Actually a family of 4 can get season tickets to 5 games for $162. That’s 32.50/game or $8.10/person/game. Not close to $200 for 1 game.

It is very simple: There are only 4000 TU students, most of them do not have time to go to 4-hour long football games. Even if a tremendous percentage (50%) went to the games, that would be a small dent in the attendance.

There are only 30,000 TU alumni in the world. Most of them live out of state and many live in other parts of the state.

There are over 230,000 OSU alumni and over 200,000 OU alumni

If OU & OSU had the same ratio of attendees-to-students or attendees-to alumni as TU, they would have over 200,000 attending each game.

If OU & OSU had the same ratio of season-ticket-holders-to-students or season-ticket-holders-to alumni as TU, they would have over 100,000 season ticket holders.

Well you certainly come off as an elitist, as far as TU?

I do not consider it "one of the premier football programs in the nation" as you put it. It has been several years since they won the C-USA title and that is a non-qualifying BCS conference. And while you like TU crowds being small, I promise that the athletic department would love to have every game a sellout. The boost in income would help the other sports you mentioned.

I like TU and root for them as long as they are not playing one of the other state schools and I try to make at least one game a year as I think Chapman Stadium is a great place to watch a game and it has a great family atmosphere. But, I don't hear alot of marketing for TU football games. The product is definately worth the price, I think they just need to do a better job of getting the community to embrace TU.

It's no mystery as to why TU's attendance is sucking pond water! Lack of parking! Why can't TU administrators and planners recognize that? Folks don't care to park in questionable neighborhoods, walk abnormal distances to get to the stadium, then have to reverse that trek - sometimes to a vandalized vehicle! I'm not crippled, but my 65 y.o. legs don't hobble those many blocks like they used to, crossing over busy intersections which have NO extra safety measures in place . I'll go find a good high school game - or stay home and watch Sponge Bob Square Pants on TV - rather than suffer the inconveniences brought about by poor facility planning and development.

Well, my situation is that of many TU grads. I am a professional, living 1,000 miles from Tulsa. I do make at least one game a year, but even if every single living TU grad did the same, it would still take average attendance up only to about 20,000.

I will say this, however. At a very healthy 54 years of age, I don't mind parking at about 18th and Harvard, and walking the 3/4 mile to the stadium to see a game. But I can imagine that that discourages many seniors from even thinking about attending a game.

Once you are in the stadium, unless you are deaf or hooked on anti-depressants, the blaring PA system, playing the worst "music" you'll ever hear in your life, is quite damaging to the nervous system. And it almost never stops, throughout the entire game. Does it never occur to the people at TU that fans have come to the stadium for a football game, not for a sleazy, deafening rap concert?

You'll get no argument from me, WITW. I think Blankenship has done an absolutely amazing job. This is a hire I was very disappointed with originally. I thought TU was just trying to save a few bucks by going local. But the more I heard of Blankenship, and especially the more I heard players talk about him, the more I became convinced we had hit a "homerun" with this hire. Just imagine what Graham would have done this year with all this adversity. I honestly think Tulsa would be no better than 5-6 right now, just about where Pittsburgh is by the way.

Make one big game at home, (OSU or OU), a "marque" game. Announce that only season ticket holders can get into the stadium for the "marque" game. The second time your "marque" game comes around, after numerous loud public temper tantrums, the fans will really believe you. They will buy season tickets.

All the OU and OSU fans who bought the season tickets just so they could see the "marque" game will now make sure their remaining tickets won't go to waste. They will offer them to business associates, friends, relatives, church members etc. Now more people are coming to the games to experience Tulsa football. Some will like it enough to buy more tickets and come back again. Alumni will make sure and buy season tickets every year.

The Oklahoma State model actually worked. Study their numbers. There are more season ticket holders today than the previous total capacity of their old stadium. All wearing school colors. Astonishing. More positive experience for everybody, more money for the school, growing fan base. Recruiting improves.

You shouldn't schedule OU and OSU to mark up the ticket prices just for that one game. That is short term thinking. Think long term. What do you really want to accomplish? More TU fans for EVERY game. A growing fan base, not a shrinking one.