DRad begging for ticket sales...way behind

I know Tech is not responsible for ticket pricing, but I wonder how many people might have bought tickets through ticketmaster? The same tickets that we buy through GT for $125 go for $95 through ticketmaster. If you are buying 4 tickets, that's $120.
 
wreck2000 said:
I know Tech is not responsible for ticket pricing, but I wonder how many people might have bought tickets through ticketmaster? The same tickets that we buy through GT for $125 go for $95 through ticketmaster. If you are buying 4 tickets, that's $120.
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but that is the same situationfor both schools every year.

The fact is still that a school of 3,950 students in Weak Forest sold their 17,500 allotment three years ago at $125 apiece.

These are all DRad's words.
 
I see the issue with people not going..
1. Christmas is 11 days before the game, most people have already spent a ton of money on their families not to mention if they travel to see others..
2. the game is on a Tuesday, which means you need to take two days off to go.
I'm not trying to make excuses but I can see where people are coming from. This is a BCS bowl. How many times will this happen for GT. It's been 40+ years since weve been to a major bowl.. I hope this is something that continues to happen under CPJ.. i hope we sale a good bit of those tickets as our team needs the support..
 
SPALDINGCOLT said:
I see the issue with people not going..
1. Christmas is 11 days before the game, most people have already spent a ton of money on their families not to mention if they travel to see others..
2. the game is on a Tuesday, which means you need to take two days off to go.
I'm not trying to make excuses but I can see where people are coming from. This is a BCS bowl. How many times will this happen for GT. It's been 40+ years since weve been to a major bowl.. I hope this is something that continues to happen under CPJ.. i hope we sale a good bit of those tickets as our team needs the support..
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You make a great point...and I think midatlantic also said it best...GT fans are too pragmatic at times.

You can always find a reason not to go to a game, not to take that vacation, not to eat at that nice restaurant, not take your kids to Disney, etc. But there is an opportunity to have a "life experience" for you and/our your family.

It is the same way with volunteer work. People make time for the things that are important to them. I have people tell me they do not have time to volunteer working with kids....but they have time to have a weekly happy hour meeting with their friends...have time to work out 1 hour every morning at the gym...have time to have "girls weekends" or "boys weekends" away...etc. etc. I would prefer them just to say, "I do not want to spend my time working with kids....I prefer to spend it other ways."
 
This is one of my many problems with bowls and why I think that playoffs would be much more effective at filling the stands. If we moved to playoffs, the games could all be on weekends and at the home field of the higher ranked team in the the 16 team and 8 team rounds. That would be easy as heck to sell out, just like a regular season game. (This is all assuming we trim 1 or 2 OOC games from the schedule)

Then, in the 4 team round, it would be on a weekend in a neutral site. Finally, the championship would be on another weekend (Saturday or Sunday) at another neutral site. The playoffs would span 1 month and wouldn't have these excessively long 1 month breaks. Not to mention you would be playing for something.

I bet more people would attend those games than the stupid bowl games that honestly think people can just put their life on hold on a Tuesday (not a Monday or a Friday ... a TUESDAY) with a 1 MONTH NOTICE to go to a game that will give you NO CHANCE of being a national champion. That's what I have never understood about bowl games under the BCS. They are all just a series of consolation prizes, some better than others. Yet they are so self absorbed to think that people are planning their years around a bowl game to be able to take off multiple days of work/school to go to the game. I'm not making an excuse, but I do think that the bowls should consider only weekend games in the future for post-Jan 1st and pre-December 24th bowl games. I guarantee that # would be doubled if the game was on a weekend.

As for me, I can't go because I have a meeting with one of my funding agencies that cannot be canceled or postponed because it is with a government agency.
 
Quite frankly, I had scheduled leave to go to this ball game along time ago. Then, a great opportunity came up for a young attorney. I had to take it. That means I can't attend. Had the game been on a weekend, I'd still be able to be there. For recent alumni career should be ahead of football. I bought season tickets, flew to Atlanta for 4 home games and went to 3 away games this year. For the two games I couldn't attend, my parents went and wore white and gold. I'd really like to go to the Orange Bowl, but I won't pass up an opportunity to move my career forward for football.

If ticket sales continue to lag, I'll buy one and see if they will donate it to a student who has done something good at GT.

It is really frustrating that the bowl isn't played on New Years Day anymore. That would be easy to attend and career wouldn't get in the way of that (you might be busy, but you can plan ahead).
 
hiveredtech said:
but that is the same situationfor both schools every year.

The fact is still that a school of 3,950 students in Weak Forest sold their 17,500 allotment three years ago at $125 apiece.

These are all DRad's words.
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Maybe Wake Forest fans are stupid?

I love supporting the school...I buy season tickets and even bought crappy ACC championship tickets through them...but when they want me to pay $125 to sit in the upper corner of what will be a half empty stadium, that's the end of the line. I know there's nothing they can do about it, but there's nothing I can do about the simple finances of the situation.
 
hiveredtech said:
You make a great point...and I think midatlantic also said it best...GT fans are too pragmatic at times.
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I'll gladly go to the game...if you can find someone to go to work for me. The Tuesday game time torpedoed any chance I had to attend.

And save your lecture about "family memories"...I'm more concerned about being able to put a roof over their heads and food on the table than football tickets in their stockings right now.

Call it "pragmatic" if you must...I'll call it "big boy, real life decision making"...
 
CrackerJacket said:
And save your lecture about "family memories"...I'm more concerned about being able to put a roof over their heads and food on the table than football tickets in their stockings right now.

Call it "pragmatic" if you must...I'll call it "big boy, real life decision making"...
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correct....my family is moving into a shelter in February because we are going to the Orange Bowl.

its called prior planning.

Heck...I had to have back surgery late this year...I purposely scheduled it where I would have time to be active (although with severe pain) in my kids soccer practices since they were playing for a championship..yet have enough time to recover so that I can be in a car 6 hours for the GT/UGA game and 6 hours for the ACCCG game. The surgeon thought it was hilarious as he wanted to do the surgery either mid-October or late November....I told him it had to be the first week of November. That way I got in most of soccer season being an active coach (instead of Mangino style)....had a big customer meeting the last week of October...and it gave me 3-4 weeks of rehab before trucking it 6 hours to the GT/UGA game.

I have already moved two customer meetings for the Orange Bowl.

Hey....I do not expect everyone to do these things...everyone has different priorities and that makes the world go around.

However...I do expect us to sell 17,500 tickets at $125 if Wake Forest can do it. Heck...don't we publicize ourselves as having one of out of every six GT grads as being a millionaire??!!
 
hiveredtech said:
correct....my family is moving into a shelter in February because we are going to the Orange Bowl.

its called prior planning.

Heck...I had to have back surgery late this year...I purposely scheduled it where I would have time to be active (although with severe pain) in my kids soccer practices since they were playing for a championship..yet have enough time to recover so that I can be in a car 6 hours for the GT/UGA game and 6 hours for the ACCCG game. The surgeon thought it was hilarious as he wanted to do the surgery either mid-October or late November....I told him it had to be the first week of November. That way I got in most of soccer season being an active coach (instead of Mangino style)....had a big customer meeting the last week of October...and it gave me 3-4 weeks of rehab before trucking it 6 hours to the GT/UGA game.

I have already moved two customer meetings for the Orange Bowl.

Hey....I do not expect everyone to do these things...everyone has different priorities and that makes the world go around.

However...I do expect us to sell 17,500 tickets at $125 if Wake Forest can do it. Heck...don't we publicize ourselves as having one of out of every six GT grads as being a millionaire??!!
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And five out of six of those millionaires don't even know what American Football is.
 
gth816f said:
the upper corner of what will be a half empty stadium
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I don't think this will be the case. A friend of mine lived in Cedar Rapids for a year. He made the mistake of going to Iowa City on game day and said it was insane. Iowa fans will travel and they will buy up whatever seats are available. (The only thing that might stop this is that they've been in Florida a couple of times recently.)

As for me, I really, really, really wanted to be there. However, I'm getting out with my PhD in May and just accepted a fellowship to spend the next two years in London. At the moment, I'm looking at having no paycheck from mid-May until the fellowship kicks in at the start of October. I can't justify $400 (minimum) for this trip, as much as I desperately want to.
 
Wake's 2006 Orange Bowl was TUESDAY Jan 3. Flights the day after the ACCCG were 179 on Delta with SEVERAL flights into and out of FLL. For those of you that are bitching about price of flights, you are just LAZY and really didn't WANT to go. YOU are not a good fan!!! Now if you can't go because your job could be in risk, no brainer, your children are back in school and your wife won't let you go-grow a pair.

Last time I checked we haven't been to a major bowl since Jan 1, 1967. OUR team will be there despite the crappy date. HOW in the HELL can FARMERS from IOWA who have to drive ANOTHER 12 hours or a MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE plane ticket have more fans than those who are WELL EDUCATED "Making great money' Engineers. I'd say most of those on this thread are WEAK and MAKING EXCUSES!!! GROW A PAIR!!
 
gtzulu said:
I have the money and time, but don't want to fly for personal safety. I suck.
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If you have the time and money then drive, course that is not as safe as flying, not sure how you resolve that one. Maybe look into taking a train?;)
 
season tickets: $275, trip to Durham: $120, acc championship: $240...

I just don't have any more money to spend on this. I don't have a job and still have to pay for school...
 
Flights are $49 dollars... It's not expensive... If a student can figure out a way to get to Miami (for the second game this year) then you guys with jobs should be able to go...
 
AlabamaBuzz said:
I know it is tough taking off work.

Anyway, I agree it is a sacrifice, and I understand why many are not choosing to do it, but I sure wish more could.

Go Jackets!!
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What some are missing is that it's not necessarily a sacrifice you can choose to make or not make. For some, there is no choice. I HAVE to be with a client on Jan 5. I'm just hoping I will be in front of a TV that night instead of on a damn plane. The week after New Year's is an absolutely stupid time for these games to be played.
 
hiveredtech said:
but you live in Atlanta...you can drive.
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my car has 218K miles on it. and i would be driving ALONE. none of my family cares as much as i do.

if you can arrange a drive down on the day of and a ride back the next AM...lets go!
 
Sure are a lot of excuses in this thread to not support our team in the biggest bowl in 60+ years.
 
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