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    Pat, please.....you know we have a difference of opinion on if giving the athletes a 100 points for joining TM is the best strategy for maximizing TM dues and growing the club. At one time it was, today it's not...IMO in the present this policy actually limits TM

    To answer your question each year we are a TM we get a point. If your points theoretically start at 100 and mine theoretically start at 0, the next year we are members we will earn points..... you are at 101, I am at 1. Again the bottom line is if one wants to be on even the playing field for perks, As a non V.athelte, one hasa to donate about $5k to be competitive. Its just the facts as it stands today nothing more nothing less.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 02Bison View Post
    Not using the seats they begged to have after given to them. Obvious they didn't really need them. I hope they were doing something more productive than getting wasted if they were not at the
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    and no they don't really "pay" for them. The activity fee isn't a "football season ticket fee". They got 100k back for what they lost last year and the athletic department was supposed to get almost 500k for the tickets.

    Find me another stadium in which nearly 25% of the seats are student seats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HerdBot View Post
    We need to strike a balance between getting students to the game and making sure regular fans can buy tickets. The students are the future teammakers , donors, and season ticket holders. Without them, our fan base will turn into a bunch if senior citizens.

    You cant make students go to the games but we need to do a better job encouraging involvement. Things are changing nationally but it seemed like there was a true grass roots effort on campus 5-7 years ago to reach out to students. They even had a thing at the dome where all freshman were taught game day traditions

    TM tried for the last 3 years to reach out to different demographics during the Friday TM luncheon. The lowered the price, they changed the venue, they changed the food. What they ended up doing was losing at least half of the people who used to attend the luncheons. So this year they went back to the old format. But its going to take some time to get all the folks to come back again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ByeSonBusiness View Post
    I was in school at that time, I don't think those events really did anything. Doesn't make it a bad idea to do though. The success NDSU had at that time was new and exciting. Kids now are less likely to go to games to begin with, and the predictable nature of NDSU football games has hurt student involvement in my opinion.
    I think if you go 4 years without engaging students, that's a generation who dont know what its about. It just kills the buzz
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    I've had my fill.

    Didn't go yesterday. Not going next week. Will probably go to the semifinal. Not going to Frisco (for the first time ever).

    I'll almost certainly get season tickets and tailgate again next year. But I'll likely be even more open to missing games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bison 4 Life View Post
    and no they don't really "pay" for them. The activity fee isn't a "football season ticket fee". They got 100k back for what they lost last year and the athletic department was supposed to get almost 500k for the tickets.

    Find me another stadium in which nearly 25% of the seats are student seats.
    TAMU - 35,000 student section seats out of 102,000.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ByeSonBusiness View Post
    TAMU - 35,000 student section seats out of 102,000.


    Literally the first one I looked up.
    Because it's famously the largest student section in the country.

    Guess we'll just get into the SEC and then our student tickets will sell out.
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    Not to derail the thread, but sports in general is a dying industry. Attendance is going to continuously get worse overall. Imagine if NDSU lost 3 or 4 games it would probably go back to 12K fans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bisonwinagn View Post
    Not to derail the thread, but sports in general is a dying industry. Attendance is going to continuously get worse overall. Imagine if NDSU lost 3 or 4 games it would probably go back to 12K fans.
    What facts do you have to support this claim?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MAKBison View Post
    Pat, please.....you know we have a difference of opinion on if giving the athletes a 100 points for joining TM is the best strategy for maximizing TM dues and growing the club. At one time it was, today it's not...IMO in the present this policy actually limits TM

    To answer your question each year we are a TM we get a point. If your points theoretically start at 100 and mine theoretically start at 0, the next year we are members we will earn points..... you are at 101, I am at 1. Again the bottom line is if one wants to be on even the playing field for perks, As a non V.athelte, one hasa to donate about $5k to be competitive. Its just the facts as it stands today nothing more nothing less.
    Considering there are different perks for different giving levels there will always be a disparity no matter what.

    In the giving game there is a saying---not everyone will be treated equally But everyone will be treated fairly.

    That 100 points really grinds your gears doesnt it.
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    When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.

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