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To be creative and avoid the obvious stuff like:
- Win
- Don't lose to UK and Mizzou
- Don't just win, be exciting, ain't no one having fun during the Champ/Mac years when we had to wait until the end to beat the Vandy's of the world.
- Lower your ****ing prices, you can make up the loss per ticket with greater volume sold, which also creates a better atmosphere, and shockingly a good atmosphere can cause people to want to return that would watch the same game and not be sure about returning with a so-so atmosphere. Games are an experience. How about letting the other band perform at halftime again to add to it maybe, it's college football bring back the pageantry.
- Better food prices...granted the Cuban from Mi Apa just inside Gate 1 was for what you got.
Anyways, other than those obvious solutions...I really don't have much. We can talk about A/C like it didn't exist during our sellout streak, we can act like quality of picture is the sole reason why people stay home, we can pretend that most excuses (like internet, which I actually think is the most credible) didn't exist when Shane, Danny, Rex, Leak, and Tebow were out there, but truth is they were. Then we became a joke of a program, we jacked prices and gave the money to non-revenue sports, we lost at home a lot, we were boring and predictable, and would I like marquee games? Yes, but let's not pretend that the cupcake games were not sold out (and the stands more full than most current SEC games) when we were winning and had top offenses. Even in the Zook years.
GatorTruth133 has it right, except for maybe point 4. The most important things are be exciting particularly on offense and winning. The most irritating thing about Foley's two decades long search for Vince Dooley or Vince Lombardi is that it was pissing into the winds of the changes in the sport. It is much harder to be exciting on D now. For example even this exciting play could have been called for helmet to helmet contact targeting:
if some official saw it that way. It certainly would not have been over turned upon review.
Nothing about UF's offense from 1990 to 2001 would be against the rules now and in some ways it would be easier to run.
When you win people come. When your offense is exciting and quick strike people arrive by kickoff and stay in their seats some even when you have a big lead. I wonder how many late arriving UF fans showed up for the 4th or 5th play for the 1990 Oklahoma State game and were on time for the next decade?
I see no reason to lower ticket prices IF the product is once again made worth the price. On the other hand concession are a way to both make money and make your customers feel like they had a good time. So for that reason I would lower the price of concessions or at least offer certain items at a much more reasonable price.