What UW can do to fix the game day experience at Husky Stadium

I would love to be a fly on the wall when Cohen meets with these national “gameday experience consultation” firms and they tell her what sells in today’s PAC-12.
 
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Cohen meets with these national “gameday experience consultation” firms and they tell her what sells in today’s PAC-12.
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Whatever they think she wants to hear, than laugh after the check clears at the idea anyone in the Pac-12/West Coast can sell as a product the equal of typewriters today.
 
It’s hard to get a great atmosphere when you lose your opening home game to an FCS school. Winning solves everything. When UW starts winning consistently, the energy will be back.
 
The number one issue is lack of a clarity in advance regarding the kickoff time… this means that no one can plan in advance regarding their logistics

This has literally killed the out of town and season ticket sales

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what the problems are, the real problem is the dumb as fuck athletic department / the biggest can’t find my ass with either hand group of ass hat clowns that I have ever seen

They could starve to death at a banquet, and unfortunately they are in charge of the athletic department product offerings
 
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Reducing concessions is a good idea that I've been behind the entire time ... but needs to be closer to kickoff than an hour ... 30 minutes makes sense

They need to streamline the process for getting into the stadium ... the vax situation makes the situation ugly ... but ultimately they don't have enough entrances or enough ticket scanners to get people through. Add to it the number of technologically unsavvy people and it's a bottleneck. I can get into Kraken games in less than 2 minutes ... it took me well over 10 minutes last night.

Light rail and everything is great except it's ugly getting out of the full trains with everybody cattled in he same direction (another huge bottleneck) ... simply put the infrastructure doesn't really support the volume. Then you add to it the crush of people getting on after a game and it's just a disaster ... and that doesn't factor in the light rail breaking down after the game

Besides the in-game presentation, there needs to be a return to embracing tailgating ... the beauty of college football is that you get to spend the entire day with your friends and family. Make tailgating easier ... not more difficult or more expensive.

Yes, football is the golden goose ... but that doesn't mean we have to bleed every single dollar out of every single fan. Have some give and take.
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I was the first one to complain about the cost of years ago. It is criminally expensive to go to a Husky football game

Look at the old videos of the crowd. Joe six pack having a great time on Montlake. Now it’s all sales guys
 
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2016-2018 Say hi in terms of winning and stands will be full

Must drop cost of season tickets. You can go onto 2ndary market and get same better tickets for a quarter of the cost.

They did get traction with 50% off concessions up to hour b4 kick. Make it up to 30 minutes and add merchandise into equation.
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This.

It has been a slow decline and returning will be a climb. Winning is necessary but insufficient. You go to the game to feel the beating pulse of rabid fandom. Something bigger. 72000 pairs of screaming lungs and stomping feet. The shared glory of a sack taking the opposing quarterback to the turf. You have to have get the people there and immerse them.

There's more than one way to skin a coug, but that is the experience you have to be engineering.
 
2016-2018 Say hi in terms of winning and stands will be full

Must drop cost of season tickets. You can go onto 2ndary market and get same better tickets for a quarter of the cost.

They did get traction with 50% off concessions up to hour b4 kick. Make it up to 30 minutes and add merchandise into equation.
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This.

It has been a slow decline and returning will be a climb. Winning is necessary but insufficient. You go to the game to feel the beating pulse of rabid fandom. Something bigger. 72000 pairs of screaming lungs and stomping feet. The shared glory of a sack taking the opposing quarterback to the turf. You have to have get the people there and immerse them.

There's more than one way to skin a coug, but that is the experience you have to be engineering.
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Buzz word in CFB (and in all sports in general) has been about engaging the fan (make it easy anyone under 40) and giving them a experience that they want to come back and have again.

for dinosaurs like myself (50 and over) winning cures and is above all else, but that's not the ticket for the 2 generations below that. Their cell phones give them instant engagement and enjoyment. If that's not happening at the game, they will go do something else that does.

Demographics and the UW's decision to admit as many as possible out of state/country students for the additional revenue has now come back to bite them in the ass from a attendance standpoint as well.
 
Michigan went 2-4 last year. The gameday experience this year against UW was the best atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of. 108,000 people who were there before kickoff were there throughout the game, and stayed until the end.

A few observations:

Tons of crowd shots. Instead of playing ten Beacon Plumbing ads during the commercial breaks it was fun music and lots of crowd shots.

Coordination on the Jumbotron with the opponent. Everyone loved watching highlights from old UW/UM game. And hey look who they honored during the game - Philip Brabbs that kicked the game winner against us back in 2001 or whatever.

Coordination with the music. No dumb 13 second snips between plays from this crowd favorite or that one, never to be heard again during the game. Instead of playing ads, they played music when the crowd could get into it more.

I don’t think there was a single ad on display in the entire stadium. Did not feel like some kind of sytylixzed NFL wannabe experience. No idea how much revenue they get from the various ads but it ruins the experience.

Thetailgating was awesome. They tailgate on the golf course across the street from the stadium. Trucks, trailers, tables, chairs, people, etc. somehow the golf course survives just fine. Very friendly to tailgates and much better than asphalt. Maybe open the area between the stadium and Drumheller?

Win. Win big. And win in a way that is exciting. Attacking defense. 21st century offense. Highlight your players and playmakers. Be media friendly. Promote your program. Be accessible.
 
Winning you can argue all the other stuff all you want but if you win people will want to go watch a good team. The 3 NY6 bowl years under Petersen it was pretty wild.
 
Michigan went 2-4 last year. The gameday experience this year against UW was the best atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of. 108,000 people who were there before kickoff were there throughout the game, and stayed until the end.

A few observations:

Tons of crowd shots. Instead of playing ten Beacon Plumbing ads during the commercial breaks it was fun music and lots of crowd shots.

Coordination on the Jumbotron with the opponent. Everyone loved watching highlights from old UW/UM game. And hey look who they honored during the game - Philip Brabbs that kicked the game winner against us back in 2001 or whatever.

Coordination with the music. No dumb 13 second snips between plays from this crowd favorite or that one, never to be heard again during the game. Instead of playing ads, they played music when the crowd could get into it more.

I don’t think there was a single ad on display in the entire stadium. Did not feel like some kind of sytylixzed NFL wannabe experience. No idea how much revenue they get from the various ads but it ruins the experience.

The tailgating was awesome. They tailgate on the golf course across the street from the stadium. Trucks, trailers, tables, chairs, people, etc. somehow the golf course survives just fine. Very friendly to tailgates and much better than asphalt. Maybe open the area between the stadium and Drumheller?

Win. Win big. And win in a way that is exciting. Attacking defense. 21st century offense. Highlight your players and playmakers. Be media friendly. Promote your program. Be accessible.
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Ditto on Michigan game day atmosphere and experience. Difference between UW and theirs is not Varsity/JV more like Varsity/C Squad. Comparing two isn't like saying apples/oranges, it's like saying apples/single raisin.

Don't know (and highly doubt) it's like that for every game, but an hour b4 kick-off stadium was half full which equals 55,000. ONLY because WSU brought 20k, and Oregon 10-15 did we even have that attendance for any game this year.

Michigan did not run an ad the entire game. It is about Michigan Football from start to finish period end of story. As I understand it, b/c of the revenue UM gets from ticket sales, donations, etc they made determination they could afford to not run ads and keep their traditions.

To UW AD credit they have essentially tried to copy what they saw back at Michigan (Wolverines should send us a invoice for visual consulting services they provided) but it's going to take several seasons and alot more fan friendly pricing in both ticket prices and parking, merch, concessions along with Winning to get UW back to having a full stadium and a ticket that is desired amongst the general public.

 
Take the seats in the corners of the upper deck that never sell and give them away to kids in under privileged areas of Seattle/Tacoma. Grass roots your fan base. This isn't hard.
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This is the lowest of low hanging fruit. I’m a husky fan because people of more means than my family took me to games, bought my fat ass hot dogs, and taught me how fucking worthless Duck fans are in anything other than a gas pumping/drinking contest. Every peewee football program that wants to go to a game next year should be given free tickets (and hot dogs for the fat kids who have a week to lose it before their next weigh in).

There are a lot of ways to engage local HS coaches that every coach for the last 30 years has said they care about out loud, then told them to fuck off through a lack of effort and follow through.

I don’t care how many times the quitter says it’s hard like we’re asking the Husky HC to cure AIDS, most of this shit isn’t.
 
Become a midsize or small college fan.

None of those problems exist at all.

Otherwise, go back to the year 2000.
 
The advertising strategy in Husky Stadium comes right out of a 1996 TV network playbook. The kind of ads where something dramatic happens, then it breaks to commercial, the volume is 10x louder than the show, and some guy in a clown suit is trying to get you to call his plumbing company.

It doesn’t blend into the game. I knew they were out of control when they sold the name of the field to Alaska and tried to get us all to call us Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium. Hey, Jen, fuck you.
 
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Cohen meets with these national “gameday experience consultation” firms and they tell her what sells in today’s PAC-12.
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You wouldn't stay on the wall. You'd keep buzzing around her head.
 
Michigan went 2-4 last year. The gameday experience this year against UW was the best atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of. 108,000 people who were there before kickoff were there throughout the game, and stayed until the end.

A few observations:

Tons of crowd shots. Instead of playing ten Beacon Plumbing ads during the commercial breaks it was fun music and lots of crowd shots.

Coordination on the Jumbotron with the opponent. Everyone loved watching highlights from old UW/UM game. And hey look who they honored during the game - Philip Brabbs that kicked the game winner against us back in 2001 or whatever.

Coordination with the music. No dumb 13 second snips between plays from this crowd favorite or that one, never to be heard again during the game. Instead of playing ads, they played music when the crowd could get into it more.

I don’t think there was a single ad on display in the entire stadium. Did not feel like some kind of sytylixzed NFL wannabe experience. No idea how much revenue they get from the various ads but it ruins the experience.

The tailgating was awesome. They tailgate on the golf course across the street from the stadium. Trucks, trailers, tables, chairs, people, etc. somehow the golf course survives just fine. Very friendly to tailgates and much better than asphalt. Maybe open the area between the stadium and Drumheller?

Win. Win big. And win in a way that is exciting. Attacking defense. 21st century offense. Highlight your players and playmakers. Be media friendly. Promote your program. Be accessible.
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Ditto on Michigan game day atmosphere and experience. Difference between UW and theirs is not Varsity/JV more like Varsity/C Squad. Comparing two isn't like saying apples/oranges, it's like saying apples/single raisin.

Don't know (and highly doubt) it's like that for every game, but an hour b4 kick-off stadium was half full which equals 55,000. ONLY because WSU brought 20k, and Oregon 10-15 did we even have that attendance for any game this year.

Michigan did not run an ad the entire game. It is about Michigan Football from start to finish period end of story. As I understand it, b/c of the revenue UM gets from ticket sales, donations, etc they made determination they could afford to not run ads and keep their traditions.

To UW AD credit they have essentially tried to copy what they saw back at Michigan (Wolverines should send us a invoice for visual consulting services they provided) but it's going to take several seasons and alot more fan friendly pricing in both ticket prices and parking, merch, concessions along with Winning to get UW back to having a full stadium and a ticket that is desired amongst the general public.
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Did they announce the 2020 Big 10 recycling champs or receive an award for being the most LGTBQ friendly school in the conference? Things like that get the crowed amped.
 
Michigan went 2-4 last year. The gameday experience this year against UW was the best atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of. 108,000 people who were there before kickoff were there throughout the game, and stayed until the end.

A few observations:

Tons of crowd shots. Instead of playing ten Beacon Plumbing ads during the commercial breaks it was fun music and lots of crowd shots.

Coordination on the Jumbotron with the opponent. Everyone loved watching highlights from old UW/UM game. And hey look who they honored during the game - Philip Brabbs that kicked the game winner against us back in 2001 or whatever.

Coordination with the music. No dumb 13 second snips between plays from this crowd favorite or that one, never to be heard again during the game. Instead of playing ads, they played music when the crowd could get into it more.

I don’t think there was a single ad on display in the entire stadium. Did not feel like some kind of sytylixzed NFL wannabe experience. No idea how much revenue they get from the various ads but it ruins the experience.

The tailgating was awesome. They tailgate on the golf course across the street from the stadium. Trucks, trailers, tables, chairs, people, etc. somehow the golf course survives just fine. Very friendly to tailgates and much better than asphalt. Maybe open the area between the stadium and Drumheller?

Win. Win big. And win in a way that is exciting. Attacking defense. 21st century offense. Highlight your players and playmakers. Be media friendly. Promote your program. Be accessible.
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Ditto on Michigan game day atmosphere and experience. Difference between UW and theirs is not Varsity/JV more like Varsity/C Squad. Comparing two isn't like saying apples/oranges, it's like saying apples/single raisin.

Don't know (and highly doubt) it's like that for every game, but an hour b4 kick-off stadium was half full which equals 55,000. ONLY because WSU brought 20k, and Oregon 10-15 did we even have that attendance for any game this year.

Michigan did not run an ad the entire game. It is about Michigan Football from start to finish period end of story. As I understand it, b/c of the revenue UM gets from ticket sales, donations, etc they made determination they could afford to not run ads and keep their traditions.

To UW AD credit they have essentially tried to copy what they saw back at Michigan (Wolverines should send us a invoice for visual consulting services they provided) but it's going to take several seasons and alot more fan friendly pricing in both ticket prices and parking, merch, concessions along with Winning to get UW back to having a full stadium and a ticket that is desired amongst the general public.
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Did they announce the 2020 Big 10 recycling champs or receive an award for being the most LGTBQ friendly school in the conference? Things like that get the crowed amped.
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Duh. Right before we came out on offense 1st time and promptly went delay of game.

It wasn't b/c we didn't know what tf we were going to do, it was because we were applauding their accomplishment
 
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