RE: midseason report card

From: Brad Holdheide
Date: 17 Jan 2003 - 10:47 AM EST

AGREED !

-----Original Message-----
From: ALACOMBE [SMTP:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:46 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

but you are not one of the ones not coming to the game, and in
their mind there IS a reason they are not coming to the games.
UC needs to find out what that reason is and work around it to
get them to the game, or they should lower the number of
student tickets.

The best way to find out why they do not go to the game is to
ask them. Park someone out on the streets and ask them if they
go to the game and if not, why not. Then ask them, would you
come to the game if we...

Be creative and try to work around the issues rather than
complaining that they are not coming to the games. Times
change and UC needs to change with them or suffer the
consequences.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Holdheide [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:34 AM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

Despite the $5 beer, Cincinnati sports are some of the cheapest in the
nation, Bearcats, Reds, and Bengals. At most schools you'll pay
have to buy
your tickets and still have to pay $5 for beer. Heck, aren't we still

one

of the few schools who even sell beer at games.

There just is no excuse for not getting rid of all the student tickets.

I

can see people not wanting to sit on bench seats in the upper
corners of the
arena, but students tickets are good seats and are free. It doesn't

cost

you one damn dime to go to a game as a student. Drink at home before

and

after if that's your excuse. That's what we did as students.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mick Bergman [SMTP:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:27 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

I have no idea how to get the students there... unfortunately I was an
information systems major and not a marketing major. I think giveaways
would be good though. Give away a free quarter worth of books

at each home

game or something. That would have gotten me to the game at least (but

I

was there anyways). I think UC will always have problems

getting commuters

to the games just because they don't really care about UC

sports. Many of

them probably never wanted to go to UC but had no choice due to

financial

issues.

Maybe lower the price of beer so it doesn't take up a whole hour of

work

for a student! $5 a beer is a killer on a college budget, and I would
guess that many of those students just stay home and have a few

beers for

less than $5 total. The Reds and Bengals have done the same thing and
basically priced themselves out of the college students budget due to
continued price increases on tickets and on concessions. Even with

free

tickets if a student wanted a beer and two hotdogs they've

already dropped

$10. They could have bought a whole dinner and 12-pack for the

same amount

by not going to the game :).

That is just me rambling with what comes to my head... but as a

recent UC

graduate I still can relate to reasons why they don't show up (but

can't

relate to why they don't show up). Without a Duke or Kansas showing up
every game at the Shoe I think it will only continue to dwindle down
unless they start marketing more to the students (which I never

saw in my

time at UC).

One other thing... kill that stupid commercial on the radio

where they do

the rapping... that turns me off from going to the game every

time I hear

it :).

Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: ALACOMBE [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Fri 1/17/2003 10:09 AM
To: address@hidden
Cc:
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

Mick I think that you are right in defining the problem, so what is
the solution? I
think that you have to market to those people that are not coming to
the game.
Make it worth their while to come to the game. How do you do that?
I am not
sure, but I would start with having some giveaways at the game and
some pre
and post game events so that they want to come out to the game.
make the
game an event rather than something that these old farts who are
diehards go
to see just becuase they love basketball.

I think today's student is different and some effort needs to be put
forth to
reach them at their level, not ours... It is worth a shot and if
you got them to
the game and they were fired up, it would help the team.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mick Bergman [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:55 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

I'd say it is a combination of spoiled by success and no
commuter students going to the games. I would guess that there are

only

5000 students who live on and around campus, with probably 4000

tickets

available to students each game. That is asking for a huge percentage

of

the campus students to show up. When I was there (up through last
basketball season) no commuter students ever went to the games. I

would

ask them and they would say they didn't want to drive for 30 mins to

go

see a game. It is sad, but unless we are no. 1 in the country you

can't

get those people to drive to the games (it is a similar problem with
football too, with many of the commuters never seeing one

football game in

their time @ UC). Anybody else notice this in their time at UC?

Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: MURPHY, T. JASON [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Fri 1/17/2003 9:30 AM
To: address@hidden
Cc:
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

On the radio show they announced that a number of
student tickets were being put on sale to the general public. I

realize

that Tulane is no Marquette or L'ville but this is pathetic. A

saturday

afternoon game with school back in session, FREE tickets for students,

a

team that is 3-0 in conference play and that has been CUSA champs for

7

years and in the NCAA tourney for 11 years(?) and Huggs has to

tell people

that student tickets are available and that it should be an

exciting game.

What the heck is wrong with the students? The students have no excuse,
there is no highschool football or exams or anything else going

on at 2pm

Saturday. Have we gotten that spoiled by success?

-----Original Message-----
From: tj1cj2 [<mailto:address@hidden>]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:37 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [UC Basketball] midseason report card

This group of Bearcats continues to gel. The half
court D is as big a strength as ever and the offense while

unpredictable

is coming. A month ago I would not have dreamed that PG would be our
deepest and maybe strongest position. Field's shooting is coming

around

and so is Bobbitt's complete game.Max is still growing and center by
committee is not hurting yet. Leonard Stokes being the go to

guy is BIG.

For ten years the Bearcats have had to have one on every team.

Lazelle to

Danny to Kenyon to Steve to now Leonard it is so important that

one guy be

able to take the team at a given point in a game and find a way for

the

Bearcats to get the win. They still need to concentrate for ALL 40

mins

and improve the rebounding and shooting. But, the pieces are

coming into

place. Look what a month has done for Hicks and Moore. They may not

be

our best team ever. But they may end up being our best coached and

our

most improved from November to March. Let's do our part and

fill up the

Shoe. See you all Saturday!

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