The Importance Of CCU Tailgate And Sports

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The four dimensions I observed at the Coastal Carolina University tailgate and football game were public safety, ticketing, tailgating, and fans. First, I looked into the public safety aspect of the tailgate and game. With that I learned they hire 12 Horry County officers as well as 32-34 of our own campus officers. They want everyone to be safe at tailgates and games so usually CCU has about 75 total security enforcers. The next dimension of the CCU tailgate and football game I looked into was ticketing. Coastal Carolina offers three main types of tickets: the season tickets; broken into different types by seating. The second type of ticket is CINO ticket, which is a ticket to one single game. The last is a promotional sale ticket, which is used to offer sales to different groups. On October 22, 2013 they offered a promotion sale ticket to any military family and friends for the CCU VS. VMI game. With tickets, Michael Jacobs is in charge of looking back into past games to see how many people to expect at the game. For example, he would have looked into the VMI game from past years to see how many people came then, to see how many people and tickets sold we would be expecting this year. Tailgating and student life is a big deal every Saturday at CCU. Tailgating starts the minute the fans, families, students, and friends enter the campus. They also involve many aspects to enjoy a good tailgate, like food, music, etc. Tailgating at Coastal offers a variety of things to the crowd that comes on Saturdays. CCU offers a family fun zone with plenty of food, face painters, interaction, and fun things for children to do. Coastal also offers reserved tailgating for anyone who wants to come out and enjoy the tailgate and football game. Last... ... middle of paper ... ...t their tickets in advance and get pumped to have a good time. My recommendations for tailgating would be all in the advertisement, CCU could make flyers that advertise for people to come out and tailgate before the games. Also regarding tailgating, advertise at local restaurants that they will be attending our tailgates, or even bring in more restaurants and local food places to come to the game and sell their food. There’s nothing wrong with having more food available at tailgates. My recommendations for the fan aspect of games and tailgates would be to do more fun things for the reserved tailgating they seem to be more on their own than anything, whereas if CCU put games or food by them it could make it more fun. Also, for fans CCU could make it rewarding and if they came to a certain amount of home games they could win a free Coastal football shirt or something.

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