Improve Mason home game experience discussion

[jkh1978]

Transient area may also mean that people have loyalties to top teams/conferences, and don't know how good the ball here is. I am glad the team is being marketed this year as NoVa's team.

 

[GMUgemini]

Transient area may also mean that people have loyalties to top teams/conferences, and don't know how good the ball here is. I am glad the team is being marketed this year as NoVa's team.

Not only does Mason need to more aggressively market, but the A10 needs to more aggressively market the league in their footprint.

If affordability is an issue, I was watching the Bona vs Canisius game and they were marketing a two ticket deal for $35 which included two sodas and two hotdogs for all weekday games. I can try to watch the replay and take a screen grab of it because it was flashed on the screen in the second half. I’m assuming Sodexo would not let us do the food portion, but I’m sure we could come up with something.

 

[EXpatriot13]

Wild how many ideas for improving the experience and fan engagement are centered around concessions and it’s a total non-starter because of Sodexo. They can’t gtfo fast enough.

 

[jkh1978]

Someone mentioned $5 sodas... I think they are $7/$8. Food is a big part of game day experience. I wish I could get some better beer outside of the gold/green rooms. For me, if they can hopefully fix that some year, and someone gets the kids into it, everything else will fall into place. I think the program is trying to make improvements.

 

[MasonFanatic]

That is surprising, at least for me, considering the diversity of the student population.

Mason students come here and stay here because of the opportunities that the DC region offers.

 

[MasonFanatic]

If affordability is an issue, I was watching the Bona vs Canisius game and they were marketing a two ticket deal for $35 which included two sodas and two hotdogs for all weekday games. I can try to watch the replay and take a screen grab of it because it was flashed on the screen in the second half. I’m assuming Sodexo would not let us do the food portion, but I’m sure we could come up with something.

My understanding is we can do promos like this, but Mason has to pay Sodexo the full menu price for the food.

 

[GMU79]

Mason students come here and stay here because of the opportunities that the DC region offers.

Yes, I can certainly see that too.