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ponyscott wrote:

smupony94 wrote:We can barely get past 600 for Birmingham and I bought 10

All in Dallas are always late to arrive and late to purchase tickets.....it will get better. I haven't bought mine yet and have talked to others that haven't got theirs yet....it will happen late but we will be ok.

Haven't gotten mine either. Why pay $50 when I can get them for $10 the day of the game?

If nobody buys the $50 tickets then the school has to buy them

smupony94 wrote:If nobody buys the $50 tickets then the school has to buy them

Not really the fans' fault that all the schools have signed on to a bad business model.


...haven't looked because I can't go, but where are the school's allotted tickets? Have heard that a lot of the bowl games are giving the schools the worst tickets for their allotment. Can find better seats for cheaper on the ticket sites for most of the bowl games than you can get from your school.

I know the Big 12 championship was that way the last few years too (although the scalper tickets were more expensive.)

They really should just make the Hawaii bowl for service academies only. Like the two best of the three play there, if they get other places then they can shut the bowl down. Its just embarassing to keep a bowl like that. It was cool back in the 80s but nobody cares anymore.

huskerpony wrote:

smupony94 wrote:If nobody buys the $50 tickets then the school has to buy them

Not really the fans' fault that all the schools have signed on to a bad business model.


...haven't looked because I can't go, but where are the school's allotted tickets? Have heard that a lot of the bowl games are giving the schools the worst tickets for their allotment. Can find better seats for cheaper on the ticket sites for most of the bowl games than you can get from your school.

I know the Big 12 championship was that way the last few years too (although the scalper tickets were more expensive.)

I bought my 2 through SMU to support the allotment but you are absolutely right. According to the BBVA site, the seats suck. SMU gets endzones on one side, Pitt gets endzones on the other.

peruna11 wrote:

huskerpony wrote:

smupony94 wrote:If nobody buys the $50 tickets then the school has to buy them

Not really the fans' fault that all the schools have signed on to a bad business model.


...haven't looked because I can't go, but where are the school's allotted tickets? Have heard that a lot of the bowl games are giving the schools the worst tickets for their allotment. Can find better seats for cheaper on the ticket sites for most of the bowl games than you can get from your school.

I know the Big 12 championship was that way the last few years too (although the scalper tickets were more expensive.)

I bought my 2 through SMU to support the allotment but you are absolutely right. According to the BBVA site, the seats suck. SMU gets endzones on one side, Pitt gets endzones on the other.

And it will be empty in the middle

Do what everyone (or at least jt) does at Ford...buy an endzone seat and sit on the 50 yd line.

If you're going to the game you should buy the tickets through SMU. With the lack of attendance issue, it's the one thing we can do to help. I view it like part of my MC donation.

LA_Mustang wrote:If you're going to the game you should buy the tickets through SMU. With the lack of attendance issue, it's the one thing we can do to help. I view it like part of my MC donation.

Agreed. At the end of the day SMU is stuck with those tickets and the financial loss. I would rather buy the $50.00 ticket and reduce my donation to SMU by that amount than to buy a $10.00 seat and donate money to SMU. Our fans consistently make excuses for not attending games based on the fact that we are not big-time and when given that rare opportunity to act like the big boys we step back and come up with new excuses. I agree that it is a lousy system, but it is the system we have to play with so let's win it. Step up and buy your tickets and do it through the SMU ticket office.

mustangxc wrote:Agreed. At the end of the day SMU is stuck with those tickets and the financial loss. I would rather buy the $50.00 ticket and reduce my donation to SMU by that amount than to buy a $10.00 seat and donate money to SMU. Our fans consistently make excuses for not attending games based on the fact that we are not big-time and when given that rare opportunity to act like the big boys we step back and come up with new excuses. I agree that it is a lousy system, but it is the system we have to play with so let's win it. Step up and buy your tickets and do it through the SMU ticket office.

I thought it would be an excellent marketing opportunity for the MC to invite new members to purchase 2 tickets for the bowl game at $100 and then apply that to their first year MC donation if they also contribute a dollar amount, say $50 dollars. That would bring them in at Colt level member ($150-$250). It would be a way to sell tickets to the game and get new people involved in the MC. Just a thought

Dunno about the rest of you, but the getting 10 MC points was a nice sweetener for buying bowl tix the first week they were available.
Surprised, purely from a TV standpoint, the allotments would be for the endzone areas.
Usually for the mid and lower tier bowls, they zone the allotments so the few fans there are in the TV view of the cameras.

Arkpony wrote:I think there were about 30 Nevada fans there when we played them (and I'm sure they wished they hadn't come)

I'm pretty sure they took less than 100 in 2005 as well. Why do they keep getting invited back?

LA_Mustang wrote:

mustangxc wrote:Agreed. At the end of the day SMU is stuck with those tickets and the financial loss. I would rather buy the $50.00 ticket and reduce my donation to SMU by that amount than to buy a $10.00 seat and donate money to SMU. Our fans consistently make excuses for not attending games based on the fact that we are not big-time and when given that rare opportunity to act like the big boys we step back and come up with new excuses. I agree that it is a lousy system, but it is the system we have to play with so let's win it. Step up and buy your tickets and do it through the SMU ticket office.

I thought it would be an excellent marketing opportunity for the MC to invite new members to purchase 2 tickets for the bowl game at $100 and then apply that to their first year MC donation if they also contribute a dollar amount, say $50 dollars. That would bring them in at Colt level member ($150-$250). It would be a way to sell tickets to the game and get new people involved in the MC. Just a thought

Just passed your idea on to Tim and Brad at SMU. Though this was worth looking at. If they respond, I will let you know.