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I got an email today from BGSU Athletics with a survey. They want the fan feedback for men's and women's basketball. The survey focuses on three key areas (Anderson Club, Concessions, and Parking) but also has room for general feedback.

https://bgsu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form ... sNNX8j9prM

I forgot to mention in mine that they need to bring back the 50/50. It's one of the easiest ways to bring in revenue. It was shortsighted to eliminate it. If you got the email, I encourage you to complete the survey. If you didn't get it, the link is posted above.

I know we've been excited about our new AD. If they take this feedback and do something with it, then our new AD was one of the best hires by BGSU athletics.

I probably wouldn’t get this email because I haven’t bought tickets to a game since January 2022 when Akron ran us off the court and I vowed to boycott the team until Huger was gone. Lol

Good looking out!

mbenecke wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 12:23 pm I probably wouldn’t get this email because I haven’t bought tickets to a game since January 2022 when Akron ran us off the court and I vowed to boycott the team until Huger was gone. Lol

Good looking out!

I haven't been to a game since Anderson so I'm definitely not getting one. Glad to see the AD being proactive and actually care about fan input.

I got the email and completed the survey. I gave concessions and parking both 0 since they did not have negative numbers as an option. The fact that the survey was predominantly about these 2 major issues tells me that he not only is interested in hearing opinions, but is specifically open to the notion of making changes in these areas.

I forgot to mention 50/50 as well.

Con Man Kit Hughes once took a selfie with a Doyt Perry dog on a random weekday, assuring fans the concessions weren’t a disaster. A couple years later the Doyt had more health violations than before.

Parking, parking, parking! I have been to numerous other MAC schools for both Men’s or Women’s basketball. The majority of those I’ve attended had either free parking or a small nominal fee.

I touched on parking, and I also included a mention about the 50/50, for the people!

Parking. F their parking. I park by the BW3 across the street.

Haven't been to a game in years...how much is parking now?

Also, will the new roundabout solve most of the traffic issues before and after the game...or is more still needed?

Redwingtom wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 7:54 am Haven't been to a game in years...how much is parking now?

Also, will the new roundabout solve most of the traffic issues before and after the game...or is more still needed?

To my knowledge, parking is $10 across every sport now - except volleyball, which is free.

mbenecke wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 8:12 am

Redwingtom wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 7:54 am Haven't been to a game in years...how much is parking now?

Also, will the new roundabout solve most of the traffic issues before and after the game...or is more still needed?

To my knowledge, parking is $10 across every sport now - except volleyball, which is free.

Except you're leaving out the important parts, regarding basketball. That $10 parking fee allows you to park on the far ends of the lot or across alumni, while all the other parking is empty.

Here's the parking map. Notice they haven't updated it to show the current $10 fee, it still reads $5, but I believe the layout is the same:

https://bgsufalcons.com/documents/2016/ ... df?id=6210

Now when you look at that map remember that the ONLY way you're allowed to park in AA, BB, or CC is if you have season tickets to basketball AND an appropriate Falcon Club donation level (I'm not certain if the levels on the map are still accurate). I'm going to go on a limb and guess we have less than 1000 season ticket holders to basketball period, and and even smaller number (by far) that are also falcon club donors...especially at the higher levels.

The result is AA, BB, and CC sit at probably 20% capacity or less. In fact I think a good percentage of the vehicles in those spots are people working the game (coaches, admin, media). So then you get the privilege of paying $10 to walk past rows and rows of empty lots. OR you can park for free at BW3 and be closer than the DD and Alumni drive spots. I feel bad for the businesses, so I typically don't park over there and instead just drive around the football stadium and approach the lots across alumni from behind. In 5+ years I've never once had to pay by going around that way. I have asked for years about simply buying a parking pass as well; they used to sell them for $50-70 or so. Nope, not allowed anymore, now you must donate to the Falcon club to get a season pass, and unless you're paying $250+ for your FC you're still parking in the back half of the empty lot.


I've been to other venues in the MAC and this stands out in its idiocy. CHarging $10 to park is on the high side regardless, but it's even worse when you don't get to park in the actual lot of the stadium that is largely empty. Every game we walk past rows and rows of empty parking that we wouldn't have been allowed to park in had we decided to pay the $10 that day. Every game we walk in with people from opposing teams who also comment how it's the dumbest thing they've ever seen...

I feel like charging an even $5 and letting you park wherever in the massive lot that normally sits empty would be perfectly fine. But what do I know?

Redwingtom wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 7:54 am Haven't been to a game in years...how much is parking now?

Also, will the new roundabout solve most of the traffic issues before and after the game...or is more still needed?

The traffic flow issues are mostly self imposed. They block off alumni from Wooster for some asinine reason, funneling ALL gameday traffic in off Campbell Hill. They block off all of the entrances to parking except the East entrance to the main Stroh lot. The people that check parking passes/take money hang out near the visitor center. Typically for basketball there is only enough people out there for one lane of traffic, so they funnel everybody that comes to the game into a single lane. Then since the parking layout makes zero sense anybody who isn't familiar with it wouldn't know which direction they're supposed to turn, so often times it backs up because somebody paid their $5, but has to go left away from the arena (ignoring the empty parking).

I don't see how the roundabout at Campbell Hill/Wooster will help the traffic flow entering the games at all. The Backup usually starts with the parking attendants then being backed all the way out to the street.

What WOULD help is opening Alumni from Wooster and allowing people into the lots from both access points (obviously with enough attendants to keep the line moving). This does mean that people from that access would be turning left into the main Stroh lot, but that should be doable if they used the parking entrances on the North end as well as the East end.

Leaving games, I haven't really had an issue with traffic flow. I usually exit Alumni, turn right on Wooster, then head through downtown. The roundabout there will probably help traffic flow as the people that are leaving out Campbell Hill are often forced to wait at that light.

mbenecke wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 8:45 am I feel like charging an even $5 and letting you park wherever in the massive lot that normally sits empty would be perfectly fine. But what do I know?

Agreed. And let season ticket holders purchase a pass for $5 x #ofhomegames and maybe take a $10 discount off that number or something. And the lots across alumni should just be free.

They did it that way when the place opened. No idea why it changed.

The business across Wooster would probably appreciate this too so their lots aren't always filled up.

I get the Falcon Club at the lowest level ($120, I believe) which gives me CC parking. I usually end up parking in BB unless it's magically full. However, for $120, I'm usually saving or breaking even on parking and that's how I justify it.

I had initially started buying the Falcon Club because it was required for our seat location (half-court, opposite the Anderson Club). They have since dropped that requirement, so I just buy the Falcon Club for the parking benefit. Do Falcon Club membership numbers go towards some performance metric for the department? Probably, but I don't mind paying $120 to know that I get to park in one of those "rows and rows of empty lots".

As for traffic...if they would just put up some signs telling people that both lanes are in-bound on gameday, it would fix a lot. Or, how about we don't charge for parking. You could still sell elite parking as a Falcon club perk but then let gameday parking be free but they have to park on the fringes. This would eliminate half of the line and you would just need an attendant to look for parking tags going in the North entrances to the lot (reserve the east entrance and across Alumni for gameday free parking. The traffic circle will help with traffic leaving. For big games, you are just stuck waiting forever.