new seat selection email?

[Chief00]

Ok Jesse Ventura, calm down. “Seat Geeks” is not getting a payoff in premium seats (???)

Again- you don’t know how many seats are held for those groups. You say you do, but you don’t. No hard numbers. You’ve just decided to be MADDDDD

First, you need to boost your reading comprehension score. I said premium seats don’t account alone for the nearly 50% of lower level seats before the seat selection process.
I mention Seat Geeks as a possible explanation alone with other factors. What you don’t comprehend in all the years here is often when Chief00 guesses or asks questions in posts, he already effectively knows the answer.

 

[J187Money]

Just did mine. Same as you. My seats from last year were there 2 hours ago.gone now. At least I am in the building. They can go to hell if they ever do this again. I'll buy random games to go to. Not getting screwed again. All I wanted were my seats back. Aggravated

The thing that I’m aggravated about is that the only lower bowl seats that were open even if I was willing to pay more were in the corners and I’m center court now. So even if I wanted to pay more the seats would be worse. Guess I’m going to have to up my donations.

 

[Chief00]

Seems like everyone is basically in the same seats or slightly worse, except Chief, who is still working on the class action. Hope everyone is in the building, at least

Again, you are in a void. I never made a statement about the seats I selected some time ago. The World is bigger and more strategic than what I personally got as seats.
If you had a better business background than you exhibit, you would understand that. Also since you react emotionally rather than logically, you would realize I did not threaten a class action lawsuit. What I said is they created through various missteps, significant legal exposure risk for losing a class action and having to make a significant payout.
All UConn had to add in Ollie’s contract was a sentence: “That this contract and his employment did not fall under the Collective Bargaining Agreement”. That mistake cost UConn over $10 million dollars. Will history repeat itself?

 

[bigknight3]

First, you need to boost your reading comprehension score. I said premium seats don’t account alone for the nearly 50% of lower level seats before the seat selection process.
I mention Seat Geeks as a possible explanation alone with other factors. What you don’t comprehend in all the years here is often when Chief00 guesses or asks questions in posts, he already effectively knows the answer.

If you know the answer then say it, stop self-aggrandizing, about stuff you pretend to know just create this myth of Chief being in the know.

Until you say what you know definitely, we all agree that you know about as much about this ticket process as you do Andre Drummond's whereabouts on any given weekend.

 

[zls44]

All UConn had to add in Ollie’s contract was a sentence: “That this contract and his employment did not fall under the Collective Bargaining Agreement”. That mistake cost UConn over $10 million dollars. Will history repeat itself?

And if UConn adds that and KOs agent, wisely, advised him not to sign the deal, then what, Svengali?

 

[CTBasketball]

Maybe it's time for me to do a little research among friends whose teams are in P4 conferences to get some feel for how much they have to donate and how much they pay for tickets so we can have some context here. Or someone else can do it.
My guess is we haven't, as a fan base, been hit as hard for donations, etc. as many of the major players. I know a couple loyal Indiana and Michigan State fans have stopped buying tickets because of age, travel difficulty and getting fed up with the spiraling costs of operating at a high level.........for buying players, paying bloated staffs, building on campus arenas and practice facilities that rival pro league facilities, etc.

Has nothing to do with conference association. MSU generates a ton more revenue in the Big Ten, yet charge more for seats and donations.

It’s a business. If the company feels like it can squeeze its customer more, they will. The act of constantly moving the goalpost so to speak.

 

[Chief00]

And if UConn adds that and KOs agent, wisely, advised him not to sign the deal, then what, Svengali?

It is not standard in high D1 college ball to have a $10 million head coach go through collective bargaining. What you are fantasizing about was never likely to happen. Again, you seem to lack a basic business perspective. In big college or pro sports the right to quickly fire a head coach is pretty basic. Ask the guy who coached the Knicks last year!

 

[Chief00]

They’re making drastically more money by doing this so: very good business sense

So you are dishing out more business advice again, disillusioning your donors is probably not a recipe to success over the long term. And if PeoplesBank at $850,000 this year is the best that can be generated for naming rights - the state is probably missing out on $2-3 million a year, if CDRA did not have an agenda of dirtying the waters using a bank that loans them money on other projects.
And don’t use PC as a comparison - how many men’s and women’s NC have they won the last 30 years?

 

[Scrutineer]

If the seat selection is by total priority points, why were almost half the seats gone before the Seat Selection process started. What do they call the selection process that happened before that?
We are not just talking Premier Seats but a vast amount of regular seats in each lower level section.

That's a good question about why so many seats were gone before the selection process began but do you have a pretty solid estimate or just a guess?
Was it all sections of the lower bowl or just the sideline sections of the lower bowl?
I looked two weeks ago there seemed to be quite a few open seats in the corners and the one end zone.
We know they hold back tickets for special guests (players too?) and have a long list of seats for sponsors and major donors, but don't forget widening of the seats cost two per row in each section (from what I understood) of the sidelines sections that got the "enhanced seats".

 

[Chief00]

Until you say what you know definitely, we all agree that you know about as much about this ticket process as you do Andre Drummond's whereabouts on any given weekend.

I first met Andre when he was in 7th grade. You may have me though on his whereabouts on a given weekend!

 

[Chief00]

That's a good question about why so many seats were gone before the selection process began but do you have a pretty solid estimate or just a guess?
Was it all sections of the lower bowl or just the sideline sections of the lower bowl?
I looked two weeks ago there seemed to be quite a few open seats in the corners and the one end zone.
We know they hold back tickets for special guests (players too?) and have a long list of seats for sponsors and major donors, but don't forget widening of the seats cost two per row in each section (from what I understood) of the sidelines sections that got the "enhanced seats".

They should give a category accounting on the seats unavailable pre seat selection process. What is there to hide?

 

[Huskychick]

There are very few remaining seats in the lower bowl at the XL Center. I don't pick until Tuesday and my seats are long gone. The entire section we sat in and the one next to it just about gone. Not sitting in 200 level so, the secondary market for select games it will be.

 

[zls44]

I first met Andre when he was in 7th grade. You may have me though on his whereabouts on a given weekend!

Ok Donald

 

[Stew Crew]

Y

It is not standard in high D1 college ball to have a $10 million head coach go through collective bargaining. What you are fantasizing about was never likely to happen. Again, you seem to lack a basic business perspective. In big college or pro sports the right to quickly fire a head coach is pretty basic. Ask the guy who coached the Knicks last year

You’re acting like an employer can unilaterally decide to remove a position from collective bargaining. Even if Ollie or Hurley was ok with it, you need to get buy in from union. Ask anyone that’s ever dealt with a union. Unions only like setting precedents when they work in their favor. If they agree to one coaching job being exempt, it creates the precedent to allow UConn to change status on every coach at the school. I agree that it is odd to have a high level D1 coach covered under collective bargaining, but there are years of precedent at UConn that is not easy to reverse.

 

[zls44]

Y

You’re acting like an employer can unilaterally decide to remove a position from collective bargaining. Even if Ollie or Hurley was ok with it, you need to get buy in from union. Ask anyone that’s ever dealt with a union. Unions only like setting precedents when they work in their favor. If they agree to one coaching job being exempt, it creates the precedent to allow UConn to change status on every coach at the school. I agree that it is odd to have a high level D1 coach covered under collective bargaining, but there are years of precedent at UConn that is not easy to reverse.

Is it odd that it was in there? Yes!
Can you just remove it easy-peasy? No!

 

[Chief00]

Y

You’re acting like an employer can unilaterally decide to remove a position from collective bargaining. Even if Ollie or Hurley was ok with it, you need to get buy in from union. Ask anyone that’s ever dealt with a union. Unions only like setting precedents when they work in their favor. If they agree to one coaching job being exempt, it creates the precedent to allow UConn to change status on every coach at the school. I agree that it is odd to have a high level D1 coach covered under collective bargaining, but there are years of precedent at UConn that is not easy to reverse.

How many lawyers does UConn have, and why can’t they accomplish that when other schools easily did? My guess is they did not even try. Our Head Coach has a $50 million contract - and should be considered management level.

 

[willie99]

I think we're officially off the rails here

 

[Chief00]

Is it odd that it was in there? Yes!
Can you just remove it easy-peasy? No!

No one else seems to have had an issue classifying a $50 million type head coach as not part of the rank and file collective bargaining unit. You need a Development Plan to propel you from the 1970’s.

 

[John]

Picked earlier this morning - ended up with equivalent seats on opposite side of arena, however we lost our aisle seats which sucks because one of my seatmates is in his 80s and the aisle seat was easier for him to navigate. To clarify too, our forever seats were in the 200s, and there is definitely a lot of red now in those areas, so the 100s are definitely now coming upstairs to the peasant lands. We went though the Lew Perkins era and got removed from longtime great seats (mid-100s) that we'd had for years, so this all feels like Lew Era 2.0.

Not particularly enthralled with the athletic department and how this whole thing went down, so until my annoyance level decreases we'll be directing discretionary donations to the academic side of the university (which arguably we should have been doing all along anyway), and won't be buying/donating bowl tickets like we've always done every time they earn a bowl bid. Just generally annoyed even though we got lucky and cherry picked some equivalent seats in a area that was otherwise all red. Good luck to anyone who's still picking seats! Log in early to see what's there and make a list before your picking time.

 

[John]

quick follow-up: during the checkout process they mention a potential ninth game being added, and that will be surcharged later. Is that ninth game one of these big OOC home-and-homes that they've recently announced? Hope so.

 

[huskymedic]

How many lawyers does UConn have, and why can’t they accomplish that when other schools easily did? My guess is they did not even try.

Background (not the first attempt either):

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/At-UConn-athletic-coaches-belong-to-the-faculty-17273134.php

-> UConn is currently fighting to remove coaches from the union through two separate mechanisms: a petition filed with the State Board of Labor Relations, as well as ongoing negotiations with the AAUP. Michael Bailey, executive director of the UConn AAUP, said in an email that the sides had so far met once for two hours to discuss the issue but “did not accomplish anything.” <-

Believe the current CBA expires this year… guess we’ll have to wait and see what UConn gives up in exchange to achieve their goal.

 

[Ha Who]

quick follow-up: during the checkout process they mention a potential ninth game being added, and that will be surcharged later. Is that ninth game one of these big OOC home-and-homes that they've recently announced? Hope so.

You mean it is not a thank you gift for giving up your forever seats

 

[ctkaiser]

Again, you are in a void. I never made a statement about the seats I selected some time ago. The World is bigger and more strategic than what I personally got as seats.
If you had a better business background than you exhibit, you would understand that. Also since you react emotionally rather than logically, you would realize I did not threaten a class action lawsuit. What I said is they created through various missteps, significant legal exposure risk for losing a class action and having to make a significant payout.
All UConn had to add in Ollie’s contract was a sentence: “That this contract and his employment did not fall under the Collective Bargaining Agreement”. That mistake cost UConn over $10 million dollars. Will history repeat itself?

Good thought but likely wouldn't have signed it.

 

[Chief00]

Good thought but likely wouldn't have signed it.

Don’t agree, so you are turning down $10 million dollars to be in a Collective Bargaining Unit? Who in their right mind would do that?

 

[Chief00]

Background (not the first attempt either):

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/At-UConn-athletic-coaches-belong-to-the-faculty-17273134.php

-> UConn is currently fighting to remove coaches from the union through two separate mechanisms: a petition filed with the State Board of Labor Relations, as well as ongoing negotiations with the AAUP. Michael Bailey, executive director of the UConn AAUP, said in an email that the sides had so far met once for two hours to discuss the issue but “did not accomplish anything.” <-

Believe the current CBA expires this year… guess we’ll have to wait and see what UConn gives up in exchange to achieve their goal.

Thanks for sharing. Better late than never, but certainly late to the party. If the current staff can’t execute this no brainer low hanging fruit, please bring in attorneys who can get the job done.
So if head coach Dan Hurley is not a manager, what is he?