Season tickets

[gostangs]

Shocking - and I mean shocking - that something that has intense demand and limited supply has a price that goes up, and also when has a big supply of something with small demand, the price goes down. Someone needs to call the business school and let them in on this outrageous news.

Honestly - with an athletic department that has to run a big (and I mean multiple millions a year big) deficit each year, it would be criminal if our AD and staff were not trying to increase revenue. I just don't understand those of you that find this surprising. Do you think there is some magical university where they all sit back and say - gee we could get 150% more for this product in the market, but because all these guys paid 20 bucks a ticket for a really bad product for ten years we should just let it slide?

Its not unusual, or a new concept, or unique to SMU, and it has nothing to do with loyalty or disloyalty. I want our university to hang around the hoop long enough to get invited to a bigger party - we cant make it to that point if we have to shut it all down cause the two or three guys funding our shortfall get worn out. That's the guy i'm worried about - not if mustangsabu is going to complain about ticket prices for the 100th time.

[One Trick Pony]

Well what happened to the $500 meatballs???

[gostangs]

Doherty took them with him. neither are missed.

[One Trick Pony]

Hey I for one love the meatballs , and I know I'm not alone. They're still there but they're the Miller Club $10,000 meatballs now haha.

[gostangs]

old Cesar salad plus courtside seats makes that a bargain.

[One Trick Pony]

I haven't sat on the floor for 2 years.
I'm in the front row of 202 exactly where they want me. Away from the cameras haha

[ponypatrick]

I have been a football season ticket holder for 10 years, and a b-ball holder for 9. About a month ago I got a call asking if I’d like to buy basketball season tickets. I said I’d like to renew my previous seats. I was told they had already sold my seats to someone else a couple of weeks previously. Apparently they had sent an email saying that if you didn’t make your donation by May 11th you would lose your seats. But they called me on May 15th to renew my football seats and I paid my donation then. They didn’t tell me that my donation was too late for my basketball seats or indeed that my football seats didn’t require that level of donation. They just took my money and never said a word. Three months later they sell my basketball seats and have the balls to call me and ask if I want to buy more.

I know I should have read the email, but it went to an old account I stared check. My fault. But they call me any time they want money. But they couldn’t call me and say “we need your donation if you want to keep your seats”. They just took them.

I used to be in the front row of the old red seats (now the Blue) and I went every game. This is how they treat their fans.

I’m done. I will be at every game, but I will get seats in the secondary market. And for football too.

I know that stallion is right in many ways about the fans needing to financially carry the load, and I understand that many might not approve but I have to look my sons in the face and teach them how to treat people and to value themselves enough to demand respect. To my core I believe that this is not how fans should be treated. Especially not loyal fans, of which I consider myself one.

Oh and I wrote to Hart and Pottkotter expressing my sadness at the decision I was forced to make. Didn’t merit a response apparently.

My sons will be better. And they both love the Ponies.

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Well said , my friend !! I had season football tickets from 1 ADP (after death penalty) when they asked for a five year commitment up front in order
to finance Ownby upgrades. I let mine go this season after 28 years in a row. One of the reasons is the total lack of personal contact by the athletic dept. over
the last several years. It's gone down hill for me ever since Terry Hemme left 4 or 5 years ago. He faithfully contacted me once or twice a year just to see how things
were going and to see if he could help. Eventually we became pretty good friends , and his wife Lil ,who was Larry Brown's secretary, even met me on campus one
day and took me to a bb practice after first escorting me to a parking spot. While I am a lifetime SMU fan ( Don Meredith in the Cotton Bowl; Max Williams at Moody ),
I am a long way from being a high dollar donor. This fact made me all the more grateful for their attentiveness.

[Stallion]

I have zero contact with anyone in the SMU Athletic Department--and plan to keep it that way until the end. Grown alumni wanting to pal around with college teenagers and coaches. Naw no thanks.

[One Trick Pony]

Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers

[oilpony]

Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers

Thank you Jules

[One Trick Pony]

“Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about [deleted] in order to be comfortable?”