If you want families making it part of their fall to be in Stillwater on game day you had best change that attitude. The crowds before the game were small and have been declining the past two years. This trapping people in a stadium is weak, you can't find a grillaroni and the selections are receding. It's not about football, it's about and entertaining and fun atmosphere, that isn't really happening.
How can you be a big time program and gamedays not be about football?
We sold out our earlier games coming off of a 7 win season.
We have more people in the stands to start the 2nd half then we did before the policy which is a very good thing.
If someone buys a ticket, then isn't at the game, they are guaranteeing that that there will be 1 less person in attendance. That's not good
It would be better to give that ticket to someone who will be in the seats.
If tailgating is that big of a deal to you, I can't imagine any reason why you wouldn't eat before and after the game at your taligate.
Why would you tailgate that extensively, then rely on stadium food for your lunch or dinner?
Is having people there that aren't going to the game, and are keeping people from going into the stadium a good thing for the football program?
If we're ever going to be a bigtime program, we need more people at the games that can't wait to go to the game and create a great home field, and less people that are there just to party.
The quickest way to lose both fans and tailgaters is for the football program to fall off.