new seat selection email?

[zls44]

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?

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

 

[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

Looks like the entire section 117 is green

 

[Vancat]

Looks like the entire section 117 is green

No. If there is one seat left they show the whole thing green, if you are looking at the big overview.

 

[Kemba Time]

After 7 months of stress (and some additional donating), we picked our seats today and I have to say it worked out well for us in Hartford.

Actually got better seats in the same section -- with the big win being that we went from two sets of two tickets a few rows apart to four tickets together. Only downside is we loved being behind the UConn bench/tunnel for our kids to interact with players/coaches and that is now the opposite side (and we would have had to move up considerably to be on that side).

I still can't believe how UConn has handled messaging and relations during this process and feel for all of you who didn't fare so well, but hopefully this gives a little hope to the rest of you still anxiously awaiting your pick.

 

[TheRick]

I got moved back in both Gampel and XL. Not by much but didn't have the chance to keep my seats.

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

 

[Stew Crew]

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.

When they switched to the seat donation model, UConn sent out an email explaining it and giving comparing it to other schools. If what UConn said was true, we had been getting a bargain for many years.

 

[Stew Crew]

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?

Requests, not demands.

 

[Stew Crew]

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.

Respectfully, I would challenge this assertion. A lot of the people I see leaving early are the geriatrics wanting to beat the crowds.

 

[gtcam]

Requests, not demands.

Demanding requests

 

[CTMike]

Sure in the scheme of life these are good problems to have. I was fortunate to be in the lower bowl before and I still am. But worse seats are worse seats. I know they are worse seats because they charge less than half what I was paying previously. So I had demonstrated a not-insignificant commitment, and would have been happy to continue at that level. Instead the opportunity is taken away and they are getting half. ¯\(ツ)/¯

 

[John]

Respectfully, I would challenge this assertion. A lot of the people I see leaving early are the geriatrics wanting to beat the crowds.

By fleeing to exits I mean do not buy tickets and do not attend games.

 

[bigknight3]

I'm going at 12:00 and I was in 111. Will be landing in the end zone lower bowl. precious few left.

Today was the Hunger Games. Boneyarders waiting till there afternoon wonder showed up to get what was left of about 20 seats in the lower bowl. Around noon I was traveling that I had about 10 seats left to choose from.

If you pick 3 seats in that section you were referring to, I literally watched the seats I wanted get added to your cart.

I picked from the last 7 seats at 1:47 and I think I watch them get added to someone else cart. At the same time that I was aging my lower bowl end zone tickets. (And I hate end zone seats)

Whoever implied earlier that we were blowing this out of proportion is crazy. We were not. There were slim pickings in the lower sections of both stadiums today. People's Bank center (is that the name?) came down to personal choice but you didn't have a ton of great options.

 

[bigknight3]

No. If there is one seat left they show the whole thing green, if you are looking at the big overview.

One seat left is yellow. There were 3 seats in two different sections and 2 sets of 2 in another.

For it to come done to that much left for some of I'm the chat on the same day and time is crazy.

I got screwed in Gampel. As others have said is there only thing making it palettable is that I def have worse seats asv evidence by it being less than half of what I was willing to pay. Those saving went to People's Bank Center tickets to get something that is be happy about in Hartford. Which is good because I didn't realize that my husky value tickets that I thought I was grandfathered into last year were taken away as part of the ticket "process"

 

[Brad Palmer]

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.

Ticket office told me ticket selection runs from 9 am-4 pm weekdays only. Obviously people can pick their seats after those hours or on weekends should they choose to do wait after their window opens.

 

[Blue Blood]

Overall im happy kept comparable seats in both spots and with 3 seats at gampel was able to get a mini 3 seat row which is pretty cool i had awesome seats on the concourse at XL in front of the sportsbook last year but that's now students so knew id have to move i do find it amazing the difference in price between lower corner and one set of stairs over in the lower middle at xl

 

[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!