Top ten list to increase attendance at basketball games

[busabus114]

Or better yet over a penguin village. People love penguins silding down the ice on their belly.

And yes I did just quote myself.

I think you nailed it. I suggest a Glass floor with a dolphin tank below.

The tank below the court is a great idea but i would make a subtle change. Instead of dolphins i would go with sharks. Then after every loss the fans get to vote a player to be thrown into a shark tank. Sort of like survivor. I think this would definitely encourage the players to play harder....you know - to avoid the death and all. They could even win individual immunity by meeting certain benchmarks during the game (30 points, 10 assists, double double - if they played good enough they wouldnt be up for "elimination")

Is it too late to get the shark tank into the plans for the carver renovations? I have a hard time believing the stadium wouldnt be filled for every game if this happened.

 

[DeanMarshall]

Bring in the Orange Bowl Trophy and MVP for a half time show....later the wrestling national championship trophy and all the national champions. Or any of the other sports Iowa has won a championship in or taken part in NCAA competition. Advertise at what games those presentations are going to take place to give people a chance to plan to be there.

Excellent suggestions, niebhawk. Yeah, I wonder when they will bring those in to CHA

 

[gamedayron]

After talking to a lot of our customers, many of them do not go to the basketball games because they do not want to have to stand up to see the game. At there advanced age, it is not possible for them to stand that long.
They would purchase tickets in a section, if everyone would stay seated. A section could be designated such for these people.
It does not fall into the stand and scream for our team mentality, but they would make more noise than empty seats.
Mpst of these people used to have tickets and attended the games for years.

 

[DDThompson]

Or better yet over a penguin village. People love penguins silding down the ice on their belly.

And yes I did just quote myself.

LOL. That's ok. Both of them were funny.

 

[NewMexHawk]

1. Cheerleaders (or hot coeds) wearing binkinis mud/vaseline wrestling with selected football players in speedos (for the ladies), if they could get any volunteer football players.

2. Bulldogs skakeboarding...

3. Trick horseshoe throwers with a curtain across the middle where they can't see the stake. (Iowa actually did this at the old fieldhouse with Red Hinton from Maquoketa, world class horseshoe thrower. The crowd stayed at half-time to watch him. It was great. He threw ringers and couldn't see the stake. Crowd loved it.)

Like I have mentioned before, offer high schools from all over eastern Iowa/Iowa discounts and bring busloads of kids to games. Then announce them during the game.

It is easy to market Iowa when they are winning because the marketing dept doesn't have to do anything. Now is when they have to start actually thinking and earning their money about marketing the team otherwise the University might as well fire them all and save the Athletic dept some money.

 

[hoggeye70]

1.less slow white guys

More fast white guys, more tall fast white guys, more black fast guys, more fast tall black guys and one quick asian guy.

 

[gamedayron]

All they have to do is take a hint from the wrestlers - be two time defending national champions and people will come to watch you defend your title.
Why didn't I think of that sooner?