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re: Newsflash: UGA students in general are awful, pathetic fans
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:53 am to bigdawg7780
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:53 am to bigdawg7780
Improving wi-fi is sorely needed, but it's not a solution to the problem. It just makes it easier ot disconnect from the stadium atmosphere while there.
If they actually want to improve anything:
1.) Stop selling 16-17,000 tickets on a 30,000 person campus. Instead, go more like 8-10,000 and give priority to Seniors and Double Dawgs.
2.) Remove the tailgating restrictions on campus, you fricking idiots. SEC football is a social event. When you start stepping on the social aspects (which make up the other 21 hours of the 24 hour football Saturday), it dissuades people form even wanting to bother.
3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
If they actually want to improve anything:
1.) Stop selling 16-17,000 tickets on a 30,000 person campus. Instead, go more like 8-10,000 and give priority to Seniors and Double Dawgs.
2.) Remove the tailgating restrictions on campus, you fricking idiots. SEC football is a social event. When you start stepping on the social aspects (which make up the other 21 hours of the 24 hour football Saturday), it dissuades people form even wanting to bother.
3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
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Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:57 am to tylerdurden24
The in-stadium music would be a simple thing to update, IMO. I mean look at how well USCe students get into Sandstorm. We don't have anything like that at UGA.
I obviously don't want to get rid of any traditions, but some variation it what plays at kickoff and during timeouts wouldn't be a big deal, IMO
Eta- and selling beer would help a lot
I obviously don't want to get rid of any traditions, but some variation it what plays at kickoff and during timeouts wouldn't be a big deal, IMO
Eta- and selling beer would help a lot
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 9:58 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:05 am to tylerdurden24
Do other schools sell beer at college games?
And I think the tailgating thing is more the city and law enforcement than the school. The Athens Clark County police hate UGA students and especially athletes. They go out of their way to ruin people's day if they possibly can. I'm assuming this kind of mandate rolls down from the top, so I'm also assuming the people in charge are uptight miserable fricks.
And I think the tailgating thing is more the city and law enforcement than the school. The Athens Clark County police hate UGA students and especially athletes. They go out of their way to ruin people's day if they possibly can. I'm assuming this kind of mandate rolls down from the top, so I'm also assuming the people in charge are uptight miserable fricks.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 10:06 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:54 am to tylerdurden24
I agree with all of your points, but our home schedule was so extremely front heavy this year which probably lead to some inflation in these numbers.
Hell, we were essentially done playing meaningful games Between the Hedges after the Mizzou game and that was in the middle of October. I'm not saying it's right, but after we lost that game and the Vandy game our season was essentially over, thus leading to a nose dive in attendance.
Again, not saying it's right but your average student isn't going to wake up at at 8am and head down to the stadium to tailgate for a 12:00 game vs App State when absolutely nothing is at stake.
Really the only things I could see that would significantly improve the turnout would be
1. More afternoon/night games
2. Wifi/general cell service improvements would be nice. It is nearly impossible to communicate inside the stadium for 3+ hours with people who you did not enter the game with, which causes a lot of problems for students who have friends visiting from out of town.
3. Sell beer. I know quite a few individuals (mostly female)who get way too drunk before hand, and either leave the game in the first quarter or don't even make it in at all. Their reasoning is that they would rather pass out and wake up around 2:00 and be able to go downtown that night, as opposed to staying for the rest of the game and then crashing around 4:00 when they get back to their apartments. This is not limited to just females, but it definitely seems like a more common problem with them which subsequently is a problem for the university when you consider that roughly 60% of the student population are females.
Hell, we were essentially done playing meaningful games Between the Hedges after the Mizzou game and that was in the middle of October. I'm not saying it's right, but after we lost that game and the Vandy game our season was essentially over, thus leading to a nose dive in attendance.
Again, not saying it's right but your average student isn't going to wake up at at 8am and head down to the stadium to tailgate for a 12:00 game vs App State when absolutely nothing is at stake.
Really the only things I could see that would significantly improve the turnout would be
1. More afternoon/night games
2. Wifi/general cell service improvements would be nice. It is nearly impossible to communicate inside the stadium for 3+ hours with people who you did not enter the game with, which causes a lot of problems for students who have friends visiting from out of town.
3. Sell beer. I know quite a few individuals (mostly female)who get way too drunk before hand, and either leave the game in the first quarter or don't even make it in at all. Their reasoning is that they would rather pass out and wake up around 2:00 and be able to go downtown that night, as opposed to staying for the rest of the game and then crashing around 4:00 when they get back to their apartments. This is not limited to just females, but it definitely seems like a more common problem with them which subsequently is a problem for the university when you consider that roughly 60% of the student population are females.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:14 am to tylerdurden24
quote:
1.) Stop selling 16-17,000 tickets on a 30,000 person campus. Instead, go more like 8-10,000 and give priority to Seniors and Double Dawgs.
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2.) Remove the tailgating restrictions on campus, you fricking idiots. SEC football is a social event. When you start stepping on the social aspects (which make up the other 21 hours of the 24 hour football Saturday), it dissuades people form even wanting to bother.
YES
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3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
Meh, I am indifferent. Fix the rest and students will be there. I would rather them work on how concessions are laid out, and how few of them that there are. Students will be sneaking in the bottles instead of buying beer, so this probably wont help the student pop.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:34 am to tylerdurden24
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3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
I agree with this 100%. One of the main reasons for students not staying the whole game/ or not going at all is b/c they want to be drinking while they watch the game. So they leave and go downtown to the bars.
I haven't looked this up, but do any SEC schools sell beer at there games? If so, why in the hell are we not?
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