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Alan Swank
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Posted: 7/2/2014 2:46 PM
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I've often thought that the ticket office might try a clearinghouse site where if you couldn't make the game you emailed in and then they could offer existing game ticket holders an upgrade to a (your) lower bowl seat.  Maybe charge $5.

It always seems a shame to have many empty seats down close.


Problem is how would they make money? They'd rather sell the single game ticket for $20 and get $300 for the season from the guy in the lower bowl. Having season ticket holders sell tickets (to be bluntly honest) is against their interest. So I don't think you'd ever see an idea like that fly at schools of our level. If you're Michigan or Florida, sure...all your seats are sold out anyway.

They need to make it easier to get tics from out of town season ticket holders to locals who would use them for games we cannot make it to. Get butts in the seats, buying concessions, making noise, etc. A few years back when we used the 'card" tics system this was easy to do online - go online, transfer the tics for any game to someone else, they pick them up at Will Call window.

I have NEVER "sold" a season seat tic of mine - in 20+ years.

 


Never sold one either - either give them to friends or someone walking up to the Convo with kids.  They've already been paid for so they are the holders tickets to do with as they please especially since we don't have a kids ticket price.  $35 for Homecoming for my three year old granddaughter?  Not happening.
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Posted: 7/2/2014 3:05 PM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
I've often thought that the ticket office might try a clearinghouse site where if you couldn't make the game you emailed in and then they could offer existing game ticket holders an upgrade to a (your) lower bowl seat.  Maybe charge $5.

It always seems a shame to have many empty seats down close.


Problem is how would they make money? They'd rather sell the single game ticket for $20 and get $300 for the season from the guy in the lower bowl. Having season ticket holders sell tickets (to be bluntly honest) is against their interest. So I don't think you'd ever see an idea like that fly at schools of our level. If you're Michigan or Florida, sure...all your seats are sold out anyway.

They need to make it easier to get tics from out of town season ticket holders to locals who would use them for games we cannot make it to. Get butts in the seats, buying concessions, making noise, etc. A few years back when we used the 'card" tics system this was easy to do online - go online, transfer the tics for any game to someone else, they pick them up at Will Call window.

I have NEVER "sold" a season seat tic of mine - in 20+ years.

 


Never sold one either - either give them to friends or someone walking up to the Convo with kids.  They've already been paid for so they are the holders tickets to do with as they please especially since we don't have a kids ticket price.  $35 for Homecoming for my three year old granddaughter?  Not happening.

Nice that you guys do that. I was the beneficiary of a giveaway ticket when I went to the Ohio-Illinois football game. An Illini season ticket holder gave me his extra ticket for free as I was walking up to the ticket booth -- even though I was decked out in Bobcat gear. I didn't need to sit by him, I could have sat by the Ohio fans, but I did sit with him through most of the first half and talked a little football. There was a big age difference, but I appreciated his stories and I think he appreciated the company and conversation.

 
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Posted: 7/2/2014 3:32 PM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
I've often thought that the ticket office might try a clearinghouse site where if you couldn't make the game you emailed in and then they could offer existing game ticket holders an upgrade to a (your) lower bowl seat.  Maybe charge $5.

It always seems a shame to have many empty seats down close.


Problem is how would they make money? They'd rather sell the single game ticket for $20 and get $300 for the season from the guy in the lower bowl. Having season ticket holders sell tickets (to be bluntly honest) is against their interest. So I don't think you'd ever see an idea like that fly at schools of our level. If you're Michigan or Florida, sure...all your seats are sold out anyway.

They need to make it easier to get tics from out of town season ticket holders to locals who would use them for games we cannot make it to. Get butts in the seats, buying concessions, making noise, etc. A few years back when we used the 'card" tics system this was easy to do online - go online, transfer the tics for any game to someone else, they pick them up at Will Call window.

I have NEVER "sold" a season seat tic of mine - in 20+ years.

 


Never sold one either - either give them to friends or someone walking up to the Convo with kids.  They've already been paid for so they are the holders tickets to do with as they please especially since we don't have a kids ticket price.  $35 for Homecoming for my three year old granddaughter?  Not happening.


I do the same thing anytime I have spare tickets.  Last year I had 4 to give away for a hoops game and just happened to see a guy with three kids in OU gear heading for the ticket window.  Had he been wearing Redhawk or Captain Kangaroo garb, he might have been out of luck, though.
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I don't begrudge or even judge anyone for what they do or don't do with their tickets, but here's why I don't hand out spares at the gate: Our whole athletic department is in the red, and if someone's walking up to buy tickets, I want that revenue and those seats to go toward the department and toward attendance. Again, your tickets are your business, but that's my logic.
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Posted: 7/3/2014 6:45 AM
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I don't begrudge or even judge anyone for what they do or don't do with their tickets, but here's why I don't hand out spares at the gate: Our whole athletic department is in the red, and if someone's walking up to buy tickets, I want that revenue and those seats to go toward the department and toward attendance. Again, your tickets are your business, but that's my logic.


If you're short on funds, then cut expenses.  If the student fee gravy train ever dries up or is reduced, we'll definitely have to do that.
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Posted: 7/3/2014 11:59 PM
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I don't begrudge or even judge anyone for what they do or don't do with their tickets, but here's why I don't hand out spares at the gate: Our whole athletic department is in the red, and if someone's walking up to buy tickets, I want that revenue and those seats to go toward the department and toward attendance. Again, your tickets are your business, but that's my logic.

Well my "logic" differs. I reason that if a loyal supporter offers them a better experience gratuituosly - then the potential long term return for the program could be maximized. They would still likely spend on concessions, likely already spent on parking, maybe some gear while there - maybe more on gear since they got their tics for free and had a more inspiring, closer to the action experience. Maybe their kid begins to whine - "Dad, when can we go to another Bobcats game?". Pressure now on dad to lock into better seats..........

More than one way to "skin" a "Cat"...........Logically...........
 
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Posted: 7/7/2014 9:07 AM
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I don't begrudge or even judge anyone for what they do or don't do with their tickets, but here's why I don't hand out spares at the gate: Our whole athletic department is in the red, and if someone's walking up to buy tickets, I want that revenue and those seats to go toward the department and toward attendance. Again, your tickets are your business, but that's my logic.

Well my "logic" differs. I reason that if a loyal supporter offers them a better experience gratuituosly - then the potential long term return for the program could be maximized. They would still likely spend on concessions, likely already spent on parking, maybe some gear while there - maybe more on gear since they got their tics for free and had a more inspiring, closer to the action experience. Maybe their kid begins to whine - "Dad, when can we go to another Bobcats game?". Pressure now on dad to lock into better seats..........

More than one way to "skin" a "Cat"...........Logically...........
 


Here's an example of exactly what RS is talking about.  Several years ago I was at a wine dinner in Chicago and happened to sit next to a rep from one of California's leading sparkling houses.  In the course of our conversation I mentioned that my wife and I would be visiting Napa the following summer.  We exchanged cards and he asked me to contact him a few weeks before our trip and he would arrange for a tour and private tasting while we were there.  We took him up on the offer and to this day when I buy domestic sparkling, I buy one of the wines that we tasted that day at the winery that he represents.  I could have had the same experience as a walk-up paying guest but the "better experience" that he provided had a far greater impact on my continued loyalty to the brand that he represents.
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The difference in that example is that you built a relationship with someone employed by the winery and had the power to arrange your private tour. I don't know that receiving charitable tickets that would otherwise would go unused builds the relationship with the athletic department.
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Posted: 7/7/2014 12:18 PM
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RSBobcat wrote:expand_more
I've often thought that the ticket office might try a clearinghouse site where if you couldn't make the game you emailed in and then they could offer existing game ticket holders an upgrade to a (your) lower bowl seat.  Maybe charge $5.

It always seems a shame to have many empty seats down close.


Problem is how would they make money? They'd rather sell the single game ticket for $20 and get $300 for the season from the guy in the lower bowl. Having season ticket holders sell tickets (to be bluntly honest) is against their interest. So I don't think you'd ever see an idea like that fly at schools of our level. If you're Michigan or Florida, sure...all your seats are sold out anyway.

They need to make it easier to get tics from out of town season ticket holders to locals who would use them for games we cannot make it to. Get butts in the seats, buying concessions, making noise, etc. A few years back when we used the 'card" tics system this was easy to do online - go online, transfer the tics for any game to someone else, they pick them up at Will Call window.

I have NEVER "sold" a season seat tic of mine - in 20+ years.

 


How is this a problem? If you know someone you want to give the tickets to, just call the ticket office and have them pick up at Will Call. I know that's what Monroe does. Unless your talking about seats that end up going unused because you have nobody to give them to?
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Posted: 7/8/2014 12:44 AM
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GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
I've often thought that the ticket office might try a clearinghouse site where if you couldn't make the game you emailed in and then they could offer existing game ticket holders an upgrade to a (your) lower bowl seat.  Maybe charge $5.

It always seems a shame to have many empty seats down close.


Problem is how would they make money? They'd rather sell the single game ticket for $20 and get $300 for the season from the guy in the lower bowl. Having season ticket holders sell tickets (to be bluntly honest) is against their interest. So I don't think you'd ever see an idea like that fly at schools of our level. If you're Michigan or Florida, sure...all your seats are sold out anyway.

They need to make it easier to get tics from out of town season ticket holders to locals who would use them for games we cannot make it to. Get butts in the seats, buying concessions, making noise, etc. A few years back when we used the 'card" tics system this was easy to do online - go online, transfer the tics for any game to someone else, they pick them up at Will Call window.

I have NEVER "sold" a season seat tic of mine - in 20+ years.

 


How is this a problem? If you know someone you want to give the tickets to, just call the ticket office and have them pick up at Will Call. I know that's what Monroe does. Unless your talking about seats that end up going unused because you have nobody to give them to?

The issue is getting the "Hard" tics to the buyer or will call by snail mail. Maybe you can just "call" the tic office to do this? If so I was unaware - please inform me with more info. With the "card" tics we had a few years back it was easy, a piece of cake to go online and set the whole transaction up online.

 
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Posted: 7/8/2014 12:48 AM
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The difference in that example is that you built a relationship with someone employed by the winery and had the power to arrange your private tour. I don't know that receiving charitable tickets that would otherwise would go unused builds the relationship with the athletic department.

What you are missing is:
 
1. The relationship "I" built for OHIO by giving them the tics.
2. They would not/did not go "unused" - therefore "relationship" was built.............

 
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RSBobcat wrote:expand_more
The difference in that example is that you built a relationship with someone employed by the winery and had the power to arrange your private tour. I don't know that receiving charitable tickets that would otherwise would go unused builds the relationship with the athletic department.

What you are missing is:
 
1. The relationship "I" built for OHIO by giving them the tics.
2. They would not/did not go "unused" - therefore "relationship" was built.............

 

Oh - and Swank would do anything for free wine - but he is in reciprocation "Loyal"!  

 
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Posted: 7/8/2014 8:04 AM
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RSBobcat wrote:expand_more
I've often thought that the ticket office might try a clearinghouse site where if you couldn't make the game you emailed in and then they could offer existing game ticket holders an upgrade to a (your) lower bowl seat.  Maybe charge $5.

It always seems a shame to have many empty seats down close.


Problem is how would they make money? They'd rather sell the single game ticket for $20 and get $300 for the season from the guy in the lower bowl. Having season ticket holders sell tickets (to be bluntly honest) is against their interest. So I don't think you'd ever see an idea like that fly at schools of our level. If you're Michigan or Florida, sure...all your seats are sold out anyway.

They need to make it easier to get tics from out of town season ticket holders to locals who would use them for games we cannot make it to. Get butts in the seats, buying concessions, making noise, etc. A few years back when we used the 'card" tics system this was easy to do online - go online, transfer the tics for any game to someone else, they pick them up at Will Call window.

I have NEVER "sold" a season seat tic of mine - in 20+ years.

 


How is this a problem? If you know someone you want to give the tickets to, just call the ticket office and have them pick up at Will Call. I know that's what Monroe does. Unless your talking about seats that end up going unused because you have nobody to give them to?

The issue is getting the "Hard" tics to the buyer or will call by snail mail. Maybe you can just "call" the tic office to do this? If so I was unaware - please inform me with more info. With the "card" tics we had a few years back it was easy, a piece of cake to go online and set the whole transaction up online.

 


I can't speak for everyone, but when I sat in Monroe's Bobcat Black seats, he must have either called the ticket office or emailed them and I just picked up the tickets at Will Call the day of the game. They weren't the actual nicely printed season tickets with pictures and things on them, they were normal tickets like you would get at any box office.
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The local Athens Big Brothers Big Sisters program is always in need of donated tickets for OU games.  Many of their matches are OU students who get in free, but would like to take the kids they mentor to the games.  These are local kids who would never get the chance to attend a game if not for their Mentor. 


I've donated unused tickets before, just give them a call, send em in the mail, or tell the Ticket Office to put them under BBBS at will call... they always get used and ya feel good doing it. 
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