11/15 | Alabama | 7:30PM (NBC Sports)

[RhodyRams916]

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

I see that in about 5 of the 300 sections. That should still put the crowd around 6500 if there is 1500 students. The key is do 1500 students show up on a Friday night or does they all leave for the weekend.

The key is always the students. Give them the best seats in the house (instead of the worst) would be my first move.

Yeah exactly. You look at how other basketball teams put students behind the bench and behind one basketball so they're wrapped around the court. Why don't they do that next year instead of making the last group of students go all the way to the third level.

[bigappleram]

All momentum / publicity this team had already appears over...

What publicity? Beyond ticket offers in digital media the only other publicity we have had is when Rothstein tweeted from a practice. There wasn't much effort put into marketing the program this year, or even in past years...and when coaches leave and quote the allure of the "brand" that is what they are referring to. We do an awful job at building the brand of Rhody basketball, unless its done by a high profile coach (Harrick or Dan) and the interest attached to them.

[Rhodymob05]

Give me a freakin Rhody billboard in Providence Gina.

[Section104]

not to beat a dead horse or derail this thread, but...

• Will we ever get answers on where the NCAA credits, Dan's buyout, decrease in DC vs. DH salary, etc. is going money-wise?
  What's our marketing strategy?
  What incentives, programs, etc. do we have to improve attendance YoY?

I know we have an old(er) fan base. I don't expect us to wake up overnight and pack the RC every game, but we should be able to put butts in the seats against an Alabama if marketed effectively.

[section(105)]

All momentum / publicity this team had already appears over...

What publicity? Beyond ticket offers in digital media the only other publicity we have had is when Rothstein tweeted from a practice. There wasn't much effort put into marketing the program this year, or even in past years...and when coaches leave and quote the allure of the "brand" that is what they are referring to. We do an awful job at building the brand of Rhody basketball, unless its done by a high profile coach (Harrick or Dan) and the interest attached to them.

........yes, this......and this is why my attendance prediction is the 5,000......Coach Cox will pan out to be a good coach here and further program developer.....or not......having said that, his style and how he conducts himself(which I like)is not gonna move the attendance needle much......as been said over and over, winning consistently and creating the national buzz via a-10 success is the only way to put fannies in the seats......as for the student placement of the lower ring of the 100/s both sides is fine......If I have to move up to the 200/s, then so be it......

[Rhodymob05]

Social media has been very good. But they can only do so much if the game performance is mediocre. Beat bama and we spark the interest.

[Rhody15]

All momentum / publicity this team had already appears over...

What publicity? Beyond ticket offers in digital media the only other publicity we have had is when Rothstein tweeted from a practice. There wasn't much effort put into marketing the program this year, or even in past years...and when coaches leave and quote the allure of the "brand" that is what they are referring to. We do an awful job at building the brand of Rhody basketball, unless its done by a high profile coach (Harrick or Dan) and the interest attached to them.

I probably should have used “program” instead of “team” when talking About publicity to get my point across.

Two and three years removed from back to back A10 titles and tournament wins and a year removed from a hot end to the season, in addition to an SEC team with name recognition coming to The Ryan Center for the first time ever should have this game a sellout without question.

[Rhodyram]

Alabama is a football school and to the casual fan is not a draw for basketball- they are unranked w/o a nationally known player. Tickets were priced as a premium game which I’m sure discouraged sales- especially any kind of groups. I know very little about marketing/sales but I’m not sure if initially pricing high then discounting tickets leading up to the game is the best way to go about things.

[section(105)]

.......did we sell out Nebraska at home?

[Rhodyram]

.......did we sell out Nebraska at home?

Yup. Nebraska came in ranked. That little number next to a teams name makes a difference and drums up interest. Stupid way of thinking but it’s the way it is.

[Obadiah]

My record keeping shows 16 sellouts in the history of the Ryan Center with another 20 games in the 7,000+ range:

1.		8,121	Pittsburgh	        12/21/02
2.		7,959	Providence College	12/02/17
3.		7,880	Dayton	                02/23/18
4.		7,747	Massachusetts	        03/02/03
5.		7,743	Davidson	        02/09/18
6.		7,707	Massachusetts	        03/07/09
7.		7,678	Providence College	12/05/15
8.		7,657	Providence College	12/06/03
9.		7,657	Providence College	12/04/07
10.		7,657	Dayton	                02/02/08
11.		7,657	Xavier	                02/18/08
12.		7,657	Massachusetts	        02/21/08
13.		7,657	Providence College	11/25/09
14.		7,657	Providence College	12/23/11
15.		7,657	Providence College	12/05/13
16.		7,657	Nebraska	        11/22/14

[Rhodymob05]

Isn’t that USC game you there near 8k?

[RF1]

Isn’t that USC game you there near 8k?

The USC Ryan Center opener on 11/26/2002 was well below a sellout. It had just 5,785.

Source
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... =223300227

[RhodyMadness072]

If anyone needs tickets PM me

[NYGFan_Section208]

Tons of tickets left. Going to have to be a busy week at the ticket office to get into the 6000s.

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

Why are you trying to discourage people from counting dots?
I usually look for one dot...the one between our seats and the season ticket holder guy and his wife that have two on the other side...aka, "the coat seat".

[hrstrat57]

Family 4 pack tix, food and beverage deal just offered on URIMBB social media.

Marketing is working hard on this one!

[LoveThoseRams]

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

Why are you trying to discourage people from counting dots?
I usually look for one dot...the one between our seats and the season ticket holder guy and his wife that have two on the other side...aka, "the coat seat".

Hey, ease up on the coat seats. We have 2 of them Honestly, we have 4 seats and sometimes we can’t get anyone interested in going with us because they are fans of that other team, which shall not be named!

[URI_CellBio14]

.......did we sell out Nebraska at home?

Such a great victory, there was a special energy about that 14-15 squad

[PeteRI]

I don't want to see the weave and a rock fight. Let's light it up and get the score north of the 80's. It's time to see some offense fellas!

[NYGFan_Section208]

I don't want to see the weave and a rock fight. Let's light it up and get the score north of the 80's. It's time to see some offense fellas!

The weave...actually usually ends up generating better shots and cuts down on the standaround show...as much as I hate to say/see it....

[bigappleram]

Family 4 pack tix, food and beverage deal just offered on URIMBB social media.

Marketing is working hard on this one!

Just running ticket promos isn’t marketing. That’s direct response and it’s needed, but so are leveraging other channels. Our fan base and general alumni base has plenty of Gen x and older that aren’t spending their time on Instagram/Facebook. Out of home, tv, radio are still effective. To my knowledge we do little to none of that.

[DeanDome88]

I am glad that they are trying to fill the Ryan Center for this game even by slashing ticket prices. Give the casual fan a good experience and hopefully they come back.

[Billyboy78]

I'd love to see a demographic breakdown age-wise as to who is attending URI basketball games. It does seem that there are a lot of people closer to my age (62) than there are in the younger age groups. Why is that? Where are the 25-45 year olds? I hate to sound morbid, but the people in my age group aren't going to be around forever. Time to start targeting the younger demographic groups in whatever marketing plan they come up with.

[HASwatTeam]

I do just want to point out that as someone who also gets worked up when we don't get a good crowd to support the team, the issue isn't just with us. I drove down to the Maryland game and that arena was half empty (yes it's a huge arena, but things are relative). I don't care if they didn't know URI, UMD was #7 team from the BIG10 playing on a saturday night and they had a terrible showing.

In other words, winning is clearly the biggest draw. Running ticket promos to get people there is at least showing signs of life.

[Billyboy78]

Ticket office is now offering a 2 for 1 for tickets to the Alabama game, plus a free tote bag.

[Billyboy78]

Ticket office is now offering a 2 for 1 for tickets to the Alabama game, plus a free tote bag.

Actually, the deal is, buy a ticket to the Alabama game and get a free ticket to the Nicholls St. game.

[Rhody83]

I counted the dots = 750. I know that isn’t always accurate but what info would you have differently that there are a ton of tickets left?
The dots assume all the students seats are taken.
If the 750 seats left is correct and they get a full student crowd, that would put the crowd at 7100+.

If you see a lot of green dots in the front of the 300 sections and not in the back of the 300 sections, the back ones aren't sold either. If the ones in the front of the section start selling, the ones in the back will become green. So, looking at this game, there aren't a lot of seats in the 300s that are actually sold.

I see that in about 5 of the 300 sections. That should still put the crowd around 6500 if there is 1500 students. The key is do 1500 students show up on a Friday night or does they all leave for the weekend.

Update on projected attendance - 557 greens dots (434 in 300s & 123 in 100s/200s). Approximately 155 seats in the 300s behind seats with green dots. That would put the crowd at 7,000 if there is a full student turnout.

[adam914]

Wonder if there are any plans for recruits to be in town for this one?

[Billyboy78]

Wonder if there are any plans for recruits to be in town for this one?

I'm hoping they save any recruits for the PC game. No atmosphere like that.

[Obadiah]

Rhody83 is right that 7000+ is doable given the students fill their 1500 seat allotment. Higher than that will depend on the number of walk up ticket purchasers and whether Athletics allows students above the allotment if the demand is there.

[section(105)]

.......any ideas on point spread?

[adam914]

.......any ideas on point spread?

Rhody -2 at the moment.

[ElmCityRhody]

I don't want to see the weave and a rock fight. Let's light it up and get the score north of the 80's. It's time to see some offense fellas!

The weave...actually usually ends up generating better shots and cuts down on the standaround show...as much as I hate to say/see it....

I did the weave today at work - ppl just stared at amazement as I pranced around my desk - and wouldn’t you know it, I got my work done early and was out of there by 3:47pm - go figure

[section(105)]

I don't want to see the weave and a rock fight. Let's light it up and get the score north of the 80's. It's time to see some offense fellas!

The weave...actually usually ends up generating better shots and cuts down on the standaround show...as much as I hate to say/see it....

I did the weave today at work - ppl just stared at amazement as I pranced around my desk - and wouldn’t you know it, I got my work done early and was out of there by 3:47pm - go figure

.......nice, did ya hit some threes?

[TruePoint]

Rhody83 is right that 7000+ is doable given the students fill their 1500 seat allotment. Higher than that will depend on the number of walk up ticket purchasers and whether Athletics allows students above the allotment if the demand is there.

If they want to hold back 100 tickets or something I don’t have a problem with that, but otherwise no student should be turned away to the extent they have tickets remaining 30 minutes from tip-off. We don’t get enough walk-up business to justify it and we want students in the building for like 100 different reasons.

[ElmCityRhody]

The weave...actually usually ends up generating better shots and cuts down on the standaround show...as much as I hate to say/see it....

I did the weave today at work - ppl just stared at amazement as I pranced around my desk - and wouldn’t you know it, I got my work done early and was out of there by 3:47pm - go figure

.......nice, did ya hit some threes?

Thing is - I chucked up some threes but every time I did I had some annoying person keep sending popups to
My computer screen - “BRICK”

[Bill Koch]

Alabama preview.

[NYGFan_Section208]

I don't want to see the weave and a rock fight. Let's light it up and get the score north of the 80's. It's time to see some offense fellas!

The weave...actually usually ends up generating better shots and cuts down on the standaround show...as much as I hate to say/see it....

I did the weave today at work - ppl just stared at amazement as I pranced around my desk - and wouldn’t you know it, I got my work done early and was out of there by 3:47pm - go figure

see...if you run it right...it can be pretty effective!

[section(105)]

.......did ya get your email from Jeff Dowtin....?

[gorhody89]

I'd love to see a demographic breakdown age-wise as to who is attending URI basketball games. It does seem that there are a lot of people closer to my age (62) than there are in the younger age groups. Why is that? Where are the 25-45 year olds? I hate to sound morbid, but the people in my age group aren't going to be around forever. Time to start targeting the younger demographic groups in whatever marketing plan they come up with.

Boston...not much opportunity in RI unfortunately

[ramster]

I'd love to see a demographic breakdown age-wise as to who is attending URI basketball games. It does seem that there are a lot of people closer to my age (62) than there are in the younger age groups. Why is that? Where are the 25-45 year olds? I hate to sound morbid, but the people in my age group aren't going to be around forever. Time to start targeting the younger demographic groups in whatever marketing plan they come up with.

Boston...not much opportunity in RI unfortunately

Seems like it’s been an older support group for some time now

[Taylor Swift]

I'd love to see a demographic breakdown age-wise as to who is attending URI basketball games. It does seem that there are a lot of people closer to my age (62) than there are in the younger age groups. Why is that? Where are the 25-45 year olds? I hate to sound morbid, but the people in my age group aren't going to be around forever. Time to start targeting the younger demographic groups in whatever marketing plan they come up with.

Boston...not much opportunity in RI unfortunately

Zero opportunity in RI. Can’t really market to a group that hardly exists around here. I’m right smack dab in the middle of that age demo.

[TruePoint]

I'd love to see a demographic breakdown age-wise as to who is attending URI basketball games. It does seem that there are a lot of people closer to my age (62) than there are in the younger age groups. Why is that? Where are the 25-45 year olds? I hate to sound morbid, but the people in my age group aren't going to be around forever. Time to start targeting the younger demographic groups in whatever marketing plan they come up with.

Boston...not much opportunity in RI unfortunately

This is true for me - I’m in Boston because my job literally doesn’t exist in RI. But there are 25-45 years olds in RI, obviously. I’m in that demo, and I’m a big fan, but I don’t have time to go to as many games as I’d like to and only part of that is being in Boston. I’ve been in Boston for 10 years, and I was at most games up until my first kid was born 4 years ago. Even with one kid, I was at a lot of games. Now with 2 kids, plus increasing responsibility at work, upkeep on my house, etc, etc, etc, my season ticket purchase is functionally a donation. I just don’t have the time, and it likely will only get worse before it gets better. But eventually the 25-45 year olds will age into that older demo, their kids will leave the house, they’ll have disposable income and disposable time, and in 20 years the average age of game attendees will be the same as it is now even when the current attendees have moved on to greener pastures.

[spookydog]

Reminder: Shaidzon opens at 3. See you there before the game.

[RhodyKyle]

.......did ya get your email from Jeff Dowtin....?

Mine came from Fatts. I guess I'll go only because he asked so nicely...(I was going anyway)

[ramster]

Bill Koch
@BillKoch25
Per a #URI source, scouts from the Pelicans, Knicks, Clippers, 76ers, Spurs, Heat, Wizards, Mavericks, Warriors and Celtics (four) have requested credentials for Friday's game against Alabama.

Crimson Tide guards Kira Lewis and John Petty are possible future NBA draft picks

[Rhody83]

Per players’ IG stories a fire alarm cleared their dorm at 5:00 AM this morning
Nice to get wakened that early when you have a game tonight.

[Rhody83]

Good exposure for Rhody with Jeff Goodman covering the game tonight.

[Rhody83]

[TruePoint]

Rothstein if St Joes win at UConn counts, so should Richmond beating an SEC team last night?