(02-12-2020, 12:23 AM)pirkster Wrote: (02-11-2020, 05:38 PM)Jagwired Wrote: If someone wanted to organize an event it should be to do something about the less than acceptable season ticket purchase levels, like a season ticket sellathon or something. That is why all this crap is happening. There are 43-45 thousand of us that are buying now and have for years no matter what. That is simply not enough, there needs to be 60-62 thousand. This team has been attempting/struggling to sell 20-25 thousand seats on a weekly basis now for years. It has proven to be that Jax really does not support the team that well. The numbers do not lie.
Don't want to lose games? Sell out the damn stadium on a season basis and you won't have to worry about it.
...and before all the "But they suck, the on field product stinks crap" just realize that win/loss records cannot be a determining factor for support in the NFL. If it is? Your games go to London.
I agree with this. It takes both.
Growing a larger base of diehard ticket buying fans (turning those who helped pull the tarps off the playoff game vs Buffalo into regular season ticket holders) plus a winning team is the answer.
It must be both.
Unfortunately, I feel we've come to a saturation point. There must be an influx of jobs and a rise in population for us to get the numbers where they need to be. When the diehards are dropping their tickets, you need new buyers to take their place. Winning can solve "some" of that, but as we're seeing - we don't have a high enough baseline to comfortably survive low tides.
Something must change on both ends of the equation, and for the better.
I'm willing to bet had the 2007 Jaguars (David Garrard vs Goliath Patriots year) success continued and sustained through the 10 years to our next winning season (Bortles and the rise of Sacksonville) that constant sell outs wouldn't be a problem. Now... I don't know if it would have completely eliminated the whole London thing... but if this franchise was good for 10 years instead of once every 10 years I'm willing to bet STHs would be closer to 60k than 40k as a steady number. You'd probably be able to draw more out of town fans also who'd be willing to spend the scratch to travel and come see the team more often and not only when tickets are available for about 30 bucks in December.
Winning won't cure all the revenue issues... but winning would ease the news of things like two London games while Lot J/Shipyards is realized. Fielding a watchable product would cause for a higher demand over a longer sustainable time, instead of in spurts after one good season where it quickly declines after sucking again.
