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Post by sleepy on Jun 11, 2014 19:48:58 GMT -5
As long as what has been reported is true then, we shouldn't have a problem limiting their access again. They just said we can't limit purchasing tickets to those who have made a donation or bought ticket packages, but we allowed those groups to buy tickets early we didn't restrict people from buying tickets when they went on sale to the public, we just sold the tickets to our donors before they went on public sale. Depending on the wording we might not have to change a thing. I think we can still get away with a presale to our donors no matter what they say and with the dynamic pricing they can jack up the price of tickets to $100 for Nose bleeds. Heck we could also charge one price for Hoya fans and another price for non Hoya fans. HSB I hope your right and we still have the right to make tickets available to season ticket holders, contibutors and Alumni prior to an open sale. If its to be done to our advantage it would take serious planning communication and marketing of tickets sales. Just don't believe we have that kind of capability to execute what should be a pretty simple plan.
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Post by hoyaatheart55 on Jun 11, 2014 20:10:17 GMT -5
I have no problem with them thinking these are four home games as long as we kick their ass like I expect us to with our incoming classes. This will be fun.
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Post by tashoya on Jun 11, 2014 20:23:43 GMT -5
The ticket thing is worthy of discussion but c'mon all... it's good from a scheduling standpoint and even better for our RPI when we wipe the floor with them. It feels good to have an outlet for my hatred once again. It seemed less rational to hate them when we were no longer playing games against the Orange. Now, it's the perfectly appropriate reaction. Let's at least have some fun with it. As far as the ticketing goes, I'm interested to see how many more Hoyas make the trip to the Booth now that these games are no longer guaranteed to be played every year.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 11, 2014 20:29:06 GMT -5
Good to see Georgetown didn't fall for that "third year at MSG" trap that Villanova fell into. Is it enough to buy a season ticket? Probably not, at least not in the lower bowl. No guarantee the Gavitt Tipoff Games give Georgetown the exact games fans want (see those memorable SEC challenge games against Alabama and Tennessee). And, for better or worse, StubHub is making season tickets for fans outside the Beltway increasingly obsolete. If this game is stuck in November or following exams, it'll sell but probably not a sellout. A late January or early February game would spike sales closer to 20K, but the 18 game schedules of each conference make open dates few and far between. As one of those 'fans outside the Beltway' I disagree with the premise of the second paragraph. You may be right for a portion of season ticket holders but I don't think this sentiment is reflective of the majority of season ticket holders. As noted above these games draw regardless of day of the week. I think the program is making strides improving the home schedule. Are they going to play Kentucky every night? No, and it's unrealistic to expect that.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 11, 2014 20:34:17 GMT -5
My information is that ticket sales will be controlled as usual by the home team and sales availability determined as in the past, so I am not concerned about Verizon being our home court including from a crowd numbers standpoint. SU games at Verizon will continue to be a most difficult ticket to acquire.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Jun 11, 2014 22:28:59 GMT -5
My information is that ticket sales will be controlled as usual by the home team and sales availability determined as in the past, so I am not concerned about Verizon being our home court including from a crowd numbers standpoint. SU games at Verizon will continue to be a most difficult ticket to acquire. This makes sense. I wouldn't be surprised if all the other news on the Syracuse blog is made up nonsense to try to make their fans feel better. Really, it's funny how Georgetown's fans reaction to these games is that we want to crush them, whereas Syracuse fans' reaction is to whine about tickets. I guess they've learned well from Boeheim.
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Post by This Just In on Jun 12, 2014 20:43:53 GMT -5
Gotta slow clap for this one...good to know that the Hoyas against some fan wishes, did not let grudges about Syracuse jumping to the ACC blind them in the "What is good for business" arena.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Jun 12, 2014 22:01:16 GMT -5
My information is that ticket sales will be controlled as usual by the home team and sales availability determined as in the past, so I am not concerned about Verizon being our home court including from a crowd numbers standpoint. SU games at Verizon will continue to be a most difficult ticket to acquire. This makes sense. I wouldn't be surprised if all the other news on the Syracuse blog is made up nonsense to try to make their fans feel better. Really, it's funny how Georgetown's fans reaction to these games is that we want to crush them, whereas Syracuse fans' reaction is to whine about tickets. I guess they've learned well from Boeheim. It is: I reached out to the Georgetown athletics department for a comment on how tickets will be handled for Syracuse games in the future. “As is standard in agreements such as these, the visiting team will receive an allotment of tickets and the home team will control the sale and distribution of all remaining tickets,” a Georgetown spokesman said via e-mail. “The visiting team and home team are free to sell/distribute their ticket allotments as they choose. Georgetown Athletics plans to continue its practice of providing priority access for tickets to those who buy multi-game plans or who support Georgetown Athletics.” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/06/12/heres-how-georgetown-will-handle-ticketing-for-home-games-with-syracuse/
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Post by Elvado on Jun 12, 2014 22:07:55 GMT -5
Can you really blame the cretins? If you lived in that glorified cow pasture, your favorite sport would be bitching and moaning too.
You have to remember, traveling to an away game, any away game, is like a furlough.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 12, 2014 22:08:03 GMT -5
This makes sense. I wouldn't be surprised if all the other news on the Syracuse blog is made up nonsense to try to make their fans feel better. Really, it's funny how Georgetown's fans reaction to these games is that we want to crush them, whereas Syracuse fans' reaction is to whine about tickets. I guess they've learned well from Boeheim. It is: I reached out to the Georgetown athletics department for a comment on how tickets will be handled for Syracuse games in the future. “As is standard in agreements such as these, the visiting team will receive an allotment of tickets and the home team will control the sale and distribution of all remaining tickets,” a Georgetown spokesman said via e-mail. “The visiting team and home team are free to sell/distribute their ticket allotments as they choose. Georgetown Athletics plans to continue its practice of providing priority access for tickets to those who buy multi-game plans or who support Georgetown Athletics.” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/06/12/heres-how-georgetown-will-handle-ticketing-for-home-games-with-syracuse/-123- fireballs
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 12, 2014 23:04:29 GMT -5
The reality many here seem unwilling to consider is that Syracuse needs this rivalry at least as much as Georgetown. That's why the home and home and ticket arrangements do not surprise me.
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Post by Just Cos on Jun 13, 2014 3:30:25 GMT -5
A coaching change at Cuse will shock the system just like a CEO stepping down from a company. Sure the company may survive but the short term impact could impair the company for years. Everybody wins on this deal because it brings stability.
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Post by FLHoya on Jun 13, 2014 7:53:38 GMT -5
It is: I reached out to the Georgetown athletics department for a comment on how tickets will be handled for Syracuse games in the future. “As is standard in agreements such as these, the visiting team will receive an allotment of tickets and the home team will control the sale and distribution of all remaining tickets,” a Georgetown spokesman said via e-mail. “The visiting team and home team are free to sell/distribute their ticket allotments as they choose. Georgetown Athletics plans to continue its practice of providing priority access for tickets to those who buy multi-game plans or who support Georgetown Athletics.” www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/06/12/heres-how-georgetown-will-handle-ticketing-for-home-games-with-syracuse/-123- fireballs For the sake of completeness, this quote from Syracuse AD Darryl Gross in the same article: “It wouldn’t have worked if they were going to still have that cap where our folks couldn’t buy a Georgetown single-game ticket, or you had to make donation and all those things. We weren’t interested in doing that. But [Georgetown AD Lee Reed] was great, and we worked through all those issues and were able to get it back on the map.” So assuming nobody is out and out lying, we have some arrangement where (a) GU will continue to provide priority access for donors/multi-game plans; and (b) Syracuse is satisfied there isn't a cap where "our folks couldn't buy a Georgetown single-game ticket". Part (b) was what really irked them in 2013--GU was able to come out ahead of time and say there would be no public sale. In previous years IIRC, we did the priority thing but held out that "MAYBE there will be a public sale" and there may/may not have been depending on supply. The most logical possibilities I can come up with: 1. We agreed to give Syracuse a larger than normal ticket allotment. 2. We agreed to reserve a certain number of tickets for a public sale. Neither of these IMO would affect how many Syracuse fans come to the game in 2015-16. It would just change how the people who were coming anyway ultimately get their tickets.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Jun 13, 2014 9:14:34 GMT -5
I think this is a lot of sour grapes on their part. The fact is there was no problem getting tickets on StubHub for that last Verizon Center game. I got my tickets there for a decent but not ridiculous price, and they could have all done the same.
I guess they want to be handed cheap tickets. That game was special because it was (until the BET) the last game between the teams in the Big East era. I'm sure the secondary ticket market for these future games will offer plenty of opportunities for purchases.
My guess is that Syracuse is making a big deal of the ticket situation to appease donors and alumni who complained about it, when in reality it's not very different from past practices.
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Post by skyhoya on Jun 13, 2014 10:03:30 GMT -5
could we add home and away series with WVU?
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Jun 13, 2014 11:26:03 GMT -5
could we add home and away series with WVU? Sky - just curious, any reason in particular for WVU? UConn or Louisville or even Cincy might be more interesting choices from the defector list.
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Post by calhoya on Jun 13, 2014 12:08:39 GMT -5
could we add home and away series with WVU? Sky - just curious, any reason in particular for WVU? UConn or Louisville or even Cincy might be more interesting choices from the defector list. Agree, but actually we must recall that UConn and Cincy were not defectors. In their minds we defected.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Jun 13, 2014 12:32:12 GMT -5
Yes, I would rather play Connecticut, Cincinnati, or Louisville, though I am not sure it would be easy to schedule any of them. If people are worried about Syracuse at the Verizon Center, I would argue that WVU fans invaded our home games to an even greater degree. I distinctly remember the 2010 BET where they had far more people in attendance at MSG than we did, and then proceeded to sing Country Roads. Ugh.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Jun 13, 2014 13:19:51 GMT -5
It's not like we have a large alumni base in West Virginia. I would stick to geographies that make sense and/or teams that are high-profile.
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Post by skyhoya on Jun 13, 2014 22:07:21 GMT -5
WVU is in the Big 12 and I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the loss at MSG in the BE championship and listing to WV by john Denver as we walked out
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