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Re: Ticket Sales, JC said in his coffee talk today they have sold 13600 season tickets thus far. This is second most in school history behind the 16,000 sold in 2010. They would like to get to 20K. Invite a friend, neighbor or family member to buy season tickets.

(06-03-2021 09:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Re: Ticket Sales, JC said in his coffee talk today they have sold 13600 season tickets thus far. This is second most in school history behind the 16,000 sold in 2010. They would like to get to 20K. Invite a friend, neighbor or family member to buy season tickets.

Certainly good news. The next few thousand will be tougher sledding I suspect and that's okay. It's going to require work on the part of athletics and certainly the support and encouragement from all of us who have season tickets to encourage those who love the Bearcats to invest now in building the program.

I actually like the idea of filling those club seats up through corporate sales right away with substantially reduced introductory pricing. More revenue for UC; more buzz among "new" fans who get to attend and enjoy a 1st class experience at Nippert that owners, leaders, and their other employees could really embrace. Way nicer than similar spaces @ PBS as I recall from UC's years there.

Once they experience it, it's probably an easier sell in succeeding years. And the unspoken pitch is get on board now and you'll have right of first refusal when conference games are against Clemson and Florida State or Oklahoma and Texas--all with an increase in club/ticket charges of course.

Finally, while I don't put much stock in talk radio's non-scientific polling, there is no question the Bengals still dominate this market--even after decades of mismanagement and on-field futility. I think much of the local sports talk radio audience is blue collar and the Bengals seem to thrive with that crowd, win or lose. I think that cohort is less likely to support UC football than our own alumni and other college educated folks who see college football Saturdays as the highlight of the weekend as opposed to NFL Sundays. So reaching them through major employers locally with club seats or even corporate group seating (name on the scoreboard stuff the Reds have thrived on) seem to be viable building blocks in filling Nippert. We've come a long way--no time now for UC to take its foot off the gas pedal.

One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

(06-03-2021 09:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

I have going to games for 20 years now and will likely be out this season. My young children are not vaccinated yet and other family commitments will keep me away. TV viewing isn’t a bad thing.

Hopefully in 2022 things settle down so we go to games again. It might not be season tickets for both sports but hopefully at least a few games.

After 20 plus years of almost never missing a home game I didn’t hate not going last year. The time commitment for football is 5 to 6 hours that’s a lot.

I thought they had already announced it.

(06-03-2021 09:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

The Reds are allowed 100%. Why wouldn't UC?

(06-03-2021 11:19 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 09:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

The Reds are allowed 100%. Why wouldn't UC?

Governed by different things unfortunately. FWIW, UT has said they're expecting to go 100% in the Glass Bowl this year, so I'm guessing it's more of a "Dotting I's" situation that an actual risk of not doing it, especially given the case numbers in the state.

(06-03-2021 09:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

Ohio is wide open unless minnie Mike gets dictatorial again.

(06-03-2021 11:37 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 11:19 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 09:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

The Reds are allowed 100%. Why wouldn't UC?

Governed by different things unfortunately. FWIW, UT has said they're expecting to go 100% in the Glass Bowl this year, so I'm guessing it's more of a "Dotting I's" situation that an actual risk of not doing it, especially given the case numbers in the state.

According to my Florida Gator buddy, the SEC has already announced 100% conference wide. Hopefully it's just a matter of finalizing like you say.

(06-03-2021 11:40 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 09:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  One thing that may/will increase ticket sales is when the university formally announces capacity for the season. I have to wonder if there are people holding back, uncertain whether whether we will be at 100% or not (fwiw he said we will today).

Ohio is wide open unless minnie Mike gets dictatorial again.

From the meeting I just got out of about 45 minutes ago, everything is in each University's hands now...State won't be sending out any more health orders/mandates moving forward related to Covid-19.

Back to the season ticket numbers, we're currently at 13,700. Let's say we get to 17,500. Is our student season ticket number 10,000? That would get us to 27,500 as a base, which would be solid. Of course, I may be off on those student numbers.....

(06-02-2021 01:51 PM)ladeda Wrote:  

(06-02-2021 10:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  
Del Fino said on the BCJ podcast that they were looking into more corporate clients than what we have done in the past. Arrange for a company to bring 50 employees, their spouses and kids to the game, etc.

The quality of the team plus the cheap ticket prices should mean it's the easiest ticket sale to make in the world.

Reaching out to corporations is a no brainer, bc UC needs to sell out all of their club seats first, and selling them to corporate clients is the easiest approach. Easier to sell to businesses vs individuals bc the prices are so much higher.

Those club seats are the most profitable seats in the house for UC (outside of the suites of course.)

Getting businesses to buy tickets and then giving them to their employees is a huge win for all parties involved. Some of those people that get those club seats from their place of work, will potentially buy more tickets down the line.

Honestly, UC needs to rework their club prices lower, so they are absolutely sold out every year. For a school that offers $99 season tickets, the $316 per game price of the club seats seems a little out of whack.

If you can't sell out the club seats after back to back to back 10 win seasons and a team that will be ranked in the preseason top 10------- the prices are just too darn expensive.

Those club seats need to be 100% sold out, even if you have to drop the price next year to $1200 for a 6 game home season. Once they are consistently sold out with a waiting list, then you can start to raise the prices until you can find that nice sweet spot where demand meets supply.

The Reds suck. FCC is a dumpster fire. The Bengals have Joe Burrow, but the club is still run by morons.

UC football is a darn good team. The team is a winner. Easiest e-mail to send out. "Tired of supporting your team that loses all the time-- support a winner-- UC football"

Tickets are cheaper than the Bengals, Reds or FCC-- the games are more fun and UC wins.

I'm going to be annoyed if UC isn't sold out every game. I know some budgets are tighter these days, but with the rate of inflation that is going on-- I can buy a couple of tickets to the Bearcats cheaper than buying 2 pieces of 2x4 lumber. (Actual truth there.) And cheaper than taking the fam to Chipotle.

No excuse not to be sold out every game this year. IF they aren't-- then the AD and the ticket office needs to figure out what THEY are doing wrong.


TLDR: Adjust club seat prices lower next year, aggressively target corporations for those seats and for other season tickets, in an effort to sell 90% of your capacity as season tickets b4 single game tickets go on sale.

So you want to drop the Club Seats to $1,200.

I pay $2,340 for each of my seats. Some may pay a little more and some a little less. Seems to break even the seats would have to be only 50% occupied and would be 100% occupied at $1,200 each. That ignores the cost of food and non alcoholic drinks. While the Club seats are not fully sold they are over 50% so your plan is a LOSER!

(06-03-2021 12:00 PM)geef Wrote:  Back to the season ticket numbers, we're currently at 13,700. Let's say we get to 17,500. Is our student season ticket number 10,000? That would get us to 27,500 as a base, which would be solid. Of course, I may be off on those student numbers.....

Bolded, you may be right but I didn't think the student allocation was more than about 6,000. But I suppose "student season tickets" could be any number UC wants to sell from unused capacity.

I'm among those who will say the job isn't done until the place is full; at least for every conference game and headliner non-conference game. When we're selling out for Murray State or Austin Peay the program will have fully arrived. And yes, I know that P5 programs sometimes don't sell out against those opponents pre-conference either. But most in the P5 also have substantially more seats to fill than UC does.

We should see Nippert on Sportscenter highlights often this year; here's hoping there aren't gaping holes in the usual places.

(06-03-2021 12:30 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 12:00 PM)geef Wrote:  Back to the season ticket numbers, we're currently at 13,700. Let's say we get to 17,500. Is our student season ticket number 10,000? That would get us to 27,500 as a base, which would be solid. Of course, I may be off on those student numbers.....

Bolded, you may be right but I didn't think the student allocation was more than about 6,000. But I suppose "student season tickets" could be any number UC wants to sell from unused capacity.

I'm among those who will say the job isn't done until the place is full; at least for every conference game and headliner non-conference game. When we're selling out for Murray State or Austin Peay the program will have fully arrived. And yes, I know that P5 programs sometimes don't sell out against those opponents pre-conference either. But most in the P5 also have substantially more seats to fill than UC does.

We should see Nippert on Sportscenter highlights often this year; here's hoping there aren't gaping holes in the usual places.

Yeah, I'm likely thinking about the total number of students at a few games, once we opened it up to unused capacity. Regardless, I hope that we can count on close to 10,000 at each game. They add to the atmosphere considerably, and get us closer to capacity as we try to fill the house for each game. I definitely agree that the job isn't done until we sell out against the likes of Murray State and even Miami. I don't think we get there this year, but I have high hopes that we eclipse 35K for each game. Hell, Murray is likely to bring more fans than Miami, so that'll give a bit of a bump.

(06-03-2021 12:44 PM)geef Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 12:30 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 12:00 PM)geef Wrote:  Back to the season ticket numbers, we're currently at 13,700. Let's say we get to 17,500. Is our student season ticket number 10,000? That would get us to 27,500 as a base, which would be solid. Of course, I may be off on those student numbers.....

Bolded, you may be right but I didn't think the student allocation was more than about 6,000. But I suppose "student season tickets" could be any number UC wants to sell from unused capacity.

I'm among those who will say the job isn't done until the place is full; at least for every conference game and headliner non-conference game. When we're selling out for Murray State or Austin Peay the program will have fully arrived. And yes, I know that P5 programs sometimes don't sell out against those opponents pre-conference either. But most in the P5 also have substantially more seats to fill than UC does.

We should see Nippert on Sportscenter highlights often this year; here's hoping there aren't gaping holes in the usual places.

Yeah, I'm likely thinking about the total number of students at a few games, once we opened it up to unused capacity. Regardless, I hope that we can count on close to 10,000 at each game. They add to the atmosphere considerably, and get us closer to capacity as we try to fill the house for each game. I definitely agree that the job isn't done until we sell out against the likes of Murray State and even Miami. I don't think we get there this year, but I have high hopes that we eclipse 35K for each game. Hell, Murray is likely to bring more fans than Miami, so that'll give a bit of a bump.

It seems that during the UCF game in 2019, the broadcasters announced the student allotment for tickets that night and it was somewhere around 10k, which was the most ever for a game at Nippert. I'd have to back and watch again to get the exact number.

(06-03-2021 12:44 PM)geef Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 12:30 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 12:00 PM)geef Wrote:  Back to the season ticket numbers, we're currently at 13,700. Let's say we get to 17,500. Is our student season ticket number 10,000? That would get us to 27,500 as a base, which would be solid. Of course, I may be off on those student numbers.....

Bolded, you may be right but I didn't think the student allocation was more than about 6,000. But I suppose "student season tickets" could be any number UC wants to sell from unused capacity.

I'm among those who will say the job isn't done until the place is full; at least for every conference game and headliner non-conference game. When we're selling out for Murray State or Austin Peay the program will have fully arrived. And yes, I know that P5 programs sometimes don't sell out against those opponents pre-conference either. But most in the P5 also have substantially more seats to fill than UC does.

We should see Nippert on Sportscenter highlights often this year; here's hoping there aren't gaping holes in the usual places.

Yeah, I'm likely thinking about the total number of students at a few games, once we opened it up to unused capacity. Regardless, I hope that we can count on close to 10,000 at each game. They add to the atmosphere considerably, and get us closer to capacity as we try to fill the house for each game. I definitely agree that the job isn't done until we sell out against the likes of Murray State and even Miami. I don't think we get there this year, but I have high hopes that we eclipse 35K for each game. Hell, Murray is likely to bring more fans than Miami, so that'll give a bit of a bump.

Miami is strange; playing at home the Redhawks' stadium has been so sparsely populated that it's been Covid 19 safe for years. But when the game is in Cincinnati, it actually seems to be a decent draw for UC. I remember going to Oxford for the game a few years ago and I think the UC contingent was larger (and definitely more vocal) than their fans and student section.

I suspect many Miami alumni settle in Greater Cincinnati. Some were wise enough to marry UC graduates and probably show up with spouses to see friends at that game. For whatever reason, it's a fair draw even though the rivalry lacks energy these days.

ESPN - College football's most versatile players for 2021

TE Josh Whyle, Cincinnati. Florida's Kyle Pitts was almost the most perfectly versatile tight end college football has seen, and he's an Atlanta Falcon now. The versatility mantel might go to Whyle, then -- he's not as explosive as Pitts, but he's a guaranteed first down (73% success rate), and while he caught 54% of his passes in-line like a traditional TE, the other 46% came from everywhere else on the field.

LB Darrian Beavers, Cincinnati. Strong blitzing? Check: Beavers had 2.5 sacks and a 13% pressure rate in 75 pass rushes last year. Coverage skills? Check: in 12 passes as the primary coverage guy, he allowed just four completions with two interceptions and allowed a raw QBR of 1.5. (A reminder: QBR is on a scale of 0 to 100.)

24/7 Sports predicting ESPN College Gameday at Nippert for the UC v UCF game on 10/16

Could we finally get the Gameday Crew here?

https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Co...65983860_3

(06-03-2021 07:28 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  24/7 Sports predicting ESPN College Gameday at Nippert for the UC v UCF game on 10/16

Could we finally get the Gameday Crew here?

https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Co...65983860_3

If UC and ND are undefeated prior to the game in South Bend, that'll almost certainly be a Gameday...no way they do two UC games.

(06-03-2021 09:07 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 07:28 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  24/7 Sports predicting ESPN College Gameday at Nippert for the UC v UCF game on 10/16

Could we finally get the Gameday Crew here?

https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Co...65983860_3

If UC and ND are undefeated prior to the game in South Bend, that'll almost certainly be a Gameday...no way they do two UC games.

Not betting on College Gameday at South Bend for an NBC game.

But why not two UC games? We might be the biggest story in several years.