UM football program. Should be tailgating, team bus arrival with the "Canes Walk" .. encourage all season ticket holders to show up for the Spring Game .. see the new roster that will be in place .. welcome the 2022 signing class (at least the Early Enrollees) to UM. "Bring The Juice" t shirts on sale!!
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
***sigh*** OK I’ll do the math for you. Two sellouts at 65K. Seven home games in 2017 averaging 58k. So that’s 406,000 for 7 games. Take away 130,000 for the two marquee games, and you have 276,000 left over. Now multiply that by five and you get 55,000. In 2017 we averaged 55,000 per game for every other game with the exception of Notre Dame and Virginia Tech.

55,000 per game for the non-marquee games.

Talk to me.
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There’s always multiple sides to numbers.

The reality here, or another way of looking at the increase in attendance, is that UM was smart in not packaging a mini. UM knowing ND fans travel, forced such LOSERS to purchase season tickets. I know this for a fact as I have family member who’s a HUGE ND fan(hate his guts) and he had to buy season tickets to secure attending the game.

My personal guess is that season tix were inflated by 10,000 just remembering how many ND fans were in attendance that glorious night!

Bottomline, let’s rock the Rock!

Go Canes!
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Nailed it.

This is what bothers me about the soft Palm Beach pvssies on this board who whine and threaten to stop going to Miami games if we move the stadium THIRTEEN MILES south.

Nobody lives in Gainesville. Nobody lives in Tallahassee. When both of those schools are rolling, they have 60 or 70 thousand fans who drive FOR HOURS to get to the games.

I hope all the Palm Beach pvssies follow through on their threats to stay home when Miami builds a stadium on NW 7th or at Tropical. Then we can fill their seats with local kids taking advantage of Burger King ticket offers. I'd rather have fans that love UM than those who boycott the games because of having to drive 13 extra miles.
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Lol..slow your role..
 
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Win.
nothing else matters in Miami. You’ll never sell out 12 pm duke. Just win and do your best to make each week an outdoor gala where people wanna be seen
 
Rickd said:
Starts with the SPRING GAME in 2022 .. THAT needs to be an epic event to welcome Mario back to "Da U" and to welcome THE FANS to a reinvigorated UM football program. Should be tailgating, team bus arrival with the "Canes Walk" .. encourage all season ticket holders to show up for the Spring Game .. see the new roster that will be in place .. welcome the 2022 signing class (at least the Early Enrollees) to UM. "Bring The Juice" t shirts on sale!!
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They try that. We’ll just never be the fanbase that goes to a spring gsme. Some of you guys need to live in Miami to see this.

you habe to make each gsme an event. Make it so the person who doesnt care wants to be there Bc everyone he or she parties w is going.
 
hoops156 said:
They try that. We’ll just never be the fanbase that goes to a spring gsme. Some of you guys need to live in Miami to see this.

you habe to make each gsme an event. Make it so the person who doesnt care wants to be there Bc everyone he or she parties w is going.
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Disagree ... THIS SPRING GAME should be something special. UM for the first time in 20 years has a top notch legit head coach that was a target by many major programs. Recruiting is being taken to a level not experienced since Butch Davis was here in the "good ol days". There is an enthusiasm and hunger to be involved with UM football that has been absent. Fans that had cancelled tickets and were going to go fishing on Saturdays rather than even WATCH UM football on TV, are now buying season tickets. This is a SPECIAL SEASON .. new AD, Mario, flipping top 100 recruits .. plenty of reason to get a special Spring Game event scheduled including tailgating. Tail gate .. do the Canes Walk welcoming the bus into Hard Rock. BRING THE JUICE!!
 
First game I attended was in 1987. Was a student at Horace Mann Middle and they gave away 1 free ticket to every student that wrote an essay. West zone seats. Group of us went and became lifelong fans.

Reaching out to the middle schoolers via free tickets (1 for student and 1 for parent) will become an experience for them and lock in future fans. Parents will go and pay parking and concessions. The experience of earning a ticket and having a great time (hopefully with a win) might become a yearly family event.

Reaching out to the tri County area you can easily get 20k kids and parents each week for the lower tiered games. Make the seats general admission to one area and first come first serve.
 
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hoops156 said:
They try that. We’ll just never be the fanbase that goes to a spring gsme. Some of you guys need to live in Miami to see this.

you habe to make each gsme an event. Make it so the person who doesnt care wants to be there Bc everyone he or she parties w is going.
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I havent spent much time in Miami since I went to school there in the 80's but this was true from my experience. We were at the height of our success and people werent going to the spring game. In fact, people went to the big games and not so much to the others. Not saying it cant happen just dont see it.
 
Thommy30w said:
I havent spent much time in Miami since I went to school there in the 80's but this was true from my experience. We were at the height of our success and people werent going to the spring game. In fact, people went to the big games and not so much to the others. Not saying it cant happen just dont see it.
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We will never be that. The old dudes like toc don’t get it. Mario did when he said it’s an event town
 
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561Cane said:
There’s always multiple sides to numbers.

The reality here, or another way of looking at the increase in attendance, is that UM was smart in not packaging a mini. UM knowing ND fans travel, forced such LOSERS to purchase season tickets. I know this for a fact as I have family member who’s a HUGE ND fan(hate his guts) and he had to buy season tickets to secure attending the game.

My personal guess is that season tix were inflated by 10,000 just remembering how many ND fans were in attendance that glorious night!

Bottomline, let’s rock the Rock!

Go Canes!
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10,000 people did not buy season tickets just for Notre Dame I’m pretty sure. There weren’t even that many Notre Dame fans there. Maybe 5k but I doubt even that much. I know I was there. In my section there were about like 2 Notre Dame fans out of thousands.

If we start to win, we will average 50,000+. Even with crap games thrown in.

It’s different now. One of the reasons the orange bowl was hard to sell out for the crappy games, was the logistics of going to the stadium as it was back then. People just didn’t want to hassle with parking no blocky and walking miles through calle ocho streets.

HRS is located to have sell outs more easily and IS more easily accessible to millions more people.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Nailed it.

This is what bothers me about the soft Palm Beach pvssies on this board who whine and threaten to stop going to Miami games if we move the stadium THIRTEEN MILES south.

Nobody lives in Gainesville. Nobody lives in Tallahassee. When both of those schools are rolling, they have 60 or 70 thousand fans who drive FOR HOURS to get to the games.

I hope all the Palm Beach pvssies follow through on their threats to stay home when Miami builds a stadium on NW 7th or at Tropical. Then we can fill their seats with local kids taking advantage of Burger King ticket offers. I'd rather have fans that love UM than those who boycott the games because of having to drive 13 extra miles.
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There are busses that transport fans from Jacksonville to Gainesville and Tallahassee. A non-stop game-day Tri-rail express +/- bus set-up for games could make the “commute” a good part of the experience for those from Broward and Palm Beach.
 
It's the Hard Rock, add live music entertainment that doesn't suck. They could even make it an event rotation, country, edm, hip-hop, Miami locals, Miami local stars, etc
 
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