BC Rejects Opportunity to Play UConn Game at Fenway

[DomingoOrtiz]

Bands selling out Fenway this summer, you should check one out. Heard there was a football game there once as well.

I have been to 1 football game, 1 hockey game and 1 concert at Fenway. Football was by far the best.

[commavegarage]

Bands selling out Fenway this summer, you should check one out. Heard there was a football game there once as well.

I have been to 1 football game, 1 hockey game and 1 concert at Fenway. Football was by far the best.

I've been pretty pleased by the concerts there, but I've heard that if you're not on the field its pretty bad (i wouldn't know, ill ask my butler )

i will say, of course its best to see a concert in an amphitheater, but going to fenway for a concert you like on a saturday in the summer is better than:
-gillette
-mansfield and having to drive back
-td garden (ool)

edit: hockey is so bad at fenway

[twballgame9]

My point is not that Fenway is a great venue, quite the opposite. It's a shit venue and they can pretty much sell it out for anything, not just the Sox. While the Sox were not a tough sell from about 2003 on, they made the absolute most out of it. A lot of it they did by spending shit tons of cash, which BC won't do.

[dtwalrus]

I would be perfectly content playing a game at Fenway every single season where we have 7 home games. Six Alumni games plus a very marketable local-attention-grabber at Fenway sounds like a step in the right direction for BC's invisibility/ignominy lately.

I don't think we should confuse paying $900K to GT for the Ireland game for BC losing $900K on the Ireland game. I'm certain BC is profiting. And given how tight-assed we all know the athletic department is, I'm guessing that even with the $900K outlay to GT we'll make more off the game than we would a Labor Day weekend game against GT at Alumni. Especially with only 11K season ticket sales...

[twballgame9]

For the record, the Globe saying that BC is paying GT $900K to play is akin to BC pretending in needs a cash allocation of $50K to cover every scholarship. Accounting is awesome!

[angrychicken]

For the record, the Globe saying that BC is paying GT $900K to play is akin to BC pretending in needs a cash allocation of $50K to cover every scholarship. Accounting is awesome!

BUT THEY'RE LOSING MONEY!!!!!!

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

i blame bernie madoff

[angrychicken]

i blame bernie madoff

Get back to work.

[eepstein0]

If you want to play a game a year at Gillette I'm fine. Fenway is so uncomfortable no thanks.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

if we're going to lose like the washington generals why not just play all away games

[HJS]

This article was stupid. But, I'd like to point out that our paid "partner" for marketing just planted a hit piece in the globe with its hit-piece journalist. That would be unbelievable if the entire sports program wasn't already such a shitshow.

[claver2010]

I would be perfectly content playing a game at Fenway every single season where we have 7 home games. Six Alumni games plus a very marketable local-attention-grabber at Fenway sounds like a step in the right direction for BC's invisibility/ignominy lately.

this is dumb, we saw the same thing in hockey.

first time play your big rival, place sells out, prices ridiculously high...

2 years later play a lesser opponent in front of a half empty fenway

[commavegarage]

3-6 BC vs 4-5 Uconn the weekend before thanksgiving and wind chills of 20 degrees with an average ticket price of 100 bucks doesn't scream capacity crowd

[eagle33]

If there is one thing that the Red Sox know how to do, it is market and make money. If FSG is not helping BC, it is because BC cannot be helped. Period.

Marketing the Red Sox and marketing BC are two different animals. The Red Sox brand markets itself. Marketing BC takes actual work and ideas.

The Red Sox brand wasn't remotely close in 2001 to what it is now in 2016. The only thing more amazing than what the marketing team at Yawkey has done to the Sox brand is what they did to that piece of shit ballpark to make it at least close to worth attending.

I would guess that something other than the efforts of FSG has helped the Sox brand more during that time period.

They were selling out before they won the title. This argument is pretty much ended with the words "pink hats."

Point taken.

However, if that is the case, what has FSG done (and apparently failed at) to market BC? I don't know. I'm asking because their name gets thrown around every once in a while and I want to know how they earn their money.

I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe they came up with the idea for the hospitality tent at football games which, so far, has been a bigger flop than jimmy mac.

[twballgame9]

If there is one thing that the Red Sox know how to do, it is market and make money. If FSG is not helping BC, it is because BC cannot be helped. Period.

Marketing the Red Sox and marketing BC are two different animals. The Red Sox brand markets itself. Marketing BC takes actual work and ideas.

The Red Sox brand wasn't remotely close in 2001 to what it is now in 2016. The only thing more amazing than what the marketing team at Yawkey has done to the Sox brand is what they did to that piece of shit ballpark to make it at least close to worth attending.

I would guess that something other than the efforts of FSG has helped the Sox brand more during that time period.

They were selling out before they won the title. This argument is pretty much ended with the words "pink hats."

Point taken.

However, if that is the case, what has FSG done (and apparently failed at) to market BC? I don't know. I'm asking because their name gets thrown around every once in a while and I want to know how they earn their money.

I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe they came up with the idea for the hospitality tent at football games which, so far, has been a bigger flop than jimmy mac.

Good call. Wonder what sucks, Sox marketing or Boston College sports? Tough call there.

[h2o]

If there is one thing that the Red Sox know how to do, it is market and make money. If FSG is not helping BC, it is because BC cannot be helped. Period.

Marketing the Red Sox and marketing BC are two different animals. The Red Sox brand markets itself. Marketing BC takes actual work and ideas.

The Red Sox brand wasn't remotely close in 2001 to what it is now in 2016. The only thing more amazing than what the marketing team at Yawkey has done to the Sox brand is what they did to that piece of shit ballpark to make it at least close to worth attending.

I would guess that something other than the efforts of FSG has helped the Sox brand more during that time period.

They were selling out before they won the title. This argument is pretty much ended with the words "pink hats."

Point taken.

However, if that is the case, what has FSG done (and apparently failed at) to market BC? I don't know. I'm asking because their name gets thrown around every once in a while and I want to know how they earn their money.

I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe they came up with the idea for the hospitality tent at football games which, so far, has been a bigger flop than jimmy mac.

Good call. Wonder what sucks, Sox marketing or Boston College sports? Tough call there.

Improvements to the ballpark and winning a few world series helped the sox more than anything. But, since you know so much about marketing, give us a few examples of good ideas FMG has come up with specific to BC. That's what the question is.

[DomingoOrtiz]

This article was stupid. But, I'd like to point out that our paid "partner" for marketing just planted a hit piece in the globe with its hit-piece journalist. That would be unbelievable if the entire sports program wasn't already such a shitshow.

So it would seem. Could it be, that since this was Bates' best move since shitcanning Spaz, Bates planted the story? Although it also highlights one of his worse moves: scheduling Yukon in football.

[twballgame9]

If there is one thing that the Red Sox know how to do, it is market and make money. If FSG is not helping BC, it is because BC cannot be helped. Period.

Marketing the Red Sox and marketing BC are two different animals. The Red Sox brand markets itself. Marketing BC takes actual work and ideas.

The Red Sox brand wasn't remotely close in 2001 to what it is now in 2016. The only thing more amazing than what the marketing team at Yawkey has done to the Sox brand is what they did to that piece of shit ballpark to make it at least close to worth attending.

I would guess that something other than the efforts of FSG has helped the Sox brand more during that time period.

They were selling out before they won the title. This argument is pretty much ended with the words "pink hats."

Point taken.

However, if that is the case, what has FSG done (and apparently failed at) to market BC? I don't know. I'm asking because their name gets thrown around every once in a while and I want to know how they earn their money.

I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe they came up with the idea for the hospitality tent at football games which, so far, has been a bigger flop than jimmy mac.

Good call. Wonder what sucks, Sox marketing or Boston College sports? Tough call there.

Improvements to the ballpark and winning a few world series helped the sox more than anything. But, since you know so much about marketing, give us a few examples of good ideas FMG has come up with specific to BC. That's what the question is.

I'll get right on that. Wait here.