State should make Cincy game FREE!

[cheewgumm]

Let the customers sample the product!

[KOdawg1]

Not free, but reduce ticket prices for this one game to ensure the place is filled up.

[Jacksondevildog]

I?m going Saturday, but Im expecting to sit in the upper deck while the lower bowl is 2/3 full while season ticket holders, Billy and Ruth from Ethel, couldn?t make it because of a fish fry at their church. This team does deserve a crowd on Saturday.

[msbulldog]

Give out some Juicy Jumbos!

[HoopsDawg]

Definitely need to let everyone move to the lower level. The Hump can still be a great atmosphere with just the lower level packed.

[KOdawg1]

We should have a ticket exchange thread for this game on here. People who have tickets but can't make it should sell them to guys on here who will gladly buy them.

[Jacksondevildog]

This.

We should have a ticket exchange thread for this game on here. People who have tickets but can't make it should sell them to guys on here who will gladly buy them.

[Dallas_Dawg]

This.

Yes. But good luck getting Billy and Ruth to contribute.

[Jacksondevildog]

+1

Yes. But good luck getting Billy and Ruth to contribute.

[Liverpooldawg]

I?m going Saturday, but Im expecting to sit in the upper deck while the lower bowl is 2/3 full while season ticket holders, Billy and Ruth from Ethel, couldn?t make it because of a fish fry at their church. This team does deserve a crowd on Saturday.

The real problem with the lower bowl is the regional manager for Corp X only shows up for Kentucky and Bill Big Bucks, Class of 70, only shows up for Kentucky and Ole Miss. People that actually showed up for every game got kicked up or out so these dudes could have good seats for the Kentucky game. Billy and Ruth only missed 1 or 2 games a year. Bill Big Bucks got their seats but only shows for 1 or 2 games a year. Yet Billy and Ruth were, and still are, blasted as being the problem with the basketball crowd.

[RougeDawg]

The Rick Ray effect still in full force. When you kill a program that badly, the fans who used to show up find other things to do. They got in different basketball season habits. Hell I used to make almost all conference weekend games living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. After RR that ended. I?m sure there are others in the same boat.

ETA: the sec network coming online around the same time as RR did not help attendance.

[Ari Gold]

The Rick Ray effect still in full force. When you kill a program that badly, the fans who used to show up find other things to do. They got in different basketball season habits. Hell I used to make almost all conference weekend games living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. After RR that ended. I?m sure there are others in the same boat.

ETA: the sec network coming online around the same time as RR did not help attendance.

RR was 5 years ago it’s time to put that excuse to bed.
If it’s distance, or sec network or whatever else that’s fine, but the RR excuse is dead
And secondly RS last few years weren’t worth getting overly excited about ..

[Bothrops]

RR excuses are as dead as MVSU football.

[RocketDawg]

The Rick Ray effect still in full force. When you kill a program that badly, the fans who used to show up find other things to do. They got in different basketball season habits. Hell I used to make almost all conference weekend games living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. After RR that ended. I?m sure there are others in the same boat.

ETA: the sec network coming online around the same time as RR did not help attendance.

I had season tickets about 15 years ago for several years. The reason I gave up those tickets was because I couldn't make more games. They were in the upper deck, and I didn't go to more than a handful of OOC games (185 miles each way to Starkville from here), but the conference games I went to were always at or near full. What's happened? Was it Rick Ray, reseating, or what?

[Lord McBuckethead]

I would buy 3 courtside tickets.if available.

[HoopsDawg]

I would buy 3 courtside tickets.if available.

Yep, but they aren't available. How many general admission tickets are available for the game?

[Howboutdemdogs]

My two roommates from our days at State in the early 80’s are in town that weeekend. We will all be there. Better product than Bob Boyd had back in the day.

[Dawg61]

Gotta get the locals to buy in. Catering to the big donors that live 8+ hours away has destroyed the basketball atmosphere.

[Cooterpoot]

Doesn’t school get out Friday?

[Liverpooldawg]

Gotta get the locals to buy in. Catering to the big donors that live 8+ hours away has destroyed the basketball atmosphere.

Game, set, and match. I actually went to most games for several years after I lost my long time lower bowl seats. In probably 40 or so games my old seats were occupied about three times. That was before Rick Ray. To say that pissed me off is an understatement.