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DeepGreen Grand Master

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That promo must have taken some top level marketing guru months to come up with. Wow! (insert sarcasm)

Sure is a nice football schedule, and six home games. Now someone tell me CUSA is right up there with the AAC in football.

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untjim1995 Grand Master

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Tulsa has a great home schedule, even if the OU game will be 3/4 Sooner fans. And their hardest away game in OOC is at Colorado State. IF they could somehow upset OU at home, the rest of the schedule is very winnable--I realize they are bad right now, but that is a dream schedule for a non-AQ team.

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My 3L year of law school, OU came to Skelly for the first time since 1987. Before that, it had been since the 40s that OU had gone to Tulsa.

What happened after Switzer was run off in 1989 is that subsequent coaches kind of began to ignore Tulsa area recruits. So, during the time, you had the Lockett brothers go on to star at K-State and former Sooner Ed McQuarters' son, R.W., go on to star at Oklahoma State.

Stoops had fences to mend with Tulsa area prep coaches. And, he did so in pretty short order. This will be OU's third time to go to Tulsa since Stoops took over.

It's really no different, though, than Texas, A&M, and Tech going in-state to places like UTEP and SMU. It's especially smart for Tech because Lubbock is a long drive for recruits to make an unofficial visit.

In addition to Texas A&M and Tech playing at SMU recently, if I recall correctly, Texas played road games at UTEP and Houston. Obviously, preps are already going to know about A&M and UT. But, hitting the Houston area is still a pretty good call, I think.

This is where, I think, we all hope we can start to draw teams who want presence with DFW area recruits. UTSA has done a good job of getting schools scheduled for home games - Oklahoma State, Arizona, Arizona State, and Kansas State all on their schedule in the future. Gives Austin-San Antonio area recruits a chance to check out those schools close to home.

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The only thing that surprises me about TU's schedule is the game against FAU. They've already got road games to Orlando and Phildelphia, at UCF and Temple. FAU roadie is another long trip for them. Surprised they didn't throw in an FCS foe there on that date, as they have done in past seasons.

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How in the living mother of God did Tulsa get OU to travel to them? Hopefully in the near future we could get Baylor or Tech to come to Apogee.

Looks like a 2 for 1. We can get pretty much anybody to come in with a 2 for 1, but we'd rather take the money. Last 2 for 1 we had was K-State.

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My 3L year of law school, OU came to Skelly for the first time since 1987. Before that, it had been since the 40s that OU had gone to Tulsa.

What happened after Switzer was run off in 1989 is that subsequent coaches kind of began to ignore Tulsa area recruits. So, during the time, you had the Lockett brothers go on to star at K-State and former Sooner Ed McQuarters' son, R.W., go on to star at Oklahoma State.

Stoops had fences to mend with Tulsa area prep coaches. And, he did so in pretty short order. This will be OU's third time to go to Tulsa since Stoops took over.

It's really no different, though, than Texas, A&M, and Tech going in-state to places like UTEP and SMU. It's especially smart for Tech because Lubbock is a long drive for recruits to make an unofficial visit.

In addition to Texas A&M and Tech playing at SMU recently, if I recall correctly, Texas played road games at UTEP and Houston. Obviously, preps are already going to know about A&M and UT. But, hitting the Houston area is still a pretty good call, I think.

This is where, I think, we all hope we can start to draw teams who want presence with DFW area recruits. UTSA has done a good job of getting schools scheduled for home games - Oklahoma State, Arizona, Arizona State, and Kansas State all on their schedule in the future. Gives Austin-San Antonio area recruits a chance to check out those schools close to home.

So you're a lawyer.. It all makes sense now.
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UNT90 Newbie

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My 3L year of law school, OU came to Skelly for the first time since 1987. Before that, it had been since the 40s that OU had gone to Tulsa.

What happened after Switzer was run off in 1989 is that subsequent coaches kind of began to ignore Tulsa area recruits. So, during the time, you had the Lockett brothers go on to star at K-State and former Sooner Ed McQuarters' son, R.W., go on to star at Oklahoma State.

Stoops had fences to mend with Tulsa area prep coaches. And, he did so in pretty short order. This will be OU's third time to go to Tulsa since Stoops took over.

It's really no different, though, than Texas, A&M, and Tech going in-state to places like UTEP and SMU. It's especially smart for Tech because Lubbock is a long drive for recruits to make an unofficial visit.

In addition to Texas A&M and Tech playing at SMU recently, if I recall correctly, Texas played road games at UTEP and Houston. Obviously, preps are already going to know about A&M and UT. But, hitting the Houston area is still a pretty good call, I think.

This is where, I think, we all hope we can start to draw teams who want presence with DFW area recruits. UTSA has done a good job of getting schools scheduled for home games - Oklahoma State, Arizona, Arizona State, and Kansas State all on their schedule in the future. Gives Austin-San Antonio area recruits a chance to check out those schools close to home.

Do you seriously think the people currently scheduling games for UNT have demonstrated anything that would lead you to believe that they could pull off scheduling anything close to what you are suggesting?

Really?

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TheWestie Rookie

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Having D-Mac deliver your season tickets to your house would be about 10,000,000,000,000,000x more awesome than the Publisher's Clearing House crew with a giant check. I know grow-ass men that would probably pee their pants with happiness.

jdennis82 Community Regular

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I think the best part of this promotion is that it would be a huge "recruiting" tool for those of us who are getting season tickets with or without promotion but know NT alums who have casual interest but have yet to go "all in" in this area.

How great would it be to say to your golf buddy as he slices one into the trees "I know a way you could win a free lesson from the NT golf coach..."?

Or, to that coworker planning her kid's birthday party "I know a way you can have a life-sized Eugene Levy Naked Scrappy as the pinata at Jimmy's party..."?

emmitt01 Grand Master

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It wouldn't hurt. But it is more the type of promotion you do when you had Tulsa's season. Our promo materials have focused on the bowl win, as they should.

When you have a three year old stadium that you have yet to sell out and a dispassionate alumni base you do EVERY type of promotion.

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When you have a three year old stadium that you have yet to sell out and a dispassionate alumni base you do EVERY type of promotion.

I just can't agree with that Emmitt. If we had unlimited funds then sure go with the shotgun approach. We don't have unlimited funds. A cost benefit analysis must take place. I personally feel that money should first and foremost be spent on quality coaches, recruiting, game day atmosphere and promotions. In that order. We can certainly do more with regards to promotions but I think there should be more of a grass roots campaign. We also have to get the city painted Green. Signs on street lights and so on. It borders on strange how a city with two universities does not really feel like a college town, showing so little pride.

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smoothfresh Newbie

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Coach Mac and some players deliver tickets to some local season ticket purchasers = Free

Sideline passes for pregame = Free

You pick a player for a meet and greet = Free

Scrappy to your kids B-Day = very little cost

I could go on...

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The Fake Lonnie Finch Newbie

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I kind of agree with smoothfresh here. When you look at some of the things they are doing, the cost is pretty low...in some case, probably nothing.

Free lesson with the golf coach, for example. Isn't the golf coach pretty much teaching golf all day anyway? For the sake of the department, you ask him or her to host an alumni/season ticket holder (stake-holder, payor of salaries in some respects) for an hour? Is stuff that that so difficult a hook-up really?

Lunch with the AD? Doesn't the AD pretty much have lunch every day? What additional is really being asked? Have a sandwich with a season ticket holder instead of one of the coaches one day? One day?

It looks to me that what TU is doing is low-hanging fruit type of marketing here. But...why not? If all the fruit on the tree is good, get it from all over.

And, here's the thing: I haven't bought a ticket to a TU sporting event from TU since 2009. Yet, they still drip e-mail me at least once a month with ticket deals. What is the cost of a drip e-mail marketing campaign? Pretty much next to nothing these days.

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When you have a three year old stadium that you have yet to sell out and a dispassionate alumni base you do EVERY type of promotion.

Bingo. And, Tulsa is kind of in the same boat. They've had several winning seasons over the past decade, have renovated Skelly Stadium, but still have a difficult time filing it up...mainly given that OU, Oklahoma State, and Arkansas have many alumni in Tulsa and all are within hella easy driving distance from Tulsa.

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Bingo. And, Tulsa is kind of in the same boat. They've had several winning seasons over the past decade, have renovated Skelly Stadium, but still have a difficult time filing it up...mainly given that OU, Oklahoma State, and Arkansas have many alumni is Tulsa and all are within hella easy driving distance from Tulsa.

Too bad they are leaving CUSA. That was a fun little trip. Nice town, great small college stadium, and a nice campus.

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Coach Mac and some players deliver tickets to some local season ticket purchasers = Free

Sideline passes for pregame = Free

You pick a player for a meet and greet = Free

Scrappy to your kids B-Day = very little cost

I could go on...

yep, sideline passes and having my tix delivered to me by Coach is perfect and if that isn't in place already then we need to get on the phone. Those are priceless marketing tools that need to happen right now.
jdennis82 Community Regular

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I've been on this idea for a while but going after the youth football players is effectively growing a sales army for minimal cost.

Example: The Denton Parks & Rec spring flag football season just concluded, why not have those players enjoy a post-season celebratory tour of the Athletic Center and Apogee before/during/after the spring game. What better time to pitch tickets than when parents are watching their kids having a wide-eyed blast?

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