2026-2027 Season Schedule Thread

[hoopsjunkie75]

Different times unfortunately

Huh?

Original post: "...now..."

Response: "Different times"

 

[GMUgemini]

Counterpoint, we’ll never fill our 10k arena, improve our NIL, and improve scheduling unless we dance. We have to get over the hump. I think Tony can do it and will be the guy to do it. We pay him 2 million dollars a year to figure out how to get it done, so you just aren’t going to catch me making excuses for him not making the tournament.

I think we could do a hell of a lot better than we do at filling our arena if we had a consistent strategy of maximizing student turnout and something for them to graduate into re: continued attendance. Mason has never had a consistent marketing program it’s always been a try stuff once and abandon it after the first try, try something else abandon that ad infinitum approach to marketing.

I’m not saying we should be selling out every game but given just how many alums live in the area we should be doing better than 3k a game, even during down years.

And if you’re wondering I posted an article about GCU’s approach to this and their goal of having 3,600 students at every game. GCU has less history than we do, exist in an even bigger market than we do with a P5 university even closer than UMD from their campus and all the same professional sports that we have. And their arena rocks every home game.

 

[NewPatriot]

I think we could do a hell of a lot better than we do at filling our arena if we had a consistent strategy of maximizing student turnout and something for them to graduate into re: continued attendance. Mason has never had a consistent marketing program it’s always been a try stuff once and abandon it after the first try, try something else abandon that ad infinitum approach to marketing.

I’m not saying we should be selling out every game but given just how many alums live in the area we should be doing better than 3k a game, even during down years.

And if you’re wondering I posted an article about GCU’s approach to this and their goal of having 3,600 students at every game. GCU has less history than we do, exist in an even bigger market than we do with a P5 university even closer than UMD from their campus and all the same professional sports that we have. And their arena rocks every home game

You have to appeal to this area's vanity.

Give away year's supply to "Rugiet Ready' to the first 500 GMU alum couples that attend every OOC home game.

That would incentivize all the wife's to ..ahem... come...as well.

 

[jessej]

Let me be the first!!

365 Div 1 teams
Rank of 182 or higher/lower means you are in the top half of all D1 BBall teams in the country
GMU at 97 is a few spots out of being in the Top Quarter

with 2 games left to be added to the schedule, this is what we have
only 3 opponents ranked better than 182
1 home, 1 away, and 1 neutral site
90 - South Florida
66 - High Point
179 - Towson

I hope CTS has a bonus for getting to 20 wins
as with this schedule anything worse than 10-2 is a major under achievement
I have no idea what the ticket prices will be, but other posters have stated that there is an increase in pricing this season.

Last season I did not buy the usual 10 game flex pass because i thought it was too expensive for the quality of the schedule and ended up paying between $5 and $10 for most of the OOC home schedule via the resale market.

I will be looking for the $10 tickets for all the home games except the South Florida

Luckily the A-10 schedule has better quality opponents

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back from a mini-vacation

Schedule update - NCCU and a D3 program
expected OOC record of 12-2
a win over USF or High Point raises GMU to 13-1 which may generate some positive publicity to start the A-10 season

a loss to any of the other teams could be devastating to both team morale and NCAA Tournament bid prospects