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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 3714297, member: 2962"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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