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I’m ok with the athletic dept keeping all my donation money. That’s part of the season ticket process. It’s my season ticket money I may have an issue with. I agree with the comment from an earlier yarder mentioning having us “donate” for a service that is not provided. I’m not ok with that
 
Hoopcrazee said:
Has anyone seen the policy in writing yet??? I'm waiting to SEE it for my own eyes...Think that options laid out above are amazingly aggressive and antagonistic when it should be neither BUT i'll wait to see it with my own eyes
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I agree, given that it’s suppose to be a public health crisis, UConn is inconsistent with how other businesses have treated the disease fallout. For instance hotels and airlines have demonstrated flexibility beyond their usual policies.
UConn is exposing themselves to unknown legal risk by punishing someone for not paying and attending games that may not even be offered. . The policies enforced should not run counter to public health interests. It’s beyond aggressive, especially since it’s a state run institution and is contrary to the spirit and wording of various state polices and mandates.
Does anyone know how NFL teams are handling?
 
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The demand for tix this year was up dramatically which will undoubtedly persist with an increasingly talented team in a post-Covid '21-'22 season. While I and many will be ok donating to support the program, the AD must recognize others will not be for varied reasons. The goodwill they'd gather with an optional donation and no loss of seat assignment should outweigh the short term financial hit.

That said, the proposed policy of no seat donation = loss of seat location would likely free up better seats for the selection process next year.
 
That’s an excellent point about the XL. Are they charging us 50% seat donation or lose the seat for games they have cancelled at that location?
 
Chief00 said:
That’s an excellent point about the XL. Are they charging us 50% seat donation or lose the seat for games they have cancelled at that location?
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that is the as yet unconfirmed but rumored proposal. maybe the BY feedback will motivate a change
 
I was hoping for the "UConn keeps all ticket and donation funds and we pick up where we left off when basketball resumes" option; ie. I dont owe anything for 2021-22.
 
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RF79 said:
I’m ok with the athletic dept keeping all my donation money. That’s part of the season ticket process. It’s my season ticket money I may have an issue with. I agree with the comment from an earlier yarder mentioning having us “donate” for a service that is not provided. I’m not ok with that
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I agree. I have no issue with using the seat donation to keep the seats. But I want my ticket money back.
 
Waquoit said:
I agree. I have no issue with using the seat donation to keep the seats. But I want my ticket money back.
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Im 99% sure they will give you the ticket money if you let them keep at least 50% of the seat donation.
 
gampelcrazies said:
Im 99% sure they will give you the ticket money if you let them keep at least 50% of the seat donation.
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If the rumored alternatives are accurate, you will be able to get your ticket $ even if you keep the entire donation but you will lose your seat location.
 
The problem is that they have a guaranteed failed business model for downturns or pandemics. Other than a few contractors who took the sword, the rest of their employees are guaranteed no layoffs or lost of benefits. Hence, they have to come up with illogical rationale to gorge their customers, who are mostly not guaranteed anything in this pandemic economy themselves, to support this crazy fixed cost structure.
 
Chief00 said:
The problem is that they have a guaranteed failed business model for downturns or pandemics.
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not unlike most college athletic depts. or much of the entertainment industry admittedly with less flexibility than many
 
husky8273 said:
not unlike most college athletic depts. or much of the entertainment industry admittedly with less flexibility than many
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Other athletic departments don’t have the CT union contract guarantees and were laying off people - that blowback was one of the reasons - there was pressure to reconsider football along with TV contracts on the revenue side. .
 
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I have been fully prepared to tell UConn to keep my entire seat donation, including the additional donation I made when I renewed my tickets given where it seemed this was all headed financially for the athletic dept.

To aggressively push to take the entire ticket money by dangling carrots they cannot promise when they can’t possibly supply what I agreed to as a Hartford season-ticket holder sounds like a very good way to ensure little goodwill going forward.

Possible attendance to an undetermined game if fans are allowed at some point in a venue people need to know well in advance around work schedules? Increased points when we are very happy with forever seats that we kept our seasons to ensure we would have? Tickets to a future away game? You could fly to Milwaukee or Cincy, get a hotel for the weekend and get floor seats on StubHub at Xavier or Marquette for less than the season-ticket money.

Two factors UConn doesn’t seem to be considering:

When they surveyed season-ticket holders about options in April, what this would all look like in the winter was an entirely different question and responses were based upon expecting a far better attendance outlook by college hoops season. It’s even quite different in CT than when they sent the second survey a month or so ago.

And just keeping season tickets for UConn basketball the past 4-5 years has been a financial donation of goodwill to UConn. How many games have we all spent $35-$50 bucks per ticket on plus a donation that were going for next to nothing on StubHub or UConn ended up essentially giving away to get some fans in the building?

The return to the Big East and ensuring our seats was supposed to be the payoff for sticking through that; it’s a helluva time to ask if we can just float the athletic department an extra grand or two no matter what their financial situation is.
 
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Kemba Time said:
I have been fully prepared to tell UConn to keep my entire seat donation, including the additional donation I made when I renewed my tickets given where it seemed this was all headed financially for the athletic dept.

To aggressively push to take the entire ticket money by dangling carrots they cannot promise when they can’t possibly supply what I agreed to as a Hartford season-ticket holder sounds like a very good way to ensure minimum donations and zero goodwill going forward.

Possible attendance to an undetermined game if fans are allowed at some point in a venue I need to know well in advance around work schedules? Increased points when I am very happy with my forever seats that I have kept seasons to ensure I would have? Tickets to a future away game? You could fly to Milwaukee or Cincy, get a hotel for the weekend and get floor seats on StubHub at Xavier or Marquette for the price of the season-ticket money.

Two factors UConn doesn’t seem to be considering:

When they surveyed season-ticket holders about options in April, what this would all look like in the winter was an entirely different question and responses were based upon expecting a far better attendance outlook by college hoops season. It’s even quite different in CT than when they sent the second survey a month or so ago.

And just keeping season tickets for UConn basketball the past 4-5 years has been a financial donation of goodwill to UConn. How many games have we all spent $35-$50 bucks per ticket on plus a donation that were going for next to nothing on StubHub or UConn ended up essentially giving away to get some fans in the building?

The return to the Big East and ensuring our seats was supposed to be the payoff for sticking through that; it’s a helluva time to ask if we can just float the athletic department an extra grand or two no matter what their financial situation is.
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Yeah,this isn’t so different than some of the large employers and how they’re treating their employees. At my job we have taken a 10% paycut, no raises or promotions for last year or this next year coming up. Now they’ve laid off about 20% of our staff and have asked the remaining staff to pick up the slack and work even more hours (unpaid). A lot of people are now working 20-25% more, getting paid 10% less and in an environment where all the managers are still at home but the people doing the work are in working every day. Pretty bad work environment to say the least. The best part is they used to supply basics like coffee, but since the pandemic and there being no high level people around there has been no coffee for months. All this so the multi-billion dollar company can keep growing their profits year over year. My wife works at a small company and gets treated 100X better. The pandemic has certainly helped show the true colors of many of these businesses.
 
Vancat said:
Have not received a call or an email. Perhaps they are using those first calls as a gauge to tweak the offers?
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They are definitely making changes as they go. Some people posted in here with different info then I heard the first day they called people.
 
This isn't rocket science. Ticket holders already have a sense of what they think is fair and want to support the program. Don't play your fanbase for fools and don't get cutesy.
 
Here's what my rep told me. Each option below allows you to keep your seat renewal rights for 21-22.

Option 1 - Convert your ticket purchase to a donation. Receive double points. Attend games at Gampel. Go to a road game next year. First priority on postseason tix this year and next year. I believe also commit to 100% of your seat donation.

Option 2 - commit to 50% or 100% of seat donation. Let them hold your ticket purchase $$ and apply it to next season.

Option 3 - commit to 50% or 100% of seat donation. Get your ticket purchase refunded.

The need they are addressing is 1.5 million for testing everybody 3 times a week.

An email describing the choices is expected to be released on Nov. 6th.
 
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I’m good with letting them keep what I’ve paid. Glad to help Support the program, players and coaches to uphold the standard uconn Basketball needs to be at. I’m sure the program will be short this year eithher way
 
The options UConn is offering are pretty standard for the entertainment industry. Not sure what the fuss is about. We have tix to a few cultural organizations and they offered almost exactly what UConn is offering. They hope you will let them at least keep your donation since it was a donation after all. They figure they can get corporate and well heeled buyers to donate the ticket price as well because it isn’t that big a deal.
 
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freescooter said:
They figure they can get corporate and well heeled buyers to donate the ticket price as well because it isn’t that big a deal.
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They just have to not be all UConny and mess with people. Hartford Athletic brought in a focus group to get input. One of the group ideas was "You don't have an option for you to just keep the money." So they created one adding a few perks. UConn can do this, create a limited "Husky" t-shirt for those who agree. Don't threaten losing your "forever" seat after one freakin' year because you don't pony up for nothing.
 
The options for the Big East need to be either all schools can have fans or no one can. It doesn't matter that schools fall in different jurisdictions...we're all in the same league, so to me it's all or nothing. It would piss me off if our guys can't have fans in attendance but we're trucking out to Creighton for a full house of fans (and putting our players at risk at the same time). That to me is not acceptable on any level. Hopefully the athletic department will get this right and I'm assuming they will.
 
I do not live in the northeast anymore and am admittedly a little out of touch with their handling of COVID. But I'm assuming indoor dining is open, right? If that's the case, what is the difference between having fans in the stands (25% capacity or around there) with proper spacing in order to coincide with social distancing guidelines, and allowing indoor dining?
 
Caronimo said:
That hypocrite is allowing fans at the rent for a Canadian soccer team. Not even our local teams...
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how's that hypocritical? They're at a percentage of total capacity
 
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