Paul Clark on KXNO
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I enjoyed Paul Clark. Unlike most others, his ISU comments didn't sound as if they're written or pre-approved by Tom Kroschell.
I blame Pollard for a lot of the attendance issues, and I have actually talked to him about many of them. I don't think it is any one thing, but I think you can come up with anywhere from 10-20 reasons why we don't get fans that we should. If each reason represents a loss of 500-1500 people, that takes you from 65K down to what we are seeing.
They should be able to generate tons of demographic and marketing data to see where and why we lag in attendance.
Season Ticket Sales
- corporate
- public
- penetration % of alumni base to season ticket sales
- penetration % of student base to season ticket sales
- season ticket sales by zip code
The same thing can be done for Single Game tickets.
They need to find out why attendance is lagging, and address those reasons. In the past, my impression of Pollards strategy has been to just blame people and question their fan loyalty because they are not willing to spend what he wants them to. They teach us about supply and demand, and opportunity cost in basic Economics, yet ISU does not seem to apply those in their marketing strategy.
They should be able to generate tons of demographic and marketing data to see where and why we lag in attendance.
Season Ticket Sales
- corporate
- public
- penetration % of alumni base to season ticket sales
- penetration % of student base to season ticket sales
- season ticket sales by zip code
The same thing can be done for Single Game tickets.
They need to find out why attendance is lagging, and address those reasons. In the past, my impression of Pollards strategy has been to just blame people and question their fan loyalty because they are not willing to spend what he wants them to. They teach us about supply and demand, and opportunity cost in basic Economics, yet ISU does not seem to apply those in their marketing strategy.
This is what cracks me up about concessions ********. I've never been to a stadium where I thought "wow these concessions are awesome!". Unless you have many little concession stands spaced out around on enclosed stadium, the regular hot dog and drink lines are always jammed at halftime. The exception being pro stadiums that tend to have smaller lines but only for beer because they have lots of little beer stands circling the stadium on the concourses.
How do you know that person hasn't and doesn't donate to football/MBB? IMO- JP is using the current TV revenue increase to fund the new football complex and he will use the increased revenue from the TV renegotiations in 2016 to fund a south endzone. The track and the soccer $$$ is minute and is not holding up the south endzone or anything else.
Imo, the best long-term policy involves investing in revenue making sports right now. So in that sense, any donation (investment) to something other than FB or MBB is sub-optimal. People like to point to the Director's Cup. I do too. It indicates the current funding is sufficient.
NCAA Financial Reports Database | IndyStar.com
The Indianapolis Star has a database of fairly detailed revenue/spending for 2004-2005. Interesting ratios between revenue and non-revenue. Of course, these numbers are largely antiquated.
That major donor is Bill Bergan and personally I am elated that it looks like we will be getting a new outdoor track!!
And yet our average attendance is the highest it's been since the Earle Bruce era. Perhaps you shouldn't be blaming anything about attendance on JP - he's only been getting more people in the stands in spite of the quality of football being played in between the stands than anyone else has in the last 25 years...
This is silly. We have a mediocre at best product on the field. Our attendance is in direct corellation to our success on the field. We rank 55th in attendance. Guess what, our team generally ranks in the 50's in computer polls. Right now we rank 53rd. Our fanbase and its current limit is driectly related to our winning or lack thereof. Consitent winning builds fanbases. We have never, ever been a consistent winner.
Newsflash but people that went to ISU in the 90's rarely cared about football. I went to the game then and the stadium was half full at best. Those people are now 30-45 years old and are a large part of the demographic that would be buying season tickets. They didn't care about ISU football when they were in school so they never got attached.
Ihaev a brother-in-law that fits the mold perfectly. Born a hok. Went to ISU nd cheers for ISU while in school but still cheers for the hoks. Was making the switch but when ISU choked against OU in 2002, he went right back to being a hok fan. Now lives in Ankeny and works for Wells Fargo in Des Moines. He comes up and tailgates with us every weekend and has had season tickets in the past and goes back an forth about getting them. When Wells Fargo started laying off people in his department, the season tickets went bye, bye and now he doesn't really want to spend the money.
A lot of reasons he doesn't get season tickets
- We aren't a consistent winner
- Potential lay offs
- The lay offs to friends has slapped him in the face and he has decided a savings account and paying off debt early is more important than 7 games a year.
Where would you direct the $$$ that would go to the track? IMO- current needs are being taken care of in the world of MBB and FB with the exception of the south endzone. What project do you suggest those funds go to?
So, if you're not a "hardcore fan" you're a bandwagoner?
I'll argue that ridiculous point.
Name calling aside, saying Paul Clark doesn't represent ISU is not accurate. He may not officially represent us, but with his position he surely does. He goes on talk radio just like Chris does to discuss, update, give inside information...some you clearly don't do.
Also, my point still stands that while much of what he said is true doesn't mean he should say it. Like I said should he say "well the basketball team I going to be horrible so don't waste your money on tickets"?
"or on visiting my site to find out about them."
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