2022 Season Ticket Thread

GT flunkout said:
Everyone got lower-level for UNC last year, upper level was closed. If this were actually a home game, you wouldn't be putting any season ticket holders in the upper level. Pretty obvious this is a neutral site game. Wow.
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Yep, forgot about the upper being closed last year.

If you are lower level at Grant Field you should also be lower level at the dome. My ST procured tix for UT for this same Chick-fil-A game in 2017 were upper stratosphere sideline seats. This time, the 2022 renewal says "lower level" for Clempson. My AT status hasn't increased in the past 5 years.
 
Checking in from the cold Jersey Shore to take my dislikes, big cries, and poos. I've made the decision to not renew. TL;DR version - I'm out.

I bought season tickets when CGC was hired to support the transition -- while I loved CPJ, this was truly a big turnaround and I wanted to support it during those initial tough years. I'm on the record here insisting our support was important - tickets and financially. I was able to make it back to Atlanta for one game a year with my son, and friends/family in the area were able to enjoy (?) the other tickets.

We're 3 years in, and I've got to be honest about it. It's not worth my time or frustration anymore. Let's call it an attempt at apathy... I want to care less. I'm trying to stay away from Georgia Tech sports in general, especially football. I'll be intentionally playing less early morning golf on Saturdays so I can get back to the TV and watch the game this fall -- more time on the golf course with my family for me on Saturday afternoons, no doubt.

I've watched enough football to see that we haven't turned any corner, and in many ways (not all) we've regressed. X's and O's are a complete disaster, and there's no recruiting and retention magic to overcome it. I've managed enough companies to see, even from the outside, that the program is mismanaged. Again, I'm no insider, and I'm sure some of that has to do with the college arms race and the resources needed to compete -- which our alumni and the academic school has simply refused to pony up.

Basketball isn't really any different.... Pastner seems like a great guy, really. But our team looks poorly coached out there. And the talent level is light years behind the top 20 programs. Want to blame it on losing Wright and Alvarado? In that case, losing in Round 1 of the NCAAs to Loyola-Chicago in an 8-9 game by 11 points in your only tournament appearance under this coach should be an abomination (it was).

Yeah, I know by pulling my ticket support, I'm joining the ranks of those who never supported the program to begin with. It doesn't feel good at all. But things have to change - our administration has to wake up. And unfortunately I don't believe it will get better until things get much, much worse. As an alum located 900 miles away, given the state of our programs, my day to day life will improve by me being less invested. I'm sure I'll be unsuccessful (example 1: last night's basketball game).

But above however I think and feel about it, here's the rational conclusion I've come to: if I owe Georgia Tech sports my support because I'm an alum, then the Georgia Institute of Technology owes Georgia Tech sports the entirety of its needed budget to compete with the best athletic programs in the country. Don't point your fingers at the alumni/fan base while you sit on your $2 billion endowment. Do you know what legacy and national brand recognition that this school owes to its football team? It's a legacy and brand that's fading fast. They need to act in a big way.

(Sorry for the long post. The decision to vote with my tickets has been on my mind the last couple of weeks.)
 
GT flunkout said:
Everyone got lower-level for UNC last year, upper level was closed. If this were actually a home game, you wouldn't be putting any season ticket holders in the upper level. Pretty obvious this is a neutral site game. Wow.
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Even if it is a neutral site game, I find it hard to believe that we have enough lower level season ticket holders to fill up half of the lower level at MBS.
But why would we allow it to be a neutral site game?
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
Even if it is a neutral site game, I find it hard to believe that we have enough lower level season ticket holders to fill up half of the lower level at MBS.
But why would we allow it to be a neutral site game?
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There needs to be some meaning to home games, even if they're played elsewhere. Looks be damned, if we can only get 10,000 people in the door, only let 5,000 Clemson fans in. I'm sure they'll be angry about it but what are they going to do, threaten to boycott and pay in little $2 bills?
 
The Jacket said:
There needs to be some meaning to home games, even if they're played elsewhere. Looks be damned, if we can only get 10,000 people in the door, only let 5,000 Clemson fans in. I'm sure they'll be angry about it but what are they going to do, threaten to boycott and pay in little $2 bills?
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Except that's what I'm saying. This isn't a home game. We're being told it's a home game but essentially we are the home team in a neutral site game called the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic. And losing a game at BDS for the privilege.
 
The old ‘please be patient due to high ticket sales volume’ prompt was up and gone before I could even grab a screen cap for the lulz
 
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ClydeBrick said:
Yep, forgot about the upper being closed last year.

If you are lower level at Grant Field you should also be lower level at the dome. My ST procured tix for UT for this same Chick-fil-A game in 2017 were upper stratosphere sideline seats. This time, the 2022 renewal says "lower level" for Clempson. My AT status hasn't increased in the past 5 years.
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If I end up in the top deck again at MBS, and I haven't checked, this will be my last season as a ST holder. I am going on decades as a ST holder. I got screwed for the Tennessee game. If GT does it for this game, no more ST money from me
 
JJacket said:
If I end up in the top deck again at MBS, and I haven't checked, this will be my last season as a ST holder. I am going on decades as a ST holder. I got screwed for the Tennessee game. If GT does it for this game, no more ST money from me
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@ClydeBrick mentioned it so I went and checked my tickets. I’m not real sure I’m not getting screwed as well. You have to click on the Clemp game to “reveal” the seats you’re gonna be assigned are not exactly equivalent just like the UT game.
 
GT flunkout said:
So looking at my renewal form it lists Clemson tickets as "upper level".

Home game my ass. We traded a home game for a neutral site Chick-fil-A kickoff game. Who does that?
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I’ve renewed and just checked my ticket account. I sit in 127 (lower east beside the club seats) in BDS, and the account says “lower level” for Clemson.

The way I’ve heard the story told is that it’s your seating location more than your AT points that matter for these “home games” in the dome - they will try to give you comparable seats in MB to what you have in BDS. I wonder if that means, this year, that if you have upper deck seats at BDS you’ll have upper deck seats at MB.

Last year for UNC, I had lower level but more toward the end zone - not really comparable to the 25 yard line seats I have at BDS. But they were also putting everybody in the lower bowl for that game. It’ll be interesting to see where I end up this year.

JRjr
 
Not going to renew but had already planned that last year was going to be the last. The state of the program has helped me not have many regrets except for all of the great friends I made over the years traveling to away games in the RV and the 6 or 7 weekends each year spent in the W21 parking lot.
 
I renewed this afternoon. I sit low in 225 (upper east) at about the 50 yd line. Clemson game says upper level.
 
Renewed. Loyal to a fault… thank goodness they sell beer at BDS.

AND you get a free ticket to Atlanta United this weekend :ughthumb:
 
ClydeBrick said:
Yep, forgot about the upper being closed last year.

If you are lower level at Grant Field you should also be lower level at the dome. My ST procured tix for UT for this same Chick-fil-A game in 2017 were upper stratosphere sideline seats. This time, the 2022 renewal says "lower level" for Clempson. My AT status hasn't increased in the past 5 years.
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But the number of season ticket buyers has gone down
 
GT76 said:
I renewed this afternoon. I sit low in 225 (upper east) at about the 50 yd line. Clemson game says upper level.
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Sitting in the best seats at BDS (imo) gets you an upper level seat in MBS for a "home game". What a crock.

I'm not bitching just to bitch. If this was really a home game every season ticket would be in that lower bowl. We were told this was a home game, taking the place of a game at BDS. That was not true.
 
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GT76 said:
I renewed this afternoon. I sit low in 225 (upper east) at about the 50 yd line. Clemson game says upper level.
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I wonder if it's upper upper level or the 200s. View from the 200s is actually really good.
 
JRJacket said:
Renewed. Loyal to a fault… thank goodness they sell beer at BDS.

AND you get a free ticket to Atlanta United this weekend :ughthumb:
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Threshold is based on AT points apparently. My buddy got them. I did not. I am an AT peasant.

EDIT: finally got after a few days. Must be that high ticket sales volume.
 
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