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With all the new faces onboard coming over from OUInsider and other Sooner sites, I thought I would take a moment to request everybody's help with a matter that is near and dear to my heart: OU basketball attendance.
A little background, I founded a student group three years ago called the Capelables that is now under the command of a couple of loyal OUHoops.com posters. The group's goal was/is to try and change the culture on campus regarding OU basketball. While we still have a ways to go, I feel like we have made some waves, and last year's freshmen class, appeared more basketball friendly then in recent memory. We are still working hard, and its not just to try and get students to the game. We use blogs, social network sites, The Sports Animal, word of mouth to try get folks to the hoops games. I thought last year's attendance was really something to be celebrated. Our lowest conference butts in the seats attendance was over 9,600 (against Nebraska on a Wednesday night).
Why do I tell you all this? Because we need your help. A week from Saturday is a great opportunity to get some of our fanbase that doesn't normally experience OU basketball to come partake in the LNC and watching WWIII and the crew put on a show.
As you may or may not know, a week from Saturday will be a double header of the top two revenue earning sports on campus. The hoops team will tip off at 1, and then the monster that is OU football will kick off at 6. That gives you a great opportunity to encourage, drag, bribe, trick, or simply ask nicely some Sooner fans to come to the basketball game. There is no reason that we can't have a great nonconference crowd on Saturday.
Do your part and lets give this team some much deserved fan support:
- Try to get the tailgates planned around the hoops game
- If you can't make it to the hoops game, PM me, and let me give your tickets away (non student or student). I appreciate the folks that did this for the exhibition game. I will try my hardest to make sure the seats get taken up by really loud Sooner fans.
- Go to other messageboards and talk up this team. While OUHoops.com is great for many reasons, it isn't the place to be winning over new fans. Most likely, if you are here, you already go to the games. If you live too far away to attend, you probably already encourage family, friends, and other Sooner fans to come to the games. In other words, we are all preaching to the choir over here!
- Talk Sooner hoops with KREF or the Sports Animal. Al and James Hale both really enjoy talking hoops. Mark Rodgers is also more than willing. You would be surprised how much free advertising the program gets from those calls.
Let's shoot for 9K plus (butts in seats) a week from Saturday. It shouldn't matter that we are playing a team that we should handle fairly easily. There aren't as many home games this year, so folks should want to come see three McDonalds AA play, and a freshman class that is right up there on paper as the best in school history.
Just to give you a heads up, we will be setting up a secure pay pal account through either OUHoops or Ada here in the next week or so. With any donations that we receive, the Capelables are going to get some pretty cool stuff to spice up the student section. Some early ideas are 4X4 heads of Capel, Wayman, and Blake to hold up when the other team is shooting FTs, a couple of durable signs including a WWIII in camo, Beau Gerber's mug on a cut out Gerber baby food "Jar" (cardboard), and a couple of other ideas.
We are hoping for a good response from those that have noticed a difference in the student section over the past couple of years. I am proud to say that the Capelables are in good hands with a couple of sophomores that love OU basketball almost as much as me :vitale
Boomer Sooner and let's fill up the LNC early and often this year!
-BT
A little background, I founded a student group three years ago called the Capelables that is now under the command of a couple of loyal OUHoops.com posters. The group's goal was/is to try and change the culture on campus regarding OU basketball. While we still have a ways to go, I feel like we have made some waves, and last year's freshmen class, appeared more basketball friendly then in recent memory. We are still working hard, and its not just to try and get students to the game. We use blogs, social network sites, The Sports Animal, word of mouth to try get folks to the hoops games. I thought last year's attendance was really something to be celebrated. Our lowest conference butts in the seats attendance was over 9,600 (against Nebraska on a Wednesday night).
Why do I tell you all this? Because we need your help. A week from Saturday is a great opportunity to get some of our fanbase that doesn't normally experience OU basketball to come partake in the LNC and watching WWIII and the crew put on a show.
As you may or may not know, a week from Saturday will be a double header of the top two revenue earning sports on campus. The hoops team will tip off at 1, and then the monster that is OU football will kick off at 6. That gives you a great opportunity to encourage, drag, bribe, trick, or simply ask nicely some Sooner fans to come to the basketball game. There is no reason that we can't have a great nonconference crowd on Saturday.
Do your part and lets give this team some much deserved fan support:
- Try to get the tailgates planned around the hoops game
- If you can't make it to the hoops game, PM me, and let me give your tickets away (non student or student). I appreciate the folks that did this for the exhibition game. I will try my hardest to make sure the seats get taken up by really loud Sooner fans.
- Go to other messageboards and talk up this team. While OUHoops.com is great for many reasons, it isn't the place to be winning over new fans. Most likely, if you are here, you already go to the games. If you live too far away to attend, you probably already encourage family, friends, and other Sooner fans to come to the games. In other words, we are all preaching to the choir over here!
- Talk Sooner hoops with KREF or the Sports Animal. Al and James Hale both really enjoy talking hoops. Mark Rodgers is also more than willing. You would be surprised how much free advertising the program gets from those calls.
Let's shoot for 9K plus (butts in seats) a week from Saturday. It shouldn't matter that we are playing a team that we should handle fairly easily. There aren't as many home games this year, so folks should want to come see three McDonalds AA play, and a freshman class that is right up there on paper as the best in school history.
Just to give you a heads up, we will be setting up a secure pay pal account through either OUHoops or Ada here in the next week or so. With any donations that we receive, the Capelables are going to get some pretty cool stuff to spice up the student section. Some early ideas are 4X4 heads of Capel, Wayman, and Blake to hold up when the other team is shooting FTs, a couple of durable signs including a WWIII in camo, Beau Gerber's mug on a cut out Gerber baby food "Jar" (cardboard), and a couple of other ideas.
We are hoping for a good response from those that have noticed a difference in the student section over the past couple of years. I am proud to say that the Capelables are in good hands with a couple of sophomores that love OU basketball almost as much as me :vitale
Boomer Sooner and let's fill up the LNC early and often this year!
-BT
