detmer4prez wrote:

bluesista wrote:

Thanks for the info! I'm excited they're keeping it at LES. It's not everyday that women have the opportunity to play there.

Yup. Utah only comes to LES every other year. :laugh:

that is awesome

Last year my wife, my three daughters, my daughter in law, and my 78 year old mom attended and loved it. My mom has a season ticket with us this year for the first time. Mom attended her first game last year. My Ute daughter in law was really won over by the first Women's clinic she attended. The program sells itself when the sisters are at this clinic. They have all come away way impressed with the program, the coaches and the players.

As I have said before, if there is ANY way you can get your spouse/girlfriend/mom/significant other it will make your football addiction SO much easier to handle in the future.

This is really hard and sad. You guys all talk about your wife/spouse/sister etc going. When I ask my wife, she pretty much says no way. Of course the fact that I spend between 6-10 games per week with my officiating and watching, it probably gets rather old to her. She will only sit and watch the Y play and then usually at most half the game. She likes only the Y.. Major glad of that. But how to get her to the clinic. Bribe ideas anyone?

Sage wrote:

This is really hard and sad. You guys all talk about your wife/spouse/sister etc going. When I ask my wife, she pretty much says no way. Of course the fact that I spend between 6-10 games per week with my officiating and watching, it probably gets rather old to her. She will only sit and watch the Y play and then usually at most half the game. She likes only the Y.. Major glad of that. But how to get her to the clinic. Bribe ideas anyone?

Here's an idea. I would first speak to one or two of her close friends and see if they would be interested in attending or speaking to the spouses of her friends. Women like to do things in groups so they can talk, etc. If her friends are interested in attending, I would go ahead and register for her and make sure her friends register. Then wrap up her registration or put it in some fancy card with some flowers or something and give it to her. Be sure to include in the card that her friends will be attending as well. If you have kids, tell her you'll watch them the entire time she's gone.

All this will make it into a bigger deal. She probably realizes you're trying to get her to go so she'll like football more, which is fine. If you just simply ask or suggest she goes, she'll say no because she doesn't really want to go. If you make into something special and do a bunch of planning, etc. it will mean more to her. She may still not like football, but by doing prep work, etc. for it she'll think something like, "Awww look at all the effort Sage put into this for me. How sweet. If I don't go it will crush him." Have to appeal to the woman's emotions.

The most important thing my girls learned at the Women's clinic wasn't football, but the feelings they had toward the mission of BYU and the football team. They all came away impressed with Bronco and the program more than anything else. This is what sold them, not football. I agree with the previous poster, if you can get your wife to go for that reason, the emotional connection, you will have succeeded.

detmer4prez wrote:

bluesista wrote:

Thanks for the info! I'm excited they're keeping it at LES. It's not everyday that women have the opportunity to play there.

Yup. Utah only comes to LES every other year. :laugh:

That one was a 4.5 on the laugh scale (out of 5)! Good one!