Trouble Selling Bowl Tickets

Wow, those are two schools with large fan bases, especially Nebraska. I am surprised that either of them would have trouble selling out for a New Years Day game.
 
I read somewhere that we had 7K of our 10K tickets sold by the Monday after the ACCCG. I imagine if we were having problems you would see article like this one in the AJC everyday leading up to the game.
 
Very surprising. I'm guessing that Nebraska fans are deflated like much of our fanbase after losing a championship game. Same thing with Auburn losing big to Georgia and also forfeiting a BCS game. I guess they're just getting used to beating Bammer.
 
As a Resident of Dallas

and someone who has been to a number of Cotton Bowl games over the years, it is a really crappy bowl game experience. The weather isn't all that great, the game starts at 10 or 10:30 AM and the Cotton Bowl itself is in the top 5 worst football stadiums I have ever been in.

The city of Dallas really blew it when they let Arlington win the bid for the New Dallas (sic) Cowboys stadium. The Dallas plan was going to be in Fair Park and replace the turd known as the Cotton Bowl.

Give me a retractable roof stadium surrounded by restaurants, bars, hotels and shops over the current dump in what is a very sketchy part of Dallas.
 
Re: As a Resident of Dallas

goldbybirth said:
and someone who has been to a number of Cotton Bowl games over the years, it is a really crappy bowl game experience. The weather isn't all that great, the game starts at 10 or 10:30 AM and the Cotton Bowl itself is in the top 5 worst football stadiums I have ever been in.

The city of Dallas really blew it when they let Arlington win the bid for the New Dallas (sic) Cowboys stadium. The Dallas plan was going to be in Fair Park and replace the turd known as the Cotton Bowl.

Give me a retractable roof stadium surrounded by restaurants, bars, hotels and shops over the current dump in what is a very sketchy part of Dallas.
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Why don't they move it to the Cowboys stadium if the Cotton Bowl is in such crappy shape? Isn't UT-OU played in the Cotton Bowl every year?

The Cotton Bowl was long ago supplanted by the Fiesta Bowl. Part of it is the weather, Dallas is a lot dicier than Phoenix that time of year. But I also believe Phoenix has done a much better job while CB officials have let it slip away. I imagine most folks would much rather be in Orlando or Tampa on 1/1.

I can remember when the CB was one of the Big Four bowl games we watched every New Years Day. The SWC champ always played there.
 
JTS, I think our allotment is 12,500. Yes, we had 7000 sold before the ACCCG. I wonder how many fans signed up for Orange Bowl tix's when the offer went out? A WVA fan who lives in our condo complex says all of their allotment has been sold and that the school is looking for more from the Gator Bowl. What could have been if we had beat WF!!!
 
One of the comments that really strikes me is when the article says that you dont need to worry about getting good seats by going through the school. Everyone knows you can get better seats by going different routes. If that problem were solved, and they gave tickets to schools between the 25 yard lines, I bet you could require the schools to sell a lot more tickets...
 
SMoney said:
One of the comments that really strikes me is when the article says that you dont need to worry about getting good seats by going through the school. Everyone knows you can get better seats by going different routes. If that problem were solved, and they gave tickets to schools between the 25 yard lines, I bet you could require the schools to sell a lot more tickets...
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At home...I want the best possible seats. On the road I do not care as much because I want to be with my GT brethren first and foremost because it is more of an "us against them" mentality.

For the ACCCG I checked it out and there were not better seats through Ticketmaster...but there were better seats through Wake Forest because they did not sell crap! EBay of course had some better.
But none could give me 99% assurance of being surrounded by GT fans as I had buying through the AA.
 
hiveredtech said:
At home...I want the best possible seats. On the road I do not care as much because I want to be with my GT brethren first and foremost .......................
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This is how we feel as well.
 
HT- I don't know when you tried to purchase yours through ticketmaster, but I bought a block fairly late from them on the 50 yd line halfway up the bottom level. Great seats on a day that really ended up sucking. Two other downsides- found out I had to drink beer inside and none of the WF women were worth a lick.
 
LibertyTurns said:
HT- I don't know when you tried to purchase yours through ticketmaster, but I bought a block fairly late from them on the 50 yd line halfway up the bottom level. Great seats on a day that really ended up sucking. Two other downsides- found out I had to drink beer inside and none of the WF women were worth a lick.
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About the WF women, I couldn't believe the ugliness running around wearing WF shirts. I was very disappointed.
 
I am real miffed over my seats. I bought 4 $80 tickets the day we beat UNC and when we got there I had 4 of the worst tickets in the stadium. Down in the corner of the end zone behind the band next to the block wall. I talked to some of the people around me and they had bought their tickets like a few days before the game.

I will compose a letter complaining formally to the AA when I have a minute but there is no way I would buy tickets thru them again in another such situation. Apparently there was no logical assignment of seats at all.

If you bought a block on the 50 yard line then I assume they were the $120 club seats.
 
refrigeratormover said:
About the WF women, I couldn't believe the ugliness running around wearing WF shirts. I was very disappointed.
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Were you expecting Miss Universe or something?:laugher:
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I am real miffed over my seats. I bought 4 $80 tickets the day we beat UNC and when we got there I had 4 of the worst tickets in the stadium. Down in the corner of the end zone behind the band next to the block wall. I talked to some of the people around me and they had bought their tickets like a few days before the game.

I will compose a letter complaining formally to the AA when I have a minute but there is no way I would buy tickets thru them again in another such situation. Apparently there was no logical assignment of seats at all.

If you bought a block on the 50 yard line then I assume they were the $120 club seats.
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Had a friend of mine get his the week of off ebay for $30 a piece and sat on the 40 yd line.
 
What's really bad about the seating is that the AA holds back better tickets. For the 2000 Gator Bowl, I had nosebleed seats and I called and complained. I ended up at the 30 about 10 rows from the field. For the 2004 Sweet Sixteen, I called on Wednesday, after they had assigned seats, thereby earning mid-court, aisle seats only about 15 rows from the court.

The AA should really put a time aspect into ordering of tickets. Otherwise, for those of us without a ton of points, there isn't an incentive to order early and from the AA. It's not that we don't support GT, but that we have been burned by an apparently arbitrary process.
 
Well, I won't say I have a ton of points but I have a sizable amount. I just got shafted I guess. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I'll be in my Lazboy on 1/1 for the Gator Bowl.
 
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