new seat selection email?

[UConnTrumbull]

I enjoy how many who have gone say there’s a lot left yet some who are going are making it sound like the buildings empty.

Perhaps some of you have too high an opinion on what’s a good seat in a 10k arena with no bad views?

I have no horse in this race but it seems like a lot of people are going to get worse seats and be paying almost the same. There may be no bad seats but being kicked out for millionaire donors kinda stings.

 

[Vancat]

We were kicked out of our section into the next lowest price point so we are actually paying less. But still mad because we loved the "forever" seats, as expensive as they were.

I think I will be putting quotation marks around the word "forever" "forever".

 

[Ha Who]

4 hours to show time

 

[willie99]

At Gampel, there are very few left in the lower bowl. There's plenty in the upper. If you are used to the lower, the upper is a large downgrade. Presently this is the lower bowl: (red nothing available, green has spotty seats and aisle seats very few)View attachment 109890

117 people, low rows are great seats near the bench

All the green seats still remaining are decent lower bowl seats

I'm trying to help the Yarders, not all season ticket holders are members

 

[John]

Does anyone know when the picking time window for a particular day ends? I pick tomorrow so I was wondering what time tonight I should log on to see what damage was done today.

 

[John]

If you’re targeting weekday games you can get in the door vs. any team for <$40. Weekend games, especially in Gampel, goes for over $100. It really depends on schedule.

The highest priced game last year, Creighton on a Saturday at Gampel, went for over $100. St John’s on a Friday night in Gampel was less, about $50 to get in the door last minute.
Baylor, at Gampel on a Tuesday, tickets plummeted to $15-20 an hour before the tip. The XL schedule was trash so any game was $10-20 if you waited. The year before on a Saturday vs. Marquette (both teams ranked Top 5) the prices did not move under $175.

My advice: if you have a crew of 2-4 just buy seasons it’s 10x less stressful. If you fly solo you’ll save money buying game by game.

I tracked this last year at XL, it would have been cheaper to go secondary, but as you say the games offered were horrendous so probably not a great baseline.

 

[Storrs South]

Does anyone know when the picking time window for a particular day ends? I pick tomorrow so I was wondering what time tonight I should log on to see what damage was done today.

I believe each day it is 9-4:30 for the selection window so that folks are available in the ticket office to help

 

[Vancat]

117 people, low rows are great seats near the bench

All the green seats still remaining are decent lower bowl seats

I'm trying to help the Yarders, not all season ticket holders are members

There's nothing in 117.

 

[zls44]

Everyone complaining should post their old seats, their new seats and their donation. Otherwise it’s hard to get a read on anything.

Feel free to go ahead and do that.

 

[zls44]

There may be no bad seats but being kicked out for millionaire donors kinda stings.

How would you like to afford the roster?

 

[John]

How would you like to afford the roster?

easy - they would have offered current season ticket holders the option to retain their forever seats at a higher cost, whether it be increased mandatory donation, higher seat cost, or both. Jack the ever-loving sheet out of the seat cost, but at least give the loyal customer an option. This is much much better than the amateur-hour nebulous system and complete reshuffling of both buildings that we were force fed.

 

[John]

Everyone complaining should post their old seats, their new seats and their donation. Otherwise it’s hard to get a read on anything.

Feel free to go ahead and do that.

All you have to do is log into your account and look at the current offering and bear in mind that there's still like two weeks of selections to do.

 

[GlastonTim]

Took 2 minutes. 4 seats at Gampel and PeoplesBank Arena. Same at Gampel and six rows closer at the PBA. Phew!

 

[zls44]

All you have to do is log into your account and look at the current offering and bear in mind that there's still like two weeks of selections to do.

Most of the people left to go, including me, were upper bowl people. The remaining seats are in the upper bowl.

 

[zls44]

easy - they would have offered current season ticket holders the option to retain their forever seats at a higher cost, whether it be increased mandatory donation, higher seat cost, or both.

What would you call all the repeated demands from UConn for more money? Why would they cap the amount of money they could get? What business sense would that make?

 

[John]

What would you call all the repeated demands from UConn for more money? Why would they cap the amount of money they could get? What business sense would that make?

Those repeated demands for more money aren't stopping with the amateur hour circus we've seen this spring. What business sense does it make to alienate your long time base?

 

[UConnTrumbull]

How would you like to afford the roster?

Preferably by being in a power conference but we’re not there yet. I understand why they’re doing this. Just not a fan of alienating the loyal fans. If Hurley left tomorrow it’s not the corporate folks showing up to the games.

 

[John]

Preferably by being in a power conference but we’re not there yet. I understand why they’re doing this. Just not a fan of alienating the loyal fans. If Hurley left tomorrow it’s not the corporate folks showing up to the games.

As a long time mbb and fb season ticket holder who's been through the implosions of both the mbb and fb programs, this is 100% on point. The casuals and corporates flee to the exits and the people now getting pineappled are the ones who are in those seats as loyal fans.

 

[Vuce]

Most of the people left to go, including me, were upper bowl people. The remaining seats are in the upper bowl.

The people picking next week and the week after wont see too much of a difference at all. Probably were in the top half of the second level in Gampel anyway. The main complaint I expect to hear coming up is fans getting pushed from chairbacks to bleachers. Not sure what the deal will be at the Peep

 

[zls44]

Those repeated demands for more money aren't stopping with the amateur hour circus we've seen this spring. What business sense does it make to alienate your long time base?

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

 

[John]

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

I'd like to see the actual numbers before I carry the athletic department's water on this.

 

[gampelcrazies]

I'd like to see the actual numbers before I carry the athletic department's water on this.

So you think the athletic department sat around and said “lets upset fans for no reason”. They are def making a lot more money lol. I bet half the people in here gave more thinking they would move up

 

[John]

So you think the athletic department sat around and said “lets upset fans for no reason”. They are def making a lot more money lol. I bet half the people in here gave more thinking they would move up

sure they made more, but I'd like to know how much percentage wise.

 

[Chief00]

What would you call all the repeated demands from UConn for more money? Why would they cap the amount of money they could get? What business sense would that make?

No one, especially including you, have explained the near 50% of the lower bowl seats gone before the Priority Point Selection. Most were not Premier Seats, player family seats, coaches families, visiting team seats.
So who did these go to and why? Were donations paid for these seats? Did Seat Geeks get some payoff in seats?
The same people who think PeoplesBank of Holyoke is as good as we can do, are the same people who think their financing of CDRA projects was no factor in that selection.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

They could have handled the forever seats issue in a far better manner than the did, but in the end it still comes down to this being a business and in all candor, if things didn't end up as they had over the past few years (one Boneyarder actually called for Hurley's head at halftime of the Iona game in the 23 tournament) everyone who wanted them would have the same seats for this upcoming season as they had four seasons ago and the price may not have risen by much.

There is a price to pay for success. There is also a price to pay for the changes in the NCAA landscape and the local, national and global economic landscapes. We are seeing all of that here and many are unfortunately bearing the impact.