Purple_Pills
New Fish
If anyone from the UW Athletic Department lurks these boreds, here is some free advice to improve the game day experience:
Things UW/AD can fix on their own[/b]
- Schedule better teams. There should be at least one home game annually with a big name program. And no more scheduling FCS teams.
- Lower season ticket prices. The game day experience gets worse, ticket demand is down, yet season ticket prices aren’t dropping. UW needs to reward their best customers and encourage more season ticket holders by reducing prices. A 20% reduction would be a good start, especially with next year’s home schedule.
- Add way more entry/reentry staff at Husky Stadium, plus better crowd control leading up to them on the outside
- Bring back re-entry
- If you are selling beer in stadium, add beer men selling in the stands. Way too many people are getting up during game play to buy beer and it’s annoying. Plus people are holding/drinking beers rather than clap and cheer. A beverage cup holder at each seat may be a way to encourage people to set down their drinks more often.
- Calm down on the advertisements. Stop flashing ads on that LED “ad stripe” which horseshoes the field during actual game play. Use it instead to display school colors, etc.
- Too much noise and distractions on Jumbotron. The silly Jumbotron games and DJ Supper Slam are just too much. I’d rather hear the band play “Neck.”
Things UW/AD can fix with assistance from others [/b]
- Go back to as many 12:30 pm kickoffs as possible. It’s better for fans, better for traffic.
- Play no more than one night game at home each season
- No more Friday home games, except maybe the Apple Cup on Black Friday.
- TV timeouts are too frequent and too long in college football. Work with conference and TV partners and fix. NFL games are a better experience due to this.
- PAC-12 refs suck, and the conference needs to fix that. The replay reviews are too long, but I attribute that to the P12 doing a shit job of managing, cultivating, and properly equipping conference officials.
- More frequent light rail trains during games. Bring back bus shuttles to Federal Way that bypass the Rainier Valley snail rail portion of ST light rail.
Things UW/AD have no control over[/b]
- Horrible I-5 traffic in Seattle and on the way to Seattle. For example the perpetual Tacoma traffic shitshow has had a major negative impact on fans from the South Sound and Southwest Washington. Earlier kickoff times is one way to improve this.
- Outdoor mask & vax mandates are stupid, but it’s the fascist local health Nazis, not UW, who have control over these.
Please add to this list!
Things UW/AD can fix on their own[/b]
- Schedule better teams. There should be at least one home game annually with a big name program. And no more scheduling FCS teams.
- Lower season ticket prices. The game day experience gets worse, ticket demand is down, yet season ticket prices aren’t dropping. UW needs to reward their best customers and encourage more season ticket holders by reducing prices. A 20% reduction would be a good start, especially with next year’s home schedule.
- Add way more entry/reentry staff at Husky Stadium, plus better crowd control leading up to them on the outside
- Bring back re-entry
- If you are selling beer in stadium, add beer men selling in the stands. Way too many people are getting up during game play to buy beer and it’s annoying. Plus people are holding/drinking beers rather than clap and cheer. A beverage cup holder at each seat may be a way to encourage people to set down their drinks more often.
- Calm down on the advertisements. Stop flashing ads on that LED “ad stripe” which horseshoes the field during actual game play. Use it instead to display school colors, etc.
- Too much noise and distractions on Jumbotron. The silly Jumbotron games and DJ Supper Slam are just too much. I’d rather hear the band play “Neck.”
Things UW/AD can fix with assistance from others [/b]
- Go back to as many 12:30 pm kickoffs as possible. It’s better for fans, better for traffic.
- Play no more than one night game at home each season
- No more Friday home games, except maybe the Apple Cup on Black Friday.
- TV timeouts are too frequent and too long in college football. Work with conference and TV partners and fix. NFL games are a better experience due to this.
- PAC-12 refs suck, and the conference needs to fix that. The replay reviews are too long, but I attribute that to the P12 doing a shit job of managing, cultivating, and properly equipping conference officials.
- More frequent light rail trains during games. Bring back bus shuttles to Federal Way that bypass the Rainier Valley snail rail portion of ST light rail.
Things UW/AD have no control over[/b]
- Horrible I-5 traffic in Seattle and on the way to Seattle. For example the perpetual Tacoma traffic shitshow has had a major negative impact on fans from the South Sound and Southwest Washington. Earlier kickoff times is one way to improve this.
- Outdoor mask & vax mandates are stupid, but it’s the fascist local health Nazis, not UW, who have control over these.
Please add to this list!
