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Post by nebraskahoya on Mar 7, 2007 10:20:56 GMT -5
I agree with MB to a certain extent -- the alumni in the area could definitely show more dedication in following the Hoyas. However, those alumni figures must include Graduate programs (Law, Med School, GSAS, etc....) since each undergraduate class is only about 1500 or so. That being the case, it doesn't surprise me that we can't get 7,000+ alumni at each game. It seems, to me at least, people tend to be most passionate about the institution they attended as an undergraduate. Not to say that graduate students don't follow the program and attend games when possible. I just doubt that most have the same intensity about the Hoyas as those who attended as undergraduates.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2007 10:27:22 GMT -5
That's actually indicative of my point. The alumns stay in the area for a few years, then head off, never to go to another Hoyas home game in their life. The number of alums in the area is not as large an issue as people sometimes make it out to be. There are over 50,000 GU alums within an hour of DC. If 15% of them would buy season tickets, we'd be in pretty good shape. |
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Post by Jack on Mar 7, 2007 10:29:21 GMT -5
On the idea of grad school alumni, I still think more should be done to recruit grad students, especially law students, into the fold. The arena is blocks from their campus, there are 2500 students there, many of them stay in DC after they graduate, and many of them came to GU law from undergraduate schools without big time sports, and thus without a serious NCAA hoops attachment.
Sure, some of them are dorks who care more about mock trial than mock drafts, but among my friends there were guys who went to Penn, American, Princeton, Navy, and Amherst, all of whom were happy to embrace Georgetown as at worst their second favorite basketball team. But then no one makes much effort to get them to games, and they only come once or twice a year. There are a small number of tickets available through the student affairs office this year, but I think investment in more serious promotion would pay big dividends down the road.
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Post by nebraskahoya on Mar 7, 2007 10:43:30 GMT -5
I agree, Jack. The key to consistently high attendance from alums and those with actual connections to Gtown is to focus on the grad schools. It'd be interesting to find out what percentage of grad students stay in the area after getting their degree and compare that to the undergraduate numbers. I'm betting that it's significantly higher.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Mar 7, 2007 13:52:54 GMT -5
That's actually indicative of my point. The alumns stay in the area for a few years, then head off, never to go to another Hoyas home game in their life. The number of alums in the area is not as large an issue as people sometimes make it out to be. There are over 50,000 GU alums within an hour of DC. If 15% of them would buy season tickets, we'd be in pretty good shape. 15% of alumni would be great, no doubt, but it's almost certainly overly ambitious. Consider the current student section at, what, 2,000+? That represents roughly 1/3rd of the entire student body. So only about 30% of students are even interested enough in the team to show up to games as a student (when it is far easier & cheaper to go). That means that we need to convince 1/2 of the people who come to games as students to buy season tickets following graduation. Doable? Maybe, but given the percent of gradutes who move away, you're essentially looking at needing nearly every recent graduate living in or near DC to purchase season tickets. That's a tough sell. |
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