Attendance

[ItSucksToBeACSURam]

"I didnt know the university had a football team...".

I shit you not. My mouth about hit the floor in the COB...I was dumbfounded

 

[McPeachy]

This is a fact. I talk to a bunch of students in my classes and ask if theyre stoked for the games. They say things like, "the cowboys are home this weekend?" or "Dont we suck really bad?" and "I didnt know the university had a football team...". Shit like this makes me wanna puke. When I was a student back in 06 the student fanbase was rabid....these vapid turds now could give two shits about the team. I don't get it. I bleed brown and gold an will until I die. It takes a huge event to keep me from home games!!!

12 years of mediocre (at best) to shitty football will do that. I thought that in 2011 we were turning the corner, only to have 2012 come along and destroy any momentum achieved.

 

[tttgowyo]

The lack of local support drives me crazy. I live in Kentucky and travel to more games than many folks in Laramie! I wish I could be there this weekend but am trapped in Aruba. Lol. I will be screaming from the beach in game day Gold watching on the iPad. Did that for NM game too. I spent at least a grand to travel to the Neb game and always make at least one home game as well. We have probably the best QB ever at UW, people should be climbing over each other to get in the war.

 

[McPeachy]

We have probably the best QB ever at UW, people should be climbing over each other to get in the war.

+1000

 

[WyoBrandX]

I think this is a shoddy way to do it, but why doesn't the atheletics department get together some giveaways for the games. Random drawings of 3 things worth some value throughout the game. Ideas:

1. Nice Mountain Bike / Road Bike
2. Skii's / snowshoes
3. ATV's/or anything else affordable that might get students to show up
....
4. Free Parking passes on campus

I don't know - it could be about anything to try to attrack new students that have never went to a game before. Once they attend, I'm sure many would consider attending more.

 

[Wyovanian]

This is a fact. I talk to a bunch of students in my classes and ask if theyre stoked for the games. They say things like, "the cowboys are home this weekend?" or "Dont we suck really bad?" and "I didnt know the university had a football team...". Shit like this makes me wanna puke. When I was a student back in 06 the student fanbase was rabid....these vapid turds now could give two shits about the team. I don't get it. I bleed brown and gold an will until I die. It takes a huge event to keep me from home games!!!

12 years of mediocre (at best) to shitty football will do that. I thought that in 2011 we were turning the corner, only to have 2012 come along and destroy any momentum achieved.

The ignorable performance of our Athletics programs the past dozen years is definitely a huge factor, but there's generational issue at work- there is a huge amount of disconnect from their local worlds among many millenials and post-millenials. It's a huge topic in marketing discussions- how do you engage the habitually disengaged and distractedy psuedo-apathetic customer of tomorrow? For many, if it doesn't take place in whatever on-line or virtual realm they habituate, it simply doesn't exist. In some ways, we went from cyberspace dissolving the isolation of the geographically isolated to creating isolation in the middle of everything. It's kind of like we took the right exit, then shot right back onto the on-ramp in the direction from which we just came...

 

[Wyovanian]

You have to remember, population growth is one thing. And out of that growth you can't just pull a WYO fan out of your ass. Everyone that moves here will be moving from an area where they may already be a fan of that area team. Or they may not care about football at all.

Example: I was born and raised in RS, I live in Kansas. I'm a WYO fan. I hardly watch KU or KSU football. I'm not a fan. In my five years in Kansas I've been to one game for each team and I have no desire to go again.

So a sig population change may not be as effective as you think. I know when RS had the oil boom a few years back our pop jumped. WYO fans? No. We just had a bunch of Texas and OU fans around.

On the money. Look no further than Las Vegas for the perfect example...

 

[JimmyDimes]

The ignorable performance of our Athletics programs the past dozen years is definitely a huge factor, but there's generational issue at work- there is a huge amount of disconnect from their local worlds among many millenials and post-millenials. It's a huge topic in marketing discussions- how do you engage the habitually disengaged and distractedy psuedo-apathetic customer of tomorrow? For many, if it doesn't take place in whatever on-line or virtual realm they habituate, it simply doesn't exist. In some ways, we went from cyberspace dissolving the isolation of the geographically isolated to creating isolation in the middle of everything. It's kind of like we took the right exit, then shot right back onto the on-ramp in the direction from which we just came...

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[PCB]

Single game tickets ranging from 38 to 45 bucks doesn't help things and the parking is terrible. How many empty spaces in Ford and Summitview each game. I donated 200 bucks to the CJC and got a parking pass on Willet & 30th in exchange.

 

[WyoBrandX]

I donated $600 to the CJC and got a parking pass further away than from two locations - where I live and where I work.

Its easier for me to walk. For the out of towners - sorry!

 

[whyoh]

Single game tickets ranging from 38 to 45 bucks doesn't help things and the parking is terrible. How many empty spaces in Ford and Summitview each game. I donated 200 bucks to the CJC and got a parking pass on Willet & 30th in exchange.

And for $20 a game you can park behind century 21 on grand in the shadow of the war