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I try not to make a habit out of it, but it does slip out sometimes.are you trying to use common sense?![]()
I try not to make a habit out of it, but it does slip out sometimes.are you trying to use common sense?![]()
I know who you're talking about, and he's still a very chill guy to talk to, but ever since he changed positions in the AD his responsibilities have shot way up and doesn't have the free time he once had before, during, and after games.Heck... there's one guy in Athletics (not gonna throw his name out there cause I actually like the guy)... but under the previous AD (Norwood)... the guy used to talk to me, and a lot of the Rowdies... as well as people like @fmrick & others. heck he worked directly with the Rowdy Rams when it came to the 6th man rewards & Rowdy Bus Trips. And the dude was cool as heck, the year we went to the final four... I stopped being a student at VCU after the fall semester... so I couldn't use my Student ID anymore to attend games... the end of the season when students went to claim their rewards...., I went up there to get mine, and despite not officially attending all the games as a student.... he saw me at the games & gave me all the rewards including the Gold #12 Jersey which was the final 6th man reward that season.
I still see the guy around games all the time.... but I couldn't tell you the last time I talked to the dude.
Don't get your name cancelled off the casual fans mailing list quite yet Rick. If you buy tickets from VCU online, you also get a free gift and a voucher for beer/ wine at the games. They cancelled free gifts off the donor perks. If you are a donor/ season ticket holder and want to buy a drink, you get to wait behind the non donors in the concession line getting free beer.The latest.
They cancelled all of the donor hospitality at games. Their reasoning was COVID (this is getting stupid throughout our society, the latest was a guy on the news saying there is a Christmas Tree shortage due to COVID, trying to explain price increases). While I can see the reasoning, I can't put together the fact that somehow they think a person is more at risk standing in the Commonwealth Room then they are sitting in the SC?
Now we learn that NOT ALL hostility has been cancelled. They are still taking high donors to away games as a group. First, it was a trip on the TEAM charter to Nashville, and now we hear they are doing a bus trip, including a "nice dinner prior to the game" to Norfolk.
So it is OK to put donors on an aircraft WITH PLAYERS, putting the players at additional risk, at a time when college basketball games are being cancelled across the country due to COVID problems (best and closest example- Wagner). One would think that the #1 priority for an AD would be player safety. Period. I'm sure adequate steps were taken to protect the players as much as possible, but what perceptions does this create?
So we are left to think it is not really COVID for the cancelled hospitality, but something else. Money? Just lazy? Just don't care?
That may be the saddest remark ever posted on any site.We have officially become UR.
I just think some people are feeling under-appreciated. There is a complete void of appreciation for donors going on for 2 years now. Seriously, how hard would it be for VCU to send out some free swag to people that gave last year? Or maybe lower there prices this past year. A free t-shirt(s) or open the hospitality rooms or some vouchers for refreshments. I don't walk over existing customers by offering new customers better pricing. Yeah, I know some places like phone, cable companies, gyms... do that. But as a consumer, it rubs me the wrong way.heck hath no fury like a VCU season ticket holder scorned apparently.
who gives a fudge what promotions they put together to sell tickets? Ya'll are the same people that will also be complaining when tickets aren't sold so make up your darn mind do you want them to sell tickets or not?![]()
That may be the saddest remark ever posted on any site.
As long as we strive for basketball excellence we won’t sink that low.
I just think some people are feeling under-appreciated. There is a complete void of appreciation for donors going on for 2 years now. Seriously, how hard would it be for VCU to send out some free swag to people that gave last year? Or maybe lower there prices this past year. A free t-shirt(s) or open the hospitality rooms or some vouchers for refreshments. I don't walk over existing customers by offering new customers better pricing. Yeah, I know some places like phone, cable companies, gyms... do that. But as a consumer, it rubs me the wrong way.
Forget the free Swag..... How about NOT DOING A RE-SEATING DURING A COVID YEAR? Knowing full & darn well we were not going to have a full crowd last season... if we had any crowd whatsoever. MADE ABSOLUTELY ZERO SENSE.
At least, if you actually give a $#!t about your donor base.
Some people were already getting priced out or were gonna not renew their season tickets to begin with.... then they do a re-seating & even more people opted not to renew.
smh....And it looks like we may go down that path again, very soon.
Do you really believe that? I used to cover state sports in the mid-80s to mid-90s and UR got good crowds when Tarrant was winning games. VCU was in a dark hole at that time. Winning and good basketball has everything to do with it. Die hards that support the program go to games no matter what. By this way, VCU lost fans when they built the Stu. Fans got mad when they winning but then got unhappy with Shaka and the CBI year and called for his ouster at the end of the 2011 season. They left and new fans jumped onboard after the Final Four and rode it out. When he left the crowds went up and down according to how the team was doing. Game day atmosphere will not pick up again until they put wins together. Just look at the 2018-19 season when the team was 25-7. Crowds were coming and they were into it. The following year the senior laden team fell apart and then COVID kept us away from Bones' senior season. Now that we can go to watch the team is offensively deficient and the pandemic still has things in a tizzy for various reasons. I received an email from Ed yesterday about the COVID tough times to end last season and about masks/support this season. Hopefully next year we will begin getting fans engaged with a winning team.It is not just wins and losses. That is not just the basketball.
Are you Rick Lewis?We have officially become UR.
Do you really believe that? I used to cover state sports in the mid-80s to mid-90s and UR got good crowds when Tarrant was winning games. VCU was in a dark hole at that time. Winning and good basketball has everything to do with it. Die hards that support the program go to games no matter what. By this way, VCU lost fans when they built the Stu. Fans got mad when they winning but then got unhappy with Shaka and the CBI year and called for his ouster at the end of the 2011 season. They left and new fans jumped onboard after the Final Four and rode it out. When he left the crowds went up and down according to how the team was doing. Game day atmosphere will not pick up again until they put wins together. Just look at the 2018-19 season when the team was 25-7. Crowds were coming and they were into it. The following year the senior laden team fell apart and then COVID kept us away from Bones' senior season. Now that we can go to watch the team is offensively deficient and the pandemic still has things in a tizzy for various reasons. I received an email for Ed yesterday about the COVID tough times to end last season and about masks/support this season. Hopefully next year we will begin getting fans engaged with a winning team.