Gameday Experience

[GMUgemini]

How’d they get your contact info?

Ask for forgiveness not permission. Thats how we got credentials to begin with and how we continue to opporate. All in all, good shit Jack. I talked to Brad at the game about it but he hadn’t seen it yet (or at least that’s what he told me). Full disclosure, we love Brad, he’s awesome. I can’t imagine he cares one bit about “suck on that” but someone was in his ear.

One day at a time, we will improve our fan base!

Can’t you just put a disclaimer on it saying this was not affiliated with the athletic department?

 

[GSII]

Make it digital so there is no paper and students can get texts.for example..

Get your asses up....#11 got charged with rape....chant no means no when on ft line while waving panties Jollay dropped off in Johnson Center study room 3.

...Call Tom Pecora a Canoli.

All via text

 

[Jack Strop]

Make it digital so there is no paper and students can get texts.for example..

Get your asses up....#11 got charged with rape....chant no means no when on ft line while waving panties Jollay dropped off in Johnson Center study room 3.

...Call Tom Pecora a Canoli.

All via text

Ha! I think the actual line was more like, "Who ATE my canoli?!?" ...CLASSIC! Wasn't that Arroz Blanco who shouted it?

 

[Jack Strop]

I like the coaches show idea. You should mention it to Brad or someone and see what they think.

Sheeeesh-yah! Correct me if I remember this incorrectly, but didn't Paul Westhead have a show on Media General Cable's local access channel ...or maybe it was GMU's cable channel in Fairfax?

 

[Jack Strop]

How’d they get your contact info?

Ask for forgiveness not permission. Thats how we got credentials to begin with and how we continue to opporate. All in all, good shit Jack. I talked to Brad at the game about it but he hadn’t seen it yet (or at least that’s what he told me). Full disclosure, we love Brad, he’s awesome. I can’t imagine he cares one bit about “suck on that” but someone was in his ear.

One day at a time, we will improve our fan base!

Baby steps—a sound policy.

How did THEY find me? I established an "in" with the AD before the game and fully communicated my plan and provided them contact info. I didn't want to be viewed as subversive. It was only after the game that the Mason Fan Cheer Guide was fully perused by them and an agreement was made to let the Guide rest until next season.

I hope I didn't just fall into a "catch-n-kill" trap. We'll see.

 

[dr. gunnie]

Just a guess, but if you just had the text on a sheet of paper and passed those out, you might have been ok... but when you start putting official Mason logos on it, it opens up a whole new can of worms and could look like it is affiliated with the school which they obviously wouldn’t want.

Oh well, hopefully you have better luck than I did years ago when I wanted to donate iPads to the team so they could watch game film quickly/easily. While the staff was all for it, administration wanted no part of it - first it was a title IX issue, but when I offered the girls team too, they kept making excuses on why it would be difficult instead of developing solutions on how to make it happen. Hopefully things have changed with the new leadership.

 

[Mason2005]

Just a guess, but if you just had the text on a sheet of paper and passed those out, you might have been ok... but when you start putting official Mason logos on it, it opens up a whole new can of worms and could look like it is affiliated with the school which they obviously wouldn’t want.

Oh well, hopefully you have better luck than I did years ago when I wanted to donate iPads to the team so they could watch game film quickly/easily. While the staff was all for it, administration wanted no part of it - first it was a title IX issue, but when I offered the girls team too, they kept making excuses on why it would be difficult instead of developing solutions on how to make it happen. Hopefully things have changed with the new leadership.

So that Oregon Nike guy can donate gear and a stadium to their football team but Mason is like, ohhhhh noooooooo iPads are a dangerrrrrrrrr!! This admin is looking more and more pathetic to me.

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[GMUgemini]

So that Oregon Nike guy can donate gear and a stadium to their football team but Mason is like, ohhhhh noooooooo iPads are a dangerrrrrrrrr!! This admin is looking more and more pathetic to me.

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To be fair, the Oregon Nike guy is a billionaire and dropped 8 figures on their athletics department. I’m sure if we cut a check for 50 million, they’d let us donate iPads to the basketball team

 

[Five Two]

Utah St is handing out free bacon:
https://twitter.com/USUBasketball/status/1100833132775825409

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

Utah St is handing out free bacon:
https://twitter.com/USUBasketball/status/1100833132775825409

WOW. Now that's outside the box.

As Brian stated, this would've took years to be vetted by the Mason AD and by the time and by some miracle it did get approved, the bacon would've already ended up in countless salads, arteries and Chakenstank Chalupas.

 

[GMU1983]

This would never happen with the bacon as Mason is so PC and leftist that it might offend someone....

 

[gmubrian]

This would never happen with the bacon as Mason is so PC and leftist that it might offend someone....

I’ll see if I can pull some strings to get a bacon related item added to the “don’ts” list on the official fan cheer guide.

 

[psyclone]

This would never happen with the bacon as Mason is so PC and leftist that it might offend someone....

So Chic-Fil-A and Glory Days wings (both fried) are somehow more PC than bacon?

 

[GMU1983]

So Chic-Fil-A and Glory Days wings (both fried) are somehow more PC than bacon?

yes

 

[Jack Strop]

Both Jewish and Islamic faiths are restrictive regarding the ingestion of porcine products—just saying.

 

[psyclone]

Both Jewish and Islamic faiths are restrictive regarding the ingetion of porcine products—just saying.

Point taken.

 

[Washingtonian]

Now that the home season is complete, attendance numbers:

Penn (11/6 - Tuesday) 5,767
American (11/9 - Friday) 5,774
Southern (11/17 - Saturday) 3,281
NC Central (11/20 - Tuesday) 2,603
Morgan State (11/28 - Wednesday) 2,591
Vermont (12/3 - Monday) 2,704
JMU (12/7 - Friday) 5,065
Navy (12/21 - Friday) 3,419
St. Bonaventure (1/6/19 - Sunday) 4,028
Davidson (1/9 - Wednesday) 3,012
Fordham (1/19 - Saturday) 3,892
GW (1/26 - Saturday) 6,683
LaSalle (2/10 - Sunday) 4,909
UMass (2/13 - Wednesday) 3,206
Duquesne (2/23 - Saturday, homecoming) 7,309
Richmond (2/27 - Wednesday) 3,281
vcu (3/5 - Tuesday) 6,177

Average (17 games and does not count the exhibition game): 4,335
Total attendance (17 games and does not count the exhibition game): 73,701

 

[Patriotsince81]

Now that the home season is complete, attendance numbers:

Penn (11/6 - Tuesday) 5,767
American (11/9 - Friday) 5,774
Southern (11/17 - Saturday) 3,281
NC Central (11/20 - Tuesday) 2,603
Morgan State (11/28 - Wednesday) 2,591
Vermont (12/3 - Monday) 2,704
JMU (12/7 - Friday) 5,065
Navy (12/21 - Friday) 3,419
St. Bonaventure (1/6/19 - Sunday) 4,028
Davidson (1/9 - Wednesday) 3,012
Fordham (1/19 - Saturday) 3,892
GW (1/26 - Saturday) 6,683
LaSalle (2/10 - Sunday) 4,909
UMass (2/13 - Wednesday) 3,206
Duquesne (2/23 - Saturday, homecoming) 7,309
Richmond (2/27 - Wednesday) 3,281
vcu (3/5 - Tuesday) 6,177

Average (17 games and does not count the exhibition game): 4,335
Total attendance (17 games and does not count the exhibition game): 73,701

And the sad thing is that many of those that attended the games were opposing fans.

 

[gmubrian]

And the sad thing is that many of those that attended the games were opposing fans.

And the ticket office is notorious for inflating the numbers by 1 - 2 thousand each game.

 

[EXpatriot13]

Now that the home season is complete, attendance numbers:

Penn (11/6 - Tuesday) 5,767
American (11/9 - Friday) 5,774
Southern (11/17 - Saturday) 3,281
NC Central (11/20 - Tuesday) 2,603
Morgan State (11/28 - Wednesday) 2,591
Vermont (12/3 - Monday) 2,704
JMU (12/7 - Friday) 5,065
Navy (12/21 - Friday) 3,419
St. Bonaventure (1/6/19 - Sunday) 4,028
Davidson (1/9 - Wednesday) 3,012
Fordham (1/19 - Saturday) 3,892
GW (1/26 - Saturday) 6,683
LaSalle (2/10 - Sunday) 4,909
UMass (2/13 - Wednesday) 3,206
Duquesne (2/23 - Saturday, homecoming) 7,309
Richmond (2/27 - Wednesday) 3,281
vcu (3/5 - Tuesday) 6,177

Average (17 games and does not count the exhibition game): 4,335
Total attendance (17 games and does not count the exhibition game): 73,701

What's the YoY % increase/decrease on the total average attendance?