April 21, 2011
Quick Slant is an array of brief insights and occasionally opinionated overviews of collegiate athletics in general and the Vanderbilt Commodores in particular.
Dores on TV: Vandy monopolized ESPN this past Sunday afternoon with our baseball team on ESPN2 and the bowlers going for the national championship at the same time on ESPN. Two of the three LSU series will be on the tube this weekend: Saturday’s game is 2:30 CT on FSN and on Easter Sunday we play at 2:00 CT p.m. on ESPN2.
Baseball tickets: A few infield bowl seats remain for the Sunday game and there are outfield seats as of this writing for all three games. With LSU, Tennessee and Florida left on the home schedule, it would be fair to say that all games will be at or near capacity. Single game tickets go on sale at our McGugin box office the Monday two weeks prior to the series.
The NCC’s “Commodores on Board” program continues to be successful. Both membership and gift revenue are up from a comparable date a year ago. Have you been able to introduce a friend to the membership roll?
If you have not already renewed your men’s and/or women’s basketball season tickets on-line (quite a few have), be on the lookout for the paper renewal form that will hit your mailbox in the next few days. Deadline to renew is May 31.
The Black and Gold spring football game and day was a success, especially when considering we had not emphasized the event for over a decade. Team autographs, tailgating, the Starwalk and post-game fireworks helped make the day fun for the family.
Traffic on vucommodores.com is also trending upward. In fact, unique visitors (one computer visit per day) were up 27% in March and the 1.34 million page views in February were 26% more than the same month in 2010.
Seven of the 10 women on bowling’s NCAA runner-up team earned academic all-SEC acclaim.
Name dropping… Chancellor Zeppos was on local sports talk 104.5 The Zone April 19… golfers often have the best stories and the late Mason Rudolph was as good at telling them as anyone… former Commodore star and Hall of Famer Wendy Scholtens Wood has organized a group of former teammates returning to campus this weekend and among their plans is attendance at that LSU baseball game.