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Message: [QUOTE="RSHERMVIKES, post: 2363402, member: 2251"] The Huskies don't fill the seats at Gampel & the XL Center not because they've lost fans but because the recent policies of the Athletic Dept. & Ticket Office have turned long time season ticket holders off and they'd rather watch the games at home than pay through the nose because THEY"RE UCONN FANS! There are hundreds of fans that have been screwed and just became fed up to pay the high prices! 1. The policy to sell 3 game packages to either Gampel or XL for $15.00 a game or $45.00 a package without a donation, while season ticket holders are paying $20.00 a game and must donate over $200.00 to get seats! 2. I have friends that were huge contributors for years and had prime seats at both Gampel & H.C.C. then he retired as a big time lawyer and they cut their donation way down and each year they got moved back up off the floor till they had upper Gampel and LL at H.C.C.! He called the ticket office to find out why he was being moved back and was told, "If you don't like the G-D D--N. seats don't get them we have a 1,000 people waiting for them" and the guy hung up on him! That was the end of season tickets! 3. The Arena at Harbour Yard in Bridgeport charging 3x to 4x the cost of comparable seats at Gampel or XL and raising parking from $5.00 to $20.00 for the UCONN game there! 4. The Big East Conference Tournament at Rutgers was about $50.00 for all-tournament tickets then they moved to the XL and Lou Perkins (in his last year there) was asked what should we charge for the Tournament tickets and he said charge whatever you want UCONN fans will pay anything for their Huskies and prices went way up! After 3 years of attendance down to 3,000 to 5,000 they lowered the cost to the present $99.00 all games! 5. The first & 2nd rounds and Regional tickets being priced 2x to 3x higher than any other areas/Regional because UCONN was there! Now lower prices. 6. When I started in 1998 getting season tickets UCONN couldn't do enough for their season ticket holders. Meet the player end-of-season banquets with a free meal and stuff at Regional Sites! Now they charge big dough for everything! 7. This year ALL sports season ticket holders are being charged an extra $20.00 a person for surcharge on "fixing the fields fee"! To raise money to upgrade the Soccer/Field Hockey/Baseball etc. fields! These are just a few of the things that have turned off the fans over the years! More dunking isn't going to bring the fans back! [/QUOTE]

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