LOL

[UConnDan97]

The personal irony of this is that I used to buy the 3-packs for years because it was hard for me to buy the full season tickets with donations. I would come on the Boneyard and feel pretty bad that I wasn't a season ticket holder like most. Kinda like I was only a "casual fan" [Chief trademarked].

About 3 years ago, I got a modest raise and the stretch to get season tickets wasn't as tough so I made the leap. The outcome? I feel worse...

 

[ConnHuskBask]

The personal irony of this is that I used to buy the 3-packs for years because it was hard for me to buy the full season tickets with donations. I would come on the Boneyard and feel pretty bad that I wasn't a season ticket holder like most. Kinda like I was only a "casual fan" [Chief trademarked].

About 3 years ago, I got a modest raise and the stretch to get season tickets wasn't as tough so I made the leap. The outcome? I feel worse...

When UConn does something so dumb and thoughtless that it pisses off our very own @UConnDan97 , you almost just have to tip your cap at the level of incompetence.

15-0 Dan is now bummed out.

Thanks AD Dave.

 

[huskymedic]

The personal irony of this is that I used to buy the 3-packs for years because it was hard for me to buy the full season tickets with donations. I would come on the Boneyard and feel pretty bad that I wasn't a season ticket holder like most. Kinda like I was only a "casual fan" [Chief trademarked].

About 3 years ago, I got a modest raise and the stretch to get season tickets wasn't as tough so I made the leap. The outcome? I feel worse...

First time since 1999 I don’t have season tickets - went w/ the flex pack this year. I still go but it just stopped making sense.

 

[BlueMAB]

I remember when the motivation to buy season tickets was that I wouldn't have to worry about paying more than face value in case a game sold out, and I always knew where my seat would be.

Now we are motivated to refrain from buying season tickets because: they routinely give freebies away, tickets in the lot are usually available for less than face value, and you can sit just about anywhere you want.

 

[John]

I remember when the motivation to buy season tickets was that I wouldn't have to worry about paying more than face value in case a game sold out, and I always knew where my seat would be.

Now we are motivated to refrain from buying season tickets because: they routinely give freebies away, tickets in the lot are usually available for less than face value, and you can sit just about anywhere you want.

you know it's bad when the diehards here can only come up with "it's a donation" as the reason to buy season tickets.

 

[Purple Stein]

This is WHY I don’t buy season tickets anymore....last week I sat first row on the 30 for $17 (for 2) and this week I got 4 for FREE. So far my season ticket average seat price is $2.83!

Joke’s on you. AD can take your $$, buy a movie at Goodwill, and still have .83 left over.

 

[FartMan69]

Sneaky bad part of this is now you're exposing more folks to dreadful football increasing the likelihood they wont ever want to step foot in the place ever again. It's time to treat the football program like Chernobyl. Cut the phone lines and squash any spread of information. If you're going to kill it why not keep the stink from engulfing the poor innocent folk.

 

[CL82]

lol you dont even get what this is.

id suggest you should stop embarrassing yourself but clearly based on your posts that isn’t an emotion you can feel.

Lol, one of us gets pretty emo about BY posts and the other of us is me. I'll never get why this stuff matters to you so much and so personally. I mean you are a successful guy right? Have a good marriage right? Life's been pretty good to you, so why where's all the anger coming from?

Anywho, UConn has characterized this as a corporate freebie:

Granted, anyone who has the code can take advantage of it but that is still how it is being portrayed. In my humble non-financial genius status, it is a no brainer to give away excess capacity. It introduces new prospective consumers to the product and creates the illusion of demand. As I noted above, it created a customer management issue with Season ticket holders that needs to be addressed. I agree 100% with @Bonehead that you make the same offer to STHs, but that's a start, UConn would need to do more than that.

@WingU-Conn

 

[kcc1442]

Sneaky bad part of this is now you're exposing more folks to dreadful football increasing the likelihood they wont ever want to step foot in the place ever again. It's time to treat the football program like Chernobyl. Cut the phone lines and squash any spread of information. If you're going to kill it why not keep the stink from engulfing the poor innocent folk.

Worst part is you and all the other unbearable whiners in here won't actually be there for the turn around, if or when it actually happens. You will say you were because after reading a couple of positive scores and hearing about a couple of big wins, you will jump back on board and pretend you never gave up on the team. Pretending like you didn't trash their every move and all of the players on the team incessantly when they were down. Because a dead horse needs to be beat. Even when it is still grasping for air and their are signs of life, you'll feel the need to kick it again because your sorry pessimistic attitudes consume you. Find a way to enjoy the team for their effort and some of the positives. Otherwise keep it down.

 

[FartMan69]

Worst part is you and all the other unbearable whiners in here won't actually be there for the turn around, if or when it actually happens. You will say you were because after reading a couple of positive scores and hearing about a couple of big wins, you will jump back on board and pretend you never gave up on the team. Pretending like you didn't trash their every move and all of the players on the team incessantly when they were down. Because a dead horse needs to be beat. Even when it is still grasping for air and their are signs of life, you'll feel the need to kick it again because your sorry pessimistic attitudes consume you. Find a way to enjoy the team for their effort and some of the positives. Otherwise keep it down.

Thank you for your service

 

[John]

Worst part is you and all the other unbearable whiners in here won't actually be there for the turn around, if or when it actually happens. You will say you were because after reading a couple of positive scores and hearing about a couple of big wins, you will jump back on board and pretend you never gave up on the team. Pretending like you didn't trash their every move and all of the players on the team incessantly when they were down. Because a dead horse needs to be beat. Even when it is still grasping for air and their are signs of life, you'll feel the need to kick it again because your sorry pessimistic attitudes consume you. Find a way to enjoy the team for their effort and some of the positives. Otherwise keep it down.

gotta love the true believer.

 

[pepband99]

Lol, one of us gets pretty emo about BY posts and the other of us is me. I'll never get why this stuff matters to you so much and so personally. I mean you are a successful guy right? Have a good marriage right? Life's been pretty good to you, so why where's all the anger coming from?

Anywho, UConn has characterized this as a corporate freebie:
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Granted, anyone who has the code can take advantage of it but that is still how it is being portrayed. In my humble non-financial genius status, it is a no brainer to give away excess capacity. It introduces new prospective consumers to the product and creates the illusion of demand. As I noted above, it created a customer management issue with Season ticket holders that needs to be addressed. I agree 100% with @Bonehead that you make the same offer to STHs, but that's a start, UConn would need to do more than that.

@WingU-Conn

1) It's perfectly ok to give away excess capacity to corporate partners
2) It's beyond moronic to do it in a way that non-corporate partners can use it

We hire people to handle tickets - they should be sued or docked for every non-partner who used this code. Insanity.

 

[Exit 4]

1) It's perfectly ok to give away excess capacity to corporate partners
2) It's beyond moronic to do it in a way that non-corporate partners can use it

We hire people to handle tickets - they should be sued or docked for every non-partner who used this code. Insanity.

Coincidentally InsanityAACP6 is another code that gets you four free tickets and a parking pass.

 

[whaler11]

1) It's perfectly ok to give away excess capacity to corporate partners
2) It's beyond moronic to do it in a way that non-corporate partners can use it

We hire people to handle tickets - they should be sued or docked for every non-partner who used this code. Insanity.

You can’t give 8 free tickets to every employee at Travelers and pretend it’s rewarding a corporate partner. It’s just printing tickets and dropping them from a helicopter.

 

[Calhoun's Court]

I could see them doing this the last couple games of the season. But not your marquee out of conference early in the season game with good weather predicted.
ST get taken again.
But it's our fault we keep renewing.

 

[kcc1442]

gotta love the true believer.

I mean I'm probably more of an optimist sure. But rock bottom, rock rock bottom, who cares. Eventually we are going to get a coaching staff and a team full of guys headed in the right direction. OR we will abandon the program or drop down. But either way, it can't seriously be that fun to be a cry baby can it? Like for real. We have sucked overall lately, I get it. I can be critical. I can breakdown where we have sucked. Where it gets insufferable, is over generalizing every facet of the program as the worst in the history of football. When positives aren't noticeable because the results aren't there. I mean really the debbie downer bitchfest is more unbearable than our team's football play at this point.

 

[formerlurker]

First time since 1999 I don’t have season tickets - went w/ the flex pack this year. I still go but it just stopped making sense.

My season ticket streak ended at 22 years in 2017. Sadly, haven't been to a game since. Now my donations go to the UConn Foundation.

 

[CL82]

You can’t give 8 free tickets to every employee at Travelers and pretend it’s rewarding a corporate partner. It’s just printing tickets and dropping them from a helicopter.

E-tickets so they don't need to print them or use the a helicopter.

I get why people are pissed, but getting butts in the seats is critical for us.

Again, how you make it up to Season ticket holders, pretty much all of whom know that they could get have gotten seats on game day for next to nothing, is the key.

 

[pepband99]

You can’t give 8 free tickets to every employee at Travelers and pretend it’s rewarding a corporate partner. It’s just printing tickets and dropping them from a helicopter.

AD: Hey travelers - can we have a list of some info which we can use for coupon codes? maybe email addresses or logins? We would like to send a gift, but want some random identifying info, so we can identify legitimate employees
Travelers: Sure, here's a bunch of data which doesn't identify anyone by name, but is unique enough.
AD: Thanks. We'll use that to generate coupon codes per-person.

This isn't that hard, especially when you are already working with them.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Anyone who doesn't see this as a problem is clueless.

This is not how you run a ticket office.

 

[uconndogs]

Yep - because you’re part of the fanbase that accepts Suzie Lax and Diaco and Benedict and Edsall.

You stood by and watched them burn it to the ground and now that they are doing the last rites you don’t the dark humor some of us have seen for a decade.

Whaler, you have no idea who I am or how I feel about the program. To do that you would have to have some self awareness and stop pontificating for a moment.

As for having “stood by”, I highly suspect that the only difference between what you and I have done is your prolific posting on this board as you approach a bizarre 50k in posts.

Carry on........

 

[Life Is Good]

I see your point, but I'd much rather have a full(er) stadium than continue to play in an empty one. They just need to make things right for the STHs. How they do that, I don't know.

Maybe they could give Season ticket holders food or merchandise vouchers to ease the pain.

 

[CL82]

Maybe they could give Season ticket holders food or merchandise vouchers to ease the pain.

Yep, but still need something personal and unique to make people feel more like they are an important part of the process and less like an idiot who paid for something everyone else is getting for free.

 

[Bonehead]

Lol, one of us gets pretty emo about BY posts and the other of us is me. I'll never get why this stuff matters to you so much and so personally. I mean you are a successful guy right? Have a good marriage right? Life's been pretty good to you, so why where's all the anger coming from?

Anywho, UConn has characterized this as a corporate freebie:
View attachment 46167

Granted, anyone who has the code can take advantage of it but that is still how it is being portrayed. In my humble non-financial genius status, it is a no brainer to give away excess capacity. It introduces new prospective consumers to the product and creates the illusion of demand. As I noted above, it created a customer management issue with Season ticket holders that needs to be addressed. I agree 100% with @Bonehead that you make the same offer to STHs, but that's a start, UConn would need to do more than that.

@WingU-Conn

If UConn wants to introduce the product to new customers, I would assume we will see these offers all season long then. No reason to limit it to the Big Ten game.

They should give me my money back for these 8 tickets. They made them worth $0.00001.

I didnt renew FB tickets to give a donation to the university, or pay the Ollie and AAC buyout.

 

[The Viking]

Anyone know the code for me to get free Tool tickets LOL.

 

[CL82]

If UConn wants to introduce the product to new customers, I would assume we will see these offers all season long then. No reason to limit it to the Big Ten game.

They should give me my money back for these 8 tickets. They made them worth $0.00001.

I didnt renew FB tickets to give a donation to the university, or pay the Ollie and AAC buyout.

Probably should. They won't though.

What they could do is offer you more free tickets, food etc. during the season. But they should start having Season ticket holders only events, speakers, face time with Randy, etc. Next year give Season ticket holders from prior year tickets at 50 cents on the dollar. Will that make you whole, economically? Of course not but at least you'd feel like the give a crap about you.

 

[whaler11]

Whaler, you have no idea who I am or how I feel about the program. To do that you would have to have some self awareness and stop pontificating for a moment.

As for having “stood by”, I highly suspect that the only difference between what you and I have done is your prolific posting on this board as you approach a bizarre 50k in posts.

Carry on...

you feel differently about the program than the opinions you post? then sure i probably cant wrap my head around your actual opinions.

i always enjoy the attempted insult about post counts. real zingers.

quite simply we have the program this fanbase deserves

 

[CTMike]

First time since 1999 I don’t have season tickets - went w/ the flex pack this year. I still go but it just stopped making sense.

First time without season tickets since Rent opened. Now I know not to bother since I can get better tix for free.

 

[Bonehead]

First time without season tickets since Rent opened. Now I know not to bother since I can get better tix for free.

If you are going please let me know!!

 

[Bonehead]

Might as well give free tickets now for next years home games, while interest is high...oh that's right, there arent many scheduled games yet for next year.

Will there be free tickets when we are FCS??