![]() ![]() Your teams aren't winning because you haven't recruited the best talent. I suppose that's sauce for both goose and gander. Beamer Way might go back to being the street that it always was instead of tearing down a statue in an act of disgrace and shame like your friend Joe Paterno. Eventually the shine will come off the Beamer reputation. What they cannot find is the spare cash to cough up a consistent ticket purchase and they certainly cannot afford to purchase favors from the Hokie Club. They pay tuition, board, rent, books, etc. They have lots of debts, bills, and house payments. These reactions should not be happening, not in a healthy program. And the "Leaving at Halftime" show was a mass event last season for home games. Then I received a shock, "Who cares? We aren't going to win much anyway." Did you hear that one? "WHO CARES.?" was the question. "Oh, well - figured we'd lose." was one quote. Later that evening at the fancy chef Food Tasting at Lavery Hall, the students working the event just shrugged. There wasn't even a campus promotional to highlight the event. I was there, most folks were there for the overpriced food, and the "neatness" of the experience, but by the half they were leaving. ![]() The weather was bad, yes, but the expected big crowd for Family weekend at Lane Stadium for the Jumbo Tron presentation of the game was pretty tiny. The campus was quiet for the ECU away game. Not only are you losing the general student enthusiasm that comes with something fun to do on a Saturday in the Fall you are losing their specific emotional investment in the team. My guess is the Tertiary markets and the "Ticket Market" along Washington Street are going to be rich with seat choices, and poor gruel for the "marketeers". This season's sell out was a phantom of the economy of the Ohio State Secondary market prices for a single ticket exceeding the price of a season package. I sat in Section 35 there were at least 10 seat spots that remained empty the entire season around me. Hundreds of unsold seats were being offered by the ticket office on a game by game ticket sale model. Last year there was a significant fall off in season ticket purchases. We have steadily decreased in both win totals and play quality. Since the 2011 high water mark of the Sugar Bowl, this program has been on a steady decline. Here is how you are rapidly ruining things: Why am I telling you this? Because I actually really do want to protect all of the good things that you have done, and all of your great accomplishments, that's why. I mean that you need to look deep into your soul, write a letter of apology, and parting then proceed to part. Not at the end of the season, or in a year when you get to preside over the nonsense called the battle of the racetrack on a field with a crowd where no one can see the game without binoculars and a power ear. It's time to break that cycle.įrank, it's time to go. That's fine there are lots of people in your codependency that have enabled you. I am going to be blunt so blunt that many homers are going to be angry with me. I guess I am that "cousin" that shows up and tells the host that discount expired beer, freezer pizza, and stale bags of off brand potato chips aren't very good party fare. I'll call you Frank because, well we are fellow alums and Hokies are supposed to be family.
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