Student Tailgating
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- bluehenbillk
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Student Tailgating
Interesting tweet:
UDCockpit
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gameday & Barn tickets are now LIVE
🎟: https://bit.ly/3A6BrbB
COMING THIS FALL
75 spots in our new STUDENT TAILGATE LOT will be available for just $10.
Maybe this helps revive more student interest in FB games....
UDCockpit
@UDCockpit
23m
@DelawareFB & @DelawareVB
gameday & Barn tickets are now LIVE
🎟: https://bit.ly/3A6BrbB
COMING THIS FALL
75 spots in our new STUDENT TAILGATE LOT will be available for just $10.
Maybe this helps revive more student interest in FB games....
UD to FBS. I never thought I’d see the day
- Housthen18
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Re: Student Tailgating
This is a good move. When I was a student the number 1 reason other students told me they wouldn't go to football games is because "we can't tailgate." I know the IFC is hosting a fraternity-rush related tailgate in September.
Re: Student Tailgating
Love it! More little things like this and access to practice and scrimmages for all and we can start to raise the interest level!
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Re: Student Tailgating
Good idea and I bet a lot more than 75 get in somehow.
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Re: Student Tailgating
Where is this located?
Mickey to Rocky about SPEED - https://youtu.be/N0GdQyIm7DU
Re: Student Tailgating
This is a big push by the athletic dept.
With the introduction of this student-designated lot, there's an increased awareness among students that tailgating is, in fact, permitted--and that enforcement of what's on the books for "rules" will be somewhat hands-off
Not that students haven't always been able to acquire spaces in single-game lots, but this specific messaging is helping.
With the introduction of this student-designated lot, there's an increased awareness among students that tailgating is, in fact, permitted--and that enforcement of what's on the books for "rules" will be somewhat hands-off
Not that students haven't always been able to acquire spaces in single-game lots, but this specific messaging is helping.
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Re: Student Tailgating
It is tucked away back that way. The thought is that it'll be a draw for upperclassmen who've outgrown The Barn
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Re: Student Tailgating
the IFC is also holding a rush event before the home game this weekend which should help boost attendance numbers and get people interested in coming back.
Re: Student Tailgating
Everyone needs to get over the idea that students, with the exception of the first and maybe second game, are going to attend. They never have and never will, at least consistently.
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Re: Student Tailgating
Winning may help change those numbers!
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Re: Student Tailgating
The $10,000 tuition room and board raffle, for those students that have their tickets scanned for all 6 games might help. Of course, they might turn around and leave.
Given student attendance by the end of the season, there could be a pretty good chance of snagging that $10k.
Given student attendance by the end of the season, there could be a pretty good chance of snagging that $10k.
#JUST WIN
Re: Student Tailgating
Freshmen students historically show up for the first home game. After that, not so much. And remember that when trying to lure students to a "tailgate party", it's only a party if there is alcohol there -- and UD can't sit back and allow underage drinking. So, just like many other places, don't expect huge student turnouts.
- Housthen18
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Re: Student Tailgating
Are we really going to sit here and pretend like every other football school in the United States of America hasn't figured out a way to host tailgates where underage drinking laws are enforced to the extent necessary to prevent problems, but loosely enough that students can't have a good time with a little bit of discretion? And we're going to act like Delaware can't figure out how to do the same thing?rooneyguy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:12 am Freshmen students historically show up for the first home game. After that, not so much. And remember that when trying to lure students to a "tailgate party", it's only a party if there is alcohol there -- and UD can't sit back and allow underage drinking. So, just like many other places, don't expect huge student turnouts.
I agree that it's unrealistic for students to show up in force this season. But I don't know why we should think they *never* will. They don't show up because the University doesn't foster the necessary culture (including tailgating). That can change. My other alma mater, Wake Forest--the smallest school in the Power 5 and historically a bottom of the barrel football program--just set a student attendance record with the equivalent of almost 70% of its undergraduate student body attending a game. It's possible the school makes the right moves.