This will be an unpopular opinion, but it's my honest belief.
The administration has made a decision to push the Ohio Bobcat Club as a method to procure tickets to select events. For quite some time, they stated repeatedly that the opportunity to purchase tickets within the Ohio allotment would be based upon OBC membership.
As an OBC member, I question why I should participate in something that purports to open the door to ticket opportunity, then allows anybody to have the same opportunity when there were not enough club members to use the allotment.
Furthermore, our ticket allotment is most likely the primary source of our payday for playing this game. An unsold ticket would impact our bottom line. At a given point, a decision should be made that a proper opportunity was provided to Ohio fans and tickets should be made available to a guaranteed selling outlet. And, given the demand market, the wording of our contract probably specifies a date at which unsold tickets must be returned (complete speculation).
Personally, I believe that selling these tickets from the Ohio athletics office past the stated deadline to non-OBC members is a slap in the face. One may call it blackmail, or whatever other ugly term they like to describe the policy of basing ticket availability on a club membership, but when the policy has been stated, the policy needs to be followed.
Agreed....It was my understanding that any unsold tickets would be re-offered to OBC members in excess of the original limit....I am not sure if anyone was contacted
By the same line of reasoning, though, if you are going to strictly enforce the OBC membership requirement to purchase tickets, shouldn't you also enforce the donation level restrictions? If you don't want to open the tickets up to non-OBC members to encourage OBC membership, shouldn't you also then stick to the stated ticket limits at the various donation levels, in order to encourage greater donations from OBC members? Otherwise, you are minimizing the benefits to donating the extra money required to reach a higher level of OBC status, by providing unlimited tickets equally to both the highest and lowest levels of donors.
In other words, I think someone who donated an extra couple hundred dollars in order to qualify for a higher allotment of OSU tickets via the OBC club would have just as much right to be upset if the department lifted all ticket limits, as would a fan at the lowest level of the OBC should the OSU tickets be opened up to the public as a whole.
Last Edited: 8/25/2010 10:29:58 AM by Flomo-genized