Stop. Leaving. Early.

[Hamms30]

Hurley credited the crowd and maybe it was just from where i was sitting but crowd sounded dead to me last night only time it was loud was the crazy solo/karaban sequence. Thought it would be much more wild given how good we are, this being the premiere Hartford game of the year, and just how lively the pregame bar scene was

Every time the crowd started to get into it, chiiiiiiiirp foul UConn

 

[Lafayette]

Traffic? I knew this would be mentioned, but really? Traffic?

If that's really it, how freakin sad is that?

Yes, this is a thing whether it's sports, a concert, festival - there are people who just don't want to be stuck in exiting traffic.

I don't subscribe to this theory even if our team is losing. You stay and root and cheer and leave when it's over.

 

[Stew Crew]

I guess then even if there was an exchange it would appear like gouging even if that wasn’t the case because of the donations and equal cost regardless of being a marquee matchup or a cupcake.

Well then damn I take back everything I said about the season ticket holders lmao. Thanks for enlightening me brother!

No problem.

Season ticket holders can resell tickets via Seat Geek. Seat Geek is the official reseller of UConn Athletics, which I assume means UConn gets a cut of the proceeds. Seat Geek takes 20% from the seller and applies another 20% surcharge to the buyer. That also makes the resale prices look inflated. If I list my seats for $100, I get $80 and the buyer pays $120. I've had to sell some tickets over the past few years due to travel and business commitments. Don't get me wrong. I made money on some seats. I also took a bath on others.

 

[DRBackup]

No problem.

Season ticket holders can resell tickets via Seat Geek. Seat Geek is the official reseller of UConn Athletics, which I assume means UConn gets a cut of the proceeds. Seat Geek takes 20% from the seller and applies another 20% surcharge to the buyer. That also makes the resale prices look inflated. If I list my seats for $100, I get $80 and the buyer pays $120. I've had to sell some tickets over the past few years due to travel and business commitments. Don't get me wrong. I made money on some seats. I also took a bath on others.

Small potatoes compared to the insane concert ticket market. With Premiere and Platinum and VIP and Platinum VIP prices. Absolute lunacy

Oh, that'll be $850 each, but hey, you get this poster, too!

 

[ARIDE]

Bottom line is hartford is not a true homecourt! They should have blown the building up!!

 

[Robrio89]

No problem.

Season ticket holders can resell tickets via Seat Geek. Seat Geek is the official reseller of UConn Athletics, which I assume means UConn gets a cut of the proceeds. Seat Geek takes 20% from the seller and applies another 20% surcharge to the buyer. That also makes the resale prices look inflated. If I list my seats for $100, I get $80 and the buyer pays $120. I've had to sell some tickets over the past few years due to travel and business commitments. Don't get me wrong. I made money on some seats. I also took a bath on others.

Oh I know I mentioned concert tickets in my other post and ive sold enough tickets off through resale to know that the platforms are the gougers. That is why im in favor of exchange systems. Better than class action lawsuits where no one wins. Last class action Ticketmaster gave me 11 2-ticket pairings for Live Nation events. Thought I won big. Nope. Only lawn tickets at amphitheaters. I used exactly zero of those.

I’ve actually purchased UConn tickets through SeatGeek before and I’m both situations I know whoever sold it lost money. Both games I was sitting next to those season ticket holders and they asked how I got the tickets.

 

[yungdowork]

I never leave games early, but I'm sure the late starts are tough for a lot of people. I finally got home at 11:30 last night. Not a huge problem for me because I'm usually up that late, but for a lot of people that's kind of rough.

I'm sure the 8:30 start at Gampel on Tuesday will be the same way.

 

[UConnDad]

Can everyone stop leaving early? These boys work so hard and god forbid people stay to applaud them. You aren’t beating the traffic and getting home earlier. It’s so annoying and disrespectful to the athletes. Stay in your seats and cheer these boys on for their accomplishments.

I always stay because I want to see the boys. Even in a blowout I enjoy the third string. However I couldn’t care less about your opinion of my departure time.

 

[willie99]

Our fans are amazing, as is our team, as is our program

We fill GP, PBA, MSG & TD Garden. We're loud and we're proud

We're too good, and I'm having too much fun

Keeping it real here

 

[SMacho0331]

I always stay because I want to see the boys. Even in a blowout I enjoy the third string. However I couldn’t care less about your opinion of my departure time.

Cool

 

[SMacho0331]

Our fans are amazing, as is our team, as is our program

We fill GP, PBA, MSG & TD Garden. We're loud and we're proud

We're too good, and I'm having too much fun

Keeping it real here

Never said the fans nor the team nor the program wasn’t amazing. Just simply asking people to stay in their seats to support our amazing athletes. Also keeping it real here.

 

[Viet Vet]

I just now bought a Seat Geek ticket to the women's game vs Marquette Wednesday at PBA, for $9.66 (not a typo). Section 200, Row 8, a good upper-level seat. I'll scout out the no-shows and then move down to one of many empty seats in the lower bowl either between periods 1 and 2, or at halftime (easier then, with more traffic up and down the aisles to distract ushers from verifying tickets.) I did this at the Ohio State game (same price) and spent the entire second half right behind Geno, eight rows up.

FYI...............easier to do if you are alone.

 

[LIUCHusky]

I never leave games early, but I'm sure the late starts are tough for a lot of people. I finally got home at 11:30 last night. Not a huge problem for me because I'm usually up that late, but for a lot of people that's kind of rough.

I'm sure the 8:30 start at Gampel on Tuesday will be the same way.

Hope you aren’t planning to go to Gampel Tuesday. Game is in Hartford.

 

[thekollieman]

Every time I’m at a game and people start filing out with 5 minutes left, I have the impulse to think it’s lame, but then I remember life is life and people have things to do and places to be and sleep to get. I always stay till the end because I’m obsessed with watching the game I came to watch, but a lot of people are just enjoying a night out. I definitely get the perspective of Smacho though.

 

[freescooter]

Losers. It’s that simple. There’s no way they have somewhere to be. Group of 4 in front me grabbed their coats at the under 4 TO. I hope they are reading this.

I don’t leave early unless it’s 90-40 or some such but if people want to arrive late or leave early they certainly can. At the under 4 TO it was close but Texas wasn’t going to win. It was an equally ugly game but we had better players so low risk of missing anything. It used to bother me but I’ve learned that 40% of our “fans” are there to see and be seen and brag to their friends about it. Once that’s been accomplished they don’t care about the actual game.

 

[HooperScooper]

Bottom line is hartford is not a true homecourt! They should have blown the building up!!

When was the last loss there?

January 15, 2023

Isn't their record in Hartford slightly better than at Gampel?

I don't know, sounds like a true home court to me.

 

[Flipside]

At first I thought this thread was about players, ha

 

[CL82]

They show up late, but they make up for it by leaving early

Yeah, but on the other hand, going to see a UConn is like the best 18 minutes they have during the day.

 

[John]

When was the last loss there?

January 15, 2023

Isn't their record in Hartford slightly better than at Gampel?

I don't know, sounds like a true home court to me.

He’s a doesn’t look like a home court on his TV kinda guy.

 

[John]

I don’t leave early unless it’s 90-40 or some such but if people want to arrive late or leave early they certainly can. At the under 4 TO it was close but Texas wasn’t going to win. It was an equally ugly game but we had better players so low risk of missing anything. It used to bother me but I’ve learned that 40% of our “fans” are there to see and be seen and brag to their friends about it. Once that’s been accomplished they don’t care about the actual game.

They spent the money to buy tickets and support the school, and came to the game, but the fan police are never happy.

 

[Class of 09]

Can everyone stop leaving early? These boys work so hard and god forbid people stay to applaud them. You aren’t beating the traffic and getting home earlier. It’s so annoying and disrespectful to the athletes. Stay in your seats and cheer these boys on for their accomplishments.

This is going to be a very unpopular take but, Disrespectful? Their hard work is for the six figures+ the’yre getting paid to play 30 basketball games a year, they’ll be fine. People paid for a ticket, they’re allowed to leave after the first whistle if they please.

 

[GampelGladiator]

Only game I've ever left early was a random Phillies game with a girl I was dating. She wanted to leave early, so we did. Ultimately, Phillies tied it in the bottom of the 9th and walked it off in extra innings. Needless to say...I broke up with her like a week later.

 

[CL82]

Hope you aren’t planning to go to Gampel Tuesday. Game is in Hartford.

He probably is. It will be easier to sneak down to a better seat.

 

[Ewekon]

Losers. It’s that simple. There’s no way they have somewhere to be. Group of 4 in front me grabbed their coats at the under 4 TO. I hope they are reading this.

Somewhere to be? In Hartford?

Puleeez.

 

[TheChamps990411]

It’s like they are fb fans

Ive been to a handful of games and in my experience most of the people i see leaving early are not young.