Need input, especially from students

[strauzer]

How would you increase student attendance at home hoops games?

 

[Allabouttheu95]

Not make getting into Miami equivalent to getting into Yale

 

[User-4525]

free shirts

 

[Notsince1985]

cocaine and waffles

 

[whoopingcane]

Increase enrollment to about 50k.

 

[cameron97]

Are you by any chance Johnny 5?

 

[casualcane]

Raffle off stuff every game for free

like maybe a quick halftime TV appearance with Coach L

 

[CanesRebirth]

Start a thread on the CIS basketball board

 

[tcgrad1014]

Not make getting into Miami equivalent to getting into Yale

2016 acceptance rate at Yale: 6.3%
2016 acceptance rate at Miami (FL): 37.8%

 

[OrangeCane]

How would you increase student attendance at home hoops games?

Win?

That's about the only way to do it, and even then, students probably won't show en masse to a November or December game against a no-name opponent. They've done a much, much better job of turning out to conference games, and hopefully that keeps up this year. But ultimately, the only way to get students to show up is to win. As someone who ran the student section ten years ago, trust me on this.

 

[tcgrad1014]

Scheduling zero competitive out of conference home games is pretty weak. Can't blame students for not showing up for SC State and Wofford.

 

[HHTyler]

I think the biggest thing they could do that they don't is to involve Greek life more. Somehow gameify it to get as many fraternities and sororities to bring as many members to each game as possible.

 

[numbers]

Make it a graduation requirement.

 

[RBhurricane87]

Sell beer at the games (we have the capability to do so at the Watsco)

 

[Notsince1985]

Topless dancers

 

[JgDaCane]

Topless dancers

 

[Notsince1985]

Topless dancers

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[Allabouttheu95]

I think the biggest thing they could do that they don't is to involve Greek life more. Somehow gameify it to get as many fraternities and sororities to bring as many members to each game as possible.

This right here is the best answer possible. Get greek life there and the rest will follow

 

[SevenNSeven]

Give the students better seats.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

Give the students better seats.

Where do they put them now?

When we used to play in the Miami Arena, they put us right there on the floor on the east end. Of course, there were only about 50 students and the crowd was generally pretty pathetic. Fun games though. We were ten feet away that time when Leonard Hamilton still had our guys in the huddle during a time out while Pitt inbounded the ball for a game winning layup with no defenders.