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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 10, 2005 9:23:34 GMT -5
Two months to the home opener...so how does Georgetown better get the word out that this game needs to be sold out and then some?
Post suggestions here.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 10, 2005 12:04:08 GMT -5
HB will be having a BBQ - of course the university in its infinite wisdom has scheduled SAC fair (which in the word of Ron Burgandy is "kind of a big deal") on the same afternoon - so that already means reduced student attendance - although HB is already actively working on ways to turn this negative into a positive.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 10, 2005 12:47:55 GMT -5
HB will be having a BBQ - of course the university in its infinite wisdom has scheduled SAC fair ... Please, please, PLEASE pass along the name of the University official in charge of this. I plan to write him/her a few words while there is time to change this--it's not like Copley Lawn is booked up that month.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 10, 2005 12:57:56 GMT -5
I'm guessing these things happen because Martha Swanson and the SAC Commissioners have no idea of what is going on at the athletic department. This is why the University needs a comprehensive internal scheduling program - something that past GUSA administrations have talked about but never delivered on - although I shouldn't complain, we might be getting a student diner in the next year.
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Post by GUHoya07 on Jul 10, 2005 13:28:32 GMT -5
HB will be having a BBQ - of course the university in its infinite wisdom has scheduled SAC fair ... Please, please, PLEASE pass along the name of the University official in charge. I plan to write him/her a few words while there is time to change this--it's not like Copley Lawn is booked up that month. Yeah, please tell them how you feel about this, because I nearly lost it when I found out about it the other day.
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Post by JimmyHoya on Jul 10, 2005 15:55:26 GMT -5
Yeah, 2-5 pm on 9/10...ugh.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 10, 2005 16:17:55 GMT -5
3 hours exactly the length of a college football game ... a perfect schedule overlap ... well done SAC.
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Post by FLHoya on Jul 10, 2005 18:03:22 GMT -5
Okay, where's everybody getting the dates from? The only (equally uncertain) reference I could find on the Georgetown website having anything to do with SAC Fair put it at 9-4 on Saturday Sept. 17th (which is the date of the first home football game--if SAC Fair were 2-5 on 9/10 that would be great, b/c there's no football game).
I'm assuming SAC Fair's probably on 9/17, if only because the last five years it's been on:
9/16, 9/15, 9/14, 9/13, 9/18 (all Saturdays)
SAC Fair has to be on a weekend b/c of the kind of event it is I'm assuming. And it looks like it's just tradition to have it on the Saturday at this point in September. On the plus side, it WAS on a Sunday in 1999 (I looked all this stuff up), and there's no reason it HAS to be on a Saturday instead of Sunday.
But there's definitely no malicious intent on anybody's part scheduling it opposite a football game (nor, for that matter, is there when GU-UConn basketball games end up on winter break). The problem--which we can all work to correct--is that football games at this point in GU life don't exactly come up when you think of "conflicts" that are going to draw people away from SAC Fair (or that people CARE about more than SAC Fair). I would LOVE to see the day where GU Football had such a campus following where people were like "Whoa, we CAN'T schedule SAC Fair that day--too many people will blow it off or be Editeded at us!". This year is step one towards that.
Now the plus side--SAC Fair's usually like 11:00am-4:00pm (it was last year). So that's two hours at the front end where there's no football going on. There's no law that says students HAVE to stay at SAC Fair browsing tables for five consecutive hours. It's an at-your-own-pace event--some people stay for an hour, some 2 minutes. (At least there's no mandatory freshman seminar going on during the whole game as has happened before--that we know of yet!)
What Hoya Blue can do--with their BBQ on gameday, their table at SAC Fair, and their promotions leading up to the game--is give people that compelling reason to come to the game instead of being drawn into SAC Fair during 1-4pm. I think given a choice, knowing that there's a BBQ, music, drinks, and a good atmosphere at a football game, more than enough students will just choose to hit SAC Fair earlier in the day before...coming to Harbin Field. And you'll get what you want for the student section that's behind the Hoyas.
Now I know I'm short on ideas for the promotions here--which was the point of the thread after all. But that's b/c I think HB is off to a great start so far. The fact that there IS an event of some kind pre-game, the fact that HB IS going to promote the game in the weeks prior, the fact that there IS going to be a student section at the game---these are all things that didn't exist before. And that's why we could never get students to come. I think what Hoya Blue does with what they've already planned will produce big results.
Although if you do successfully get SAC Fair change, I bet 007 will give you a hug.
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Post by FLHoya on Jul 10, 2005 18:10:22 GMT -5
On a separate note, can I ask a few questions relating to the promotions going on for the first game:
1. Any idea yet what/where/when the Hoya Blue BBQ is going to be? And is it going to be restricted to just current undergraduate students or is everyone welcome?
2. What's the ticket structure for football games going to be like? Still a set fee for Adults/Kids and students get in for free by flashing their GOCard?
3. Assuming that there will be some kind of temporary bleacher stands on both sides, any guesses as to what the capacity of the stadium is going to be this year? Above, below, or equal to last year? To put it another way, what ARE we aiming for number-wise when we're trying to sell this baby out and then some?
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Post by JimmyHoya on Jul 10, 2005 19:41:04 GMT -5
I got my SAC fair info from one of my first-year's mailings.
"First-Year STudent Academic Workshop Featuring Eqyptian WRiter AHDAF SOUEIF
Lecture and Small Group Sessions on The Map of Love
Gaston Hall, Saturday, September 10, 2005, 2:00-5:00 pm
An annual event to provide new stud3ents with an experience that will mark their Georgetown years. Save this importat date."
It's mandatory for all the new kids.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 10, 2005 19:48:08 GMT -5
Um, i really hate to break this to you - but its not mandatory and you don't have to do the reading if you feel like it. Welcome to college - you've just learned rules #1 and #2.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 10, 2005 20:12:18 GMT -5
I got my SAC fair info from one of my first-year's mailings...It's mandatory for all the new kids. A mandatory book reading? Well, there's something that would have been greeted with one big yawn from kids of the 1980's! No one would have showed up, save for 5 or 10 liberal studies majors. There wasn't a single mandatory event for four years, unless it was Thursday at the Pub and you were in the SBA...
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Post by JimmyHoya on Jul 10, 2005 21:11:06 GMT -5
*shrugs*
Who will the football team be playing again anyway?
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 10, 2005 21:16:09 GMT -5
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Post by JimmyHoya on Jul 10, 2005 21:42:03 GMT -5
So...we're gonna get the crap kicked out of us?
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Post by FLHoya on Jul 10, 2005 22:19:25 GMT -5
I got my SAC fair info from one of my first-year's mailings. "First-Year STudent Academic Workshop Featuring Eqyptian WRiter AHDAF SOUEIF Lecture and Small Group Sessions on The Map of LoveGaston Hall, Saturday, September 10, 2005, 2:00-5:00 pm An annual event to provide new stud3ents with an experience that will mark their Georgetown years. Save this importat date." It's mandatory for all the new kids. That's different from SAC Fair. SAC Fair's the thing where all the clubs/activities on campus set up tables either on Copley Lawn or in Leavey at the beginning of the year so people can sign up. It runs most of the day on a Saturday. I was VP of a club one year when SAC Fair was on the same day as a FB game, so I just did my part at the table in the morning and cut out for the game. That Student Workshop deal is the other thing I was talking about. I feel very fortunate that my year was one of the last ones (maybe THE last one) that didn't have to do that waste of time. Although from what I hear, StPete's right...you don't--and shouldn't--have to waste your time going. If anything, what would REALLY prepare freshman for university life, integrate them into the community, and actually do something useful for Georgetown would be to make them all go watch football.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 10, 2005 22:58:01 GMT -5
I contend that the perfect way of getting yourself into the groove of undergraduate life at Georgetown is to: wake up late on saturday, go to Leo's and get some of the french toast sticks, skip the "mandatory lecture", (not do the reading), go out to the SAC fair on Copley Lawn and sign up for a ton of clubs (but be sure to sign up for Hoya Blue) and probably over-extend yourself, and then go to the football game and discuss what you did the night before with your friends.
I mean, I suppose , if you are interested in "The Map of Love" and the topics and questions it raises then you could go to the lecture - but no one is actually taking roll and you won't fail some course called "Freshman Summer Reading" if you don't show up, but there will be much better lectures in your 4 years to go to than one on a book that you didn't like. Save going to Gaston Hall for someone that you want to hear like Victor Yuschenko, Hamid Karzai, Elie Wisel (sp?), John Kerry, Hardball, and others (its a long list of distinguished people) - if you don't want to hear the lectures though - you don't have to go - its as simple as that.
To be honest I read my book and went to the lecture because I didn't know better and by the end of the year I donated one signed copy of My Name is Red to Afghan refugees.
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Post by TBird41 on Jul 11, 2005 11:46:56 GMT -5
I went to the discussion group, but then skipped out on the lecture in order to go to SAC Fair. So I agree w/ St. Pete--wake up, go to the pregame festivities, then watch the game. After that, head over to SAC Fair.
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Post by LBPop on Jul 11, 2005 16:25:02 GMT -5
So...we're gonna get the crap kicked out of us? Don't blame you for feeling that way, but I would wait to see what the Hoyas have this season. If they can get their offense to mere respectability, they can beat a lot of Ivy/Patriot level teams. Don't forget, this will be Brown's opener while the Hoyas will have played two.
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Post by hoya2007 on Jul 12, 2005 9:28:14 GMT -5
A group of students from the Georgetown Events Committee are meeting with Martha on Friday to discuss, among other things, moving the SAC event to allow more students to attend the first football game.
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