Same here. Logged on at 9:00.07 and waited in queue 15 minutes only to find all sold out. There could not have been 15,000 tickets available, and all gone in that short amount of time. Wonder who else got presale priority.
I mostly agree. In a vacuum, the highest donors should have had first crack. I know someone who has given probably $250K in donations/seat licensing fees/Swarm/etc over the past few decades, not counting tickets themselves. He was not offered a chance to purchase tickets today. Conversely, a first time season ticket holder had the opportunity to jump on this morning and take 4 tickets. As he said next time the university hits him up for money, he is going to direct them to the women's basketball season ticketholders. With all of that being said, if the Fever said they would only come play the exhibition at Carver if women's season ticketholders were part of those with first crack at tickets, it is what it is.
Yep, Iowa did not have all the say in this. Fever and even the company running the show had input as well.
You can tell your buddy he should have had priority with Gold status or above which requires a $10,000 I club contribution....but giving Iowa womens season ticket holders priority WAS a mistake....
I will be sure to let him know his status in the next level down is for losers.
I would add that he donates to the swarm on top of what he donates otherwise. So he gives over 10K per year on those two items alone, but because it is split he did not get priorty.
Kinnick Society Gold is $15K+ and Kinnick Society is $10K-$15K. My colleague is in the next category down now, Champion Hawks which is $6K to $10K. He has been donating for decades (in his 70s) and buying big blocks of season tickets for football all of that time, and paid whatever seat license fees required. Plus he gives to the Swarm. Left a pretty bitter taste in his mouth.
You know a lot of people patiently waiting to get the tickets have one thing in their mind -- resell and profit!
I had heard that Indiana Fever season ticket holders were part of the priority system.How much that impacted the process I have no idea.
Next generation of Fever fans you are concerned about? This isn't even an Iowa event or an iowa women's basketball event. If we are concerned about the season ticketholders of Carver, why not afford buying opportunity to season ticketholders for wrestling or men's basketball? And this was not whether the marketing accurately stated anything, it is the content of their statement. While you are concerned with families with kids, if I was an institution dependent upon donations I would be concerned about biting the hands that feed me.
Yeah they whiffed on this one, unless the Fever would not let them play outdoors.
Sounds like the AD has some work to do."Orders determined to be made for the purpose of resale will be cancelled."
My tickets are going for $700
On matters such as altruism, go ahead and let the men's team know they should resume their shirts and skins scrimmages on a football game day in the fall, to get lots of kids and families to see the players up close in action, and have an opportunity to mill around Carver. Oh, and start doing the prime time league again. I took my son to a lot of that stuff and it impacted him but I am not seeing the same opportunities for people with young kids these days.
