Getting tickets to Rose Bowl a Joke!

[20Hawks14]

What I'm wondering is where are all of the tickets? Sure the universities haven't released theirs yet but I've searched stubhub, prime sports, and vivid seats and the three combined have under 2,000 seats for sale. No way all the rest have been bought already?

Also does anyone know when stanford is sending out their tickets? Guessing some of those folks are getting tickets to turn a profit off of Iowa fans obsessively looking for tickets. Perhaps enough of them will want to sell for a profit and help push the prices down a bit?

 

[20Hawks14]

http://collegespun.com/big-ten/iowa...uested-rose-bowl-tickets-as-of-this-afternoon

Also 40,000 requests through the university. About half will be disappointed.

 

[WisestIowan]

I've got 144 points and am worried I'm SOL.

 

[Huego]

Speaking as a Pasadena native and lifelong Rose Bowl ticket market watcher, the market will probably stabilize in the $500 range. The entire 100% reason the tickets will be $500 instead of $300 will be Iowa demand, so really you only have yourselves to blame -- I promise you that it ain't Stanford or the neutrals/corporations. Take heart -- the Great Badger Invasion of 1993/4 drove the prices to 4 digits (more than 20 years ago!). That and 1997/8 with Wazzu v. Michigan with the national title potentially on the line were the two truly crazy years. Also, the crowd will be 60% Iowa at game time (it was fully 80% Wisky in 93/4).

If you hold your nerve and willing to (a) wait until you are here, and (b) spend $500 per ticket, I'm confident you will get in -- I spent less for USC v. Texas on the secondary market. Get out here, meet people and work angles. There are always tickets available through the locals -- it pays to meet them.

But more than anything know this: the reason prices will be high is because a whole lot of you Hawkeyes really want to come and there are only so many seats. $500 is a lot of money, but this game is kind of a big deal.

 

[Huego]

Happy for the people who landed tickets. Me? I won't be making this journey. Went to the Orange Bowls in 02 and 10 ... Had an amazing time. Rose Bowl has always been on my bucket list. Been a diehard for 35+ years and always wanted to go to the Granddaddy ... After looking at ticket prices, etc., I just can't justify spending that type of money ... That's more on me because that's my makeup. I just can't give $1,400 or so for a ticket to see a football game (lifetime memory or not) plus air/hotel ... Sadly, it's a business now and the vultures are staking their claim.

Anywho, I am envious of the people going and hope everyone has a kick&*& time. Go Hawks!

It won't be anywhere near $1,400 per ticket unless there is no one left in Iowa outside of Ames.

 

[DarkThunder#61]

Speaking as a Pasadena native and lifelong Rose Bowl ticket market watcher, the market will probably stabilize in the $500 range. The entire 100% reason the tickets will be $500 instead of $300 will be Iowa demand, so really you only have yourselves to blame -- I promise you that it ain't Stanford or the neutrals/corporations. Take heart -- the Great Badger Invasion of 1993/4 drove the prices to 4 digits (more than 20 years ago!). That and 1997/8 with Wazzu v. Michigan with the national title potentially on the line were the two truly crazy years. Also, the crowd will be 60% Iowa at game time (it was fully 80% Wisky in 93/4).

If you hold your nerve and willing to (a) wait until you are here, and (b) spend $500 per ticket, I'm confident you will get in -- I spent less for USC v. Texas on the secondary market. Get out here, meet people and work angles. There are always tickets available through the locals -- it pays to meet them.

But more than anything know this: the reason prices will be high is because a whole lot of you Hawkeyes really want to come and there are only so many seats. $500 is a lot of money, but this game is kind of a big deal.

Or they could sell them for $50 just because.......

 

[parker01]

What I'm wondering is where are all of the tickets? Sure the universities haven't released theirs yet but I've searched stubhub, prime sports, and vivid seats and the three combined have under 2,000 seats for sale. No way all the rest have been bought already?

Also does anyone know when stanford is sending out their tickets? Guessing some of those folks are getting tickets to turn a profit off of Iowa fans obsessively looking for tickets. Perhaps enough of them will want to sell for a profit and help push the prices down a bit?

There is a good chunk that goes to UI faculty, band, players/coaches friends and families.

I believe every player and coach gets 8 tickets for the Rose Bowl, and any athletic department faculty I think has access to purchase 4 (or so I've heard). I'm sure there are a lot of free/face tickets floating around the University faculty that are unaccounted for in your calculations.

 

[markfromj]

Or they could sell them for $50 just because.......

Why? So some secondary seller can make the big bucks? Adam Smith will have his way one way or the other.

 

[DarkThunder#61]

Why? So some secondary seller can make the big bucks? Adam Smith will have his way one way or the other.

No. Its so I can go, of course. There's also ways to discourage secondary sellers but nobody wants to get their hands dirty these days....sigh.

 

[ahawkfan91]

These ticket prices have to drop, there's no way they're moving at $600

Everyone said EXACTLY the same thing prior to the B1G championship game, and they were all wrong.

 

[ahawkfan91]

I hoping there are people that will end up getting tickets and then find out that airfare and lodging are outrageous and decide to sell at a reasonable price.

If I had tickets that I wasn't going to use, and then saw what the going rate was on the secondary market, no way in hell would I part with them for a "reasonable" price.

You'd have to be one of the dumbest people on earth to even consider doing that.

 

[ahawkfan91]

There is a good chunk that goes to UI faculty, band, players/coaches friends and families.

I believe every player and coach gets 8 tickets for the Rose Bowl, and any athletic department faculty I think has access to purchase 4 (or so I've heard). I'm sure there are a lot of free/face tickets floating around the University faculty that are unaccounted for in your calculations.

Also these companies selling travel packages have to be getting them from somewhere. Just about every Iowa affiliated website/board/blog is offering their own travel package (including this very site). Where are those tickets coming from? Surely not out of the university's allotment. Clearly there are other avenues for attaining tickets that just aren't available to the average fan.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

Given the allotment for Iowa and Stanford, more than half the tickets are unaccounted for.

In my experience, tickets for highly desirable events (concerts, high profile sporting evens) all seem to disappear before they ever go on sale. Then they show up on the secondary market at inflated prices.

How all this happens, I don't know, but I'm pretty confident there's some scamming going on.

 

[LifelongHawk]

Speaking as a Pasadena native and lifelong Rose Bowl ticket market watcher, the market will probably stabilize in the $500 range. The entire 100% reason the tickets will be $500 instead of $300 will be Iowa demand, so really you only have yourselves to blame -- I promise you that it ain't Stanford or the neutrals/corporations. Take heart -- the Great Badger Invasion of 1993/4 drove the prices to 4 digits (more than 20 years ago!). That and 1997/8 with Wazzu v. Michigan with the national title potentially on the line were the two truly crazy years. Also, the crowd will be 60% Iowa at game time (it was fully 80% Wisky in 93/4).

If you hold your nerve and willing to (a) wait until you are here, and (b) spend $500 per ticket, I'm confident you will get in -- I spent less for USC v. Texas on the secondary market. Get out here, meet people and work angles. There are always tickets available through the locals -- it pays to meet them.

But more than anything know this: the reason prices will be high is because a whole lot of you Hawkeyes really want to come and there are only so many seats. $500 is a lot of money, but this game is kind of a big deal.

Curious if you monitor scalper prices on game day? Chatted with a So Cal guy in early 90's (right before Wisky game you reference I'm guessing) who claimed to have gone to 30 straight without paying face. Some logic to his story (few willing to risk travel without guaranteed ticket so outside stadium buyer's market) and he seemed credible.

 

[ahawkfan91]

Wasn't there a big scandal where there tens of thousands of fake tickets sold for Sconnie's first Rose Bowl in '93/4? A whole bunch of people ended up with fake tix, I believe, and most of them came from companies selling travel packages, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Quintana]

this is one big, dam, conspiracy

this is all part of kirk's plan. he hears for the last 3 years that he's overpaid, the game has passed him by, yadda yadda, so he intentionally tanks the end of last year as the impetus for his vengeful plot. everyone drops their season tickets to teach the university a lesson. changes are needed!

but wait the trap is sprung. kirk wins like crazy this year and, low and behold, everyone loves him again! kirk will go down as the greatest coach in iowa history! but kirk has a good memory, and revenge is a dish best served cold. all the newly freed season ticket holders can now locate nary a ticket to The Grandaddy Of Them All™... kirk's retribution has come full circle and the demise of his naysayers is his recompence. kirk is laughing on the inside.

or something like that

 

[Biggus Blockus]

I think there are 3 groups of people on the Iowa side:

1 - This group has tickets in hand or forthcoming AND travel and lodging taken care of. Either on their own, through one of the travel packages, or thru the university. Obviously the preferred group to be in right now.

2- This group has airfare and lodging taken care of - but don't have tickets. I'm in this group.

3 - This group now has tickets forthcoming, but don't have airfare and lodging purchased yet.

Once group 3 finds out just how freaking expensive airfare and lodging will be vs. the opportunity to sell their tickets to members of group 2 and make a little money, I think many in Group 3 put their tickets up for sale.

 

[hawkfan_03]

I think there are 3 groups of people on the Iowa side:

1 - This group has tickets in hand or forthcoming AND travel and lodging taken care of. Either on their own, through one of the travel packages, or thru the university. Obviously the preferred group to be in right now.

2- This group has airfare and lodging taken care of - but don't have tickets. I'm in this group.

3 - This group now has tickets forthcoming, but don't have airfare and lodging purchased yet.

Once group 3 finds out just how freaking expensive airfare and lodging will be vs. the opportunity to sell their tickets to members of group 2 and make a little money, I think many in Group 3 put their tickets up for sale.

I hope so! I'm in group 2 as well.

 

[83Hawk]

When I put my ticket request in to the University, I requested the $185 tickets. I assume if those are all taken but there are still $150 tickets, I'll get those instead?

 

[thewop]

Obvious you were educated at MSU - its called Stanford

Hey man, he figured out how to game the system as well as anyone, whether or not he can spell the name of a school he'll never support is icing. Give the guy some credit.

 

[all2matt]

Im group 2 :-(

 

[SDHawkDoc]

supply and demand. this is capitalism at work.
just like all the people who wait in long lines for new products and/or pay over initial purchase price on the secondary market.

I'd consider spending a grand a ticket for the national championship if they ever played in it, because that is the pinnacle of the game and likely to never happen again in my lifetime.
While the rose bowl is a great reward, I wouldn't go nearly that high.

The good news is that while those of us that can't/aren't going will miss out on the in person experience, we'll have much better views of the game on our big screen HDs at home.

 

[Bones4hawks]

When I put my ticket request in to the University, I requested the $185 tickets. I assume if those are all taken but there are still $150 tickets, I'll get those instead?

This is correct, the University is going to start filling orders next Thursday. If you have the points put in your request. You have nothing to lose but trying.

 

[Huego]

Wasn't there a big scandal where there tens of thousands of fake tickets sold for Sconnie's first Rose Bowl in '93/4? A whole bunch of people ended up with fake tix, I believe, and most of them came from companies selling travel packages, if I'm not mistaken.

Yes indeed there was. That's part of why they got so pricey.

 

[Huego]

Curious if you monitor scalper prices on game day? Chatted with a So Cal guy in early 90's (right before Wisky game you reference I'm guessing) who claimed to have gone to 30 straight without paying face. Some logic to his story (few willing to risk travel without guaranteed ticket so outside stadium buyer's market) and he seemed credible.

I have heard more than few people say this, but I have never actually attempted it myself. USC/Texas prices didn't come down right before kickoff and more than a few people just went to the bar.

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

Wasn't there a big scandal where there tens of thousands of fake tickets sold for Sconnie's first Rose Bowl in '93/4? A whole bunch of people ended up with fake tix, I believe, and most of them came from companies selling travel packages, if I'm not mistaken.

That is correct. Be careful where youre buying these packages/tickets.

 

[Cardinal_2001]

Those saying Stanford wont find any luck. Stanford has their stuff in order and have already said they wont have any extra tickets and all 27,000 will go out to season ticket holders. The guy I talked to did say that it seems every year the colleges get less and less tickets and the promoters more and more.

This is very true. In 2012, we sold out the initial allotment of 31,000 tickets instantly and were able to receive an extra 8,000 tickets a week later, so received 39,000 total. In 2013, the Rose sent us 32,000 with no addition added (we lost about 1,600 of those tickets due to a stupid promotion on the following season's tickets to MSU fans). This year we have 27,000.

I am not sure why the allotment for Iowa is 5,000 less. Whatever the reason, it is a raw deal for fans.

 

[spiderland]

I bet if they put a few in Wonka bars....

...some fat kid in Austria would get a seat at midfield. Great...