Fan engagement

[Max_Rebo]

I wanted to start a new thread on the topic of fan engagement activities, which has popped up across several threads.

More specifically, I'm hoping posters can refresh my memory on why some fan engagement activities ended, and whether or not they could be resurrected. I'm thinking of things like the shirts-and-skins games before home football games, as well as the PTL. Or, in more distant history, things like team tours around the state -- kind of "barn-storming" events.

These are the kinds of things that brought players closer to fans, and I believe could be a strong building block toward building back fan support. That, and making deep NCAA Tourney runs, of course.

 

[83Hawk]

I wanted to start a new thread on the topic of fan engagement activities, which has popped up across several threads.

More specifically, I'm hoping posters can refresh my memory on why some fan engagement activities ended, and whether or not they could be resurrected. I'm thinking of things like the shirts-and-skins games before home football games, as well as the PTL. Or, in more distant history, things like team tours around the state -- kind of "barn-storming" events.

These are the kinds of things that brought players closer to fans, and I believe could be a strong building block toward building back fan support. That, and making deep NCAA Tourney runs, of course.

Heck, you can’t even watch the team practice when they have them before a football game. You are asked to leave.

There are things that can be done, but neither Fran nor the University are interested in doing anything (apparently).

 

[TampaHawkfan]

There was the Black and Gold Blowout, which seemed popular. I'm not sure why that ended.

Players would sign autographs before the game, and the game itself was entertaining.

 

[Max_Rebo]

There was the Black and Gold Blowout, which seemed popular. I'm not sure why that ended.

Players would sign autographs before the game, and the game itself was entertaining.

This reminds me of watching a Black-and-Gold game at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids when I was in high school. I remember seeing a couple of good-looking freshman on that year's team, Ray Thompson and James Moses, and being excited to watch their careers unfold. I guess Marble, Armstrong, and Horton would have been seniors on that year's team.

 

[General Tso]

My brain read this as 'Fran engagement' and wondered if there was trouble on the homefront

 

[Hawks2626]

Black and gold blowout, PTL, Shirts/Skins, Big 4 Classic in Des Moines, anything to actually connect with the fans.

 

[doughuddl2]

PTL stopped because NCAA rule changed on how and when teams could practice.

 

[Max_Rebo]

PTL stopped because NCAA rule changed on how and when teams could practice.

That sounds right. Wasn't it the deal that the rule change allowed the teams to practice more over the summer, thus negating the need to play pickup games as an alternative?

So, nothing prohibiting the PTL (or similar activities) ... just a new rule allowing more (closed) practices during the same period.

 

[SCHawkFan]

It became hard to do the shirts and skins games on football Saturdays when Iowa started playing so many 11 AM games. Back in the heyday of shirts and skins, almost all games started at 1.