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Re: 2017 - Game 4: Towson 6PM
By: Hammertime Date: September 26, 2017, 5:57 pm
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[quote author=ecasadoSBU link=topic=627.msg19173#msg19173
date=1506454717]
My last statement about attendance, at least in this thread.
In 2014 we had our best average attendance despite having a
so-so team that year. But the tailgating was great, parking was
free, and students were given some freedom to party up and enjoy
the fall days in LaValle's parking lot. I had a group of alumni
7-8 tailgating together.... Even frats and DJs were showing up.
The year after that the school makes a bunch of reforms and
kills the tailgating experience and prices out a bunch of season
ticket holders out of the main lot. WHY? For a few thousand
bucks? Is that worth it? Killing the season-ticket
holder/student experience for a few thousand bucks?
Students will not come to a College Football game if they don't
find it fun (unless they are fan of the sport). That's the
bottom line. We cannot blame them for it. If you are not a fan,
why else would you show up? Make it fun darn it!
The University and the athletic department have to strike a
balance between a family-oriented game-day experience and a
college-student oriented experience. Not everyone goes home on
weekends. Every time I walk through the Brook prior to gametime
I see students everywhere. I see kids in the dining hall,
library, out enjoying the weather... Probably about half of the
kids that live on campus stay on weekend. This perception that
everyone goes home is FALSE. It's simply NOT fun to be at the
game. You cannot even have a sip of beer in the parking lot
before the cops make a fuzz about it.
The only reason I drive from the Bronx all the way to SBU it's
because I'm a fan of the sport and of the Seawolves. But you
cant expect the average causal fan to have the level of
commitment we have here. It's not going to happen. We need
pro-attendance reforms on campus, urgently!
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Spot on ecasdoSBU.. You nailed it. SB raised the parking this
year to $125 for the season. In the grand scheme of things
that's cheap compared to other universities. But for some
people, thats expensive. I did notice that there quite a few
empty lots around out tailgating area..
SB is light years away from being a big time football school, so
they really need to put a leash on the price increases for
tickets and amenities, otherwise your casual fan will not attend
and the fan base will diminish back to the dark days..
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Re: 2017 - Game 4: Towson 6PM
By: Seawolf97 Date: September 26, 2017, 6:06 pm
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I agree with all of the above. I park in the railroad lot and
refuse to pay . If we get an invite to the SEC or Big 10 I may
pay. We as an athletic program need to be careful with pricing
and charges. We and FCS program and in the America East. We
need folks in the seats which are still cheap not paying for
parking other add ons of tailgating .
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Re: 2017 - Game 4: Towson 6PM
By: Chrissy D. Date: September 26, 2017, 8:37 pm
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If you guys remember a few yrs back there were a lot a season
ticket holders complaining that they couldnt get a spot in the
front lot if they didnt get to SB early. As to the students and
fraternities go, at 2012 , 2013 homecomings there were a bunch
of fights and bad drunken behavior. I get it I went to SB but if
they were going to make it family friendly they needed to clean
up the behavior. As far as the family tailgaiting area I agree
that they should move the Seawolve town stuff onto the grass
behind the scoreboard. Then if they want they could charge say
$10 a car to park in the tailgate area. Lets remember they dont
have to let anyone drink beer being that it is a college campus.
I pay $60 for parking in the lot next to the infirmary. Its only
feet away from the seawolf town spots. I think 10 bucks a game
is fair to tailgate. I agree $125 is too much but again that was
in response to season ticket holders bitchin about not getting
spots. I was told this by Christina who used to work the ticket
office. So u cant have both, either u welcome families in or u
let the students go nuts. Remember they are not going to make
money off the students.
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Re: 2017 - Game 4: Towson 6PM
By: NoVA_Seawolf Date: September 26, 2017, 8:44 pm
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$125 for parking? For season ticket holders?!?! As said that's
ludicrous. We need people to show up and that's nuts. The SBU
administration has always made boneheaded decisions that stifle
the growth of the school and athletic programs and that's one of
them.
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Re: 2017 - Game 4: Towson 6PM
By: Campi47 Date: September 27, 2017, 12:56 pm
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Here's another bonehead thing that the university does the HS in
Suffolk County have 6 games that are played at Lavalle Stadium
the 4 Suffolk County Championship and the 2 LIC Championship
games they have to pay $60,000 for those 6 games now section XI
is thinking about not coming there anymore it won't happen this
year but you can bet that it may happen in the future
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