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Post by rihoya09 on May 8, 2006 22:26:48 GMT -5
I have a serious question: I was on the student panels for the GAAP weekend and each time talk about the basketball team came up and prospective students were wondering how to obtain tickets and the difficulty to do so. Are there any limits to the number of student tickets that will be sold next year? Will students have to have student tickets to see the game? If there is such a demand, will the student section be extended?
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on May 8, 2006 22:46:51 GMT -5
Your best bet would be to PM GUHoya2007 with those questions. Even better, you could e-mail or call Steve Alleva, whose e-mail address is available on Georgetown's website.
I have not heard any chatter about student tickets and quantity for 2006-2007, but there apparently have been some discussions about changing seating in the lower bowl. How this would affect students in terms of ticket availability and location is anyone's guess, but I suspect and hope that any changes would only increase students' access to tickets and help to filter opposing fans out of the lower bowl.
This year, there was a limit on student tickets at each game. My understanding is that it was somewhere around 2000, but that number changed for some games. If the ticket allotment does not change from this number, it would behoove interested students to buy season tickets because the demand could be there for 2000 student ticket packages. IIRC, that number was somewhere around 1100 (give or take) this year, although, for some reason, 1400 also sticks out as a milestone that we hit at some point in the fall.
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Post by FLHoya on May 8, 2006 23:05:15 GMT -5
I have a serious question: I was on the student panels for the GAAP weekend and each time talk about the basketball team came up and prospective students were wondering how to obtain tickets and the difficulty to do so. Are there any limits to the number of student tickets that will be sold next year? Will students have to have student tickets to see the game? If there is such a demand, will the student section be extended? Crap we've come a long way in a little over two seasons. In my senior (and junior...and sophomore...) years when I was on the GAAP panels, I was flat out lying to people about the basketball team. Most Blue & Gray tour guides will tell you the most awkward questions from their groups had something to do with alcohol, sex, alcohol + sex, or some related issue. Mine all had to do with Esherick. For some vague non-specific reason, JerseyHoya suggesting someone talk to 007, then throwing out the "even better" option made me laugh. ;D
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Post by RBHoya on May 9, 2006 0:18:14 GMT -5
I have a serious question: I was on the student panels for the GAAP weekend and each time talk about the basketball team came up and prospective students were wondering how to obtain tickets and the difficulty to do so. Are there any limits to the number of student tickets that will be sold next year? Will students have to have student tickets to see the game? If there is such a demand, will the student section be extended? It's difficult to say since it's still somewhat early and we're not sure exactly what the seating plan looks like for next year (and I don't have athletic department ties to have any guesses). However, as mentioned, there are about 2000 seats in the combined student sections. Last year, the student section sold out for most of the home games from Duke and after that, with Rutgers being the only one that didn't sell out. After an NCAA tournament run, and considering that our two all-conference players are coming back, it's reasonable to expect that demand for next year's tickets will be significantly higher. If it means anything to you, Hoya Blue has set its goal as selling 2000 season tickets--enough that you'd basically need a season ticket to sit in the student sections. With a potential Top 10 preseason ranking looming and the outpouring of support we saw last season, the HB board is feeling pretty confident about our ability to reach that goal. Last year the Athletic Department was nice enough to accomodate increased student demand at games like Syracuse with some overflow seating up in the highest level. However, for a game like Duke that wouldn't have been possible, because all of those seats were sold. So if you want a guaranteed seat, you'll need season tickets. Bottom line, we're not 100% sure what the student section will look like, but there IS a finite number of student seats, especially for the most popular games of the year (which this year will probably include Nova, UConn, and a few others). So if you're a student the only way to guarantee yourself a seat is to buy student season tickets. When we get more info about how many seats we'll be able to sell (once the AD finishes up the seating plans--as you can see from the YA discussion, its not all finalized yet) we'll start putting out information about the best ways for students to get their tickets. Best way to go for now (and honestly what I'd advise anybody else who is wondering the same) to just be sure that they are on the Hoya Blue email list. We know a lot of people want tickets and we want a lot of people buying them, so just keep an eye on our emails.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on May 9, 2006 10:23:17 GMT -5
Can't wait...plan to get a huge block of tickets for the dook game. Errr...hoyalove, you realize this game is at Cameron, right? Yes of course I know the game is at cameron. I live right outside of Raleigh, so that is local for me. I went to the last GU-dook game and had a great time screaming my butt off for the Hoyas, much to the disgust of the snobish dook fans. For the upcoming game, I want to get a big block of tickets. I'm sure that I can get some Hoya fan friends from DC to come down, as well as a bunch of local friends who hate dook. I know that GU gets some tickets to road games-- how do I get access to such? I am not an alum or Hoop Club member. Anyone know when those tickets go on sale? Thanks in advance.
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Post by GUHoya07 on May 9, 2006 10:34:38 GMT -5
How did you get tickets to the last game at Cameron? These tickets are going to be in extremely high demand and I doubt people will be able to get them unless they donate quite a bit to the Hoop Club. Im sure we'll be given the absolute minimum with the vast majority of the seats being the worst ones in the arena.
PS- you should join the Hoop Club, I dont understand people who take the time to read this board and post on it yet can't find the $25 minimum to donate to the Hoop Club. If we want this program to be successful over the long haul it needs more support. People like complaining when things don't go well, but they don't seem to be willing to put their money where their mouth is.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2006 10:35:57 GMT -5
Errr...hoyalove, you realize this game is at Cameron, right? Yes of course I know the game is at cameron. I live right outside of Raleigh, so that is local for me. I went to the last GU-dook game and had a great time screaming my butt off for the Hoyas, much to the disgust of the snobish dook fans. For the upcoming game, I want to get a big block of tickets. I'm sure that I can get some Hoya fan friends from DC to come down, as well as a bunch of local friends who hate dook. I know that GU gets some tickets to road games-- how do I get access to such? I am not an alum or Hoop Club member. Anyone know when those tickets go on sale? Thanks in advance. GU does get some tickets to road games, and they'll likely be long gone before you get a crack at them. The number is VERY small (a couple hundred if we're lucky), and the first wave goes to athletic dept. staff who travel with the team, players' and coaches' friends and families, etc. After that, the biggest donors to the Hoop Club would get priority, and down the line from there. In the end, it's all dependent on how many tickets Duke wants to give us. I'm sure there's an NCAA-mandated minimum, but once they reach that number, they're not obligated to give us squat.
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on May 9, 2006 12:36:51 GMT -5
I believe that last time we traveled to Cameron, the number was along the lines of 50 tickets.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on May 9, 2006 12:40:41 GMT -5
So why don't we do what they did to us and just use any way we can to get tickets? I'm fairly sure that we only gave them 50-80 tickets and their fans found ways to get the rest.
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Post by GUHoya07 on May 9, 2006 12:53:45 GMT -5
So why don't we do what they did to us and just use any way we can to get tickets? I'm fairly sure that we only gave them 50-80 tickets and their fans found ways to get the rest. I'm sure we gave them more than that, but thats kind of irrelevant here considering the kinds of numbers were talking about. You obviously can't try to compare getting tickets the way their fans did at the Phone Booth to us getting them at Cameron, but we'll have to do our best in that regard. But how awesome would a Hoya Blue roadtrip to Cameron Indoor be? If we could somehow figure out a way to get 30-40 tickets for Georgetown students that would be incredible, better start thinking about that right now, cause its not gonna be easy. I will not use the term impossible, haha.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on May 9, 2006 12:56:27 GMT -5
How much do student season tickets cost at Duke? - Wouldn't it be funny if HB found a way to beat the system and offered the tix to other schools that play Duke at home? That way you would have a rotating opposing student section right in the middle of the crazies. They would probably crap themselves.
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Post by GUHoya07 on May 9, 2006 13:02:10 GMT -5
haha, Im sure they have some system worked out where only Duke students can buy them. You also probably have to sleep in a tent for a week or something before they put them on sale at a ticket window, but I guess it could be worth at least looking into.
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Post by hoyatables on May 9, 2006 13:04:00 GMT -5
It would never work. The system for the big games involves the whole "K-ville" experience. As I understand it, there aren't season tickets, you just try to get in on a game by game basis.
My girlfriend explained the whole system to me once and I got so infuriated I blocked out the entire thing. Makes no sense to me why you don't just buy a season ticket package and get slotted into either the UNC and UVA games or the Maryland and NC State games, but not all four. How kids attending a top ten college have the time to spend two weeks of their life in a tent in the cold is beyond me.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on May 9, 2006 13:06:34 GMT -5
I know of people (i.e. opposing fans) who've been able to get tickets at low cost in Cameron. There's a way, and I'll try to find out what it is after finals are over. I'm not sure you could get a bus together, but a mini-bus or van would not be bad.
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Post by FLHoya on May 9, 2006 13:08:35 GMT -5
haha, Im sure they have some system worked out where only Duke students can buy them. You also probably have to sleep in a tent for a week or something before they put them on sale at a ticket window, but I guess it could be worth at least looking into. yeeeeeeeeeeep...you sure do.
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Post by GUHoya07 on May 9, 2006 13:13:05 GMT -5
Did a little google research and it sounds pretty hard to pull off a St. Pete type scheme... Here's part of an article that desrcibes the process and a similar situation to what we would be trying to do. Duke punishes student trying to sell game admission 03-03-2006 Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A Duke University freshman who offered to sell his spot at Saturday's Duke-Carolina men's basketball game for $3,000 has gotten a one-way ticket out of Krzyzewskiville. Since Jan. 9, Tristan Patterson had lived in the tent village that sprouts every year outside Cameron Indoor Stadium as students wait to claim free entry to the games. Now he has been exiled, caught in a sting by Krzyzewskiville monitors who were alerted to his online for-sale offer. "The ability to go to these games, some of the best games ever in sports, for free, is just such a great privilege we get from the university," Lauren Troyan, the Krzyzewskiville line monitor who gave Patterson the boot, said Thursday. "To sell it off (would be) really disgraceful." Students don't actually get a ticket to Duke home games, according to Stephen Bryan, associate dean for judicial affairs. They use their student identification card -- a photo ID that is swiped through a machine to give them access to Cameron. Any student who tried to sell his admission to the game would actually be selling the use of his ID card, which violates university policy, Bryan said Friday. www.intix.org/news.php?ArticleID=1858
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Post by washingtonhoya on May 9, 2006 13:20:39 GMT -5
The fact that they're technically letting someone else use their Duke ID probably justifies some sort of punishment, but stuff like this... "The ability to go to these games, some of the best games ever in sports, for free, is just such a great privilege we get from the university," Lauren Troyan, the Krzyzewskiville line monitor who gave Patterson the boot, said Thursday. "To sell it off (would be) really disgraceful." makes me think that the K-Ville Mafia seriously need to get over themselves. Can't wait until Cameron is silent after the Hoyas beat Duke for the second straight year.
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Post by SFHoya99 on May 9, 2006 13:20:40 GMT -5
Proof positive that Duke fans are communist.
We'll likely get 50 tickets for Duke as a University. Neither you, nor I, nor likely 99% of this board, will ever sniff those tickets. I tried to get some of those 50 tickets for MacArthur Court in Oregon last year -- crowded like Duke but hardly the same demand -- and there was not a one to be found (though we did have the Brandon/Ashanti West Coast factor).
I don't think Duke even sells single game tix -- you may have to resort to scalping.
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Post by FLHoya on May 9, 2006 13:40:44 GMT -5
The fact that they're technically letting someone else use their Duke ID probably justifies some sort of punishment, but stuff like this... "The ability to go to these games, some of the best games ever in sports, for free, is just such a great privilege we get from the university," Lauren Troyan, the Krzyzewskiville line monitor who gave Patterson the boot, said Thursday. "To sell it off (would be) really disgraceful." makes me think that the K-Ville Mafia seriously need to get over themselves. Can't wait until Cameron is silent after the Hoyas beat Duke for the second straight year. Damn, you beat me to that. I was gonna say that this quote more than anything illustrates my point that school spirit organization types constantly have to walk this tightrope line between being super-cool and being tools...aaaaaaaaaaaand sometimes they fall off and land on their faces.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on May 9, 2006 14:17:36 GMT -5
Oh man i suppose it would be technically possible to make fake duke student IDs that swipe. I mena they can make normal fake ID's that will swipe so i'm sure we could find someone who could make this come true.
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