Ways the team is being promoted or marketed in the community

[2011WinOverVillanova]

The last time it was seriously Considered was in 1998. I’m pretty sure the coach we initially hired to start up the club team was promised that we’d start up a non-scholarship 1AA program eventually and 98 was the year we basically permanently reneged on that promise.

lol now we are talking about football?

I hate the offseason.

You touched on it with the "I always thought we’d get football nights under Brad and Dg. Whether they tried or got laughed at, I have no idea."

I ventured onto that side branch.

 

[TweederGMU]

Pick 20-25 big tech or consulting firms around the NOVA area, give out a row of tickets to that company for each home game, include Gold Room passes for each ticket and promote the free beer and food - they would get used. Look on LinkedIn and see who from Mason works at that company.... give them 4 free tickets to each home game and tell them to bring co-workers/friends.

 

[Falco]

Move every game to the RAC.

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...tadium-host-fiu-football-rapper-buying-rights - The money is out there. Why can’t we sell our arena’s naming rights to a performer so we can keep up in the financial arms race of college athletics?

 

[EXpatriot13]

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...tadium-host-fiu-football-rapper-buying-rights - The money is out there. Why can’t we sell our arena’s naming rights to a performer so we can keep up in the financial arms race of college athletics?

Let's not act like our AD is missing the boat on some national trend of performers signing naming rights deals with college venues. We'll see if this evolves, but the Pitbull x FIU partnership is a pretty unique situation that isn't just easily replicated across the board.

It doesn't seem like EagleBank is going to renew their naming rights after 2025, and honestly let's hope they don't because I think the renewal terms only bumps up the annual value by $25k. I'd expect we could get a decent amount more than that if we take the naming rights to the open market next year.

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

Have after game concerts with Shaboozey and invite Lockheed Martin dumbasses

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

Let's not act like our AD is missing the boat on some national trend of performers signing naming rights deals with college venues. We'll see if this evolves, but the Pitbull x FIU partnership is a pretty unique situation that isn't just easily replicated across the board.

It doesn't seem like EagleBank is going to renew their naming rights after 2025, and honestly let's hope they don't because I think the renewal terms only bumps up the annual value by $25k. I'd expect we could get a decent amount more than that if we take the naming rights to the open market next year.

We’re missing the boat on creative thinking which can bring in the revenue we desperately need to keep pace with and surpass vcu, Dayton and Saint Louis

 

[EXpatriot13]

We’re missing the boat on creative thinking which can bring in the revenue we desperately need to keep pace with and surpass vcu, Dayton and Saint Louis

I agree we lack in creative thinking and new ideas in many areas, but naming rights of EBA isn’t something they’ve squandered. I fully expect the next deal to surpass the current one on AAV and be set up to strategically filter that revenue down to key areas like NIL.

 

[GMUgemini]

I agree we lack in creative thinking and new ideas in many areas, but naming rights of EBA isn’t something they’ve squandered. I fully expect the next deal to surpass the current one on AAV and be set up to strategically filter that revenue down to key areas like NIL.

We should look to leverage the growing esports domain. We already have two pretty big game developers in the area (Bethesda and Firaxis). EA Sports Arena? I mean I doubt we could convince EA it’s a good idea but something in that vein—Steam, Valve, Blizzard/Activision (trying to think of the big esports games).

 

[phoenix-arizona]

Steam Center!

 

[jruby]

There's lot of ideas. People have even offered them free advertising but they don't seem to be up for the task. It's prob not the most high paying job or it's a job tacked onto a million other things.

 

[Mason2006Patriot]

Richmond has made the NCAAT many times, won the A10 a few times, and yet they don't get talked about at all on the national level like blue blood programs like Duke or UNC.

 

[GMU79]

Richmond has made the NCAAT many times, won the A10 a few times, and yet they don't get talked about at all on the national level like blue blood programs like Duke or UNC.

They don't even get talked about in Richmond. vcu gets 10x the press.

 

[MasonMojo]

We will put the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" to the test with this Bahamas shitshow.

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

The maniaks are doing their part trying to market them

 

[TweederGMU]

The maniaks are doing their part trying to market them

Hmmm, wonder if Coach or a player can sign a ball or jersey and have them raffle that off everyday to everyone that signs up. 5 kiosk days, 5 chances to win an autographed item.

Each new signee gets a raffle ticket and draw it at the end of the day and notify the winner via email.

 

[Where's the party?]

I feel silly asking this, but I have a hard time keeping track of what we have to pay to Mason for our 4 season tickets and Gold Room passes.

We have historically paid $1200 for the seat contribution, but it counted towards the $2400 we owed for the 4 Gold Room passes, plus the ticket cost ~$1300 for a total of $3700. We just got a letter from Mason indicating we have to pay $1200 for the seat contribution but they've eliminated the line from previous years that said it counted towards the hospitality contribution, meaning we owe another $1200 on top of the $3700 making the package now $4900.

Did I miss something last year? Is this new? Or is dementia setting in?

BTW - $5K is starting to get a little rich for this. We may have to ditch the two tickets we buy to bring guests.

 

[GMU_Polevaulter]

I feel silly asking this, but I have a hard time keeping track of what we have to pay to Mason for our 4 season tickets and Gold Room passes.

We have historically paid $1200 for the seat contribution, but it counted towards the $2400 we owed for the 4 Gold Room passes, plus the ticket cost ~$1300 for a total of $3700. We just got a letter from Mason indicating we have to pay $1200 for the seat contribution but they've eliminated the line from previous years that said it counted towards the hospitality contribution, meaning we owe another $1200 on top of the $3700 making the package now $4900.

Did I miss something last year? Is this new? Or is dementia setting in?

BTW - $5K is starting to get a little rich for this. We may have to ditch the two tickets we buy to bring guests.

Web site still states in several locations:

Your Men's Basketball Priority Seating Donation counts towards hospitality access.

 

[p8triotfan4life]

I feel silly asking this, but I have a hard time keeping track of what we have to pay to Mason for our 4 season tickets and Gold Room passes.

We have historically paid $1200 for the seat contribution, but it counted towards the $2400 we owed for the 4 Gold Room passes, plus the ticket cost ~$1300 for a total of $3700. We just got a letter from Mason indicating we have to pay $1200 for the seat contribution but they've eliminated the line from previous years that said it counted towards the hospitality contribution, meaning we owe another $1200 on top of the $3700 making the package now $4900.

Did I miss something last year? Is this new? Or is dementia setting in?

BTW - $5K is starting to get a little rich for this. We may have to ditch the two tickets we buy to bring guests.

whelp, there goes my gold room access as well. Not a good idea to raise ticket prices on EXISTING fan base.

they are removing the "coach talk" this year as well.

 

[mkaufman1]

whelp, there goes my gold room access as well. Not a good idea to raise ticket prices on EXISTING fan base.

they are removing the "coach talk" this year as well.

The coach talk is going down to the green room. At least in my experience, the majority of folks don’t pay attention in the gold room.

I feel silly asking this, but I have a hard time keeping track of what we have to pay to Mason for our 4 season tickets and Gold Room passes.

We have historically paid $1200 for the seat contribution, but it counted towards the $2400 we owed for the 4 Gold Room passes, plus the ticket cost ~$1300 for a total of $3700. We just got a letter from Mason indicating we have to pay $1200 for the seat contribution but they've eliminated the line from previous years that said it counted towards the hospitality contribution, meaning we owe another $1200 on top of the $3700 making the package now $4900.

Did I miss something last year? Is this new? Or is dementia setting in?

BTW - $5K is starting to get a little rich for this. We may have to ditch the two tickets we buy to bring guests.

Confusing and odd, I’d give someone in the office a call.