ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Uh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
That’s because the DIA didn’t build enough hotel rooms!Uh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
Uh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
I will attest to that. My wife, kids and I plus in-laws are now looking in Peoria and Springfield for hotel rooms…. Both amazing and annoyedUh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
This is sort of true in the annoying sense that there are no rooms Saturday night but a bunch of you arrive Friday and book two nights...Uh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
Uh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
Yet another problem with our program/"city". I would think it would be in the U's best interest to reach out to the hotel chains in the area and come to some sort of deal to entice them to drop the ridiculous 2 night stay requirement. How many people decide that the additional cost of an extra night just is not worth buying a ticket? Makes no sense. Pure greed on the part of the hotels.This is sort of true in the annoying sense that there are no rooms Saturday night but a bunch of you arrive Friday and book two nights...
Danville or D-Vegas if you will is wonderful this time of year. I make swing in a revisit all of my old haunts.I will attest to that. My wife, kids and I plus in-laws are now looking in Peoria and Springfield for hotel rooms…. Both amazing and annoyed
This is true, which is very unclear on these booking sites. Thanks!This is sort of true in the annoying sense that there are no rooms Saturday night but a bunch of you arrive Friday and book two nights...
Well and forget the price deterring people in the abstract. For an 11AM or 2:30PM game, selling a hotel room for both nights basically doubles the number of fans that can come from out of town.Yet another problem with our program/"city". I would think it would be in the U's best interest to reach out to the hotel chains in the area and come to some sort of deal to entice them to drop the ridiculous 2 night stay requirement. How many people decide that the additional cost of an extra night just is not worth buying a ticket? Makes no sense. Pure greed on the part of the hotels.
Edit: would be interesting to estimate how much this has cost the program in ticket/concession revenue. The number has to be very high.
1983 Twist and Shout!!! The absolute peak of Illini football over the past 40 years.1979 - HS Junior - program dead in the water
1980 - HS Senior - still losing, but playing exciting ball
1981 - college FR - kind of like this year; started coming into our own, fan base gets back into it
1982 - college SO - the start of absolute pandemonium. Hard to describe the excitement surrounding the program and the noise at the games
1983 - college JR - Beatles level excitement
Check Clinton, IL along R51I will attest to that. My wife, kids and I plus in-laws are now looking in Peoria and Springfield for hotel rooms…. Both amazing and annoyed
Road trips are sooo much fun......Went on many and I am lucky to be alive today.........420 was just one of the many mood enhancers that i was introduced to and enjoyed.......I really really did.....................1983 Twist and Shout!!! The absolute peak of Illini football over the past 40 years.
I was a college JR in 1983.
Road trip to Miznoz was spoiled by Illini failure to show up in an ugly loss. All in all, still a good trip - a la Pruman
The 5 wins in Oct -starting with the 33-0 blowout of Chuck Long's #4 Iowa on Oct 1, later beating #6 tOSU and ending with the Oct 29 victory over #8 ScUM shortly followed by the bacchanalian Halloween celebration in Campus Town - unforgettable... even after excessive PruMan behavior.
9-0 in the Big Ten. 10-1 overall. #4 ranking headed to forgettable Rose Bowl... with or without PruMan behavior.
The interim years have been dominated by hoops, Tennis and golf.
I am a believer in BB putting Illini football back on the map.
The state wresting tournment did the same thing. Just not a lot of hotel rooms beyond normal demand at campus town.Uh, note this in the attendance discussion: there is not currently a hotel room to be had in Champaign-Urbana on Saturday night.
I went to the Illinois @ Penn State game on Oct. 29th, 2011, in what turned out to be Joe Paterno's last game (I have flashbacks remembering how we Illini fans in the visitors section and the team on the field were continuously the target of Penn St. fan snowballs). Hotel rooms in Happy Valley were a 2 night minimum at over $300/night in 2011. We stayed 40 miles away in Altoona.Well and forget the price deterring people in the abstract. For an 11AM or 2:30PM game, selling a hotel room for both nights basically doubles the number of fans that can come from out of town.
I'm curious how all of this works at Penn State btw, which has all the dynamics we have at an even higher level (State College is a smaller town than C-U, further from the population centers sending all the fans than Chicago is to C-U, and the attendance is even higher)
Check Forsyth. Closer than both of those. Residence Inn or the Hampton Inn.I will attest to that. My wife, kids and I plus in-laws are now looking in Peoria and Springfield for hotel rooms…. Both amazing and annoyed
You can run an optimization model to solve this. Just depends on what your priorities arehopefully noon announcement ends some of the debate. so I'll get in another comment before then. DIA should have thought any number of things through (differentiated pricing, ie, volume and lower price points, financial model, risk analysis, ...). This isn't just about the IA game. Lets say 30-35K were going to sold anyway for most games/season. DIA likely thought: we'll be lucky to ever sell 10K and price won't matter and anyway (depending on year) we'll get IA, W, N fans to come and pay. But we are stuck at selling 5-10K. Lets consider 0-25K additonal sales all at $75 price and alternative.
sale price rev rev at 75 "lost rev" (is it really lost?)
25K $25 625k 1.8 mil 1.2 mil
20K $30 600k 1.5 mil 0.9
15K $50 750K 1.1 mil 0.38
10K $75 750K 750k 0
5K $75 375K 375k 0
This doesn't include parking (20-25 for ?average 3/vehicle), concessions (5-15/person) or boosts for local economy hotel, restauraunts, gas, sponsors, NIL or future fans/donors and attracting current and future students. The ticket revenue is a lower percent of total given TV deals. They made a non-existent effort to reach out to student clubs, faculty, locals.
Also: if price didn't matter - student season = 85, single game = 15-18ish. Free got several thousand for Chat. Today, free got a line for 1000 with more turned away. but somehow they wouldn't pay $15.
Projected score: 14-8.