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Wisconsin Hockey Vol. XXVI: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Tolerate The BTHC

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Gurtholfin said:
Looks like we're not alone and Barry & Co. are even ****ing up football games by fixing what wasn't broken:

http://host.madison.com/sports/college/football/badgers-football-new-vendor-complaints-bring-apology/article_eaaff440-1306-11e3-b151-001a4bcf887a.html


This was taken from the comments section and it's spot on...

"This athletic department is supposed to be so market savvy and adept at Alvarez refers to as the "fan experience". Why weren't they monitoring what was going on during the game? Oh, they're all too busy lounging in those fancy boxes upstairs, away from and far above all of the "little" people who pay their salaries."


I'm so ****ing tired of hearing about the "fan experience," especially from people who have probably never actually been fans.

It's so great that they put in a new jumbo scoreboard so they can fill it with sponsors. Even my mom (72 yo) was complaining that they didn't have the stats up there but she knew that Alliant and BMO were sponsors.

**** you Barry, you clown.
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I had a different experience, though it doesn't contradict those thoughts.

First, having ads and no stats doesn't really have to do with the ads. Those aren't even video boards. Where there are scoreboard ads, there always were scoreboard ads. What's different is they had the live video feed and replays taking up the entire new scoreboard, half of which used to be full of stats. It's something I'd like to see change, but I'm not about to hop aboard the "you just care about money and are plastering the board with ads where there used to be stats" train.

I didn't buy or attempt to buy concessions, so I have nothing to add on that.

Here are the only changes I noticed, besides the scoreboard - They showed evacuation routes out of the stadium for emergencies before the game, which they hadn't before. They also reminded us to check our cups for bees. (I hope that means they realize that bees occasionally fly into sugary beverages when you're not looking, not that the new vendors have a bunch of bees flying around. That way, I can give them some "attention to detail" points.) Nothing big, but it was more positive than negative in my mind, considering I didn't even come close to the concessions debacle. Lastly, and I'm sure pretty much everyone is fairly indifferent towards this, the fog machines at the player's tunnel were really refreshing (I got a nice, cool blast from them). :D

My favorite change was all Gary Andersen's doing (with cooperation from the band, which should be expected). The players stayed on the field, and the band lined up by the student section and sang "On, Wisconsin" before playing it at full volume with the instruments, as the players exited the field. Yeah, that has nothing to do with the athletic department's higher-ups.

It stinks to find out about all the nonsense that went down.
 
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I love Twitter, it's great for all sorts of things. But I honestly cannot remember a single time it's added anything of value to my experience up on a scoreboard or ribbon.
 
The bit with stats... should we be surprised? Like every other stadium in the country, the "gameday experience" is increasingly having less and less to do with how fans watch/interact with the game they paid to see and more to do with other bull****.

While its no surprise to see Barry and company doing stuff like that, lets keep in mind that team owners and ADs across the country and leagues of all sports show the same disdain for their fans, so we can hardly blame just them.

WiscDC said:
My favorite change was all Gary Andersen's doing (with cooperation from the band, which should be expected). The players stayed on the field, and the band lined up by the student section and sang "On, Wisconsin" before playing it at full volume with the instruments, as the players exited the field. Yeah, that has nothing to do with the athletic department's higher-ups.
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Good on Andersen and Leckrone. A huge check mark in the plus column. It's always nice when there's somebody who gets it.
 
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Someone mentioned on another board that the program/service that runs the stats was down, and that they couldn't fix it during the game. They assured everyone the stats would be back next week.

Football seems to be where hockey was three or four years ago...everyone complaining about their experience at the game. Lets hope the athletic department starts listening to fans.
 
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Football season ticket holder for 20 years. I wrote BA a letter about my "game day experience" last Saturday. I was not happy. I will see if I get a response.
 
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He'll probably respond by playing "Big Girls Don't Cry" over the PA during a TV timeout at the next home game.
 
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Bought my five game pack today - couple of things to note.

First, it's been $75 for a few years now. Was $100 for upstairs seating this year.

Also, I may be wrong on this, but I'm pretty certain I've never been able to "upgrade" to sitting in the lower bowl before. I think maybe it was possible in the past, but it went in to the whole "giving" structure. Like I may have had to do the $25 a seat donation?

Anyway, this time I was able to choose upstairs or downstairs and downstairs was just $20 more for the whole 5-game package. Seat locations are pretty primo for most games picked - section 122 or 121 for almost all games, which is center ice. Rows E and H.

I guess lower attendance does have a perk or two?
 
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Are the Badgers national championship good? I don't know, but I took a look at reasons why they could be. LINK
 
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tristarscoop said:
Bought my five game pack today - couple of things to note.

First, it's been $75 for a few years now. Was $100 for upstairs seating this year.

Also, I may be wrong on this, but I'm pretty certain I've never been able to "upgrade" to sitting in the lower bowl before. I think maybe it was possible in the past, but it went in to the whole "giving" structure. Like I may have had to do the $25 a seat donation?

Anyway, this time I was able to choose upstairs or downstairs and downstairs was just $20 more for the whole 5-game package. Seat locations are pretty primo for most games picked - section 122 or 121 for almost all games, which is center ice. Rows E and H.

I guess lower attendance does have a perk or two?
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I see only a couple of games each year, but seats at the bottom of the second level on the turn have been my favorites. Great vision and you still feel close enough to all the fun in the lower bowl.
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
Are the Badgers national championship good? I don't know, but I took a look at reasons why they could be. LINK
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Nice article as usual Andy. I am starting to get excited for the season to start. Let's hope the PP is much improved....
 
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We've still got a few weeks before the real hockey starts, so I wanted to share this - an official Crease Creatures twitter account. They've already had UWGratefulRed for a while now. In addition, they've made lots of efforts with the basketball student section - trying split and full season ticket packages and a couple versions of pretty comprehensive rewards program are what they've done in my freshman and sophomore years here. At football games, they tell us when basketball student tickets go on sale, with that video of Ben Brust's buzzer-beater against Michigan last year. For hockey, they just say tickets are available and put up a picture of Kerdiles or someone. There's no rewards system or anything for hockey. Basically, it's what most of you have said - they take the hockey fans for granted. (I already sent them an email suggesting that they make it the Final Five championship team photo instead of a generic picture of a skating Kerdiles or Zengerle, who random students aren't familiar with, while those who already have tickets are.

To me, this seems like another small step towards the athletic department actually caring, even though it's not football.
 
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Saw an sneak peek interview Ben Worgull (Badger Nation Magazine) did with Eaves tonight as I usually write the season preview for them. Eaves says the initial plan is for Kerdiles to go back to center to start this season. So, it will be Zengerle, Kerdiles, Dahl and Meuer down the middle for now. I'm probably going to write up some line combinations based off of this, but what do you guys think?
 
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