Sad Commentary - Season Tickets

I love it that my rival wants to enable us to build better facilities for fans and athletes as well as contribute to their own continued academic domination.
 
coldbeer said:
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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Total student tickets available is actually 9,000 this year (season tickets+single game). I just hope they all show up.
 
JWE37 said:
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.
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I'm still not sure of a good solution to this problem. As GT gets more popular, ebay prices will to up as well. So GT can charge opposing fans more, but opposing fans can also sell off their unused tickets for more money.

The only solution I can see is GT fans outbidding opposing fans. It will be a long time before that happens.
 
muscleman2470 said:
Total student tickets available is actually 9,000 this year (season tickets+single game). I just hope they all show up.
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I was just quoting season tickets sold. The extra 2,000 student tickets available for each home game aren't season tickets.
 
floridajacket said:
I'm still not sure of a good solution to this problem. As GT gets more popular, ebay prices will to up as well. So GT can charge opposing fans more, but opposing fans can also sell off their unused tickets for more money.

The only solution I can see is GT fans outbidding opposing fans. It will be a long time before that happens.
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Maybe so... but the solution is increasing the GT season ticket fan base long term. We take baby steps each year. We will probably never make huge jumps in our fan base like other schools do.

30 - 35K season tickets sales should be our goal. If a fan of another team (UGA, Clemson, VT) want to purchase a season ticket in a Tech Fund area... more power to them.

Next year's schedule will be the key (2010). We don't have a super attractive home schedule (no Georgia, VT, Clemson, etc.). If we can keep the season ticket base the same (or slightly up), it will be huge moving forward.

I wish more Georgia Tech fans would value the entire season "experience." We have a lot going for us on the Flats. I guess I wish that more Tech fans did not put their entire "GT football value" into what happens the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
 
Damn Coldbeer. Talk about a hiatus. Where have you been? This is like the first post I've seen from you in 3 maybe 4 years it seems.
 
gtyellowjackets said:
It's been happening to some degree for years. But DBraineless made it easy with the 3 game packages (UGAy game included). DRad has made it alot harder but if some dog fan wants to be a GT season ticket holder then we will sell them.
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Is there not a Tech Fund contribution also required in order to get season tix?
 
BarrelORum said:
Damn Coldbeer. Talk about a hiatus. Where have you been? This is like the first post I've seen from you in 3 maybe 4 years it seems.
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loving life. Stalking Erin Andrews. Waiting for Saturday's kickoff. :D
 
coldbeer said:
Maybe so... but the solution is increasing the GT season ticket fan base long term. We take baby steps each year. We will probably never make huge jumps in our fan base like other schools do.

30 - 35K season tickets sales should be our goal. If a fan of another team (UGA, Clemson, VT) want to purchase a season ticket in a Tech Fund area... more power to them.

Next year's schedule will be the key (2010). We don't have a super attractive home schedule (no Georgia, VT, Clemson, etc.). If we can keep the season ticket base the same (or slightly up), it will be huge moving forward.

I wish more Georgia Tech fans would value the entire season "experience." We have a lot going for us on the Flats. I guess I wish that more Tech fans did not put their entire "GT football value" into what happens the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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This^^^. We also probably "lost" out on some fair weather GT "fans" from the Peach Bowl debacle. Still, w/a good season this year, I expect next year's #'s to be very similar to this season's (26,500 or so). Once the season ticket base can get above 30k, will consistently have sold out games. I think that we will get there.
 
Selling out our stadium with our fans buying the season tickets will come with

- beating ugag more than occasionally. A lot more need to accept the fact.

- Pipe dream, but getting back in SEC. If not that, finishing no worst than 3rd in a lousy football conference we are in now.
 
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