Can we be Utah or Boise St.?

[orangeandbrown]

OK, fine. Try this:

The circumstances under which we become the regional focus are difficult to envision.

[Flipper]

If I wanted to find out why (really why) we aren't a regional focus, if I wanted to find out why we aren't drawing better, I'd put together a direct mail survey targeted towards anyone living within an arbitrary radius (75 miles, 90 miles 100 miles?) that meet whatever demographic criteria you feel best represents college sports consumers. If that's too broad, you can mail to anyone who attended the University for a year or more from say 1985 forward and lives within your geographic radius. The first phase would be designed to find out the level of interest in college athletics in general. Once you cull out the non respondents (mail the initial one at least three times) and people with no interest in athletics, you can begin to find out why people aren't a consumer of BG sports and you can then market to them directly.

You can also begin to build an identity within your target market. Or you can keep running lame ads and hoping that folks will just wander by if coach Brandon shills hard enough during the post game.

I'm sorry, but I think it's somewhat degrading for a coach of a team that's been ranked for parts of three straight years to be begging people to come out. It's just not right

[rc_ziggy84]

The loss of Scotty Mruczkowski will definitely hurt the line, but the 5 Blocks of Granite are going to have to step up. Lichtensteiger and Warren proved to be studs this year and we'll need both to be healthy next year. Any update on whether Andrew Hart can get a 6th year like Brandon mentioned a month ago or if he would even want to play another year?? I think Nystrom will step up, along with Markray to fill holes and hopefully 1 more from the 5 Blocks will step up to fill the last spot. I think everyone has virtually given up on Jonathon Culp becoming a solid starter, so it's up to the young guys.

Markray is a beast, one of the biggest men I've seen in person in a long time. He always seems to be really late on the field though. I have faith in our O-line for next year. With a lot of them already having experience plus getting playing time in all of our second half blow-outs has to help. Pope & Lane are going to have big seasons and Omar as well so long as one more WR can step up to help out Chuck & the SandMan. Defense.. well that's another story.

*Edit -- late night spelling mistakes*

[Falconboy]

From what I've heard Utah is upgrading their 45,000 eat stadium to a 60,000 seat stadium. Man! They must have real confidence they can get that many people out to games. Obviously any other school in the state of Utah or Idaho isn't competing with Utah or Boise St. at all. Those other schools are just after-thoughts.

[FalconKing]

Boise competes with the Idaho Vandals (WHAT A COOL name of course I think that should be OSU's name personally.)

Moscow is hundreds of miles away from Boise. Idaho doesn't even have a fan base there either....most of people in the area are WSU fans. Pullman is literally ten less than ten minutes away just across the border.

[bgou]

Our problem with running the table in any season isn't going to be our offencse but rather our defense. We couldn't stop the run this year and we will never get over the hump (perfect season) until we have more beef in the front seven. Omar can be great again and we can restock the o-line but it will be meaningless if the defense performs like it did this year in the big games (OU, NIU, Marshall and Toledo). We can't out score everyone every time.

[FalconKing]

From what I've heard Utah is upgrading their 45,000 eat stadium to a 60,000 seat stadium. Man! They must have real confidence they can get that many people out to games. Obviously any other school in the state of Utah or Idaho isn't competing with Utah or Boise St. at all. Those other schools are just after-thoughts.

They are certainly going to have the money to do it with their take of the BCS! Obviously won't cover the entire expansion, but that is more than enough seed money to get the project started. They get a larger than equal share and only have 8 teams in their conference....9 next year with TCU. If we somehow managed to get to a BCS bowl, it would still end up being our biggist payday ever.....but no where near what Utah is going to take home.

[redskins4ever]

If I wanted to find out why (really why) we aren't a regional focus, if I wanted to find out why we aren't drawing better, I'd put together a direct mail survey targeted towards anyone living within an arbitrary radius (75 miles, 90 miles 100 miles?) that meet whatever demographic criteria you feel best represents college sports consumers. If that's too broad, you can mail to anyone who attended the University for a year or more from say 1985 forward and lives within your geographic radius. The first phase would be designed to find out the level of interest in college athletics in general. Once you cull out the non respondents (mail the initial one at least three times) and people with no interest in athletics, you can begin to find out why people aren't a consumer of BG sports and you can then market to them directly.

You can also begin to build an identity within your target market. Or you can keep running lame ads and hoping that folks will just wander by if coach Brandon shills hard enough during the post game.

I'm sorry, but I think it's somewhat degrading for a coach of a team that's been ranked for parts of three straight years to be begging people to come out. It's just not right

Unfortunately mailers only have a 5-8% success rate, good idea though. A better thought would to have canvassers go out and do what you are suggesting, instead going door to door.