(07-05-2017 04:47 PM)invisiblehand Wrote:  I suggested the university holding a regional marching band competition early on a weekend (or even running through Thursday / Friday / Saturday Morning) and scheduling a football game later that Saturday. Parents around Tulsa will go out of there way to support there kids at those things. It's kind of ridiculous. If you charged 5 dollar admission to the band event, and each band admission ticket came with a couple free game tickets you could drum up attendance, concession revenue, and community involvement. It would be incredibly hard to organize between the local / regional high schools but I think it could be worth the time and effort. It's a good way to promote the University as a whole, and to get "new" fans to the games. Make sure to give some of the revenue from the earlier sessions to the schools' music programs of course.

Host it early in the season, so later in the season you can invite the top bands back for a big halftime or postgame battle of the bands sort of thing.