A mini plan might be a good idea. I could see pairing Tech with games that may not sell much. Mainly you can then report higher ticket sales/attendance for the other 2 games. Make the Tech game only available as the mini or regular season tickets.
I like the idea of SFA, Tech and WVU (or swap AZ) as Tech would be the main draw and the other two supporting acts, so to speak.
Another more risky option would be a 3 game Texas Plan - SFA, Tech, TCU. The problem there is that if TCU is just average, this works great. But, if TCU is doing good, you wasted what would be a big selling game and let Tech fans make all the money on resale.
They wouldn’t sell us gas after we beat them in Fayetteville, but had no problem after beating them in Little Rock. I don’t know how they would act if they won in Fayetteville.
The problem with that is it would guarantee low attendance at the less desirable games since the TT fans would have a hard time unloading them, but our ticket office could probably sell more. I am really more interested in 1000 butts in the seats than 2000 bought tickets in a drawer. Higher attendance is more fun.
Tech might buy 5000 miniplans for them to see the Tech game.
With a miniplan, that would also count as tickets sold for SFA and WVU helping published averages for perception.
The SFA game is not going to sell many tickets in any situation. Plus if Tech fans unload them for $10 apiece online, that will likely get more people there than the ticket office selling them for $40 or whatever. Same would apply to WVU if they were the third game in the miniplan. I have not seen big crowds for WVU at any game in this state.
Those other two games are not going to lose sales because of Tech buying up miniplans. It is easy to post unused tickets online for games today.
Also that extra 1000 not being there would mean that Tech sold out the stadium. I don’t think that likely either.
Here’s a viewpoint from some newbie Coogs (my sister and her Aggie husband) that used my tix last season…
They went to UNLV… Stadium was dead from getting trounced… I thought they’d never use my tix again…
Then they went again and my sister kept saying “The stadium was alive!” after the 3rd game against Rice and she started rooting for Coog and got a UH cornhole set for her birthday…
Moral of the story… Just Win Baby!!!
It didn’t matter that there was probably only 30k at the Rice game… we kicked the crap out of them and everybody had a good time…
Yeah just about every section on the sideline behind BYU’s bench were BYU fans. There are very few teams that we play home games against that can move the needle that much and Tech ain’t one so I don’t get the panic to make them buy seats for multiple games because when it comes down to it most of the time oposing fans buy tickets from UH season ticket holders and you see the oposing fans with better seats than a lot of UH season ticket holders who are actually at the game.
and got a UH cornhole set for her birthday…