Forever Seats?

[dogpause]

I've already got the best seat in the house, guaranteed for life, and beer is about $10 for six of them. The only risk is that I can't find the remote for the TV.

 

[mjmoney23]

There go my husky value seats. Couldn't beat about $15 per game in 212 row E

 

[John]

Lew Perkins would be proud.

 

[CTBasketball]

If you call your ticket rep they’ll likely lie to you about what’s going to happen next.

 

[pspr11]

My life time serious radio purchase was just for the lifetime of the car

 

[giddyup]

If it was ordinary business you’d be strung up by the AG for unfair trade practices. But, apparently rules don’t apply to our overlords.

 

[Lambeau]

Will these be New Forever Seats--or every year there's a new auction and you get bumped?

 

[GampelGladiator]

Will these be New Forever Seats--or every year there's a new auction and you get bumped?

yes...

 

[Lambeau]

Aha.

 

[Chief00]

Total BS taking away our forever seats.

I understand the desire to cash in on two NC Championships, while the irons are hot, and the AD’s need for dollars. But, this seems like the type of poorly thought out overreach that could end in a costly Class Action Lawsuit. It may have been more bluster than thoughtfulness and it is the type of language consultants peddle - but “Forever Seats” speaks for itself - it will be tough to spin that agreement was something other than what it was.
Dave should reconsider this approach before the hole gets deeper.

 

[DayDayTFS]

Those of us who stuck it out during the end of the KO tenure are really getting screwed here. Couldn’t give my seats away back then.

 

[Vancat]

Will these be New Forever Seats--or every year there's a new auction and you get bumped?

I asked that question and my rep said he didn’t know. That information will be coming out later this year. I can’t see that it’s going to be an answer that we like. Otherwise, they would’ve just told us already so we’d only be half as pissed.

 

[John]

I asked that question and my rep said he didn’t know. That information will be coming out later this year. I can’t see that it’s going to be an answer that we like. Otherwise, they would’ve just told us already so we’d only be half as pissed.

I was going to email my rep, but decided not to because I'm pretty sure his responses will make me even more irritated than I presently am. He wasn't particularly soothing when I contacted him a couple of weeks ago to register my dissatisfaction with the XL game lineup this coming season.

 

[Kemba Time]

I can see both sides, but winning out why should a long time donor that donates say $1K per year get better seats than a new donor that donates $5K+ per year? New donors willing to shell out more dough should get some benefit or else why do It? It’s unfortunate, but this is big time college athletics.

A longtime donor that gives $1k per year should have their seats because the athletic department has spent the past five years telling them that they are their Forever Seats — to keep business when the program was cratering, to plead for donations during a global pandemic with no product to offer and to ask for additional money as the program’s rise continued.

Had the program not chosen that route, they could do whatever they want, but the same athletic director who is calling the shots today made that decision and spent half a decade repeating a lie. This isn’t big-time athletics, it’s selling snake oil.

 

[John]

A longtime donor that gives $1k per year should have their seats because the athletic department has spent the past five years telling them that they are their Forever Seats — to keep business when the program was cratering, to plead for donations during a global pandemic with no product to offer and to ask for additional money as the program’s rise continued.

Had the program not chosen that tact, they could do whatever they want, but the same athletic director who is calling the shots today made that choice and spent half a decade repeating a lie. This isn’t big-time athletics, it’s selling snake oil.

these same long-time donors also continued to donate/buy season tickets during some years of truly horrendous program history, and these same donors supported football during these years of struggle too (ask me how I know). Now that's all thrown overboard for Johnny-come-lately fair weather fans with deeper pockets now that the basketball program saw the light of day again.

 

[Kemba Time]

these same long-time donors also continued to donate/buy season tickets during some years of truly horrendous program history, and these same donors supported football during these years of struggle too (ask me how I know). Now that's all thrown overboard for Johnny-come-lately fair weather fans with deeper pockets now that the basketball program saw the light of day again.

The bet that there is some magical pool of potential donors who haven’t sprung for season tickets in previous years with deeper pockets than the ones who have been giving UConn thousands annually AD David Benedict chose to alienate is a big one to make.

Given my priority points, it’s more a matter of where than if I will have tickets in the new world and I would have written a check for about any amount UConn asked for had they come to current donors with an opportunity to lock in seats first.

But with the disgraceful way this has been handled and a simple cost analysis of donation/ticket prices, I can just hand-pick the games I want to attend instead for a far smaller total $ commitment. As I’ve learned anytime I’ve needed to sell any of my seats, the secondary market doesn’t care how much you donated to get them.

I would give the benefit of the doubt that our athletic director has thought past the short-term cash grab of auctioning off priority points but given the $11 million check he wrote KO and the number of times he has come back publicly dragging his tail because the Big 12 might have winked in his direction, I don’t think foresight is among his greatest strengths.

 

[husky429]

Pay for your seats every year. Prices will go up. Pay up or shut up. The idea of "forever seats" is silly.

 

[John]

Pay for your seats every year. Prices will go up. Pay up or shut up. The idea of "forever seats" is silly.

Complain to the athletic department about the silliness then, they're the ones that leaned into it for years.

 

[gtcam]

After 40 plus years we gave up our season tickets because they were getting unreal in cost and AD David Benedict didn't care to hear about longevity and loyalty.
I've discovered that I now have the best seat in the arena sitting at home in front of the large screen TV and admire all the ink on these kids arms and legs. Kept my soccer season tickets and shoot the baseball team extra donations on a yearly basis.
Maybe, just maybe, I'll restart the football season tickets next year.

 

[Kemba Time]

Pay for your seats every year. Prices will go up. Pay up or shut up. The idea of "forever seats" is silly.

Whose silly idea was it? I certainly didn't go to the athletic department and tell them to call them my forever seats in 2019, or 2020, or 2021, or 2022, or 2023. And the first part of your post was the exact promise: Prices will go up, pay up and the seats are yours forever.

 

[Gburyhusky]

If the results of the renovations are a better fan experience, then the athletic department can reasonably assume that the value of the experience is higher and raise prices. The market will determine whether they are correct. Perhaps it might make sense to wait and see how this plays out before jumping to conclusions. In hindsight it was not a great idea for the athletic department to market the seats as "forever". However, the arenas need to be updated and the fan experience needs to be upgraded (most especially at XL). It's possible that some may be priced out or will have to pay more for the better experience, which is unfortunate, but that's the proverbial cost of doing business in this era in the upper echelon of big time college sports. I for one am thankful that UConn basketball remains in the upper echelon, which a few years ago was not at all a certainty.

 

[Waquoit]

Pay for your seats every year. Prices will go up. Pay up or shut up. The idea of "forever seats" is silly.

It wasn't an idea. It was a promise that they reneged on. Do you buy season tickets?

 

[HeyMoe]

Just got off a call with someone from UConn. Nothing is official but this is what I was told.

• Seat selection will only be open to current season ticket holders
• Once you select your seats, you'll be able to keep those seats year after year like we do now
• Club seating will be added at Gampel, I believe I read before this will also be true at XL
• Person I spoke with has not heard anything about moving students to the sidelines
• Expect costs to go up for tickets / seat donations (no surprise about this)

 

[DayDayTFS]

Anyone remember when they begged to keep season ticket money during covid instead of just refunding everyone? Yeah I do, I let them keep it to help sustain things.

 

[HooperScooper]

Pay for your seats every year. Prices will go up. Pay up or shut up. The idea of "forever seats" is silly.

But that's what people were told. There's a difference if that's not what they were told.