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I know everyone is probably sick of this topic after this past week, but I did just a little research and found something pretty interesting. In terms of how much we fill up our stadium percentage-wise, we were only behind Boise State last season. Definitely not as bad as some on this board make it out to be especially considering we had a very mediocre year last year.
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I think that logic only works if we were consistently selling out the stadium, which we aren’t.
By this same logic, if a team’s stadium only held 10,000 fans, but had 9,000 average attendance, then they would have the best attendance in the conference.
By this same logic, if a team’s stadium only held 10,000 fans, but had 9,000 average attendance, then they would have the best attendance in the conference.
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I'm not really sure what your argument is. The overall complaint on this board is that we can't fill a small stadium. The only team that is home to a smaller population is Wyoming. New Mexico's stadium can fit close to 40k, but on average was filled at about half capacity last year. Would you rather be them with a few more overall numbers but 5 times the surrounding population?
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I don’t really care about percentages or even much about how we compare to others. I care about having enough fans that we can be compete for the conference championship on a consistent, long-term basis. I do not believe a 20,000 average every year is going to do that because it’s an indicator of all other types of support.
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Boise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
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Montana has ticket prices that are $40 for the cheapest seats, and they sell out all the time with a stadium that is about the same size as USU's. So if USU fans and alums would pay, and care like those Grizz fans do we would be in hog heaven.
They bring in more than double the revenue from tickets sales as USU does and more than double the donations, so they would be a good one to follow.
They bring in more than double the revenue from tickets sales as USU does and more than double the donations, so they would be a good one to follow.
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Would definitely be a good model to try to copy if true. Any ideas how they do it?oleblu111 wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 11:40 amMontana has ticket prices that are $40 for the cheapest seats, and they sell out all the time with a stadium that is about the same size as USU's. So if USU fans and alums would pay, and care like those Grizz fans do we would be in hog heaven.
They bring in more than double the revenue from tickets sales as USU does and more than double the donations, so they would be a good one to follow.
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Boise State averages 5,000 more people than our stadium holds.....Ahbye wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 10:26 pmBoise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
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As discussed we are the third show in our state. Montana is the number 1 show. Similar to Wyoming.oleblu111 wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 11:40 amMontana has ticket prices that are $40 for the cheapest seats, and they sell out all the time with a stadium that is about the same size as USU's. So if USU fans and alums would pay, and care like those Grizz fans do we would be in hog heaven.
They bring in more than double the revenue from tickets sales as USU does and more than double the donations, so they would be a good one to follow.
On a Montana note, I would love to add them in this conference.
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Actually there is another FCS school in Montana, which is a state of 1 million people, Both school do better in ticket revenue than what USU does, and of course Utah has 3 million people USU has more alums than either of the Montana schools, we would do well to copy their success.
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Go look at the record for Montana. They won their conference for most of the last four decades. Competed in and won several National Championships. I would say that USU would have a lot of followers if they had a four decade run like Montana.
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Winning has nothing to do with it. Its just a coincidence. a 40 year coincidence.
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Missoula Metro Population:
In 2017, the United States Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 73,340 and the population of the Missoula Metropolitan Area at 117,441. After Billings, Missoula is both the second largest city and metropolitan area in Montana. Missoula is home to the University of Montana, a public research university.
Nearby Cities: Billings 183,780 Bozeman 108,000 Helena 77,414 ("Nearby" is a relative term)
Logan Metro Population
Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 125,442 people as of the 2010 census.
Nearby Cities: Ogden 547,184 Salt Lake City 1,203,978 Provo 526,810
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In 2017, the United States Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 73,340 and the population of the Missoula Metropolitan Area at 117,441. After Billings, Missoula is both the second largest city and metropolitan area in Montana. Missoula is home to the University of Montana, a public research university.
Nearby Cities: Billings 183,780 Bozeman 108,000 Helena 77,414 ("Nearby" is a relative term)
Logan Metro Population
Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 125,442 people as of the 2010 census.
Nearby Cities: Ogden 547,184 Salt Lake City 1,203,978 Provo 526,810
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Perhaps so if we were a FCS program we could have that level of success , but In a state with two other FBS programs, do you believe that winning at the FCS level would result is a doubling of revenue from USU fans, if so then we should drop down today. If university spending and student fees remained the same along with donor support we would be near the top of FCS programs.
I do not think that winning at the FCS level would be a good thing at USU, but I could be wrong, perhaps that is were we belong. Maybe Idaho had the right idea to drop down to the Big Sky.
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Moscow "Metro" area population 37,244oleblu111 wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 4:27 pmPerhaps so if we were a FCS program we could have that level of success , but In a state with two other FBS programs, do you believe that winning at the FCS level would result is a doubling of revenue from USU fans, if so then we should drop down today. If university spending and student fees remained the same along with donor support we would be near the top of FCS programs.
I do not think that winning at the FCS level would be a good thing at USU, but I could be wrong, perhaps that is were we belong. Maybe Idaho had the right idea to drop down to the Big Sky.
Nearby Cities: Coeur d'Alene 138,494 Spokane 527,753 (Spokane now has C d'A as part of metro but i split them)
Vandals have everything not going for them... Flagship university (but Boise State manages the politics) No TV coverage (Spokane, which serves TV in Northern Idaho, serves WSU and thus overshadows UI even the Idahoans) Idaho is poor in general. Many southern idahoans go to UI but return 600 miles back to snake river valley and treasure valley (boise metro). Commuting to games as Alumni is hard. UI has Airport issues - fly to spokane. Missoula has its own TV. (I think TV coverage is paramount, as us aggies understand) Missoula has its own airport.
Idaho Vandal Sports is in a tough place...literally and figuratively. Its that land-grant thingy.
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Nice try changing the argument. It’s pretty simple, if USU had success for four decades, our fan base would be vastly different. Instead, we sucked for four decades. Success and winning tradition makes the difference.oleblu111 wrote:Perhaps so if we were a FCS program we could have that level of success , but In a state with two other FBS programs, do you believe that winning at the FCS level would result is a doubling of revenue from USU fans, if so then we should drop down today. If university spending and student fees remained the same along with donor support we would be near the top of FCS programs.
I do not think that winning at the FCS level would be a good thing at USU, but I could be wrong, perhaps that is were we belong. Maybe Idaho had the right idea to drop down to the Big Sky.
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You brought up the Montana as a example of what can happen, of course having success at the FBS level is a little more difficult, and USU is at that level. If USU could have 40 years of winning with a few national championships at The FBS level we might draw better for sure, but that might be a little difficult in Logan Utah.
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I believe you can actually fly into Moscow and most Pac-12 teams do so and bus over to Pullman.Harcher wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 5:03 pmMoscow "Metro" area population 37,244oleblu111 wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 4:27 pmPerhaps so if we were a FCS program we could have that level of success , but In a state with two other FBS programs, do you believe that winning at the FCS level would result is a doubling of revenue from USU fans, if so then we should drop down today. If university spending and student fees remained the same along with donor support we would be near the top of FCS programs.
I do not think that winning at the FCS level would be a good thing at USU, but I could be wrong, perhaps that is were we belong. Maybe Idaho had the right idea to drop down to the Big Sky.
Nearby Cities: Coeur d'Alene 138,494 Spokane 527,753 (Spokane now has C d'A as part of metro but i split them)
Vandals have everything not going for them... Flagship university (but Boise State manages the politics) No TV coverage (Spokane, which serves TV in Northern Idaho, serves WSU and thus overshadows UI even the Idahoans) Idaho is poor in general. Many southern idahoans go to UI but return 600 miles back to snake river valley and treasure valley (boise metro). Commuting to games as Alumni is hard. UI has Airport issues - fly to spokane. Missoula has its own TV. (I think TV coverage is paramount, as us aggies understand) Missoula has its own airport.
Idaho Vandal Sports is in a tough place...literally and figuratively. Its that land-grant thingy.
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So who does better? The metro population of 709,000 that can't sell out a stadium or the metro population of 130,000 who can't sell out theirs. One team attracts 5% of their population and the other 19%. We've saturated our market and have nothing in common with a team that barely taps their own. Boise is a much bigger program nationally, is more successful, and has absolutely no competition for butts in the seats. Yet they only sell out for BYU, just like us. Their attendance problems are very alarming considering the factors.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 1:31 pmBoise State averages 5,000 more people than our stadium holds.....Ahbye wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 10:26 pmBoise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/c ... 03144.html
Like I say, we need to figure out what Montana is doing and emulate it. They are much more similar in that they too have saturated their market but unlike us, they've found ways to tap into streams within that saturated market. They have competition a short distance away at MSU, a similar metro area to ours at 117,000, and manage to sell the thing out every game. The fact that they're FCS has no bearing, because like us, they are the major football product in their town and compete with programs in the same division three hours away. Boise does a horrible job considering what they have to draw from. Montana does a wonderful job, and so does Montana State. See the link below. Similar stadiums, similar metro areas... Maybe they're on to something? Maybe the next time we hire ticket office managers or someone for marketing, we can grab one of theirs. Or maybe we can pay to keep ours after we have them all trained and all the bugs are worked out. That's typically when they inevitably get poached by a lateral school that will pay them more.
https://gogriz.com/news/2017/1/30/griz- ... -year.aspx
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Here are the actual numbers to go by there are 138,002 people in the Logan metro area, with the people that live in Box Elder county we have 192,081 within those areas. Those are the latest numbers from the census estimates, as well as what business looks at.
I believe with the aggie alums, and their families that live on the front there are enough people to be successful just need them to want to be part of the aggie nation. How is the $64 question.
I believe with the aggie alums, and their families that live on the front there are enough people to be successful just need them to want to be part of the aggie nation. How is the $64 question.
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Like I said in another post, I really don’t care who does better percentage-wise. To me, that’s a meaningless metric. The important metric is whether our current level of support can sustain a winning program. Period. Nothing else matters. My argument is that our current level of support cannot reasonably be expected to get us to where we want to go regardless of whatever percentage of the population it happens to be.Ahbye wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 1:34 amSo who does better? The metro population of 709,000 that can't sell out a stadium or the metro population of 130,000 who can't sell out theirs. One team attracts 5% of their population and the other 19%. We've saturated our market and have nothing in common with a team that barely taps their own. Boise is a much bigger program nationally, is more successful, and has absolutely no competition for butts in the seats. Yet they only sell out for BYU, just like us. Their attendance problems are very alarming considering the factors.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 1:31 pmBoise State averages 5,000 more people than our stadium holds.....Ahbye wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 10:26 pmBoise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/c ... 03144.html
Like I say, we need to figure out what Montana is doing and emulate it. They are much more similar in that they too have saturated their market but unlike us, they've found ways to tap into streams within that saturated market. They have competition a short distance away at MSU, a similar metro area to ours at 117,000, and manage to sell the thing out every game. The fact that they're FCS has no bearing, because like us, they are the major football product in their town and compete with programs in the same division three hours away. Boise does a horrible job considering what they have to draw from. Montana does a wonderful job, and so does Montana State. See the link below. Similar stadiums, similar metro areas... Maybe they're on to something? Maybe the next time we hire ticket office managers or someone for marketing, we can grab one of theirs. Or maybe we can pay to keep ours after we have them all trained and all the bugs are worked out. That's typically when they inevitably get poached by a lateral school that will pay them more.
https://gogriz.com/news/2017/1/30/griz- ... -year.aspx
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Can someone follow Ahbye’s post with a tl:dr for us?
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No, you have to read it.TheAKAggie wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 11:02 pmCan someone follow Ahbye’s post with a tl:dr for us?
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I was merely referring to your belief that Boise does a better job filling their stadium relative to a 20 year run of success and seven times our population. When speaking of filling stadiums, surrounding population is a key metric. Bottom line: we do a better job than Boise of getting our metro area to show up.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 10:39 pmLike I said in another post, I really don’t care who does better percentage-wise. To me, that’s a meaningless metric. The important metric is whether our current level of support can sustain a winning program. Period. Nothing else matters. My argument is that our current level of support cannot reasonably be expected to get us to where we want to go regardless of whatever percentage of the population it happens to be.Ahbye wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 1:34 amSo who does better? The metro population of 709,000 that can't sell out a stadium or the metro population of 130,000 who can't sell out theirs. One team attracts 5% of their population and the other 19%. We've saturated our market and have nothing in common with a team that barely taps their own. Boise is a much bigger program nationally, is more successful, and has absolutely no competition for butts in the seats. Yet they only sell out for BYU, just like us. Their attendance problems are very alarming considering the factors.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 1:31 pmBoise State averages 5,000 more people than our stadium holds.....Ahbye wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 10:26 pmBoise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/c ... 03144.html
Like I say, we need to figure out what Montana is doing and emulate it. They are much more similar in that they too have saturated their market but unlike us, they've found ways to tap into streams within that saturated market. They have competition a short distance away at MSU, a similar metro area to ours at 117,000, and manage to sell the thing out every game. The fact that they're FCS has no bearing, because like us, they are the major football product in their town and compete with programs in the same division three hours away. Boise does a horrible job considering what they have to draw from. Montana does a wonderful job, and so does Montana State. See the link below. Similar stadiums, similar metro areas... Maybe they're on to something? Maybe the next time we hire ticket office managers or someone for marketing, we can grab one of theirs. Or maybe we can pay to keep ours after we have them all trained and all the bugs are worked out. That's typically when they inevitably get poached by a lateral school that will pay them more.
https://gogriz.com/news/2017/1/30/griz- ... -year.aspx
Now that we have that out of the way, my argument is the exact same as yours. We need more support, which is why I suggested looking at similar schools and metro populations.
The main crux of my argument had nothing to do with Boise, because they aren't like us, which I explained in the prior post. Montana and Montana State are more similar. For the guy a few posts back who says you can't fill your stadium without 40 years of success, go back to the Montana article and look at Montana State's numbers. They've had ups and downs just like we have, but they still averaged 17,900 (with a capacity of 17,777, MSU is standing room only every game at 101% capacity). This argument has nothing to do with FCS v FBS. When it comes to Saturdays in the fall, some teams that are very similar to us are finding ways to get people to spend those Saturdays watching college football in their venue. I'm trying to figure out why we can't do the same.
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It’s not a belief. It’s a fact. They average 5,000 more than our stadium holds. I said nothing about percentages or 20-year runs or population or anything else.Ahbye wrote: ↑September 20th, 2018, 5:22 amI was merely referring to your belief that Boise does a better job filling their stadium relative to a 20 year run of success and seven times our population. When speaking of filling stadiums, surrounding population is a key metric. Bottom line: we do a better job than Boise of getting our metro area to show up.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 10:39 pmLike I said in another post, I really don’t care who does better percentage-wise. To me, that’s a meaningless metric. The important metric is whether our current level of support can sustain a winning program. Period. Nothing else matters. My argument is that our current level of support cannot reasonably be expected to get us to where we want to go regardless of whatever percentage of the population it happens to be.Ahbye wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 1:34 amSo who does better? The metro population of 709,000 that can't sell out a stadium or the metro population of 130,000 who can't sell out theirs. One team attracts 5% of their population and the other 19%. We've saturated our market and have nothing in common with a team that barely taps their own. Boise is a much bigger program nationally, is more successful, and has absolutely no competition for butts in the seats. Yet they only sell out for BYU, just like us. Their attendance problems are very alarming considering the factors.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 1:31 pmBoise State averages 5,000 more people than our stadium holds.....Ahbye wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 10:26 pmBoise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/c ... 03144.html
Like I say, we need to figure out what Montana is doing and emulate it. They are much more similar in that they too have saturated their market but unlike us, they've found ways to tap into streams within that saturated market. They have competition a short distance away at MSU, a similar metro area to ours at 117,000, and manage to sell the thing out every game. The fact that they're FCS has no bearing, because like us, they are the major football product in their town and compete with programs in the same division three hours away. Boise does a horrible job considering what they have to draw from. Montana does a wonderful job, and so does Montana State. See the link below. Similar stadiums, similar metro areas... Maybe they're on to something? Maybe the next time we hire ticket office managers or someone for marketing, we can grab one of theirs. Or maybe we can pay to keep ours after we have them all trained and all the bugs are worked out. That's typically when they inevitably get poached by a lateral school that will pay them more.
https://gogriz.com/news/2017/1/30/griz- ... -year.aspx
Now that we have that out of the way, my argument is the exact same as yours. We need more support, which is why I suggested looking at similar schools and metro populations.
The main crux of my argument had nothing to do with Boise, because they aren't like us, which I explained in the prior post. Montana and Montana State are more similar. For the guy a few posts back who says you can't fill your stadium without 40 years of success, go back to the Montana article and look at Montana State's numbers. They've had ups and downs just like we have, but they still averaged 17,900 (with a capacity of 17,777, MSU is standing room only every game at 101% capacity). This argument has nothing to do with FCS v FBS. When it comes to Saturdays in the fall, some teams that are very similar to us are finding ways to get people to spend those Saturdays watching college football in their venue. I'm trying to figure out why we can't do the same.
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TL:DR Ahbye misses Mick Dennehy.Ahbye wrote:I was merely referring to your belief that Boise does a better job filling their stadium relative to a 20 year run of success and seven times our population. When speaking of filling stadiums, surrounding population is a key metric. Bottom line: we do a better job than Boise of getting our metro area to show up.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 10:39 pmLike I said in another post, I really don’t care who does better percentage-wise. To me, that’s a meaningless metric. The important metric is whether our current level of support can sustain a winning program. Period. Nothing else matters. My argument is that our current level of support cannot reasonably be expected to get us to where we want to go regardless of whatever percentage of the population it happens to be.Ahbye wrote: ↑September 19th, 2018, 1:34 amSo who does better? The metro population of 709,000 that can't sell out a stadium or the metro population of 130,000 who can't sell out theirs. One team attracts 5% of their population and the other 19%. We've saturated our market and have nothing in common with a team that barely taps their own. Boise is a much bigger program nationally, is more successful, and has absolutely no competition for butts in the seats. Yet they only sell out for BYU, just like us. Their attendance problems are very alarming considering the factors.bluegrouse wrote: ↑September 14th, 2018, 1:31 pmBoise State averages 5,000 more people than our stadium holds.....Ahbye wrote: ↑September 13th, 2018, 10:26 pmBoise very rarely sells out their games. We do pretty good for where we are, but we need to market to different demographics to put us over the top. We keep looking at big P5 schools as examples, but a better option would be to do whatever Montana is doing.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/c ... 03144.html
Like I say, we need to figure out what Montana is doing and emulate it. They are much more similar in that they too have saturated their market but unlike us, they've found ways to tap into streams within that saturated market. They have competition a short distance away at MSU, a similar metro area to ours at 117,000, and manage to sell the thing out every game. The fact that they're FCS has no bearing, because like us, they are the major football product in their town and compete with programs in the same division three hours away. Boise does a horrible job considering what they have to draw from. Montana does a wonderful job, and so does Montana State. See the link below. Similar stadiums, similar metro areas... Maybe they're on to something? Maybe the next time we hire ticket office managers or someone for marketing, we can grab one of theirs. Or maybe we can pay to keep ours after we have them all trained and all the bugs are worked out. That's typically when they inevitably get poached by a lateral school that will pay them more.
https://gogriz.com/news/2017/1/30/griz- ... -year.aspx
Now that we have that out of the way, my argument is the exact same as yours. We need more support, which is why I suggested looking at similar schools and metro populations.
The main crux of my argument had nothing to do with Boise, because they aren't like us, which I explained in the prior post. Montana and Montana State are more similar. For the guy a few posts back who says you can't fill your stadium without 40 years of success, go back to the Montana article and look at Montana State's numbers. They've had ups and downs just like we have, but they still averaged 17,900 (with a capacity of 17,777, MSU is standing room only every game at 101% capacity). This argument has nothing to do with FCS v FBS. When it comes to Saturdays in the fall, some teams that are very similar to us are finding ways to get people to spend those Saturdays watching college football in their venue. I'm trying to figure out why we can't do the same.
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