Chances that season ticket count will be above 30,000?

[Waquoit]

FWIW, At the BW game I was walking by when I heard security (nicely) asking a guy to come down from the 2nd level behind the student section because it was closed. He said he'd be right down, he was just checking the view from the season ticket he just bought. He had his Maize and Blue "M" sweatshirt on.

 

[Rumrunner]

Let's hope the season ticket boost comes more from UConn fans buying tickets and not Michigan fans, or alternatively if michigan fans buy lots of tickets, there's economic incentive for them to sell the rest of the tickets. Nothing worse than a guaranteed no show because the michigan fans eat the rest of their tickets.

On stubhub now, there are about 300 tickets for sale to the michigan game, starting at $125. There are about 500-550 tickets for sale for the rest of the games, starting around $25 or so.

FWIW, At the BW game I was walking by when I heard security (nicely) asking a guy to come down from the 2nd level behind the student section because it was closed. He said he'd be right down, he was just checking the view from the season ticket he just bought. He had his Maize and Blue "M" sweatshirt on.

 

[Waquoit]

On stubhub now, there are about 300 tickets for sale to the michigan game, starting at $125.

I just checked, someone in the same row as me is asking for $259. per! I have a feeling that the trick of buying a ticket in the parking lot for $5.00 so you can go out and have a couple of free beers at halftime won't work that game.

 

[SubbaBub]

So...about 500 UM fans bought season.tickets to guarantee themselves a seat. Not the end of the world.


I'd be more concerned about UCONN "fans" selling their seat for that game to cover the cost of the rest of the season.

Looking at you Dog Pound.

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[ZooCougar]

Unintended side effect... Local UM fans buy season tickets and then end up attending a few more home games because it's nice to attend a college football game in person.

 

[uconNYC]

Unintended side effect... Local UM fans buy season tickets and then end up attending a few more home games because it's nice to attend a college football game in person.

Even better would be if Delany and a few B1G ADs are at the game and get intrigued by the prospects of UConn in the B1G

 

[Adios]

DJ Dogpound....you better take Michigan game off!

 

[zls44]

DJ Dogpound....you better take Michigan game off!

He won't.

I'm sure it'll be just like every other home game ever, except with more bleachers.

 

[Hoophound]

Then explain the PATHETIC attendance for the 20011-12 Mens Basketball Team? Arguably a top 3 program in the country w/ Lamb, Drummond etc.... Yet VERY few games were sold out! Attendance was a joke! I brought friends who were Alums from ACC teams to several games, and they commented as to how terrible the attendance was.... Hate to blast your theory out of the water, but there has been NO team in recent years, to match the "HYPE" and "Excitement" potential of that team, yet where were the crowds......

That team sucked balls.

 

[sanchez42885]

Another tidbit I noticed this weekend was Uconn advertising that buying season tickets saves a minimum of $125 on single game tickets. This leads me to believe they are going to charge premium prices on Michigan, Maryland, and probably a big east game or two. Given that the cheaper season tickets are $175 for the season ($25 per) that means we're looking at either a huge markup on those games or single game tickets will be going for an average of just under $43.00 a game. Hopefully its just a big markup on the Michigan/Maryland games because now is not the time to price out the casual fan who attends 1-2 games a season

 

[HuskyDogArt]

The state economy is killing the attendance. I agree 100%.

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John F. Kennedy

JFK was a great leader....I wonder what happened to the Democrats - like Ella Grasso - of his era. JFK was not Teddy..

Of course, the Republicans of Thomas Meskill is not the same either...

 

[zls44]

Another tidbit I noticed this weekend was Uconn advertising that buying season tickets saves a minimum of $125 on single game tickets. This leads me to believe they are going to charge premium prices on Michigan, Maryland, and probably a big east game or two. Given that the cheaper season tickets are $175 for the season ($25 per) that means we're looking at either a huge markup on those games or single game tickets will be going for an average of just under $43.00 a game. Hopefully its just a big markup on the Michigan/Maryland games because now is not the time to price out the casual fan who attends 1-2 games a season

They did premium pricing for the Syracuse (MBB) and Baylor (WBB) games. It's something they're committed to.

Michigan is interesting because I wonder how many single-game tickets would even be available...but probably $50 face if there were any. I'd guess they also have Louisville/Maryland at $40-50.

 

[whaler11]

Didn't they sell single game tickets at $35 last year. So that's 70 of the 125 out of the gate.

If they are doing more hopefully they don't swing and miss like they did with Syracuse.

 

[hthusky74]

If we do not fill our 25,00 seat stadium at least half the time we are going nowhere friends.

Our stadium holds 40,000.

 

[hthusky74]

I hope we can maintain an average attendance of 30,000. No way seasons ticket sales will reach 30,000.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

I hope we can maintain an average attendance of 30,000. No way seasons ticket sales will reach 30,000.

Maybe not this year, but if Connecticut ever got smart and become business friendly, it might have 40K season tickets...

 

[minidarren]

Maybe not this year, but if Connecticut ever got smart and become business friendly, it might have 40K season tickets...

Business friendly? Like, the people who are supposed to occupy the chair backs but rarely ever show up? Those guys?

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[Husky25]

Rarely is game attendance based on butts in seats. It is normally based on paid and comped number of seats.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Paltry endowment too. Hopefully this adminstration will begin to turn many of these issues around.

I don't know if it's a thing that can be turned around by an administration. You can identify specific areas you want to mprove (endowment, ticket sales, etc.) and attack those issues tactically, but the overall strategy - IMNSHO - involves a complete cultural shift in the region. THat's not easy to do, and takes a long time.

THere was a time, for over two centuries, that Connecticut was the hotbed of innovation and industry in this country. Over the past few decades, the culture has shifted to one of a welfare state funded by catering to the needs of large multinational corporations that don't provide many actual locally productive jobs. Elected officials, cater to the people that elect them.

I do know one thing, when you win, and win consistently, it generates interest. THere are many factors that play into the decline of ticket sales in recent years for basketball and football, but none, are as important as the simple fact that even in the 2011 championship year for men's hoops, the team was 9-9 in the regular season....

as for football, aside from a decent run at the second half of the 2010 season in football where we went 5-0 in a bunch of nail biter games, to get propelled into a fiesta matchup with Oklahoma, the team since the 2009 win over south carolina - is overall 18-19, and lost a bunch of games at home, that hurt a lot perception wise. Take out that 5-0 run when we were sitting at 3-4 in mid 2010, and the football program is 13-19 since beating South Carolina in 2009

GOing to ruffle some feathers here for sure, but looking back with the evidence now, I think it's more than safe to say, that Edsall peaked with his recruiting sometime b/w 2007-2008.

I know Pasqualoni's rep, and there's very little middle ground, you either like the guy or don't. But even football people that may not like the guy, all agree that he can recruit to build a top notch division 1-A, BCS, FBS - watever label program, andwe are well on our way.

It must begin to translate to wins though, or we'll have to move on to another recruiter, that can build such a program AND win.

 

[Husky25]

... THere are many factors that play into the decline of ticket sales in recent years for basketball and football, but none, are as important as the simple fact that even in the 2011 championship year for men's hoops, the team was 9-9 in the regular season....

Don't mean to be nit-picky, Carl, but UConn was 9-9 during conference play (not including the Big East Tourney). They were 26-9 entering the NCAA Tournement, with some pretty impressive wins to boot.

Can't refute much of what you say about football (other than I don't agree with separating the 5-0 run from the rest of the record). UConn rarely lost at home under Coach Pasqualoni's predecessor. Observing a win makes one feel that much better and improves the surrounding environment. Continued wins at home (and a few on the road), makes people take notice and excited to see the next home game.

 

[UCFBfan]

Another tidbit I noticed this weekend was Uconn advertising that buying season tickets saves a minimum of $125 on single game tickets. This leads me to believe they are going to charge premium prices on Michigan, Maryland, and probably a big east game or two. Given that the cheaper season tickets are $175 for the season ($25 per) that means we're looking at either a huge markup on those games or single game tickets will be going for an average of just under $43.00 a game. Hopefully its just a big markup on the Michigan/Maryland games because now is not the time to price out the casual fan who attends 1-2 games a season

If Michigan fans bought a bunch of season tix, look for these "premium" prices to be available on the cheap on StubHub.

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[UCFBfan]

One other question. Does anyone know what season tix go for at other AAC schools? I feel like UConn will not realize that we're not playing teams people are dying to see and so they won't adjust their ticket prices. Outside of a few interesting OOC games, can they really still charge the same as they did when we were in the BE? (I admit I'm not sure where we stand compared to other conference mates prices)

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[Afroabe224]

One other question. Does anyone know what season tix go for at other AAC schools? I feel like UConn will not realize that we're not playing teams people are dying to see and so they won't adjust their ticket prices. Outside of a few interesting OOC games, can they really still charge the same as they did when we were in the BE? (I admit I'm not sure where we stand compared to other conference mates prices)

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I don't care who we are playing $25/ a game is a great deal. You can't get student tickets at a lot of schools for that price! I think the real battle here has to do with the excitement of the team in general. Even with winning seasons, under Edsall UConn football has never been exciting, add PP + a GDL offense and that is the formula for losing appeal which is the real issue here, not who we are playing.

 

[Rumrunner]

Season ticket sales must be a closely guarded state secret. Maybe last second push to announce count above 30k?

 

[CTGoonie]

Season ticket sales must be a closely guarded state secret. Maybe last second push to announce count above 30k?

Single game tix go on sale in about 2 weeks (based on past years). We should hear something by then. My guess is 23k. Hope I'm way low on that guess though...