That's always been my belief, especially after Pollard himself said as much in a interview a handful of years ago.
'People are flat-out slobs': Jamie Pollard
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”nothing extra in return”? We just won 11 games. The product is better Than ever. We recently had Kelley Ford Analytics rank it the best value home schedule. The football program has never been better but is facing very challenging times along with the rest of the AD, the increase was necessary to keep us competitive. Am I happy about it, no, but I understand why it was necessary.
That very well may be the case. He’s in a tough spot. He has a limited number of donors that he has to keep happy, as well as maximized donations from them, because the donor base itself isn’t growing. We may have reached a tipping point with the 6000 donors, based on Season Ticket sales this year.
ClubCy made the point about $400K could pay for a player and I thinks it’s the best argument that’s been made yet.
He literally said that it is a “all hands on deck situation” and the current environment may force the issue. I think that’s where we are headed. It it may take time. Is this interview new? If so, seemed as though he may have been sending a message to administration, not just educating fans.
Hmmm. Even less if you use 6.5 home games for the 6/7 shift in home games. I don‘t Know if his $2.5MM number is total sales or in addition to what is already sold in suites and the two club sections. It does seem low even for our cheap fan base.
@jcisuclones you can disagree, but in one the many interviews about selling beer at games he said we already do, and people just need to get tickets in those areas if they really want it.
Don't remember which interview, maybe someone else does.
And I picked the high end of $2.5 mil.
2 mil/7 games/$16 is 17,857 drinks per game.
Not saying he's lying, those numbers just seem so low to what I would have thought.
That podcast just came out so I assume this interview is pretty recent, it's not like the debate on selling beer at ISU games is new though.
I'm all for beer sales but they haven't been able to figure out how to efficiently sell popcorn, water, and hot chocolate in a decade. What makes anyone think they'd be able to efficiently open and sell me a beer in a timely manner?
One step at a time, let's be able to sell it, and then we can worry about it being in a timely manner.
Its crazy we do not, both UNI and EIU are doing it, and the reason that we are only going to get people to purchase the Sukup areas and others is only because they can purchase alcohol in those areas, and not the rest of the stadium, to me is only half the reason. It's his call, but when you raising ticket prices and are basically begging for money, but not doing what seems to be an easy way to at least help out money wise is silly.
UNI sells 5-8k beers per home football game with 1/6th the attendance.
I'd assume the beer would be dedicated vendors. The issue sometimes with the other concessions I think is that a lot of people are volunteer/organization based to raise funds for a church/boy scouts (so they're not used to the hustle). I think? Someone correct me if Im wrong.
$8 for domestics (tall boys). $10 for craft and seltzers.
25 oz silos for $10 for the hour before the game starts.
Maybe its just me but that seems fair compared to a lot of places.
#1 tailgating environment lowers it
#2 that's still a shitload of drinks. Thats roughly 75 beers sold per minute with 4 hours of serving time. That means what...600 stands based on how concessions currently work?
Good point.
If Levy would also be put in charge of selling beer, I would be pessimistic regarding the whole deal.
