$20 to park, first come, first serve with no RCAF donation
Free tailgating spots, wild west style, first come first serve beginning at 1700 the night before the game.
Reserve tailgating along Reinhardt and the stadium
There you go, there you have it. Problem solved.
You're welcome.
Because The organic value has been sucked out of tailgating, you have to start from scratch.
Always remember and never forget, the spots are not worth a dime of they don't sell.
Put a value on the TG spots that will guarantee a sellout, then give RCAF members first dibs. It shouldn't take existing RCAF members more than a week to pick their favorite spots.
If you want to have an RCAF drive while this is happening that is fine but but requiring an RCAF membership is nuts.
Filling Cajun Basin first is Priority One.
When it comes to tailgating, RCAF, parking, tickets, concessions, etc, administration does not understand simple economics. Supply and demand. Demand is way down but administration doing nothing to get demand back up.
Specifically when it comes to tailgating, I was all for paid spots. Back in 2005 or so it was getting crazy stupid with the 1st come 1st serve. We were having to show up on Wed or Thu to get our spot. Yes, we were not supposed to at the time and almost got run off a few times but we did what we have to do.
Now, that demand is not even close to being the same. Something needs to change to bring the demand back. Personally, I think parking and RCAF in combination need to be re-evaluated.
Sure, whatever, but why would anyone pay for a spot off the road when they can get there early enough to claim it?
Besides, wouldn't you want to be around different people every week instead of the same stale neighbors over and over. That just creates a bad environment, IMO
Take the remaining Spots that are available and cut them in four. You can easily fit a 10 x 10 in each of those spots, sell them for %25 the price to families. You get the same amount of money for every 4 family spots and you make it affordable for a family to do so. You in turn get a lot more people out there. The spots are huge, you can put a 20 x 20 and still fit a vehicle. A single family just doesn’t need that much room and can’t justify spending that much money IMO. Not everyone goes to games with large groups.
I can offer RV tailgate information. Been having my spot for the last 8 years. Cost for the RV spot has been in the same range during those yearsabout $ 1100 per season. Minimum RCAF donation is $ 1200. They have offered individual game RV spots. Max attendance this year was during Homecoming. I counted 52 RVs in the RV lot. On a typical Saturday we typically have 35 RVs in the lot
Thank you for bringing this up. This is one of the biggest fumbles we have with the whole tailgating issue. The RV lot should be a village. It's tumble weed town right now. I think there are 87 spots. We're consistently missing out on 2/3 of the available "inventory." Speaking of business sense, it makes NO sense to leave 2/3 of your product totally untapped. In all aspects, we need to be much more efficient but in particular, the RV situation needs to be addressed immediately.
Yes sir.
$2,300 for RV spot. Which is on par with some other large universities.
$925-$1,000 the rights to a tailgate spot. Still waiting for someone to show me an NCAA school who demands that price for tailgating spot with zero amenities.
See attached file for tailgating spot and RV prices.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. For me the RV spot was $ 1,100. I was an RCAF member prior to getting an RV spot and met the requirement for obtaining an RV spot. If a new person that was not a member of RCAF wanted to get a spot then yes$ 2,300 would be the outlay. If they were already a RCAF donor.let's say at the $500 level then the RV spot would cost them $ 1,800. Its about $ 200 per game for us in a season when you have 5 SATURDAY home games. We do not bring the RV for the weekday games. We got lucky last season. The regular schedule had 4 saturday games & 2 weekday games. We were able to get a 5th tailgate in due to hosting the conference championship.
I definitly like your perspective, but see onboarding from ground zero as prohibitive to growth.
I would prefer you get closeness perks and other perks as an RCAF member, letting the membership grow organically.
Not a fan of requiring membership for RV parking.
You did teach me one other thing with your post. I had not looked at the RV lot as being 100% RCAF members before.
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