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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Feb 25, 2008 19:15:07 GMT -5
i was surprised at how many fans including students cinci brought there were thousands of them up in the 400s and they were able to make a little noise. I imagine they might've made more if they weren't getting crushed. I fully expect lousiville to have more fans and to be louder. I shudder to think what will happen if we fall behind. Seeing as for the most part it's the students(+alumni board members) vs. oppossing fans, not every person with a ticket rooting for georgetown.
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Post by VelvetElvis on Mar 5, 2008 12:16:01 GMT -5
From Craiglist:
Four (4) lower level seats, Section 112 row P, 15 rows from the court. $250 per ticket. These really are great seats and come with passes to the Acela Club for before or during the game. Right across from the foul line and visiting bench with a clear view of all the action. You can't find 4 seats all together like this anywhere else. Watch Georgetown and Louisville face off for the Big East title!
Selling 2 lower level tickets to this Saturday's (March 8th, 12 PM) Georgetown Hoyas - Louisville Cardinals basketball game. Tickets are just outside the baseline in the corner, section 119. Asking $120/each, $240/total.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 5, 2008 12:55:00 GMT -5
From Craiglist: Four (4) lower level seats, Section 112 row P, 15 rows from the court. $250 per ticket. These really are great seats and come with passes to the Acela Club for before or during the game. Right across from the foul line and visiting bench with a clear view of all the action. You can't find 4 seats all together like this anywhere else. Watch Georgetown and Louisville face off for the Big East title! Hey - the seller has come down from $300 apiece (yesterday's price). Such a deal!
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Post by aggypryd on Mar 5, 2008 14:54:04 GMT -5
Just talked to a co-worker that's a Louisville Alum.
Can't recall exactly, but I think she said she has floor seats for the game on Saturday.
If they aren't floor, they're pretty darn close.
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Post by CaliHoya on Mar 5, 2008 15:07:02 GMT -5
Like it or not, ticket re-selling is a fact of life in sports today. It happens at all of the venues, especially large arenas like ours. But I think the bottom line is that this is also THE game that all Hoyas fans circled at the beginning of the season. I know several people who are only coming down to one game this year and it's this one.
Remember, as big a game this is for Louisville fans, it's a bigger game for Georgetown fans. We all have several friends coming down and everyone wants to salute our seniors! That's why I think Hoya fans will be willing to shell out more money and will be buying the majority of these last-minute tickets. Also, we don't need to deal with the last-minute flight or 9-hour drive that Louisville fans are faced with, nor the hotel accommodations as we mostly all have friends in the city.
My biggest concern is the student turnout, but overall I am very confident that we'll have great homecourt advantage on Saturday.
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Post by Hoya TMF on Mar 5, 2008 15:18:12 GMT -5
It's a two fold responsibility: The University, the Hoop Club and the Alumni Association need to work something out so that Hoya fans can sell their tickets to Hoya fans. Still, it can't be that difficult to find another Hoya fan if you do your best to find them. Post on the board, email friends who are still in the area. Seek out the Hoop Club and the Alumni association on your own. Obviously, the process needs to be easier, but I've been more than happy to eat the cost of a few tickets rather than sit with a stranger or worse, to sit next to an opposing fan.
I concede it's easier to be local and go to every game imaginable but barring some financial crisis, most of you who can afford to pay $30 or $100 or whatever for your seats, can afford to eat that cost every now and again, and you can certainly afford to forgo the opportunity of selling them to some Louisville or Syracuse fan for a profit. You can't "lose" money you've never had. Obviously its everyone's personal choice, but I would never sell my seats to an opposing fan and I would never sell my tickets to another Hoya fan for more than I paid for them. After all, this is about being a community of Georgetown fans.
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Post by FromTheBeginning on Mar 5, 2008 17:16:30 GMT -5
Hopefully most travelling Louisville fans had already decided to spend their money and use their gas on the BET the next weekend.
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Post by HoyaSC on Mar 5, 2008 17:25:07 GMT -5
I wish the school had been a little more up-front about the ticket situation with HHC members. My buddies from GU and I get together for 1 game in DC every year. One is flying from Alabama and I am driving from SC. The other one lives in DC and has 2 sweet season tickets, but we need 5. He ordered UL tickets a LONG time ago and somebody at the ticket office guaranteed they would be in the 200 level. Of course, now they are telling him the tickets will be in the 400 level.
If we had known we'd be in 400 at the beginning of the year, we would have stubhubbed or bought them off this board...... for a reasonable price. Now it's too late and ticket prices are extravagant. But we'll go, sit in 400, cheer for the Hoyas and have a fine time because we'll be in the arena and we'll all be together, that's what it's really all about, kumbayah.
I'm all in favor of joining a ticket purchasing cabal. Get several people together and donate to HHC at a level to get good seats, parcel out the tickets for the cabal's use during the year, donate the rest or sell on hoyatalk, and either bid or draw straws for the BET tickets.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 5, 2008 17:35:15 GMT -5
The ticket 'cabal' idea is a good one... the only caveat is that many, if not all, of the season tickets that will be available next year are 200 level, unless a lot of current season ticket holders give up their seats.
Speaking from personal experience, giving at a certain level to the HHC does not guarantee seating to new season ticket holders in the areas corresponding to those donations on the HHC seating chart, since most all the high level donation seats are already taken. It does, however, move you up the ladder for access to BET and NCAA tickets and you don't need me to explain how it is good for the program.
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Post by Hoya TMF on Mar 5, 2008 17:36:12 GMT -5
That's incredibly frustrating. My friends and I put bids in to get tickets for the game at Lousiville and were left hanging by HHC until less than two weeks before the game. At that point, we each had to pay $100 over the cover price and sit apart. If we had had more notice, we might have been able to make better arangements.
We really need Hoya Blue, the Alumni Association and HHC to take the reigns with this so actual alums can get tickets and at face value rather than having to rely on Stub Hub. Raod games are different, but definitely for home games.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 6, 2008 12:07:39 GMT -5
From Craiglist: Four (4) lower level seats, Section 112 row P, 15 rows from the court. $250 per ticket. These really are great seats and come with passes to the Acela Club for before or during the game. Right across from the foul line and visiting bench with a clear view of all the action. You can't find 4 seats all together like this anywhere else. Watch Georgetown and Louisville face off for the Big East title! Hey - the seller has come down from $300 apiece (yesterday's price). Such a deal! Down to $200 apiece today and will sell as pairs! Hold out - they will be FREE by Saturday!!!!!
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Post by HoyaSC on Mar 6, 2008 13:48:54 GMT -5
On the HHC website, it looks like the deadline for donations for this season was 10/1/07. Any reason to think the deadline won't be around the same time this year?
I'm putting a note on my calendar on August 1 to start a thread for people interested in joining a Ticket Cabal.
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Post by LCPolo18 on Mar 6, 2008 14:48:18 GMT -5
I completely agree that I'd rather have all Georgetown fans in the lower bowl, but I also enjoy thinking about how much the opposing fans probably spent to get the tickets. I also got shafted by the hoop club when I went to Louisville this year when they told me 6 days in advance that they weren't getting me tickets. At that point I had to spend nearly $100 a ticket on ebay. After that I had no problem selling my Villanova ticket while I was out of town for business for $100 to offset the cost of my Louisville trip. However, I sold it on craigslist, which seems to be more conducive for selling to local fans which are less likely to be opposing fans for most games (totally depends how national the fan base is for that team).
My former roommate owns the ticket right next to me. He lived here for two years after we graduated and then moved to San Francisco while his fiance finished law school out there, at which time they plan on moving back to DC. He knew that he'd never get a good seat like what we have now, so he continues to pay for the ticket every year. He only came to the ND/Cuse games this year, but it's still worth it for him. For most games we give away the ticket or sell it at face to friends of ours in the area, but for the big games when our friends already have tickets, he sells it for a profit.
Like others have said, it's easy to look down on people selling their tickets for a profit which could potentially ruin the home court advantage, but for young alums on tight budgets the difference between $100 and a $25 tax deduction (that we wouldn't even get to use since we use the standard deduction) is huge.
As long as we can somehow manage to get a large student section for the game, the 100 or so opposing fans in the lower bowl shouldn't matter.
And on top of that, 100 opposing fans in the lower bowl annoys me a whole lot less than the Hoya fan behind me that tells me to sit down during the game, but that's a whole different issue.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Mar 7, 2008 10:54:34 GMT -5
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Post by kchoya on Mar 7, 2008 11:03:24 GMT -5
You mean this thread? "I've got two seats in Section 107, Endzone Row S..Great except that the G'Town Student section is 108 right behind the basket. I've been wearing m=any one of my many UofL sweatshirts and not a peep. G'Town students, If I may make a huge generalization, are sons and daughters of the super wealthy and don't hang out much anywhere else than in Georgetown bars. "
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Mar 7, 2008 11:05:22 GMT -5
I laughed at that generalization. Georgetown students and alumni hang out at bars in Chinatown too.
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Post by Hoya TMF on Mar 7, 2008 11:08:14 GMT -5
ugh. we need to get there early and be loud from 11 am until 2:30 after our trophy presentation. let's make the cards fans give up and leave midway through the second half. i'd love that. go hoyas!
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Post by jahidihoya on Mar 7, 2008 11:32:00 GMT -5
Speaking only in hypothetical terms that would not cause a jinx... do you think the Hoyas would cut down the nets if they win tomorrow? I tend to think that they would not, but I am really not sure.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 7, 2008 11:36:16 GMT -5
I don't want to cut down Verizon Center nets - hopefully we'll be able to do so in NY, Charlotte/Phoenix/Detroit/Houston, and San Antonio.
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Post by TBird41 on Mar 7, 2008 11:37:42 GMT -5
We didn't cut them down last year after winning the conference outright, so I don't see any reason we'd do so this year.
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