Any sort of Fan Fest for ‘22? | Syracusefan.com

Any sort of Fan Fest for ‘22?

does seem late for them to announce something like this. last year they did it about 3 weeks out.

2019 they announced it Aug 1st and it was for a home game in Sept.
2018 they announced about 3 weeks out
 
chugg21 said:
They really do a great job of building excitement for the season for the casual fan...
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Im impressed with the AD’s fundraising abilities and Dino’s ability to be a CEO and face of the program.

The rest im meh about for both. Its definitely a prove it year on multiple levels for me. Thats just my opinion.
 
UnknownOrange said:
I don't knock the Athletic Department for a lot, but they are SO bad at this stuff.

A fan fest is an absolute no brainer. It needs to be reimagined a little bit, but good lord it's such an easy win for PR
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Just the sort of stuff that makes you shake your head when every major sport is down and fan goodwill is nearing “E”
 
GoSU96 said:
I don’t have a problem this year. Louisville is the bowl and with the new offensive staff I have no problem keeping it under wraps and not wasting time with a vanilla workout
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Easy for you to say, you've been a diehard for how many years? These types of events are why my older son is an avid fan. The lack of effort on these events since Gross/Gopherman left have my younger son completely uninterested. Why does he want to watch a losing program that offers nothing outside of the bad football? At least my older son went to BBQs, got to put on the equipment, got autographs from the players, got to run around on the fields, bouncy-houses in the quad(naybe they still have these?), live music, etc.
 
NineOneSeven said:
Yeah as we’ve said a million times, these things aren’t for people like us that spend far too much time talking about Orange sports with strangers online for literally hours on end.
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Not to mention small/regional businesses at times attend these events. Missed NIL opportunities/contributive sources.
 
Trueblue25 said:
Im impressed with the AD’s fundraising abilities and Dino’s ability to be a CEO and face of the program.

The rest im meh about for both. Its definitely a prove it year on multiple levels for me. Thats just my opinion.
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We've set the bar so low for Dino that it's kind of sad. We're still supporting for the most part despite 1 season at .500 or better in 6 years because he's nice and has made a couple viral locker room speeches.
 
Pyle said:
Easy for you to say, you've been a diehard for how many years? These types of events are why my older son is an avid fan. The lack of effort on these events since Gross/Gopherman left have my younger son completely uninterested. Why does he want to watch a losing program that offers nothing outside of the bad football? At least my older son went to BBQs, got to put on the equipment, got autographs from the players, got to run around on the fields, bouncy-houses in the quad(naybe they still have these?), live music, etc.
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My 2 have 0 interest in the football program unless I'm making them look at something or go to a game. They've been to the Dome, they've been to Michigan and they've been to A&M and one of those experiences is drastically different then the others and I guess helped lead to them not caring about the program.
 
I think people over look how much goes into these events to put on.. I know of several colleges really struggling to get events done because almost all of these type events require free volunteers to do most of the heavy lifting. The school cant even get people to help do things on game days and getting probably 50 people in the summer to do a fan fest is also probably pretty hard as well. when you add on that this is the time of year many employees are on vacation and how many have to be around for 2-3 days of kids coming in and classes starting its not really a great time to do extra events that bring in no money, are mostly poorly attended anyway and cost a good chunk of money
 
upperdeck said:
I think people over look how much goes into these events to put on.. I know of several colleges really struggling to get events done because almost all of these type events require free volunteers to do most of the heavy lifting. The school cant even get people to help do things on game days and getting probably 50 people in the summer to do a fan fest is also probably pretty hard as well. when you add on that this is the time of year many employees are on vacation and how many have to be around for 2-3 days of kids coming in and classes starting its not really a great time to do extra events that bring in no money, are mostly poorly attended anyway and cost a good chunk of money
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Spend money to make money. They need events like these to generate hype and excitement for a program//University athletic program thats underperformed to ours and their own standards for years now.

There’s plenty if campus organizations/sources of volunteer labor that’d help run these events. Doesn’t have to be finding workers off the street.
 
Trueblue25 said:
Spend money to make money. They need events like these to generate hype and excitement for a program//University athletic program thats underperformed to ours and their own standards for years now.

There’s plenty if campus organizations/sources of volunteer labor that’d help run these events. Doesn’t have to be finding workers off the street.
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you would think.. But I know we cant even find people to do any sporting events that give you free access to games, ushers/food/ticket takers, we cant get people to help with graduation/commencements and move in days either.. I would think SU is having the same issues. And even with that they would still need to have a bunch of athletic staff on hand for the event. Some of the events are struggling because they cant get catering done because of lack of food/staff for events.

Any while we think of the good will I dont think any amount of spending for these things generates any real money for the school . Say you get 1000 people for an event like this. how many of those become fans wouldnt have been and how many stop being fans because we dont have one.. Even if kids love it do we really think it makes them a fan for life and how many of the 200 that show up does that happen for.

how many are original eyeballs vs the same set of people year after year. When we were good i couldnt drag people to go to these things with me.

An event of this size is gonna cost easily say 1-200K. You really think it generates that kind of money on investment? They need sponsers and thats not easy to find these days either.
 
upperdeck said:
you would think.. But I know we cant even find people to do any sporting events that give you free access to games, ushers/food/ticket takers, we cant get people to help with graduation/commencements and move in days either.. I would think SU is having the same issues. And even with that they would still need to have a bunch of athletic staff on hand for the event. Some of the events are struggling because they cant get catering done because of lack of food/staff for events.

Any while we think of the good will I dont think any amount of spending for these things generates any real money for the school . Say you get 1000 people for an event like this. how many of those become fans wouldnt have been and how many stop being fans because we dont have one.. Even if kids love it do we really think it makes them a fan for life and how many of the 200 that show up does that happen for.

how many are original eyeballs vs the same set of people year after year. When we were good i couldnt drag people to go to these things with me.

An event of this size is gonna cost easily say 1-200K. You really think it generates that kind of money on investment? They need sponsers and thats not easy to find these days either.
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Of the 1000 people who show up, 975 are already season ticket holders.

And the other 25 aren't going to be dissuaded from buying tickets because their kids couldn't meet Otto or go on a bouncy ride.
 
OrangeXtreme said:
Of the 1000 people who show up, 975 are already season ticket holders.

And the other 25 aren't going to be dissuaded from buying tickets because their kids couldn't meet Otto or go on a bouncy ride.
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yea. pretty much what i think. its also a distraction from a team/coach that really wants to perform and needs to.
 
Like going to your kids school play rehearsal...the real thing Sept 3, 17 days.
 
OrangeXtreme said:
Of the 1000 people who show up, 975 are already season ticket holders.

And the other 25 aren't going to be dissuaded from buying tickets because their kids couldn't meet Otto or go on a bouncy ride.
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My oldest son, is already planning how he is going to make it back from Canisius each weekend there is a home game. He hasn't even moved into his dorm and he's thinking about how to get to SU football games. My youngest son(14) didn't attend a single game last year and has not shown much interest this year despite playing JV. The program already lost him at this point. Given the amount of time and money I've invested as they were growing up, that makes me sad. I doubt I'm alone. And they didn't just lose 1 fan, they lost his branch of the family tree, most likely forever. Short-term vs long-term investments.
 
upperdeck said:
I think people over look how much goes into these events to put on.. I know of several colleges really struggling to get events done because almost all of these type events require free volunteers to do most of the heavy lifting. The school cant even get people to help do things on game days and getting probably 50 people in the summer to do a fan fest is also probably pretty hard as well. when you add on that this is the time of year many employees are on vacation and how many have to be around for 2-3 days of kids coming in and classes starting its not really a great time to do extra events that bring in no money, are mostly poorly attended anyway and cost a good chunk of money
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Serious question.
I assume it's also hard at every other school that does a fan fest type of thing.
Why is it so hard for Syracuse that they just don't do it.
Need volunteers, here's a crazy thought. Free tickets to all volunteers who work the fan fest. Hell...we need butts in seats if for no other reason than optics. Give volunteers tickets to every home game.
How come we manage to put on a midnight madness event every year? I know it's been scaled back, but the athletic department still puts one on.
 
Get a sponsor and use the event as NIL and pay athletes from sports other than football. You would get all kinds of help. Get creative. Give volunteers a $20 food voucher at a game. There’s a lot of ways to get help. I would even drive two hours to help at the event. I would bet the coaches don’t want to waste a day for this event, but who is in charge?
 
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