The number of donors can be meaningless. It is dollars donated. Who cares how many donors you have when you gave a Cody Campbell or David Booth.
At UH, the number of donors matters and is meaningful. There is not enough of them.
Accurate.
There are so many alumni I know that graduated between 2016-2021 that show up for Basketballl, but absolutely do not care for the football team…their excuse? One wins, the other one doesn’t 
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Those are the groups that absolutely need some reaching out to, have to figure out what else can be done to get them back besides winning and/or scarcity of tickets.
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Not necessarily. Members of these ticket groups don’t individually pay in for donations. If you can move some of those non-paying ticket holders into paying CP membership, you’re making net gains on both fronts.
Granted, some of these ticket groups are businesses that give tickets away, but I’m certain that there’s a fair number that are saving money by piggybacking off of a paying CP member.
Well, I know my group for basketball, everyone pays me the total of ticket price plus the per ticket CP donation, which I pay the school. I assume most groups do the same. I don’t know why anyone would pay the donation portion for their group and only get reimbursed for the ticket portion.
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Really they need to make the cp total all money including what we pay for the add on for tickets vs members. Just find out the total money which is all that matters
Who cares how many members . What money they bring in with tic add ins etc that counts.
In the end we all agree to the total price so let’s go with that
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You dont get anything with the donation, no good gameday, game, product, or anything extra. So it becomes more of a what are you doing for me type of situation. We can complain about it being for the love of the school and program but money is hard to make. That simple. People want to spend on things that are worth it. Its not worth it right now
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The only Cougar Pride benefit that most people think about is your parking location. A bigger donation gets you closer to the stadium. That is a tangible benefit. Cougar Pride needs more tangible benefits.
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It used to be someone knowing a young alumni within 5 years of graduation since it was a discount and also 4x multiplier in CP points.
Everyone hopped on that person’s account.
Then once the 5 years was up, then find someone else.
Just adding onto the tangible benefits aspect, this year I was a manageable, but decent chunk of change away from the next level up and I have no interest in parking in the stadium garage… the only benefit other than that was moving up the pecking order for NCAA tournament tickets but I don’t know if that’s necessarily worth it.
Exactly. I no interest standing on the sidelines, going to practices or traveling with the team. That will appeal to some, but not the masses.
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Even in those cases, I think people were still paying the full amount of ticket plus donation to whoever was the lead of that group. I’d bet that most of them were also Young Alumni in any of those groups, just based on the people I sat around.
I didn’t think of it as a discount, really it’s just there’s some small sections geared to young alumni that are a lower price, though when the 5 years are up, I don’t know if they kick you out of the section or raise the price. I know my section changed during the 5 years because they put in actual seats instead of bleachers during that period, which took away a few seats too. I think my section just was no longer a young alumni section after that but I don’t remember. I gave up those seats sometimes around 2020, I forget if it was before or after the pandemic year.
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Harder to leave if everyone stays til the end of the game, easier walk to the stadium, and as long as you’re not on the roof then your car is a lot cooler. But sure I can see why that crunch to leave or not being as convenient to a tailgate group would make the garage unappealing.
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Main reason for me was I tailgate in the Blue Lot, but I used to park in the garage for basketball and it was a total pain in the rear to get in and out. Unless it’s raining, I love my walk to the games from the blue lot in the winter.
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This came out days before Pez was canned. Crazy we lost donors this year.
“Let’s make it fun to come to Football games”
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I think you’re getting too hung up on the ticket price being the extent of the donation.
Most CP members donate more than just a portion of their season ticket price, so separating those ticket pools a little bit will increase the total donations. And if they would offer something up to encourage people to increase their year-over-year donations, they could magnify that effect.
But really, I don’t really know how many people fit into this “ticket group” category. It may not even be worth chasing down. Our football season ticket sales tell me that the CP numbers are just tracking interest in football.
And I think there’s some NIL and transfer fatigue in play. One of the things that leads people to donate is the pull of giving back and actually helping student athletes representing our school.
We’re kind of moving to a model where that connection isn’t as strong because there’s so much roster movement and because these guys are making more money as students than the people being asked to donate. It just doesn’t feel good.
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Is there a law against the 50/50 giveaways from Universities? Similar to the Astros? I’m not at a computer so I can’t really find it right now.
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I know some of yall have mentioned this so I wanted to drill down on it. Besides parking passes and post season ticket access the only benefits are:
All-American Club $1250 - Invite to the Athletics Kickoff Event that was Sunday, I go every year and would recommend pushing giving more to attend and 10% off in the in stadium team store… I have never bought merch at a game, so I don’t even know how to use it.
Coach’s Club $3000 - Invite to Cougar Pride Day what ever that is.
The next non-parking benefit is an invitation to the Gold Medal Social Event which requires a $17,500 donation and nothing else until $30,000 when they give you a bunch of stuff.
A fan with 2 club seats in both sports is a donor of $7600, so they get 1 event more then me in my blue collar seats.
Outside of the sports specific groups,I feel like once they started associating Cougar Pride level strictly with ticket levels they stopped incentivizing additional giving… there should always be an attractive benefit $500 or $1000 away.
Don’t get me started on Linkcoogs I joined and send them $35 a month and as far as I can tell they offer nothing in return.
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Why do you think Pez got fired
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