#NebraskaSoPoor

[cwessel76]

So if you're almost a blue hair, what does that make @LoudHogRider and I?

Geniuses probably.

 

[LoudHogRider]

So if you're almost a blue hair, what does that make @LoudHogRider and I?

Geniuses probably.

I'll take the title bestowed upon myself and our marketing guy by the young pups when I ran "strategic development" in the dot com days: Silverback.

Sounds fierce, doesn't it?

 

[LoudHogRider]

I think it's important to not conflate "afford" with "want to". I think one of the big missing components in the university's analysis both with Tre.v and post-Tre.v is this idea that alienating people who currently pay money for seats can be easily replaced by people who will pay more money for seats.

I realize we're all planning on a better product on the field going forward under HCMR, but every AD's nightmare is reduced in-game attendance. Times are tighter than they used to be for up and coming families WRT disposable income. I hope your hypotheseis holds water, but if I were AD I'd want to make sure my big $$$ donors were lined up and fully committed to ANY new large scale renovation project before I started tinkering with the rest of the fan-based revenue pie. That's a decision that you can't get wrong, IMO.

 

[CybrrMonky71]

monkey where will i pull up my wheel chair to?

Probably next to the tuba section (which will be an improvement from the existing obstructed view field level seating for the cripples)

 

[TalaricoHusker]

 

[Steveweiser316]

Let’s start winning some goddamn games before creating Memorial Stadium v2.0.

 

[Southendzonehusker]

Whst they will find out is….removing grandfathered seating/licensing & increasing costs will substantially reduce demand
Even if we annually win 7-8 games a year. Few will commit much more than the price of a ticket. The people who “fill” the stadium are mostly a bunch of poors
South stadium will eventually be removed. & replaced by a giant scoreboard & “fanzone” with vastly reduced seating. Students & band will be moved to that end but doubtful they will remove 20k+ seats & replace with 20k seats
Probably more like 5-7k max
Dannen may have saved major egg on the face bc spending 600million to rebuild the South & the end result being you price out the poors would be colossally embarrassing
Nebraska is an anomaly getting 70-80k to show up weekly for bad football
Most places can’t get that support with good football
Eventually we will become a “walk up” fanbase, picking & choosing the games that are worthwhile when we are playing well
It comes down to winning big. Play like we have & the new price model will commonly result in a half empty stadium
So capacity is likely getting reduced so fans will have competition to pay up

I wish I wasn’t poor. I would move my seats but I can’t afford it

 

[herbsinator]

I wish I wasn’t poor. I would move my seats but I can’t afford it

Have you considered not being poor?

 

[Southendzonehusker]

Have you considered not being poor?

I’ve tried but my parents were poor too so it’s a generational thing. Only have season tickets because they are in my great great grandmas name.

 

[CornHub]

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Even the blue hairs (almost me), know that selling beer needs to happen asap. I would think they could almost fund the entire project, with proceeds off of beer.

I think it's more about appealing to the youths of America, imo

They really don't make much off of beer sales. PBA only made like $300,000 from basketball last year.

As far as appealing to the youth of America, selling beer isn't going to do that either. Alcohol sales have decreased quite a bit in the younger generations to the point where we should be a little concerned. Alcohol sales are taxed quite a bit, so with less of them they'll have to start taxing something else.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

They really don't make much off of beer sales. PBA only made like $300,000 from basketball last year.

As far as appealing to the youth of America, selling beer isn't going to do that either. Alcohol sales have decreased quite a bit in the younger generations to the point where we should be a little concerned. Alcohol sales are taxed quite a bit, so with less of them they'll have to start taxing something else.

I like drinking beers while watching sports and I still consider myself a youth so take your aggregate statistics and stick them up your butt Poindexter

 

[HughJanus]

They really don't make much off of beer sales. PBA only made like $300,000 from basketball last year.

As far as appealing to the youth of America, selling beer isn't going to do that either. Alcohol sales have decreased quite a bit in the younger generations to the point where we should be a little concerned. Alcohol sales are taxed quite a bit, so with less of them they'll have to start taxing something else.

What the hell do the zoomers even do in their free time?

 

[CornHub]

What the hell do the zoomers even do in their free time?

Weed, video games, Tik Tok.

 

[BradWesley]

They really don't make much off of beer sales. PBA only made like $300,000 from basketball last year.

As far as appealing to the youth of America, selling beer isn't going to do that either. Alcohol sales have decreased quite a bit in the younger generations to the point where we should be a little concerned. Alcohol sales are taxed quite a bit, so with less of them they'll have to start taxing something else.

What would the University get from say, Budweiser or Miller, to be able to sell their beer? Just curious.

 

[CornHub]

What would the University get from say, Budweiser or Miller, to be able to sell their beer? Just curious.

Not sure what you mean. Those beers were already available at basketball games. I'm assuming they were available at the baseball games now as well.