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Topic: Tinder Night in Toledo

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Jim G
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Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/10/2015 4:59:26 PM

http://www.hustlebelt.com/2015/2/10/8014293/tinder-night-...

I like this move by Toledo. All schools need to use social media more. Attendance is going down at almost every MAC school but OHIO. But we seem to have peaked. 2012 - 6177, 2013 - 6932, 2014 - 6124, so far in 2015 - 6509. Keeping with the newest trends is a great way to get a bigger student turnout.

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/10/2015 9:39:30 PM

I would've called it Tinder Is the Night.

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OU_Country
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/11/2015 9:54:03 AM

Of course we peaked in attendance in 2013. It was the season following the Sweet 16 run, and was bound to happen.

I agree that MAC Athletic Departments probably need to engage students, and the public more. Without knowing specifically what schools do for generating attendance, I can't comment too much on how to use specific methods to get people to games.

I will comment something that I found rather interesting that a couple weeks ago before the Buffalo home game. I was asked by two bar tenders in Jackie O's the "Oh, is there a basketball game today?" type of question. I would think that getting the news of home games out in bars, and also having a local spot that is routinely the game watch party spot for EVERY road game wouldn't hurt any school in the MAC, including Ohio.

Pete Chouteau
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/11/2015 7:15:12 PM

With all due respect, Jackie O's is not necessarily the sport-savviest spot in Athens.

The Toledo promotion strikes me as odd because I thought Tinder was a hookup app.

At least that's what I use it for.

JSF
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/11/2015 8:24:28 PM

The Hawks did it a few weeks back and it was a success.

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ts1227
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/11/2015 9:42:51 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

With all due respect, Jackie O's is not necessarily the sport-savviest spot in Athens.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I'm not sure many there even know what takes place in that big round building at the bottom of the hill.

Do we do any sort of nights like this, or just unthemed fan (generally student) giveaways like the flags last night, and sometimes food? All I can think of is Green Fever/Bobcat Blackout

I saw that the Akron game was "College of Education Night", which I assume boosted the attendance by about 14. If that's the best we can do we've got a problem.

Last Edited: 2/11/2015 9:44:19 PM by ts1227

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/11/2015 10:27:50 PM

Buffalo rented 4 buses to take students to Akron for their game, I'd like to see more schools follow suit. Knowing that bus loads of away fans are coming my spur more home fans to come out and show support as well. Apparently Buffalo's students showed up the AK Rowdies in their own house, how embarrassing.

EMU had 460 on hand last night. How fun would it be to bus 1000 students up to Ypsi and just take over the place?

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/11/2015 11:48:23 PM

O Zone used to do that when they had their stuff together.

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/12/2015 9:16:43 AM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

I'm not suggesting it should be the sports savviest bar. I'm suggesting that the promotions folks should be making so that they at least are aware that the game is taking place. It's about changing the culture so that people at least know it's an option. If Jackie O's can tweet about O$U's National Title, they'll at least take interest in sports locally if people let them know about it.

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/12/2015 9:17:37 AM

JSF wrote:

The Hawks did it a few weeks back and it was a success.

As in Atlanta Hawks? I'm interested to know more....sort of.

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/12/2015 9:30:00 AM

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/1/7/7511053/scenes-fr...

ts1227
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/12/2015 11:28:25 AM

JSF wrote:

O Zone used to do that when they had their stuff together.

I don't know what support they get from Athletics on such an endeavor anymore, I just remember when Dan Lowe was still with us that he went WAY out of his way to get buses to Cleveland for both the 2005 MAC Semifinal and the Final. My roommate that year was from Shaker Heights, and Dan even let us ride up Friday, stay with my roommates family that Friday night, and ride the bus back to Athens on Saturday after we won, holding those seats on the in-between trip.

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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/12/2015 2:42:19 PM

I think our athletic department stops short of doing "zany" things to get people to games. It's just not the style of the current admin. But we'll get 2x the number of students in the house giving away Chick-fil-A, hats or whatever than what Toledo draws for this I'm sure.

Last Edited: 2/12/2015 2:42:41 PM by catfan28

Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/14/2015 1:56:46 AM

"WE PROMISED NOTHING! HOW WOULD WE EVEN BE ABLE TO GUARANTEE SUCH A THING!?!" - University of Toledo athletic department worker receiving complaint on the telephone on Saturday morning.

GroverBall
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/17/2015 9:14:38 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

CatsEye is the place to go for Bobcat sports savvyness, if that's not a word it should be. We've talked about it plenty here before, but it drives me crazy that more local bars know when o$u football and ball games are on than OUr games. I watch a fair number of big games at BW3s and here's a true story: I was encouraging a manager there one night to make the place more of a Bobcat sports bar and he was telling me that they had done a lot and even been recognized at half time of a football game. He pulled down a football in a plastic box that he said was given to them for their support and said the team had signed it. I took a look and said "well not the team, but Frank Solich signed it." And he said "Oh. Who's Frank Solich?" True story. Sad, sad, sad.

RSBobcat
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RE: Tinder Night in Toledo

Posted: 2/17/2015 9:36:57 PM

Give a rotating batch of tickets to local HS students to be "Ozoner's" for a night (throw in T Shirts). Let them show the current apathetics "how to do it"......

RS Bobcat

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