ba-autox
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: SFR attendance dropping faster than it would appear at

To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: SFR attendance dropping faster than it would appear at
From: Smokerbros@aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 00:58:55 EDT
In a message dated 10/8/2005 10:06:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
navid@xperformance.com writes:

Economics has a big part in the reduction in attendance.  But why  is it
hitting us harder than other clubs?  

IMHO, other clubs  cater to more serious autoxers where as SFR caters more to
more casual (for  lack of a better term) autoxers.  These are the people who
will not  travel more than 20 miles to an autox and don't care what surface
they run  on.  This group would also tend to drop off in bad economic  times
...or say if there was a World Series game on.

In good  economic times, we had it all figured out: SFR had enough attendance
from  casual autoxers to set attendance records and the hardcore autoxers
flocked  to the other clubs.  Now we are faced with declining attendance  from
our casual autoxers because of economics and our hardcore autoxers  because
they have found homes in other clubs.
I think Navid is onto something, here.  Call it "serious vs. casual"  or 
whatever you want to, but if you look at the percentage of our competitors  who 
didn't attend very many events, I think it's higher than AAS, for  example.  
I'd 
bet that if 75% (and I'm just throwing out a number, I have  no idea how many 
it actually is) of AAS competitors attended 75% of their  events, less than 
50% of our competitors attend 75% of our events.  
 
Within Northern California in general, and the Bay Area in particular,  there 
are just a LOT of things to do.  We are spoiled in that  respect.  Choices, 
choices, choices...
 
<<  Sorry I call'em as I see'em!  >>
 
Careful, Navid!  Calling them like you see them can hurt your  political 
career within SCCA!  :-)
 
Charlie






<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>