Jaguars 2011 Ticket Sales

[copperfiend]

Not buying season tickets to a team that has been rebuilding for 8 years. Whenever they get rid of Del-Rio I will buy season tickets. I will check out a few home games this year, and support the team in that fashion.

Wrong. They started rebuilding in 2009.

[Shwaz]

Not buying season tickets to a team that has been rebuilding for 8 years. Whenever they get rid of Del-Rio I will buy season tickets. I will check out a few home games this year, and support the team in that fashion.

Wrong. They started rebuilding in 2009.

Chalk another one up for the entitled fan.

[manasia]

In my opinion they have been rebuilding since JDR became coach, I have never really thought of him as being a good coach, so hopefully Wayne and the crew will make a better decision and hire a better Head coach.

I am not an entitled fan, I am just a fan who is tired of the same ol same ol.

[copperfiend]

They really started rebuilding the year before Del Rio got here. After 2001, they let go of McCardell, Boselli, Walker, Payne, Hardy, Nickerson and Beasley.

When Del Rio got hired the rebuilding continued and they added players like Mathis, Manuwai, Peterson, Grant, D Smith, McCray, Scobee. From 2004-2007, they averaged 10 wins a season. That was a result of the rebuilding effort from in 2002-2003.

2008 was a disaster and Shack Harris was let go. When Gene Smith took over, he cleaned house. He got rid of alot of players. Lemon, Taylor, R Williams, Matt Jones, Porter, Barnes, Pashos, Spicer, McCray, Henderson, Peterson, Florence, B Williams, Nelson. He committed to rebuilding the draft. The team was in playoff contention until week 17 last year less than two years after a near complete overhaul.

[Shwaz]

They really started rebuilding the year before Del Rio got here. After 2001, they let go of McCardell, Boselli, Walker, Payne, Hardy, Nickerson and Beasley.

When Del Rio got hired the rebuilding continued and they added players like Mathis, Manuwai, Peterson, Grant, D Smith, McCray, Scobee. From 2004-2007, they averaged 10 wins a season. That was a result of the rebuilding effort from in 2002-2003.

2008 was a disaster and Shack Harris was let go. When Gene Smith took over, he cleaned house. He got rid of alot of players. Lemon, Taylor, R Williams, Matt Jones, Porter, Barnes, Pashos, Spicer, McCray, Henderson, Peterson, Florence, B Williams, Nelson. He committed to rebuilding the draft. The team was in playoff contention until week 17 last year less than two years after a near complete overhaul.

Save your breath Copper. I'm holding out until the they win the Super Bowl... only World Champions get my money!

[duvaldude08]

They really started rebuilding the year before Del Rio got here. After 2001, they let go of McCardell, Boselli, Walker, Payne, Hardy, Nickerson and Beasley.

When Del Rio got hired the rebuilding continued and they added players like Mathis, Manuwai, Peterson, Grant, D Smith, McCray, Scobee. From 2004-2007, they averaged 10 wins a season. That was a result of the rebuilding effort from in 2002-2003.

2008 was a disaster and Shack Harris was let go. When Gene Smith took over, he cleaned house. He got rid of alot of players. Lemon, Taylor, R Williams, Matt Jones, Porter, Barnes, Pashos, Spicer, McCray, Henderson, Peterson, Florence, B Williams, Nelson. He committed to rebuilding the draft. The team was in playoff contention until week 17 last year less than two years after a near complete overhaul.

You are absolutely right. 2004 we were 9-7, 2005 we were 11-5, 2006 we were 8-8, and 2007 we were 12-4. Shack Harris screwed us big time. We were well on our way to become a true play off team. I commend Gene Smith and everything he has done to correct Harris's mess within a short time frame.

[copperfiend]

It still amazes me how Shack whiffed badly on all but one (Marcedes Lewis) first round pick from 2003-2008. Monroe and Alualu did more in their rookie years than most of Shack's first rounders did the entire time here.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I think Roger Goodell is hurting the league. It shouldn't have come to this. A new CBA should've been brokered before this last one expired. Honestly, he took a pompous approach - with tv revenue in his pocket he felt he had the upper hand on the players... when the players proved in court that this was unfair -he was exposed and the power struggle became even.

Rog is nothing more than than a face that represents the owners, much like De Smith is the face that represents the now-defunct NFLPA.  He can't put through any agreement that the owner's won't sign off on, and unlike 6 years ago, the owner's aren't going to be talked into a 'let it play out and fix it later' deal that Upshaw talked them into.  Since the court ruling, the players have lost most, if not all, leverage in this case and should be willing to make a deal, but they won't until the appeals case is ruled on, June 8th. 

[urbanlibertarian]

From the Times-Union:

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/429812/tania-ganguli/2011-05-17/jaguars-saw-blaine-gabbert-bump-ticket-sales

Jaguars saw a Blaine Gabbert bump in ticket sales


Submitted by Tania Ganguli on May 17, 2011 - 2:11pm

Tania Ganguli's Blog

The day after the Jaguars drafted quarterback Blaine Gabbert 10th overall, the franchise saw a bump in ticket sales.

Macky Weaver, the team's vice president of sales and marketing, told me today that on the Friday of the draft, the Jaguars sold close to 100 new seats and saw 400 ticket renewals.

"Which is what we need to be doing every day," Weaver added.

A few other things were at play there. That was the day when the lockout was lifted in practice and players were allowed back into the facility. It was also the renewal deadline for season ticket holders to keep their seats, which would account for some of the bump in renewals, but likely not the new seats.

Weaver felt the main reason for the increase in sales was the drafting of the quarterback.

Season ticket renewals are at about 72 to 75 percent right now and the Jaguars are about 10 to 12 percent behind where they were this time last year. On a typical day, they'll sell about 20 to 30 season tickets.

Numbers-wise, it doesn't look that bad, though. They started with a base of 17,000 season ticket holders who bought the 30-30 plan last year which allowed them to pay for 30 games (three seasons) over 30 months.

The Jaguars need to sell 50,957 general bowl tickets to avoid blackouts and currently have 32,000 sold. They're planning on having to sell 7,000 in group sales, which leaves them with about 11,000 tickets needed to fill the gap.

The Jaguars have 4,000 club seats available. Those seats don't count against blackout numbers, but they are prominent on television and have caused media watching on TV to write that the Jaguars play to half-empty stadiums.

"Everybody says it's bad on TV. I say it's worse because it's right across from Wayne [Weaver]," Macky Weaver said.

As an aside, I sometimes get emails because the numbers I provide don't line up with the numbers on Jaguars.com. Macky Weaver told me if there's a discrepancy, the numbers he gives me will be more accurate. Sometimes the website program starts counting group sales.

They held a media luncheon today to discuss some special offers for season-ticket holders. I'll be writing about that for Wednesday's paper.

[copperfiend]

The Blaine Bump

[manasia]

Weaver is ready to sell the team, instead of a Blaine Bump, he could have a Tebow Firestorm of ticketsales, Im Just saying.

[ben says]

Weaver is ready to sell the team, instead of a Blaine Bump, he could have a Tebow Firestorm of ticketsales, Im Just saying.

Huh?

[copperfiend]

Tebow? Oh, ok.

[manasia]

Weaver is ready to sell the team, instead of a Blaine Bump, he could have a Tebow Firestorm of ticketsales, Im Just saying.

Huh?

I was saying that the Wayne is ready to sell them team, based upon not drafting the guy who would have given him a firestorm in Ticket Sales in my opinion.

Hopefully Blaine will be a decent QB.

[tufsu1]

well I think he and his wife were ready to leave Jacksonville after the first election 2 months ago....but I think last night "Jacksonville grew up" and his feelings may be a bit different