The House of Blue

5368ppi suggested on another thread to have the spring game cost $10 to get in, but have that be part of a raffle for a custom UK van or truck. The catch being that you have to be present at the game to win the prize. It was a thread about the UofL spring game, so I thought this would be better if posted here.

I think the spring game should always be free to get in, and I generally think raffles are pretty weak, but I actually like that part of 5368ppi's idea. If the raffle prize is worth $60,000 that goes from being cheesy to pimp. So instead of charging people $10 to get in they could give people the option to buy raffle tickets as soon as they come in the gate. A $10 raffle would only need to sell 6k tickets to cover a $60k custom UK vehicle, with any profit going to the K-Fund. Some people would buy 5 or 10 raffle tickets at at time. They could actually raffle off something sweet at every home game. I think they'd also need to have everybody with a raffle ticket ending in (pick a number) win a UK T-shirt or something. They could probably raise a decent amount of money doing something like that.

Another option for the regular season games is to give a free raffle ticket at every home game to each K-Fund season ticket holder as part of their K-Fund donation (the larger donations get more than one free raffle ticket). This would help people absorb some of the blow in paying that K-Fund donation. They might even be able to raise the K-Fund donation amounts with something like that attached to it. The catch of course is that they will have to be present at the game to exchange the ticket for the free raffle ticket, and present to win the prize.

The Calipari Edition Rousch Mustang would be a perfect raffle item ..........

How many are you predicting will be there Mr. FootballFan1st? What kind of bogus name is that for a cards fan anyway?

I would really be shocked if the attendance is over 20K. Most people are signing up for the free 8 tix each, but more than likely not everyone will use what they requested. Regardless, will be a much better turnout than we have had in the past. Just want to temper expectations that are predicting 40K+.

Attendance will be greatly affected by the weather. If it's as cold and miserable as last year, 10,000 would be great.

Does every person who purchases a season ticket make it to the game each week? Things come up and the weather will play a key role as always but the UK marketing department will be able to say they handed out 30,000 tickets whether that's actual butts in the stands or not. As far as the bogus name, I prefer football to any other sport.

He and minter Are the two biggest uofl trolls on here. Ignore button works wonders for ding a lings like this.

I'm just curious, but do you work for ticketmaster or the UK ticket office? I ask this because I wonder how you would know that "most" people are signing up for te maximum ticket #? Just seems that it would be pretty hard to know that many people without the inside info. Example, we only took 3. I agree that weather will be the big factor.

oh, I missed the part about the whole PR stunt part. There IS NO BIGGER PR STUNT than having a promotion of $1 beer at your Spring Game, which is exactly what UL is doing. SELL THAT

While the tickets were technically "free," there was a $1.25 fee for each ticket ordered. Therefore, 8 tickets would cost $10. While that isn't much, I don't think most people are just willing to give away $5 to $10 for the heck of it. If it is a nice weather day I would expect at least 35,000. If UK does a great marketing job to make it a "fun" day, with good weather, I could see 50,000 show up.

I think UK fans have a great thirst to have a good football program and be relevant in the SEC. If the word is spread to make it be known how important it is to attend the spring game for recruiting purposes, I believe the fans will happily respond in huge numbers. At least I hope so.

IMO, absent a win over a major football powerhouse, the spring game and national signing day are the 2 most important days in the year for a college football team trying to become relevant, to climb the ladder, or however you want to say it. I hope this importance is made known to the fans. GO CATS!!!

What's there to be nervious about, attendance at a spring game? I think UK will most likely have 25,000+ fans if it's a good day. UofL will probably have close to the same. I think it's great that there's so much excitement around both programs.

Honestly, 25k is on par with the number of fans that would be in PJ by the middle of the second quarter in any game they play. You know it's true.