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Posted on 8/28/18 at 8:58 am to the808bass
Posted on 8/28/18 at 8:58 am to the808bass
Bass those are all good ideas, but the product the marketers are selling has to be good enough for people to come watch.
Mizzou needs to win, then convince several of the top local recruits to come to Mizzou every year. Then win at a higher level with local kids that the casual fans know and have connected with. Do that and what you mentioned, then attendance will pick up.
Personally I don’t care where the players come from, as long as the team is good. But there are lots of fans that are more likely to come if there are many players that the fans tracked in high school.
Mizzou needs to win, then convince several of the top local recruits to come to Mizzou every year. Then win at a higher level with local kids that the casual fans know and have connected with. Do that and what you mentioned, then attendance will pick up.
Personally I don’t care where the players come from, as long as the team is good. But there are lots of fans that are more likely to come if there are many players that the fans tracked in high school.
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Posted on 8/28/18 at 9:05 am to wubilli
FINALLY two posts back to back replies worth reading.
Agree with you and Bass
Win and the stands fill....... Adjust the instate advertising.
Agree with you and Bass
Win and the stands fill....... Adjust the instate advertising.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:25 pm to wubilli
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Bass those are all good ideas, but the product the marketers are selling has to be good enough for people to come watch.
I agree with that. But I think there’s some of our diehard fans who checked out in ‘15. Those are fans who sat in the stands and watched us lose to OU and Nebraska by 35 and came back the next week.
And I think Odom is exactly the kind of guy to bring those fans back from a ethic/personality standpoint. He comes across as a normal Joe who’s also a P5 coach. That should be highlighted by our athletic department.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:58 pm to wubilli
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Personally I don’t care where the players come from, as long as the team is good. But there are lots of fans that are more likely to come if there are many players that the fans tracked in high school.
This reminded me of several Como natives who have expressed their apathy by saying, "Hell, it's not like the players are from Missouri." (or some variation of that)
So, curious, I looked at the number of players that a few SEC schools had from their home states. TN had 45, LSU had 65, and GA had a surprisingly high 91.
Ala was another surprise (the other way) with 39.
Mizzou has 31.
Don't know if this tells us anything other than Bama is Bama and the other schools have a higher % of local kids on their teams than we do.
This post was edited on 8/28/18 at 1:03 pm
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