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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ticket Sales/Attendance

« on: October 01, 2014, 02:39:07 PM »

Presumably, this guy was hired because of his qualifications for the position. Because of WHAT he knows, not WHO he knows. This just baffles me that a person with the title of Assistant Director of Athletics for Sales & Event Management needs fans and/or the general public to give him ideas on how to better market the program, and on better game day promotions. This is a D1 UNIVERSITY, not a high school with the person working a supplemental for a few thousand dollars, if even that much.

I highly doubt there are many people in that department that have been hired for their qualifications rather than their friends. Typical Youngstown mentality

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ticket Sales/Attendance

« on: September 27, 2014, 10:41:31 AM »

I would not expect much from the new guys John Brown, from his Bio he works for Rick Love and interned for him while in school. Looks like another good old boy thing to me. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ticket Sales/Attendance

« on: September 21, 2014, 04:45:15 PM »

I think a lot of the attendance issues goes along with the fact alumni leave the area after graduation.  I know I did.  If there was a large amount of alumni locally I bet it would help attendance.

Alumni moving has nothing to do with it. YSU is a commuter school with very little sense of school pride by students or alumni. All goes back to marketing.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Ticket Sales/Attendance

« on: September 21, 2014, 12:30:28 PM »

I have seen little to no change over the past several years in any sort of advertising. A few shaky commercials on the three local stations (aired at odd hours) and bill boards that do little to create excitement (both most likely trade agreements). Absolutely no advertising on cable network channels, little to no excitement at local business (even the ones advertising at the stadium) and no effort to effectively market to family’s or the youth. In order to build a Penguins Nation you need to get the kids & families and make it fun for high schools kids, college students and young adults to want to come to the game rather than the countless other things to do on a Saturday. We have facilities, a great community, a beautiful campus it is a shame that basically no money is spent to promotes this stuff on the Athletics side.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The Master Plan of Lets Talk and Wick250 is accomplished!

« on: September 21, 2014, 12:22:37 PM »

It seems like the BOT does what the want how they want, they did a national search for president but ignored information provided to them about Dunn and got burned, they did a search for Provost and were trumped because they again did not pick the best pool of candidates. While I am probably the biggest skeptic of Tressel being president on this board I can’t help but to think that maybe the BOT is going to have some bumps in the road going further as Tressel imposes his will (in a good way) on the university and BOT. 

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: The Master Plan of Lets Talk and Wick250 is accomplished!

« on: September 21, 2014, 09:19:21 AM »

So we did a national search and brought in four candidates just to send them all back? My question is this if we wanted Abraham why not make him one of the four and save some money on the search or better yet just name him and avoid the expense and  process.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Ticket Sales/Attendance

« on: September 21, 2014, 09:15:01 AM »

We all know winning sells tickets but it seems like the university does little to nothing to try to help fill the stands. While they do have youth prices We have no family rates to make it affordable to come to a game. There are no ticket specials ( other than an unadvertised Mountain Dew can), no concessions specials or packages where you can get tickets and concessions value. Yes they give away a ton of tickets to schools for kids day but they do nothing to advertise kids day to the public let alone any other games. There is never a public push for season tickets or single game tickets. While the team is 3-1 there is no excitement in the community because we played no body and there is very little to no advertising. Our promotions do nothing to draw excitement or help sell tickets. It's simple business you need to spend money to make money

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Horizon League Championship

« on: February 17, 2012, 07:44:49 AM »

Men’s and Women’s Basketball won’t be the only teams to host Horizon league Championship competition this winter. The Indoor Track and Field Team will host their championship at the WATTS next weekend. I think it is great that YSU will be able to host an event like this on campus rather than traveling to Kent or Geneva. On Saturday it will run from about 9am to 5pm with most of the action starting between 2:30 and 3:30. Sunday It will run from 9am until 3 or 4 with all events being the finals. This is the link to get all of the info on the meet.
 
http://www.ysusports.com/sports/mtrack/meet-info/hl-championships-2012

Also, think of the economic impact of the teams traveling in and having to stay at our hotels and eat at our restaurants for the weekend. I think The WATTS is having a much larger impact on the university and community than many thought it would

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Beeghley Center review from stadiumjourney.com

« on: December 16, 2011, 08:08:42 AM »

On a side note this guy is clueless

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Beeghley Center review from stadiumjourney.com

« on: December 16, 2011, 08:04:09 AM »

The band is much improved, sometimes you need taped music though

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Penguin Track Invite First Event Held at WATTS Begins Today

« on: December 03, 2011, 05:47:05 PM »

It is a wonderfuly facility and was awsome to see if filled up and used for competation.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: John Doneyko?

« on: October 25, 2011, 10:16:36 PM »

What happened?

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: 4:00 starting time

« on: September 05, 2011, 06:50:56 PM »

Hey guys after a long time away from the board due to several reasons I’m back. I noticed there are only two start times 4pm and 1pm personally I would like to see every game played under the lights except for November games as I think that is a much better feel. I think early games conflict with anything else you are trying to do as a family during the day.

On a side note has anyone noticed there are very few ticket deals this season?  Other than the two ticket deals in September I see nothing else on the promotions schedule.  In the past every game had a deal.