What does this article on the Aggie Pack Fan Council mean by "Inaugural Members" (is this is first time this has ever been formed)? Either which way, great to see.
Do they have goals on student attendance per game for football, basketball?
The Aggie Pack is a universal student showing for any/all sporting events - they better be going for basketball, baseball, soccer, track, x-country, swimming, diving, water polo whatever!
Serious answer to the questions, I'll hopefully provide some insight about the council but will need to keep many details vague out of respect to how transparent and accessible the athletics department was with the committee members with its internal workings and analysis.
Basically, the council had a flurry of activity last football season with a heavy focus on idea generation for various ways to get students engaged. We ended up talking the most about football due to the timing of when the council had most of its meetings, but that was not intended to be the only focus on the council and many discussions were broadly applicable to other sports.
In terms of results, my biggest takeaway is that I can just observe on socials and at the games that the athletics department has been implementing some ideas that look a lot like what we were talking about in the meetings. (Now it could be that some marketing ideas are things that were already being kicked around, and it just helped them sanity check to hear students and alumni pitch similar ideas.)
To say it another way, I'll emphasize that the council is just one of the tools the athletics department uses or plans to use for leveraging community input. So while I'm happy with the work we've done, it's also important to not overstate its significance or dilute kudos away from the athletics staff and teams who put a tremendous amount of work into improving fan outreach.
Getting the City of Davis and students at UCD to develop a passion for football is a tall task.
I've posted a lot about the relationship between Californians and college football (and college athletics in general) a few times......
Ha! I was headed to Europe in 2020 as well, we got sidelined...London to Provence to Madrid for the majority of our stay, leave from Portugal...ALL got cancelled. Oh well.
Blondie - Il Buono
Angel Eyes - Il Cattivo
Tuco - Il Brutto