Sad Commentary - Season Tickets

beej67 said:
I'm A-OK with boosting our season ticket sales by forcing Ugaggers to buy season tickets. That's stealing from the badguys as far as I'm concerned.
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Yeah, you'd rather not have 'em in BDS, but if the tix are going to go unsold then it's better to bring in the revenue --particularly in the form of a season ticket sale instead of a three-game package or single game sale.

GT just has to get to the point where there are enough GT season ticket holders that it won't matter that there are 'X' number of UGA fans or Clemson fans in the house.
 
Buzz Life said:
Yesterday, my wife was offered some Georgia Tech football tickets by one of her colleagues who went to Clemson. Apparently, this colleague and her husband (who is a UGAg fan) bought 2 Georgia Tech season tickets in order to attend both the Clemson and UGAg games in Atlanta. They are now trying to pawn off the rest of their season tickets.

I was truly disheartened to hear this. Does anyone else have first-hand knowledge of this practice? If this is happening a lot, that could explain our bump in season ticket sales this year. I was hopeful the bump would mean more white and gold in BDS, but it may not. Any thoughts?
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Yeah, it happens all the DAMN time. I've bitched about this to the GTAA constantly. I sit in the club section, and some asshole bought the two tickets CL-2 row 8, seats 1 and 2 which are right behind my seats. If that owner ever actually shows his face to a game I'm going to give him a serious piece of my mind. For 3 years straight all I get are opposing teams fans who bought these seats at the highest bid off of ebay. At small games, they are empty. Someone's making some bucks off the seats and doesn't give two ****s about GT.
 
BarrelORum said:
Yeah, it happens all the DAMN time. I've bitched about this to the GTAA constantly. I sit in the club section, and some asshole bought the two tickets CL-2 row 8, seats 1 and 2 which are right behind my seats. If that owner ever actually shows his face to a game I'm going to give him a serious piece of my mind. For 3 years straight all I get are opposing teams fans who bought these seats at the highest bid off of ebay. At small games, they are empty. Someone's making some bucks off the seats and doesn't give two ****s about GT.
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That, flat out, sucks. Plain and simple.
 
BarrelORum said:
Yeah, it happens all the DAMN time. I've bitched about this to the GTAA constantly. I sit in the club section, and some asshole bought the two tickets CL-2 row 8, seats 1 and 2 which are right behind my seats. If that owner ever actually shows his face to a game I'm going to give him a serious piece of my mind. For 3 years straight all I get are opposing teams fans who bought these seats at the highest bid off of ebay. At small games, they are empty. Someone's making some bucks off the seats and doesn't give two ****s about GT.
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BOR that does suck. They can't move you to the other end of your row or to CL-3 --or probably your preference, just move this guys tix somewhere else?
 
Blame GT for not having enough fans (you can also blame pro-sports in city, alumni being of a certain type, etc. etc.), why are you blaming some random people. Even if our stadium was a bit smaller, there are still a lot of ugaggers that would buy these tickets over our own fans. If GT fans are not more willing than opposing fans to get these seats, it's the opposing fans seats.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
BOR that does suck. They can't move you to the other end of your row or to CL-3 --or probably your preference, just move this guys tix somewhere else?
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I have 50 yard line seats, I'm not moving for ****. They need to take that ticket holders seats away from him. At the UGA game four years ago when ball threw the INT at the end of the game. The two UGA fans behind me were mouthing off the entire game. Yelling for Reggie to "break his leg". When I told them to STFU and we started trading verbal jabs. When Ball threw the INT, the guy laughs and says to me "Suck... My... " BAMMM!!! I knocked him the **** out. Then his buddy and 4 other UGA fans that were sitting in row 9 all jumped on top of me. Police escorted all of them to the door. I was trying to pick myself off the floor from a guy kicking me in the head while my best friend jumped in to try and save me from 3 people stomping on my head. Amazingly, I came out unscathed. but that guys eye was as black as asphalt on his way out.
 
BarrelORum said:
Yeah, it happens all the DAMN time. I've bitched about this to the GTAA constantly. I sit in the club section, and some asshole bought the two tickets CL-2 row 8, seats 1 and 2 which are right behind my seats. If that owner ever actually shows his face to a game I'm going to give him a serious piece of my mind. For 3 years straight all I get are opposing teams fans who bought these seats at the highest bid off of ebay. At small games, they are empty. Someone's making some bucks off the seats and doesn't give two ****s about GT.
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When there are opposing team fans in those seats, do what the students do, stand-up the entire game. That'll piss em off :D
 
BarrelORum said:
I have 50 yard line seats, I'm not moving for ****. They need to take that ticket holders seats away from him. At the UGA game four years ago when ball threw the INT at the end of the game. The two UGA fans behind me were mouthing off the entire game. Yelling for Reggie to "break his leg". When I told them to STFU and we started trading verbal jabs. When Ball threw the INT, the guy laughs and says to me "Suck... My... " BAMMM!!! I knocked him the **** out. Then his buddy and 4 other UGA fans that were sitting in row 9 all jumped on top of me. Police escorted all of them to the door. I was trying to pick myself off the floor from a guy kicking me in the head while my best friend jumped in to try and save me from 3 people stomping on my head. Amazingly, I came out unscathed. but that guys eye was as black as asphalt on his way out.
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I had a similar experience at that game. When we arrived, there were UGAy fans sitting in the row behind us that had spilled Cokes all over our seats and it had mostly dried, making the seats sticky and effectively unusable. We had to stand the entire game (not that I mind this one bit), but they took this opportunity to stand on our seats, DIRECTLY behind us. I got tired of one guy bumping into me (not to mention his constant whining), so I gave him a nice elbow in the stomach. Needless to say, this didn't sit well with the other UGAy fans, as they proceeded to dump their drinks on my head and call all of the women who were with us "bitches." You can imagine that at this point, the situation escalated much like yours.
 
There are only 2 ways to fix this problem:

1) Charge a PSL fee AND/OR a minimum donation (~$1,000) to buy season tickets.

2) Sell out season tickets every year. Therefore, mutt fans will have to buy season tix every year (not just even years) to get guaranteed tix.

Neither will happen any time soon. Atlanta is too much of a "melting pot" and our local alumni base is too small for 35,000 people too make a 6-7 game financial commitment.

However, because of our potential to be great with CPJ at the helm, our great tradition, Atlanta population, college football, the ACC, our future schedule, etc, etc, etc...we SHOULD sell out 50% of our games with single game ticket sales.
 
I have to say, what Tech really needs, is more fans like BoR.

I don't think we should have ever expanded the stadium. Our fanbase has never been as large as the football factories and our alumni base tends to get scattered, unlike the rednecks to the east, most of whom rarely leave their own counties. I blame Dave Braine. For a lot of things.
 
GTFowler said:
My dad is a UGA fan and bought two season tickets "for me" but i know what his real purpose was :mad:
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My wife tried to do the same thing. She's a UGA grad. She bought me a pair of season tickets for this year. But I got her, I invited a different friend to the UGA game.

She was slightly upset. :)

I imagine I won't be allowed in the bedroom when I get home that night.
 
unforgiven108 said:
My wife tried to do the same thing. She's a UGA grad. She bought me a pair of season tickets for this year. But I got her, I invited a different friend to the UGA game.

She was slightly upset. :)

I imagine I won't be allowed in the bedroom when I get home that night.
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just tell her you want to make it up to her "dawgie style"
 
cyptomcat said:
Yeah but you don't add them up with regular season tickets. It's still the student section, and the games will have about the same number of students as previous years. Many schools sell their student tickets to their students, we just haven't done that until now.
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the original OK article quoted 42K OSU season ticket sales this year. This figure included both fans/alums and student season ticket sales. Since the GTAA is "selling" student season tickets for the first time this year, perhaps we should change the way we account for GT Football ticket sales too?

I know they already pay athletic fees, but count me in favor of selling students football season tickets. Hopefully, now that they have some "skin in the game" - students will be more apt to use tickets to each and every home game.

Also, students probably will be more likely to purchase season tickets in the future once they get into the "annual routine" of paying for football tickets.

I like the what FSU is doing in this department. Giving recent alums (less then 3 years removed from graduation) a cheaper season ticket. Let's sell some of the Jackets Nest tickets to our 1st and 2 year alums. As they move forward, they probably will gravitate toward better (more expensive) seats around the stadium... especially as they generate more annual income. :)
 
beej67 said:
Boo.

Our average attendance today is more than our maximum attendance pre-expansion.
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And how many of those fans are wearing garnett, red, orange, or any other hideous shade of the colors not called gold? The stadium expansion allowed more opposing fans in. It made the north end ugly and it put the AA in the red. I think it was a bad idea.
 
coldbeer said:
the original OK article quoted 42K OSU season ticket sales this year. This figure included both fans/alums and student season ticket sales. Since the GTAA is "selling" student season tickets for the first time this year, perhaps we should change the way we account for GT Football ticket sales too?

I know they already pay athletic fees, but count me in favor of selling students football season tickets. Hopefully, now that they have some "skin in the game" - students will be more apt to use tickets to each and every home game.

Also, students probably will be more likely to purchase season tickets in the future once they get into the "annual routine" of paying for football tickets.

I like the what FSU is doing in this department. Giving recent alums (less then 3 years removed from graduation) a cheaper season ticket. Let's sell some of the Jackets Nest tickets to our 1st and 2 year alums. As they move forward, they probably will gravitate toward better (more expensive) seats around the stadium... especially as they generate more annual income. :)
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I agree, this also puts the students who care more in stands.

GTAA is doing some of what you have said, recent alums can get tickets for $180+$20 processing fee.
 
According to DRAD at the Kickoff Luncheon... we are up to 26,500 season ticket sales. (most we have sold in a long time, btw!)

Add 7,000 for students. Numbers are certainly trending in the right direction.

I know we will never sell as many season tickets as the factories, but if we could get our season ticket sales up North of 30K year in and year out.... it would go a long way to keeping the red/orange out of BDS.
 
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