I think we are curious about your visit with the new Associate AD! How did it go?
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I agree, but something else she mentioned is that in some situations, like where they do cheaper tickets for groups or whatever, that stuff has to be sponsored, and sometimes she's limited on things like price and numbers by what the sponsor wants to do. So, they can't always just say...ok...all kids under 12 get in free or all military gets in free, or whatever. There's a lot more to think about outside of that.GV Dad wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:42 am I feel like at this point, all First Responders and Military should get in free. Why even charge the $5? Get the Hero's in the stadium, sell the game experience, and make a few bucks on concessions. All this, the large group discounts included, should just be about getting a "customer" in the door, and then selling them on returning.
Is that a school rule or NCAA?ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:15 amI agree, but something else she mentioned is that in some situations, like where they do cheaper tickets for groups or whatever, that stuff has to be sponsored, and sometimes she's limited on things like price and numbers by what the sponsor wants to do. So, they can't always just say...ok...all kids under 12 get in free or all military gets in free, or whatever. There's a lot more to think about outside of that.GV Dad wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:42 am I feel like at this point, all First Responders and Military should get in free. Why even charge the $5? Get the Hero's in the stadium, sell the game experience, and make a few bucks on concessions. All this, the large group discounts included, should just be about getting a "customer" in the door, and then selling them on returning.
I don't really know off the top of my head. I do know that there's a bunch of regulations for FCS playoff games that are in addition to the regular rules, and I know that you are not allowed to give away playoff game tickets, but I don't know what rules are applied for regular season. Just FYI, we also can't fire off the canon during playoff games.GV Dad wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:33 pmIs that a school rule or NCAA?ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:15 am I agree, but something else she mentioned is that in some situations, like where they do cheaper tickets for groups or whatever, that stuff has to be sponsored, and sometimes she's limited on things like price and numbers by what the sponsor wants to do. So, they can't always just say...ok...all kids under 12 get in free or all military gets in free, or whatever. There's a lot more to think about outside of that.
I guess I don't understand that either, I can kinda understand giving out free tickets, but don't understand the discounted tickets, they should be able to do that on their own. So maybe it is some sort of NCAA or conference rule.ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:15 amI agree, but something else she mentioned is that in some situations, like where they do cheaper tickets for groups or whatever, that stuff has to be sponsored, and sometimes she's limited on things like price and numbers by what the sponsor wants to do. So, they can't always just say...ok...all kids under 12 get in free or all military gets in free, or whatever. There's a lot more to think about outside of that.GV Dad wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:42 am I feel like at this point, all First Responders and Military should get in free. Why even charge the $5? Get the Hero's in the stadium, sell the game experience, and make a few bucks on concessions. All this, the large group discounts included, should just be about getting a "customer" in the door, and then selling them on returning.
As a web developer, I have to agree with you on that. You HAVE to have an updated website...can't get by with info that's months old (at this point, 3 of the 5 fall matchups are over a month old) with not even any scores posted. And if you click on the live stats links, it takes you to a page that looks like it's from a game against SDSU (that's what the scorebox says) that we lost 5-4, although the page "title" and text in the tab say it was NDSU, and the players listed are players on NDSU's team. I looked on NDSU's softball schedule page and that game was actually from April 23rd....of 2017: https://gobison.com/boxscore.aspx?path=softball&id=7820GV Dad wrote: ↑Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:07 am I wish I would have thought of this before your meeting. One thing they need to get better at, which could be immediate and very easy, keep their website updated. I went in the other day to see the Spring schedule for Softball. The spring schedule isn't there, but the Fall short season was. All the games had been played, but none of the scores or results were updated. That's unacceptable and sloppy. It prob takes 5 mins to update game results. It is attention to detail issues like these that are just maddening! One of the biggest Marketing tool any business has is their website. If that's sloppy and unprofessional, how is the rest of your business ran?