I could go on about the ineptness of the coaching staff on Saturday and assuredly we have threads for that. But anyone else feel our entire marketing/ticketing/sales operation at the RC is just mailing it in. Some things I've noticed recently.
1. Complete absence of student body at games. It sounded like they made a try to get students on Saturday but man it was a lame turnout. We used to offer student incentives to go to the games, hand out balloons at halftime, big banners to cover the student body. We don't seem to do any of that. What happened to the Rowdy's, are they still around?
2. White Out. It appears our sole effort for the white out was a couple social media posts a few days before the game If you are going to do a white out at a place like Richmond, first of all you need to have shirts for everyone. Secondly, you need much more planning than was put in. A white out game needs to be on the schedule from the beginning, you need to go all out to get students, you need to be promoting the white out throughout the season. A social media post or two the week of the game isn't cutting it.
3. In game entertainment: We used to have regular paid half time acts, most games this year it is some local rec team playing for 5 minutes. Even the in game timeouts, it is the exact same things every game. Ride the tricycle, dress like a Spider, t shirt cannon. Shit even the ball blaster is out of order. Can we at least try to mix it up.
4. Sound system: The sound system has been jacked all year. Most announcements come out as garbled. It did appear a bit better at the SLU game, but how about getting a professional sound guy in there to fix that.
It all just seems like we are doing the minimal effort, lack of creativity, lack of planning. I know the product stinks and obviously that is problem number 1, but that shouldn't mean the rest of the operation has to be meh as well. Wondering if other folks have noticed this as well.
1. Complete absence of student body at games. It sounded like they made a try to get students on Saturday but man it was a lame turnout. We used to offer student incentives to go to the games, hand out balloons at halftime, big banners to cover the student body. We don't seem to do any of that. What happened to the Rowdy's, are they still around?
2. White Out. It appears our sole effort for the white out was a couple social media posts a few days before the game If you are going to do a white out at a place like Richmond, first of all you need to have shirts for everyone. Secondly, you need much more planning than was put in. A white out game needs to be on the schedule from the beginning, you need to go all out to get students, you need to be promoting the white out throughout the season. A social media post or two the week of the game isn't cutting it.
3. In game entertainment: We used to have regular paid half time acts, most games this year it is some local rec team playing for 5 minutes. Even the in game timeouts, it is the exact same things every game. Ride the tricycle, dress like a Spider, t shirt cannon. Shit even the ball blaster is out of order. Can we at least try to mix it up.
4. Sound system: The sound system has been jacked all year. Most announcements come out as garbled. It did appear a bit better at the SLU game, but how about getting a professional sound guy in there to fix that.
It all just seems like we are doing the minimal effort, lack of creativity, lack of planning. I know the product stinks and obviously that is problem number 1, but that shouldn't mean the rest of the operation has to be meh as well. Wondering if other folks have noticed this as well.
