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Positive Coaching Alliance New England - UConn Football @ Fenway Event

Exit 4 said:
This is suppose to be our home game, therefore who has the TV rights on this one? If we have 5 wins at the end of October and same with BC, this game could get a decent tv distribution.
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AAC Home game so the AAC has control of the game. I assume there is not a way to generate additional TV revenue from the broadcast. Same as any UConn Home Game.
 
HartfordHank said:
That leaves another 9,686 seats to be sold by the Fenway Group. That is based upon the BC - ND game at Fenway. Someone said in an older thread that some portion of these would be offered to Red Sox Season ticket holders.
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From the Courant article above:

"UConn has been guaranteed $1.125 million for its participation and will facilitate the distribution of 22,000 tickets, starting with sales to priority customers (season ticketholders, donors, previous customers, etc.) May 1-7. BC, which is guaranteed no money, will distribute its 7,000 ticket allotment May 8-14 and the Fenway Group will sell any remaining from those bundles, plus 10,000 more, to the general public beginning May 15."
 
huskymedic said:
From the Courant article above:

"UConn has been guaranteed $1.125 million for its participation and will facilitate the distribution of 22,000 tickets, starting with sales to priority customers (season ticketholders, donors, previous customers, etc.) May 1-7. BC, which is guaranteed no money, will distribute its 7,000 ticket allotment May 8-14 and the Fenway Group will sell any remaining from those bundles, plus 10,000 more, to the general public beginning May 15."
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$1,125,000 divided by 22,000 tickets is $51.14 per ticket. That means Fenway is making $2.86 per $54.00 ticket and $20.86 per $72.0 ticket. Not sure what the breakdown is between $72.00 seats and $54.00 seats.

I was surprised by the cost of the tickets. I was expecting closer to $100 per ticket.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
There's really only one reason to do this. Money. Every other reason is nonsense and false justifications for doing it.

Giving up a home crowd at Rent.

Having less UConn fans in the building.

Horrible sight lines.

The continually brought up and overrated "exposure" for the school.

Again, I get that they have to do it. Being in the AAC we need to generate as much revenue as we can. It just sucks for the thousands of UConn fans who won't go.
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I hear you, but I'd rather watch one less home game and have a new coaching staff. This game probably helped pay Diaco's buy out.
 
CL82 said:
Ticket allotment is 22K for UConn, 7K for BCU.
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I get that. At $50 per ticket I'm expecting between 10-15k UConn fans to make the 1.5 hour drive. We'd have 30k plus at Rentschler but we wouldn't be getting the $1.2 payday.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
I get that. At $50 per ticket I'm expecting between 10-15k UConn fans to make the 1.5 hour drive. We'd have 30k plus at Rentschler but we wouldn't be getting the $1.2 payday.
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... and probably not selling out.

It was a smart move. Like you, I don't love it, but it was a good deal.
 
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So how do you handicap the fenway football seating chart. What's a good section, what to avoid? I'm thinking endzone - be on tv for all our scoring plays and PATs.
 
Anyone know the deal with student tickets? Do you have to buy seats with the general sale or will there be a student ticket allotment?
 
CardiffGiant said:
Anyone know the deal with student tickets? Do you have to buy seats with the general sale or will there be a student ticket allotment?
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That's one I would call the Ticket Office on...
 
How much were the tix last year? $54 a ticket is rather expensive in my opinion. Especially considering both teams won't be very good. Was hoping to make a weekend of this with the wife like we did with the game at BC but 54 a ticket is steep. We went to the game last year and I feel like through Ryan's group tix were in the 20s? I'll probably buy through secondary market in the end.
 
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IF you think $54 per ticket is expensive, then forget about being in a P5 conference. Check the prices around the country, $54 is on the low side especially in Boston.
 
UCFBfan said:
How much were the tix last year? $54 a ticket is rather expensive in my opinion. Especially considering both teams won't be very good. Was hoping to make a weekend of this with the wife like we did with the game at BC but 54 a ticket is steep. We went to the game last year and I feel like through Ryan's group tix were in the 20s? I'll probably buy through secondary market in the end.
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$54.00 for a rivalry game being held at a novelty venue like Fenway Park is a downright bargain IMO. You can't base the face value of tickets on what the perceived strength of either team might be a season in advance. I'm sure there will be plenty of tickets from both the BC and Red Sox Allotment available on the secondary market for a deal, but from a pricing perspective I don't think the organizers are out of line.
 
From the Gridiron Series site:

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gampelcrazies said:
Upset that i can't pick the section i want
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It seems because its a "baseball ticket site" it intuitively keeps moving my "seats" towards home plate when I hit select another seat when I want to move towards outfield.
 
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huskymedic said:
Did you call Box Office (I'm on hold) - I can't get out of sections 105-111 on damn Red Sox site?
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I called the ticket office and was on hold for 27 minutes. Got the tickets I wanted though. Section 97.
 
Wildgopher said:
I called the ticket office and was on hold for 27 minutes. Got the tickets I wanted though. Section 97.
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Ha... nice. I was on hold for 38 minutes and the very nice lady told me she didn't have the seat inventory yet (probably knew I was a Yankee fan) and to keep trying on-line.
 
huskymedic said:
Ha... nice. I was on hold for 38 minutes and the very nice lady told me she didn't have the seat inventory yet (probably knew I was a Yankee fan) and to keep trying on-line.
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I get those to pop up on the website from time to time.
 
huskymedic said:
Done - Section 97
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Did you get them thru the ticket office by phone? I was on hold for 25 min for her to tell me online only.

I wanted to sit in upper deck section 15 (RF Coke a cola seats) or right field roof box seats. Online kept putting me lower field seats
 
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