Blounge 521 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 12 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said: Well that was on the students being dumb. More leave before the game starts anyway. another crowd of 3,000 or less upcoming this weekend It was one girl being dumb who tried to do a back flip off a pick up truck and hit her head on the pavement. The ambulance came and it was a whole big scene over one isolated incident! oh yeah there was also sigma chi throwing full beer cans at the Greek director for kicking them off campus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blounge 521 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 This is your goal dominik kogok! Keep selling tickets! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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BradTU 18 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 I attended TU from 2009 - 2013. When I arrived, people did not give a shit about Towson athletics. Apathy at its highest. We were terrible at football/basketball. I wanted to get involved as a fan and attend games, but my roommates were die-hard Penn State fans and I couldn't pay them to come to a game. All they wanted to do was drink at the tailgate, then go back to the dorms/apartments and hang out with girls. It's not until T-West came to town and we started winning and garnering some regional/national attention, did people finally say, "Hey, Towson is pretty good at football." Then Grant Enders and Jerrelle Benimon came along. Friends of mine were finally willing to go into the stadium/arena and watch a game. We regularly talked about the team, kept an eye on the score for away games, and talked about upcoming seasons. We started going to lacrosse games as well. It slowly started becoming cool to go to the tailgates and games. Even the girls wanted to go, which was unheard of. Then we had our blunders and couldn't capitalize: Tailgating fiasco Losing to Lehigh in the playoffs in-front of a sold out crowd (the hype for this game was insane btw and wow was it a bummer when we lost) Missing the playoffs with our best team ever in 2012 Getting blown out in the Natty NCAA basketball tourney ban etc Kids want to be "cool" and feel like they are a part of something greater. Going to a boring tailgate to watch a bad product is not "cool." You can do all the marketing, promotions, staff changes, facility upgrades you want, but if you don't win, students will not care about TU sports. Just f****** win. It's that easy. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TigerNation 49 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 45 minutes ago, BradTU said: I attended TU from 2009 - 2013. When I arrived, people did not give a shit about Towson athletics. Apathy at its highest. We were terrible at football/basketball. I wanted to get involved as a fan and attend games, but my roommates were die-hard Penn State fans and I couldn't pay them to come to a game. All they wanted to do was drink at the tailgate, then go back to the dorms/apartments and hang out with girls. It's not until T-West came to town and we started winning and garnering some regional/national attention, did people finally say, "Hey, Towson is pretty good at football." Then Grant Enders and Jerrelle Benimon came along. Friends of mine were finally willing to go into the stadium/arena and watch a game. We regularly talked about the team, kept an eye on the score for away games, and talked about upcoming seasons. We started going to lacrosse games as well. It slowly started becoming cool to go to the tailgates and games. Even the girls wanted to go, which was unheard of. Then we had our blunders and couldn't capitalize: Tailgating fiasco Losing to Lehigh in the playoffs in-front of a sold out crowd (the hype for this game was insane btw and wow was it a bummer when we lost) Missing the playoffs with our best team ever in 2012 Getting blown out in the Natty NCAA basketball tourney ban etc Kids want to be "cool" and feel like they are a part of something greater. Going to a boring tailgate to watch a bad product is not "cool." You can do all the marketing, promotions, staff changes, facility upgrades you want, but if you don't win, students will not care about TU sports. Just f****** win. It's that easy. I attended TU about the same years you did. I was also apart of that marketing team. We definitely had the tools that made it easy to market sports but we also put in work work. We contacted every football alum with letters and calls to assure they attended the Lehigh game. We were miles better than what we have now. We hit endless community events, had a social media plan, and put docs page to use. We had a presence on campus with posters, fliers, and player participation. Sports had a slight increase in attendance before the winning. We had great leaders too, Mike Hollis was an engine. It shows because he’s worked in the NBA with the nets and is now working in the NHL. As soon as he left I started to see marketing decisions that made zero sense. Waddell came and we went into overdrive, he didn’t play around but was great. He once sent an intern home for wearing Terp gear and I loved it. The Waddell & Hollis combo was unmatched. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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TuTigers2012 1,071 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Blounge said: It was one girl being dumb who tried to do a back flip off a pick up truck and hit her head on the pavement. The ambulance came and it was a whole big scene over one isolated incident! oh yeah there was also sigma chi throwing full beer cans at the Greek director for kicking them off campus Ok so it was more one thing.. lol. I meant it was dumb that students stopped caring and coming to protest “rules” that were previously in place. Not much changed just kids shitty attitudes. Also the girl who did the flip had a father in high places. 2 hours ago, BradTU said: I attended TU from 2009 - 2013. When I arrived, people did not give a shit about Towson athletics. Apathy at its highest. We were terrible at football/basketball. I wanted to get involved as a fan and attend games, but my roommates were die-hard Penn State fans and I couldn't pay them to come to a game. All they wanted to do was drink at the tailgate, then go back to the dorms/apartments and hang out with girls. It's not until T-West came to town and we started winning and garnering some regional/national attention, did people finally say, "Hey, Towson is pretty good at football." Then Grant Enders and Jerrelle Benimon came along. Friends of mine were finally willing to go into the stadium/arena and watch a game. We regularly talked about the team, kept an eye on the score for away games, and talked about upcoming seasons. We started going to lacrosse games as well. It slowly started becoming cool to go to the tailgates and games. Even the girls wanted to go, which was unheard of. Then we had our blunders and couldn't capitalize: Tailgating fiasco Losing to Lehigh in the playoffs in-front of a sold out crowd (the hype for this game was insane btw and wow was it a bummer when we lost) Missing the playoffs with our best team ever in 2012 Getting blown out in the Natty NCAA basketball tourney ban etc Kids want to be "cool" and feel like they are a part of something greater. Going to a boring tailgate to watch a bad product is not "cool." You can do all the marketing, promotions, staff changes, facility upgrades you want, but if you don't win, students will not care about TU sports. Just f****** win. It's that easy. Good assessment. The blunder was the season after frisco. Losing the opener to a non scholarship central Connecticut team at home was the start of the free fall to where we are now. Never winning the big game or highly attended game hurts too. Winning helps a decent bit with the students but not a lot on the causal fan side. 1 hour ago, TigerNation said: I attended TU about the same years you did. I was also apart of that marketing team. We definitely had the tools that made it easy to market sports but we also put in work work. We contacted every football alum with letters and calls to assure they attended the Lehigh game. We were miles better than what we have now. We hit endless community events, had a social media plan, and put docs page to use. We had a presence on campus with posters, fliers, and player participation. Sports had a slight increase in attendance before the winning. We had great leaders too, Mike Hollis was an engine. It shows because he’s worked in the NBA with the nets and is now working in the NHL. As soon as he left I started to see marketing decisions that made zero sense. Waddell came and we went into overdrive, he didn’t play around but was great. He once sent an intern home for wearing Terp gear and I loved it. The Waddell & Hollis combo was unmatched. Waddell was the man. Crazy and spent money like a drunken sailor but he wanted something more for Towson. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blounge 521 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 Back in my day this is what a towson tailgate looked like. You and your new 18 year old freshman buddies would show up to the parking lot with whatever beer/liquor you had and a DJ was there providing the beats to jump up and down too. That was all we needed to have fun and look there were hundreds of us there having a great time! Too bad this was deemed so unacceptable we can’t allow this type of fun anymore 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TuTigers2012 1,071 Report post Posted September 20, 2023 13 minutes ago, Blounge said: Back in my day this is what a towson tailgate looked like. You and your new 18 year old freshman buddies would show up to the parking lot with whatever beer/liquor you had and a DJ was there providing the beats to jump up and down too. That was all we needed to have fun and look there were hundreds of us there having a great time! Too bad this was deemed so unacceptable we can’t allow this type of fun anymore If that’s not allowed anymore 🤷♂️. The point of these should be for a game. Not for some d frat bros to get wasted and blast music. It isn’t some club party and then go home. There are plenty lot of other places to do that. If they want to drink some beers, grill some food, hang out and then GO TO THE GAME fine, but to act rowdy and get drunk outside on university property, I wonder why Towson frowned upon this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blounge 521 Report post Posted September 21, 2023 2 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said: I wonder why Towson frowned upon this. They should have encouraged it! This was the only time as (Brad pointed out) that people were excited to get out to Unitas EVER towson should have doubled down on athletics around 2013 when T-west and Bennimon were giving us the best years of our lives. the new union and campus improvements are beautiful, enrollment is up to the highest level ever, Wall Street Journal voted us the #1 university in Maryland, but somehow we can’t get any folks to care about the football game 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
