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Athletic Department Ideas/Suggestions

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16 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

I'm not going to get into it with our resident sports management professor, but college is expensive and the athletics fees suck. But 2006, your employer nickle and dimes its students for almost everything (as does every other college), and there are some fee's for services that other students don't use buy are stuck paying.

Fees per year of similar and conference schools:

Towson $998 in state $956 out of state (2019)

University of Maryland $812 (2018)

William & Mary $1,980 per year (2018)

James Madison $2,058 (2019)

VCU $828 (2018 not sure if per semester or yearly)

College of Charleston $1,236 (2016)

UNCW $750 (2017)

George Mason $1,752 (2019; other items included, not solely athletics)

UMBC $1,074 (2017)

Univ of Albany $582 (2017)

Univ of New Hampshire $1,075 (2019)

Stony Brook $572 (2019)

We also have construction fees @ $1200 or so, and every other school does too. The point wasn’t to complain about the fees, that’s just what colleges charge to register for classes. Rather, it’s the idea that if more students knew just how much athletics and construction was costing them maybe they would be more inclined to go to games. We’ve legit tried just about every strategy to get people to games over the years and it hasn’t worked maybe straight up telling them you are being charged X per year for athletics and Y for construction (SECU is like on a $56 million bond that will get paid off by the students over the next 25’years) may as well go.

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The bottom line is either you care about sports and want to go.....or you don't.  Other than giving away free stuff, which will get kids to come until they get the free stuff and then leave, there is nothing that is going to change the situation. Planning meetings, coming up with new ideas (which are really old ideas in new wrapping) and pretending we are somebody we are not are things that keep administrators busy as well as their salaries in a category that makes no sense. 

Maryland, with all of the money thrown at athletics, is still the same school it was in Lefty Driesell's day. With rare exception (an occasional decent football year) it is still a basketball school that has no ability to become a football power. Duke...the same way. 

Towson is a school, despite the demographic changes is till of the mindset of a commuter school. Sports just does not matter at Towson. THEY JUST DON'T! All of the excuses, fees, kids away during the winter break, lack of funding are all easy to point out. But, if the students cared at all, they would come....and it is their school. Not the coach's school. Not the AD's school. It is the kids school and they are telling you they barely care. 

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16 hours ago, Tgr4life said:

The bottom line is either you care about sports and want to go.....or you don't.  Other than giving away free stuff, which will get kids to come until they get the free stuff and then leave, there is nothing that is going to change the situation. Planning meetings, coming up with new ideas (which are really old ideas in new wrapping) and pretending we are somebody we are not are things that keep administrators busy as well as their salaries in a category that makes no sense. 

Maryland, with all of the money thrown at athletics, is still the same school it was in Lefty Driesell's day. With rare exception (an occasional decent football year) it is still a basketball school that has no ability to become a football power. Duke...the same way. 

Towson is a school, despite the demographic changes is till of the mindset of a commuter school. Sports just does not matter at Towson. THEY JUST DON'T! All of the excuses, fees, kids away during the winter break, lack of funding are all easy to point out. But, if the students cared at all, they would come....and it is their school. Not the coach's school. Not the AD's school. It is the kids school and they are telling you they barely care. 

this board and thread are not meant for such a mindset...we need to dream and spend big and then one day we will be just like Alabama 

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Eh, The crowd wasn't to bad. Students again, pretty lame. But it was raining and cold out, right before finals.

On a positive note, someone did call and thank me for my donation to the university and to athletics the other day. Kudos to that!

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1 minute ago, mat1992 said:

 

Is Towson Horse on the payroll?  If not he should be as he has done more promotion than anyone in the athletic department.  Although he could of kept this tweet to himself as it basically says "Our attendance is bad but 38% better than last year!"

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1 hour ago, Blazer49 said:

Is Towson Horse on the payroll?  If not he should be as he has done more promotion than anyone in the athletic department.  Although he could of kept this tweet to himself as it basically says "Our attendance is bad but 38% better than last year!"

I actually have finance class with him. Pretty sure he's my year (2016) 

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LOL. Does a great job on twitter, just never showed at games himself.

The teams we played and dates have something to do with attendance. 2 Sunday NFL days (one being the last day of Thanksgiving Break), a Friday night game, and then a Thursday first conference game during winter break.

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