Any one know how the regular season games do on statewide TV? I know the Vikings dominate the local TV market on Sundays, I wonder how the Bison fare.
Any one know how the regular season games do on statewide TV? I know the Vikings dominate the local TV market on Sundays, I wonder how the Bison fare.
The weather in Fargo keeps the undesirables out.....
...Which is why I live near the Twin Cities.
Like I said earlier. ESPN has passive viewership that far exceeds anything that happens on ESPN2 or ESPN3.
ESPN is on at nearly every bar, airport, barber shop as well as thousands of tvs just "on" in the background.
If this game was on ESPN2 it would have half the ratings.
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But why go to the game when you can watch it from the comfort of your own home?
When the game is easy to watch where it is convenient, people won't make the effort to go to games. Thus attendance drops.
Students get bored and leave the game. Most students now only know winning and near domination by the football team. Complacency and waiting to spend the time and effort to the see the big games and eventually the chipper.
When i was a student in 2011, we didn't know until after Christmas that the GSMB would go to Frisco. At the time we thought it was the chance of a lifetime!! Here we are 7 years later and it is almost expected at this point that the Bison go to Frisco. Students and FANS are spoiled and have gotten lazy.
...tiny rant over...
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
I'm sorry but this is an awful excuse. If a national quarterfinal against a team undefeated against FCS competition isn't a big enough game there's going to be very few home games that are "big enough". If that's the case I'd add arrogance to complacency when it comes to describing our fans/students that feel this way.
Tickets have been so hard to come by for so long that many people don't even think to try to buy a ticket to a Bison football game anymore. They assume it is sold out. Seems like the ticket office is getting complacent in getting the message out.
You had to have your head buried in the sand to not have known that tickets were available last week. Klieman and Larsen were lobbying on radio, there was an article about it on inforum, from Wednesday on the first thing you saw when going to GoBison.com was the "Tickets Available" article, there were tweets and Facebook posts from NDSU Athletics and NDSU Football out there advertising it. I'm not sure what else they could've done. Go knocking door-to-door?
Jesus. Can we give it a rest with how NDSU marketing and ticketing 'should handle this?'
Its very simple. Blowout games have less interest. NDSU can spam people all they want about letting people know tickets are available, its not going to change the facts. Then you have a SDSU playoff game that is (shocker) going to be a sell out game. Shockingly no one has any problems with how this was marketed.
If people are too lazy to go to GoBison.com and look if a game is sold out or try and buy tickets then I don't know what to tell ya.