This week in "Ask the AD"

[TG1996]

http://bgsufalcons.cstv.com/genrel/062007aaa.html

For the first time the "scheduling against Ohio State (and apparently Michigan, too)" gorilla is acknowledged.

Only two questions, but I think they are again answered pretty well.

[Class of 61]

http://bgsufalcons.cstv.com/genrel/062007aaa.html

For the first time the "scheduling against Ohio State (and apparently Michigan, too)" gorilla is acknowledged.

Only two questions, but I think they are again answered pretty well.

Tony,
You're right...and my talks with Greg have revealed a pretty straight shooter on all counts...but what I DON'T get is how we managed to draw 20,000 plus several years back (in the early/mid 90's for example).... didn't OSU and MEECHigan play back then too? For some reason, and I don't think any of us have found an answer to this yet, we've LOST a great deal of BG's fan base to??? What?

[Warthog]

61, I don't think each and every OSU/Michigan was on TV back in the earliy/mid 90s. So people didn't have the excuse of staying home to watch another game. Now, I think it is an FCC violation if the Buckeyes are not broadcast on national TV every week.

[BGFan]

61, I don't think each and every OSU/Michigan was on TV back in the earliy/mid 90s. So people didn't have the excuse of staying home to watch another game. Now, I think it is an FCC violation if the Buckeyes are not broadcast on national TV every week.

True....the proliferation of a gazillion cable channels and sports packages has made it much easier to catch whatever your favorite team (as long as it's a BCS team) on the tube on Saturdays. It makes the competition for attendance pretty stiff.

[Flipper]

BG/UT drew 33,000 at the Doyt in 1983...there wasn't nearly as much football on tv back then, so going to the game seemed like a bigger deal.

[Schadenfreude]

I see some interesting stuff in that post.

The biggest piece: With the Big Ten starting its own cable channel, it looks like the ESPN regional opportunities are going to fall to us. It looks like we'll have a noon game available to local over-the-air stations if they want us, just as the Big Ten used to successfully offer.

This could be big. That's a prime slab of air time in Columbus, where WBNS-TV 10 has long aired a noon Big Ten game as a warm up to whatever SEC silliness followed on CBS

Gosh, if we could get that slot for the MAC -- that would be a really, really big deal -- bigger than some of the other ESPN coverage we are getting (e.g., ESPN-U, 360...)

I hope the MAC can hold some of that network together.

[BGDrew]

I believe the CBS affiliate is the station in Columbus which has ESPN+. I don't think it would hurt to possibly do a writing campaign closer to the game asking them to pick up that Temple game.

[Jacobs4Heisman]

BG/UT drew 33,000 at the Doyt in 1983...there wasn't nearly as much football on tv back then, so going to the game seemed like a bigger deal.

That game was probably on a Saturday. And we sold out some games in '03 as well. Michigan and OSU were on TV every week then, too.

Something has to be done to try and make BG home games an "event". As of right now, even when we have a relatively decent team, going to the game is just something to do if nothing else is going on for the majority of people in the area. We need to make it THE thing to do. I slept through my marketing class the summer before I graduated, so I'm not really sure how we go about doing that.

[Schadenfreude]

I believe the CBS affiliate is the station in Columbus which has ESPN+.

Yep, WBNS-TV. If we were picking a station out of thin air to put BG games on, that's probably the station we would pick.

[Flipper]

BG/UT drew 33,000 at the Doyt in 1983...there wasn't nearly as much football on tv back then, so going to the game seemed like a bigger deal.

That game was probably on a Saturday. And we sold out some games in '03 as well. Michigan and OSU were on TV every week then, too.

Something has to be done to try and make BG home games an "event". As of right now, even when we have a relatively decent team, going to the game is just something to do if nothing else is going on for the majority of people in the area. We need to make it THE thing to do. I slept through my marketing class the summer before I graduated, so I'm not really sure how we go about doing that.

I think the only game we actually sold out in 2003 was the NIU/Gameday game. We might have sold enough tickets to sell out Toledo, but there weren't that many people there.