mivid12 Posted August 29, 2009 Report Posted August 29, 2009 When the school made season tickets available, it got orders for far more than the 14,377 it had to offer and had to convince some buyers to accept lesser packages or fewer tickets. And when it made student tickets available last Monday at 10 a.m., students by the hundreds camped out overnight to make sure they got theirs. Dble that of akron??....hope the new AD has some selling skillshttp://www.cleveland.com/sports/index.ssf/...nce_1940_1.html Quote
skip-zip Posted August 30, 2009 Report Posted August 30, 2009 Interesting.I wonder if the fact that there are no "bigger" schools in the state within any reasonable distance had anything to do with the unusually high level of interest? And that the Norfolk/Hampton/Virg. Beach area has it's own media market, and has probably been pumping this for quite some time?Unlike so many people around here, who are mechanically programmed to be Cowlumbus State fans as soon as they start watching sports, it seems like the folks of SE Virginia might have a little more local loyalty.A side note: I have a neighbors who has been telling me for months that he will have luxury box tickets at the Info. So, I asked him about it again the other day, and he said, "I told my work to give them to somebody else...I'll be too busy either watching or going to OSU games, and I won't use them". Well......new stadium or not....I guess some mentalities will never change. Quote
PSU_Nut Posted August 31, 2009 Report Posted August 31, 2009 Interesting.I wonder if the fact that there are no "bigger" schools in the state within any reasonable distance had anything to do with the unusually high level of interest? And that the Norfolk/Hampton/Virg. Beach area has it's own media market, and has probably been pumping this for quite some time?UVA is only 2 hours away and U of Maryland is only 3 hours away. I think it more of an indication of how big football is in the area. The best high school football is played in that area. I imagine ODU will be very successful. Richmond had much success with many players coming from that area. Quote
johnnyzip84 Posted August 31, 2009 Report Posted August 31, 2009 Interesting.I wonder if the fact that there are no "bigger" schools in the state within any reasonable distance had anything to do with the unusually high level of interest? And that the Norfolk/Hampton/Virg. Beach area has it's own media market, and has probably been pumping this for quite some time?UVA is only 2 hours away and U of Maryland is only 3 hours away. I think it more of an indication of how big football is in the area. The best high school football is played in that area. I imagine ODU will be very successful. Richmond had much success with many players coming from that area.While I agree the Tidewater region is very fertile recruiting grounds (and no doubt highly underated, particularly among the sometimes provincial midwestern football fan), I think you'd find a few people in Texas and Florida who would chuckle at this.As far as the upgrade to ODU's Foreman Field goes, it looks pretty nice. Their atheltics web site has some pics.LinkI didn't realize the Oyster Bowl was once played in Norfolk. Quote
UA Fan Posted August 31, 2009 Report Posted August 31, 2009 They should move up to 1-a and start beating up on Va Tech. Quote
Zipmeister Posted August 31, 2009 Report Posted August 31, 2009 I can't believe UAKid, er, I mean Zach hasn't pointed out the obvious marketing lessons we can all learn from Old Dominion. If you want to build up interest , first drop football for about a half a century and then when you bring it back schedule seven home games all on Saturday. Quote
ZachTheZip Posted August 31, 2009 Report Posted August 31, 2009 I can't believe UAKid, er, I mean Zach hasn't pointed out the obvious marketing lessons we can all learn from Old Dominion. If you want to build up interest , first drop football for about a half a century and then when you bring it back schedule seven home games all on Saturday.That's a terrible marketing strategy. Also, you could argue that we haven't really had football for the past 50 years, at least not football like almost every other team in division I-A.Actually, I was going to suggest adding them to the MAC. They're already averaging more attendance than half the schools in the league. Speaking of which, maybe I'll go stir up some conference expansion trouble on the MAC boards... Quote
Zipmeister Posted August 31, 2009 Report Posted August 31, 2009 I can't believe UAKid, er, I mean Zach hasn't pointed out the obvious marketing lessons we can all learn from Old Dominion. If you want to build up interest , first drop football for about a half a century and then when you bring it back schedule seven home games all on Saturday.That's a terrible marketing strategy. Also, you could argue that we haven't really had football for the past 50 years, at least not football like almost every other team in division I-A.Actually, I was going to suggest adding them to the MAC. They're already averaging more attendance than half the schools in the league. Speaking of which, maybe I'll go stir up some conference expansion trouble on the MAC boards...You heard it here. The kid is against scheduling seven Saturday home football games. Quote
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