Ultimate Insider Podcast E94: Miami Review, Pitt Preview

So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

Bowlesman80 said:

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So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

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Does Cal still do women's day?

The was a big driver of engagement.

Regardless, fans don't lead the team. The team and stadium has to stop sucking the life out of the people who show up. If the product on the field sucks, the product off the field needs to be great, and it isn't.

LunchTime said:

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Bowlesman80 said:

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So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

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Does Cal still do women's day?

The was a big driver of engagement.

Regardless, fans don't lead the team. The team and stadium has to stop sucking the life out of the people who show up. If the product on the field sucks, the product off the field needs to be great, and it isn't.

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I disagree. The great teams have/had steadfast, eager fanbases that lifted them.
The Greenbay Packers, for example, was essentially created and propelled forward by fans.

Fans putting their money where their mouth drives all great programs. FYI- it's my understanding that Miami's NIL is $15 million, Bama's $20 million. If we want to truly rise to the greatness we demand, then we need to get to a point where we match the above.

Look at THIS!

https://www.spotfund.com/story/5bbfc2ff-a186-44b2-a4e3-65609e323b81

LunchTime said:

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Bowlesman80 said:

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So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

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Does Cal still do women's day?

The was a big driver of engagement.

Regardless, fans don't lead the team. The team and stadium has to stop sucking the life out of the people who show up. If the product on the field sucks, the product off the field needs to be great, and it isn't.

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We won 3 games this season. The last game, a loss, was a heartbreaker though. We are now 3-2.

oski003 said:

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LunchTime said:

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Bowlesman80 said:

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So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

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Does Cal still do women's day?

The was a big driver of engagement.

Regardless, fans don't lead the team. The team and stadium has to stop sucking the life out of the people who show up. If the product on the field sucks, the product off the field needs to be great, and it isn't.

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We won 3 games this season. The last game, a loss, was a heartbreaker though. We are now 3-2.

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Alabama, too, lost. It happens. You dig in deeper and learn.

Bowlesman80 said:

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LunchTime said:

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Bowlesman80 said:

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So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

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Does Cal still do women's day?

The was a big driver of engagement.

Regardless, fans don't lead the team. The team and stadium has to stop sucking the life out of the people who show up. If the product on the field sucks, the product off the field needs to be great, and it isn't.

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I disagree. The great teams have/had steadfast, eager fanbases that lifted them.
The Greenbay Packers, for example, was essentially created and propelled forward by fans.

Fans putting their money where their mouth drives all great programs. FYI- it's my understanding that Miami's NIL is $15 million, Bama's $20 million. If we want to truly rise to the greatness we demand, then we need to get to a point where we match the above.

Look at THIS!

https://www.spotfund.com/story/5bbfc2ff-a186-44b2-a4e3-65609e323b81

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Green Bay has the championship trophy named after their program.

The experience at that stadium doesn't suck.

The cubs might have been lost in the sauce for 100 years, but the stadium was something you went to see off-season if you were a fan.

You naming organizations with world class traditions they hang onto like crazy in relation to Cal seems to miss the meat of my argument.

Even then, though, Cal survived Holmoe with a mediocre stadium experience, pulling over 20k to the worst season we've had. Now the experience is below mediocre with slightly better teams.

Regardless, I'm not talking about those professional teams. I am talking about Cal teams, whos leaders have consistently called out fans for not showing up while pushing out bad teams AND a diminishing stadium experience.

Fix one or the other and the fans will show up.

LunchTime said:

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Bowlesman80 said:

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LunchTime said:

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Bowlesman80 said:

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So, let's start setting benchmarks for fans.
1. Keep up Miami-level attendance. It makes a difference.
2. Shoot for Miami/Alabama-level NIL
3. Learn what one can do positively as a fan.

Fans are customers and are the life-blood of building a program. Would it be ridiculous to offer fan-friendly football education and tours to increase fan buy-in? Honestly, we might get some pro football fans to buy in, but we might want to cultivate an untapped fan base in the Bay Area and nationally. Marketing, education, strategy in interdisciplinary classes? Support groups? Building a brand, while we improve the team is essential. I think our brand would appeal as a marriage of brains and brawn. Let's sell that. You can be smart and tough, like a poet warrior.

So, what benchmarks do we need to get NIL to National contender levels? Tell the fans

*anxiously awaiting Mike's book.

---

Does Cal still do women's day?

The was a big driver of engagement.

Regardless, fans don't lead the team. The team and stadium has to stop sucking the life out of the people who show up. If the product on the field sucks, the product off the field needs to be great, and it isn't.

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I disagree. The great teams have/had steadfast, eager fanbases that lifted them.
The Greenbay Packers, for example, was essentially created and propelled forward by fans.

Fans putting their money where their mouth drives all great programs. FYI- it's my understanding that Miami's NIL is $15 million, Bama's $20 million. If we want to truly rise to the greatness we demand, then we need to get to a point where we match the above.

Look at THIS!

https://www.spotfund.com/story/5bbfc2ff-a186-44b2-a4e3-65609e323b81

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Green Bay has the championship trophy named after their program.

The experience at that stadium doesn't suck.

The cubs might have been lost in the sauce for 100 years, but the stadium was something you went to see off-season if you were a fan.

You naming organizations with world class traditions they hang onto like crazy in relation to Cal seems to miss the meat of my argument.

Even then, though, Cal survived Holmoe with a mediocre stadium experience, pulling over 20k to the worst season we've had. Now the experience is below mediocre with slightly better teams.

Regardless, I'm not talking about those professional teams. I am talking about Cal teams, whos leaders have consistently called out fans for not showing up while pushing out bad teams AND a diminishing stadium experience.

Fix one or the other and the fans will show up.

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"The experience at the stadium doesn't suck."

LOL. Google The Ice Bowl.

We need to step up if we're to make Cal a contender.