While I agree with you about concessions pricing (they're absurd just about everywhere today) I'd like to know where you found "crappy tickets" for the Georgetown game being offered at $350-500 (for two you seem to have indicated).
I check prices on Seat Geek now and then and late Saturday afternoon I happened to check the Georgetown game. What I found were several hundred tickets available, from the lower bowl sidelines to upper endzones and there were tickets available from $48 in the upper level, including chair back seats, to $250 or so in the lower bowl.
Overall, the highest prices were less than $300 per ticket in the lower bowl and as low as $48 in the uppers. And don't forget, those people selling any of those seats paid a "seat license" as well as the ticket price.
Go to Seat Geek and look at the Creighton game prices. The prices are similar to those for sale for the Georgetown game on Saturday. About 20 available in the lower bowl at $96 to less than $180. Second level? Probably 200 available at under $100.
Maybe you were just using hyperbole, but that doesn't add value to an honest discussion about why there were empty seats.
What makes the most sense about the number of empty seats are the "special" day and a mediocre opponent.
Finally, with so little media revenue we have to find financial support wherever we can, so let's all hope we get invited to join a league with serious media contracts soon.
I did put in 2 seats that I thought were like $170 for both tickets and then when I priced it it was over $300. I can’t remember exactly though, but there were two seats together not individual seats and it was several days before the game so maybe they went down?
It’s not hyperbole as it’s been in that price range other times. Maybe it was the Providence game where it was in that range over $300 one time I had three or four of us. It was $600 and I’m like you’ve got to be kidding me!
Some people on the site might not get the point that I’m getting to… some do… it’s not a UConn issue per se, but cost to attend sporting events is getting ridiculous along with some other things that used to be relatively attainable. It may have to do with your age. Maybe you weren’t around actively buying things 10 to 20 years ago but for those of us that were boy things have changed!
Maybe Dan with 6 million dollar salary came off a bit tone deaf - to some of us here.
I would have not taken bait by Cooley - he did.
And yes, I would make the argument. It does add to the discussion for those of us on a budget and rooting for our huskies and other way like on TV! A few empty seat on holiday weekend playing a teetering Georgetown squad - should not have started a discussion that has this many posts - but it did.
And if we want to get in to real reasons, as Jim Carey said at the start of the pickup basketball game in the great movie the Cable Guy “well, let’s get it on!”
While I agree with you about concessions pricing (they're absurd just about everywhere today) I'd like to know where you found "crappy tickets" for the Georgetown game being offered at $350-500 (for two you seem to have indicated).
I check prices on Seat Geek now and then and late Saturday afternoon I happened to check the Georgetown game. What I found were several hundred tickets available, from the lower bowl sidelines to upper endzones and there were tickets available from $48 in the upper level, including chair back seats, to $250 or so in the lower bowl.
Overall, the highest prices were less than $300 per ticket in the lower bowl and as low as $48 in the uppers. And don't forget, those people selling any of those seats paid a "seat license" as well as the ticket price.
Go to Seat Geek and look at the Creighton game prices. The prices are similar to those for sale for the Georgetown game on Saturday. About 20 available in the lower bowl at $96 to less than $180. Second level? Probably 200 available at under $100.
Maybe you were just using hyperbole, but that doesn't add value to an honest discussion about why there were empty seats.
What makes the most sense about the number of empty seats are the "special" day and a mediocre opponent.
Finally, with so little media revenue we have to find financial support wherever we can, so let's all hope we get invited to join a league with serious media contracts soon.
While I agree with you about concessions pricing (they're absurd just about everywhere today) I'd like to know where you found "crappy tickets" for the Georgetown game being offered at $350-500 (for two you seem to have indicated).
I check prices on Seat Geek now and then and late Saturday afternoon I happened to check the Georgetown game. What I found were several hundred tickets available, from the lower bowl sidelines to upper endzones and there were tickets available from $48 in the upper level, including chair back seats, to $250 or so in the lower bowl.
Overall, the highest prices were less than $300 per ticket in the lower bowl and as low as $48 in the uppers. And don't forget, those people selling any of those seats paid a "seat license" as well as the ticket price.
Go to Seat Geek and look at the Creighton game prices. The prices are similar to those for sale for the Georgetown game on Saturday. About 20 available in the lower bowl at $96 to less than $180. Second level? Probably 200 available at under $100.
Maybe you were just using hyperbole, but that doesn't add value to an honest discussion about why there were empty seats.
What makes the most sense about the number of empty seats are the "special" day and a mediocre opponent.
Finally, with so little media revenue we have to find financial support wherever we can, so let's all hope we get invited to join a league with serious media contracts soon.
I did put in 2 seats that I thought were like $170 for both tickets and then when I priced it it was over $300. I can’t remember exactly though, but they were two seats together not individual seats and it was several days before the game so maybe they went down in price? Sounds like individual ones at “fire sale” before game?
It’s not hyperbole as it’s been in that price range other times. Maybe it was the Providence game where it was in that range over $300 one time I had three or four of us. It was $600 and I’m like you’ve got to be kidding me!
Some people on the site might not get the point that I’m getting to… some do… it’s not a UConn issue per se, but cost to attend sporting events is getting ridiculous along with some other things that used to be relatively attainable. It may have to do with your age. Maybe you weren’t around actively buying things 10 to 20 years ago but for those of us that were boy things have changed!
As Fishy said in this thread - Dan should have not taken bait by Cooley - he did. Long weekend, late start, boring opponent who can’t fill their own arena… Nope should have ignored comment from coach in the hot seat!
But if we want to get in to real reason some didn’t snap up tickets as well, as Jim Carey said at the start of the pickup basketball game in the great movie
The Cable Guy “Well, let’s get it on!”
