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Wisconsin Badgers '10-'11

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ARM said:
I don't think that's the biggest factor. Minnesota has had a lot of games where people could get in for not much money that haven't drastically increased attendance. Promotion is huge. You have to make the fans who are willing to attend aware that the event is being held.
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Gotta agree with ARM on this one Schmoe. Even w/o the promotion, tickets to UW Badger Women game are something like $5 Adults/ $2 kids... if I'm not mistaken. Wisconsin, along with other programs, do an incredible amount to promote the game for their teams and get butts in the seats. The UMD AD could learn something, but god forbid the program become more popular than him.

Kudos to Wisconsin. I hope that even 1% of those that were first time attendees decide to come back on a regular basis!!
 
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Promotion and the factor that the women's series and a track meet during the morning were the only UW sporting events in town. Over the years it seems that people are more willing to attend events such as this when its the only game in town as opposed to a weekend that already may see them making one or more trips to the Kohl Center..
 
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I don't think anyone can in any way minimize the incredible achievement that the UW staff accomplished. Most programs would get all gitty if they could get 100 people to pay $1.00 to watch a women's ice hockey game. Regardless of the entrance fee, getting such a large crowd is fantastic. UW is to women's ice hockey what the University of Tennessee and UCONN are to Women's Basketball 10 years ago. The leagues need to start somewhere and now the question will be, what other program can generate similar interest. Today, most top 20 women's basketball programs regularly get thousands of fans at games when just a few years ago they would have hundreds. Congrats to UW; the achievement is remarkable and I'm hopeful other programs can follow in their footsteps.

skatefast said:
Gotta agree with ARM on this one Schmoe. Even w/o the promotion, tickets to UW Badger Women game are something like $5 Adults/ $2 kids... if I'm not mistaken. Wisconsin, along with other programs, do an incredible amount to promote the game for their teams and get butts in the seats. The UMD AD could learn something, but god forbid the program become more popular than him.

Kudos to Wisconsin. I hope that even 1% of those that were first time attendees decide to come back on a regular basis!!
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skatefast said:
Kudos to Wisconsin. I hope that even 1% of those that were first time attendees decide to come back on a regular basis!!
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I had 15 people in my group at the game, and 12 had never seen a UW women's game before. All live over 45 minutes away. They all had a great time and I'm pretty sure many will be back. I don't think the $1.00 had a huge effect; $5.00/$2.00 is a very low cost form of entertainment the way it is. Everyone who was with me could have afforded the regular rate.

I saw my first UW women's game this year for free after the men's scrimmage, and now I'm getting 4 women's season tickets next year. If you like hockey, just check them out. The quality of the play is excellent. The key is exposing folks to it and last night was a great way to do it.

The game....I can't believe in the 3rd period the ref's didn't call any of the muggings of the UW players in the O zone, but they called 2 tick tacky penalties against UW in the D zone. That was some BAD officiating. Loved the body slam takedown that occured in front of the rodent zone. The crowd went crazy. Too bad the rodents got a pp out of that. Too bad UW didn't play as well in the 2nd/3rd as the 1st period. The second period was especially poor, bad passes and not looking to pass on the breakout.
 
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Anyone have an idea or estimate of how many gopher fans were in the crowd of 10K+?
 
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Definitely not as many Gopher fans as it is for a men's game.

Overall, a glorious night for Wisconsin womens hockey. Record setting crowd, win over Minnesota and essentially wrapping up the regular season title. I was pleasantly surprised that there had to be several hundred students. That and the band added to the energy of the game, though scoring in the first minute and also having a first period short-hander didn't hurt either.

I think the $1 promotion was only one part of the equation in getting over 10,000. Inexpensive tickets are the norm anyways ($5 adult/$2 student-child-senior) especially if you get season tickets ($30/$15). This was a well-coordinated & promoted effort by the athletic department bolstered by a #1 team (playing a main rival) that is on a major roll right now. With 5 home games left (assuming two in the WCHA playoffs and hosting one NCAA game), I hope that people will give it another shot and get some crowds over the normal (roughly 2,000-2,500).

Unfortunately, I forgot to record the game on the Big Ten Network and I don't see it being replayed any time soon. How was the coverage?
 
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Badger Booster said:
Unfortunately, I forgot to record the game on the Big Ten Network and I don't see it being replayed any time soon. How was the coverage?
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They had technical problems with their feed, primarily in the first period from what I remember -- picture break up that at times got so bad they put up a still shot instead. Burish has done Gopher games in the past, including a Badgers@Gophers last year, and she did better at remaining neutral on those occasions. Maybe being back in the Kohl Center got the competitive juices flowing.
 
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[ The UMD AD could learn something, but god forbid the program become more popular than him.

agreed the entire administration could learn something, and so could the administration at minn, and for that matter every other school in the nation but if you paid any attention to the work that the UMD AD does on a daily basis, youd know that being AD and being the head coach of a football team that has won 2 natty's in three years, you might see that he has other things on his plate, another thing is that he has an "assistant AD" (karen stromme) that is the director of womens athletics at UMD and personally i have never seen her at a game.

most importantly i think it starts with all the womens and mens teams at a particular school supporting each other, if that started the rest of the students and fans would slowly begin to follow
 
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ithrewthebroom said:
[ The UMD AD could learn something, but god forbid the program become more popular than him.

agreed the entire administration could learn something, and so could the administration at minn,
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What is the administration at Minnesota doing wrong...or doing insufficiently? I ask because over the years Minnesota has tried just about every type of promotion one could think of in the effort to put more fans in the stands. Success has been very limited I'll confess, but not for lack of trying or imagination. They have tried to raise the profile of the program in local print media...which hasn't had a very noticeable affect. I know some think still more could be done in this vein...but with the past failure of those attempts at increasing attendance...I doubt there's much money available for continued print media promotion. It may be a "throwing good money after bad" situation also.

BTW, I'm pretty skeptical the UMD AD is pre-occupied with the women's hockey program popularity versus his own.
 
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It also helps that Madison is a very open-minded, progressive city that is open to supporting womens' sports. Well, that an the fact that the Badgers are an absolutely amazing hockey team.
 
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GoBucky36 said:
It also helps that Madison is a very open-minded, progressive city that is open to supporting womens' sports.
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Ah...okay. No offense intended, but I'm not real sure Madison is particularly advanced in those facets, over many other cities with available collegiate women's athletics. I think the fact UW is the big show in town, with little competition from other sports entities is as much a factor as anything else.
 
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brookyone said:
Ah...okay. No offense intended, but I'm not real sure Madison is particularly advanced in those facets, over many other cities with available collegiate women's athletics. I think the fact UW is the big show in town, with little competition from other sports entities is as much a factor as anything else.
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Well, no offense in intended either but I live here and I am. Other than maybe Chicago, Madison is as progressive and open-minded as it gets in this part of the country.
 
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http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/020111aac.html
Sophomore Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis.), senior Meghan Duggan (Danvers, Mass.) and junior Hilary Knight (Sun Valley, Idaho) are among 30 players who have been named to the preliminary roster for the U.S. Women's National Team that will play in the 2011 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's Championship, USA Hockey announced last week.

The 30 athletes will take part in a selection/training camp in Ann Arbor, Mich., from April 4-12, with the final 21-player roster set to be announced April 9. The camp will take place at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube, home to USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, and will feature two pre-world championship games against Canada on April 7 and 8.
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GoBucky36 said:
Well, no offense in intended either but I live here and I am. Other than maybe Chicago, Madison is as progressive and open-minded as it gets in this part of the country.
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Whatever you say. ;) I'm still skeptical Madison is far more progressive and open minded than other upper midwest cities...considering factors in addition to the acceptance of women's athletics. Does Madison have roller derby?
 
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brookyone said:
Whatever you say. ;) I'm still skeptical Madison is far more progressive and open minded than other upper midwest cities...considering factors in addition to the acceptance of women's athletics. Does Madison have roller derby?
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Be skeptical if you wish, like I said, Ive lived here for 30 years and I know the reality of the situation.
http://www.madrollindolls.com/j/
Madison has a roller derby league with 9 teams. What else you got? ;)
 
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GoBucky36 said:
Be skeptical if you wish, like I said, Ive lived here for 30 years and I know the reality of the situation.
http://www.madrollindolls.com/j/
Madison has a roller derby league with 9 teams.
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LOL, being able to witness the upcoming "Bout 3" featuring the "Unholy Rollers" vs. the "Vaudeville Vixens" might be worth a special trip! Not to mention live music by "Venus in Furs"...I'm trying to think how we could possibly top all of that progressiveness! :rolleyes:
 
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