Info Flow/Fan Excitement

[T-Dog]

Little things can be fine tuned about FanFest to make it great.

-Signage saying what teams/coaches are where.
-Moving it up to 11 a.m. or Noon to avoid the hottest time of the day on a turf field in August.
-Having the surplus sale two hours before FanFest. Most the crowd was in line for the surplus sale while the student athletes twiddled their thumbs.
-Have the marching band there. They were practicing at the Hayes Center while FanFest happened and afterward practiced in the stadium (Dowell spoke to them)
-Yosef Club table near the entrance.
-Have concessions on the field. They only had them at the Gran N Go. I got something, went out, sat in a seat to drink my water and not one minutes later a security told me the stadium seats were closed and I had to move.
-Longer than 90 minutes. It feels like they just wanted people in and out so they wouldn't have to pay security guards as much.

Having FanFest during move-in weekend was interesting as it made parking difficult.

[AppStFan1]

Little things can be fine tuned about FanFest to make it great.

-Signage saying what teams/coaches are where.
-Moving it up to 11 a.m. or Noon to avoid the hottest time of the day on a turf field in August.
-Having the surplus sale two hours before FanFest. Most the crowd was in line for the surplus sale while the student athletes twiddled their thumbs.
-Have the marching band there. They were practicing at the Hayes Center while FanFest happened and afterward practiced in the stadium (Dowell spoke to them)
-Yosef Club table near the entrance.
-Have concessions on the field. They only had them at the Gran N Go. I got something, went out, sat in a seat to drink my water and not one minutes later a security told me the stadium seats were closed and I had to move.
-Longer than 90 minutes. It feels like they just wanted people in and out so they wouldn't have to pay security guards as much.

Having FanFest during move-in weekend was interesting as it made parking difficult.

All the things you said there are things I would have expected to change but I am not shocked, sadly. I went to watch the practice from a hill for the last bit in the AM but did not want to stand out in the heat for autographs.

[Saint3333]

How many attended?

[Bootsy]

I don’t complain or gripe about our athletic department like a lot on here do…

but..

It blows my mind that there was not a desk right at the entrance today to sign people up for the Yosef Club. What a missed opportunity.

I was trying to sign my 1 year old up for the Junior Mountaineer Kids Club, walked around the entire field looking for a table…nothing. Seems like an event geared towards families and kids would at least have a table for JMKC.

Tons of new families on the mountain, a great opportunity to grow these groups. We should be making it as easy as possible.

Anyways, fired up for the season. GO APPS!!

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

[AppStFan1]

I don’t complain or gripe about our athletic department like a lot on here do…

but..

It blows my mind that there was not a desk right at the entrance today to sign people up for the Yosef Club. What a missed opportunity.

I was trying to sign my 1 year old up for the Junior Mountaineer Kids Club, walked around the entire field looking for a table…nothing. Seems like an event geared towards families and kids would at least have a table for JMKC.

Tons of new families on the mountain, a great opportunity to grow these groups. We should be making it as easy as possible.

Anyways, fired up for the season. GO APPS!!

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

You are speaking to the choir. It feels like we have people in the athletics department who just want to have excuses for not getting things done. Lack of money is their excuse now but if you give them the money they would come up with another excuse. There are many people who would volunteer to help for the day.

[AppSt94]

I don’t complain or gripe about our athletic department like a lot on here do…

but..

It blows my mind that there was not a desk right at the entrance today to sign people up for the Yosef Club. What a missed opportunity.

I was trying to sign my 1 year old up for the Junior Mountaineer Kids Club, walked around the entire field looking for a table…nothing. Seems like an event geared towards families and kids would at least have a table for JMKC.

Tons of new families on the mountain, a great opportunity to grow these groups. We should be making it as easy as possible.

Anyways, fired up for the season. GO APPS!!

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

Don’t we have or used to have a YCAB? Seems like that’s something that they should spearhead.

[JTApps1]

There should be YC staff onsite for events like this along with every football game trying to sign fans and students up. I'd have instant seat upgrades available or merch/concession discounts available on game day.

[AEwiththebraids]

I'm guessing its Swann as of now

[Bootsy]

I don’t complain or gripe about our athletic department like a lot on here do…

but..

It blows my mind that there was not a desk right at the entrance today to sign people up for the Yosef Club. What a missed opportunity.

I was trying to sign my 1 year old up for the Junior Mountaineer Kids Club, walked around the entire field looking for a table…nothing. Seems like an event geared towards families and kids would at least have a table for JMKC.

Tons of new families on the mountain, a great opportunity to grow these groups. We should be making it as easy as possible.

Anyways, fired up for the season. GO APPS!!

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

You are speaking to the choir. It feels like we have people in the athletics department who just want to have excuses for not getting things done. Lack of money is their excuse now but if you give them the money they would come up with another excuse. There are many people who would volunteer to help for the day.

If you think DG and his team are lazy, you have zero understanding of what happens over on Jack Branch. App's Athletics Department is chronically understaffed due to budget constraints, but they do a tremendous amount of work given the small number of people on that team.

When a team is understaffed, things fall through the cracks because you can only manage so much. The issue here is the stuff falling through the cracks are opportunities to get more people involved and raise funds (i.e., staffing Student YC tables at Freshman orientation, recruiting for YC/SYC/JMKC at games and events, etc.).

[BambooRdApp]

I don’t complain or gripe about our athletic department like a lot on here do…

but..

It blows my mind that there was not a desk right at the entrance today to sign people up for the Yosef Club. What a missed opportunity.

I was trying to sign my 1 year old up for the Junior Mountaineer Kids Club, walked around the entire field looking for a table…nothing. Seems like an event geared towards families and kids would at least have a table for JMKC.

Tons of new families on the mountain, a great opportunity to grow these groups. We should be making it as easy as possible.

Anyways, fired up for the season. GO APPS!!

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

You are speaking to the choir. It feels like we have people in the athletics department who just want to have excuses for not getting things done. Lack of money is their excuse now but if you give them the money they would come up with another excuse. There are many people who would volunteer to help for the day.

If you think DG and his team are lazy, you have zero understanding of what happens over on Jack Branch. App's Athletics Department is chronically understaffed due to budget constraints, but they do a tremendous amount of work given the small number of people on that team.

When a team is understaffed, things fall through the cracks because you can only manage so much. The issue here is the stuff falling through the cracks are opportunities to get more people involved and raise funds (i.e., staffing Student YC tables at Freshman orientation, recruiting for YC/SYC/JMKC at games and events, etc.).

I thought T-Dog had some good points and many are no cost or not expensive to fine tune. Others may not be able to be corrected such as time of day if trying to accommodate as many sports as possible... practice, etc. However, many seem like low hanging fruit that should be shared with the Athletic Dept in a constructive manner.

Like the idea of the band...music is always good add to the atmosphere. May get some young kids interested in the band

[AppSt94]

I don’t complain or gripe about our athletic department like a lot on here do…

but..

It blows my mind that there was not a desk right at the entrance today to sign people up for the Yosef Club. What a missed opportunity.

I was trying to sign my 1 year old up for the Junior Mountaineer Kids Club, walked around the entire field looking for a table…nothing. Seems like an event geared towards families and kids would at least have a table for JMKC.

Tons of new families on the mountain, a great opportunity to grow these groups. We should be making it as easy as possible.

Anyways, fired up for the season. GO APPS!!

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

You are speaking to the choir. It feels like we have people in the athletics department who just want to have excuses for not getting things done. Lack of money is their excuse now but if you give them the money they would come up with another excuse. There are many people who would volunteer to help for the day.

If you think DG and his team are lazy, you have zero understanding of what happens over on Jack Branch. App's Athletics Department is chronically understaffed due to budget constraints, but they do a tremendous amount of work given the small number of people on that team.

When a team is understaffed, things fall through the cracks because you can only manage so much. The issue here is the stuff falling through the cracks are opportunities to get more people involved and raise funds (i.e., staffing Student YC tables at Freshman orientation, recruiting for YC/SYC/JMKC at games and events, etc.).

I thought T-Dog had some good points and many are no cost or not expensive to fine tune. Others may not be able to be corrected such as time of day if trying to accommodate as many sports as possible... practice, etc. However, many seem like low hanging fruit that should be shared with the Athletic Dept in a constructive manner.

Like the idea of the band...music is always good add to the atmosphere. May get some young kids interested in the band

I agree with some of the suggestions as well. My only question is how does one know if they were missed opportunities or not completed due to extenuating issues. While I don’t disagree with the idea of having the band there, they maybe asked and were told no. The band is in training camp with freshmen and portal transfers, (kidding) and like the football team is learning to play together.

[BambooRdApp]

The reason many of us complain about ASU Athletics (me included) is because issues like the one you pointed out

• Are low-hanging fruit and

• Have been going on for years

Having spring scrimmage and Fanfest events are a super ways to generate excitement and entice fans to donate. Isn’t that the primary objective? Not having signup/donation tables around the property is a massive miss.

And just in case anyone responds that the department is understaffed and they can’t do everything: there are thousands of alumni within an hours drive that would love to volunteer and do grunt work…like manning a YC/JMKC table (again, me included).

How difficult is it to run a $50 background check on a volunteer and give them an hours training on stuffing envelopes, running a Stripe reader, etc.?

You are speaking to the choir. It feels like we have people in the athletics department who just want to have excuses for not getting things done. Lack of money is their excuse now but if you give them the money they would come up with another excuse. There are many people who would volunteer to help for the day.

If you think DG and his team are lazy, you have zero understanding of what happens over on Jack Branch. App's Athletics Department is chronically understaffed due to budget constraints, but they do a tremendous amount of work given the small number of people on that team.

When a team is understaffed, things fall through the cracks because you can only manage so much. The issue here is the stuff falling through the cracks are opportunities to get more people involved and raise funds (i.e., staffing Student YC tables at Freshman orientation, recruiting for YC/SYC/JMKC at games and events, etc.).

I thought T-Dog had some good points and many are no cost or not expensive to fine tune. Others may not be able to be corrected such as time of day if trying to accommodate as many sports as possible... practice, etc. However, many seem like low hanging fruit that should be shared with the Athletic Dept in a constructive manner.

Like the idea of the band...music is always good add to the atmosphere. May get some young kids interested in the band

I agree with some of the suggestions as well. My only question is how does one know if they were missed opportunities or not completed due to extenuating issues. While I don’t disagree with the idea of having the band there, they maybe asked and were told no. The band is in training camp with freshmen and portal transfers, (kidding) and like the football team is learning to play together.

NIL for band is the logical next step for pay to play