Iowa Ticket Office
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As it would for me.
You would think, logically, that MOST people put in their requests as quick as possible that had season tickets. They got the email. Others would have followed by word of mouth. OTOH the phones were apparently crazy early in the week, so maybe people did wait til today.
I would guess not THAT many more tried to sign up today...at least not that many more who are actually eligible (STH and I-Club).
I have 60 points and am eligible for 2 tickets.
Edit: We will know more after 5 pm today at the cutoff.
You're flat-out insane if you think you're middle of the pack with that many points. The 150 point cutoff for these will be well above the 50%-tile of all season ticket holders. Fact.
I'm sitting at 58! Hey, if we both get lucky let's have a brew out in Pasadena.
I have 275 and waited for 40 days from the people who picked seats in front of me last year. I don't even think I am middle of pak. I would guess 325 is middle of pak. I know a lot of people over 600 points.
I'm at about 80. I think it will be close but no cigar. I don't think the cut off will be above 150, like I said earlier in the thread its hard for me to believe that we get double the allotment compared to the B1G Champ game and yet the amount of points needed goes up.....That doesn't pass the smell test. My guess is it will be around 100-120.
Whats real funny is before the B1G champ game I filled out that survey that was sent to season ticket holders and one of the things I put in was I didn't like that the ticket office didn't seem to value long time season ticket holders and that they are basically punishing the middle class for not being able to donate. I look at it this way...I sat through some pretty stinky years and never wavered, never even considered not renewing. I think that should be worth way more than these guys who come and go when things are good and just donate big when the time is right. I suggested doing longevity bonuses. Maybe 10 extra points after 10 consecutive years of having season tickets. 20 at 20, 30 at 30, etc. It would certainly encourage people to continue buying tickets even in rough years.
Whats real funny is before the B1G champ game I filled out that survey that was sent to season ticket holders and one of the things I put in was I didn't like that the ticket office didn't seem to value long time season ticket holders and that they are basically punishing the middle class for not being able to donate. I look at it this way...I sat through some pretty stinky years and never wavered, never even considered not renewing. I think that should be worth way more than these guys who come and go when things are good and just donate big when the time is right. I suggested doing longevity bonuses. Maybe 10 extra points after 10 consecutive years of having season tickets. 20 at 20, 30 at 30, etc. It would certainly encourage people to continue buying tickets even in rough years.
I like that last idea. More of a continuity bonus than a longevity one. But your point totals are still way low. 10 points = $1,000. I'm thinking 50 points every 10 years.
There should be a bonus like this. Makes a lot of sense for the University too. Keeps people in the seats in down years because they don't want to lose their continuity.
No. Just no. Look, some of us take the risk of buying tickets whether we are good or bad. I have eaten more tickets when we are losing than I care to count. I have also been on the other side where ticket prices go for a premium. But who really sells though? That is the time you want to go. So giving some money, in anticipation of having a good season so you can push yourself to the front of the line is bullshit. Longevity should be rewarded way more than donations. Unless its a whopper of a donation.
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I used to work with a guy who's dad had season basketball tickets since the early '50s at the Field House. Donated what he could, but since he drove a bread truck was no exactly rolling in dough. He eventually worked his way up to seats directly behind the Iowa bench.
When Carver was built, he was told if you want tickets anywhere near what he had before, he needed to pony up thousands of dollars. Needless to say, he did not get as good of seats.
I understand big donors should get good seats. But long time season ticket holders should be treated well, too.
When Carver was built, he was told if you want tickets anywhere near what he had before, he needed to pony up thousands of dollars. Needless to say, he did not get as good of seats.
I understand big donors should get good seats. But long time season ticket holders should be treated well, too.
Well I would guess MOST are a combination of the two, substantial donations for a long period of time with season tickets. I think you'd agree that is more "valued" than just season tickets.
For example, a person with 50 yard line seats donates $600/ticket. If they have 4 tickets they are donating $2,400/year, and receive a minimum of 37 points/year. Just 5 years of that puts them well over that 150 mark.
Wait....I think that is wrong. You only get your donation level points for the CURRENT season, right? So they would get 24 + 3 + 10 for THAT year, but only get to "keep" 27 of it.
Either way, imo most people are doing both, donating and buying tickets.
But I love the idea of rewarding both longevity and continuity.
Maybe: 10 points for every five years you've held tickets, even non-consecutive.
50 points for every ten consecutive years.
100 points for twenty consecutive years.
200 points for thirty consecutive years, and so on. (not additional each time)
This would likely mean you can't "pass down" those consecutive numbers, but maybe that isn't an issue. This would mean that a 30-year consecutive season ticket holder would get a boost of 10 + 10 + 10 + 200 = 230 points that they didn't have before. (not 10+10+10+50+100+200)
Honest question: Are they though? Read the threads on here about the new facilities and how we were failing prior to them in recruiting and how we need X and we need Y and we need to spend more on ABC, to buy out KF for DEF.
Long-time ticket holders don't really make those things happen. The big donors do.
Long-time holders are the backbone of attendance, of the fans at the game. But fans at the game aren't the only fans.
The BTN has also made a lot of this happen. Yes, they are on the same page. Good luck if no one shows up. Yes, the buildings are nice, but fans in the seats are more important.
You can have the best buildings in the world but if no one shows up, what is the point? Fans in the seats build programs. Iowa's fans have built this program LONG before the arms race.
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You can also look at it from simple economics. If the demand to watch the Hawkeyes was not there from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, we would not be supplied with donations and nice buildings. Hence the fans are the program, not donations.
Big donors may make the Hawkeye program go. But the fans are what generates interest and ad revenue etc.
I think the Iowa Athletics department should be aiming to maximize their income while making sure that games are at or near sell outs.
Give tickets to veterans (showing appreciation, schools (investing in future fans). Sell them at a highly reduced cost to fans who would not otherwise make it to a Hawkeye game.
Most of the big donors I know have been season ticket holders 15-20 plus years. They didn't start off as donors but merely season ticket holders. As their careers advanced and income increased so did their donations.
As of Wednesday, 18,500 of the 43,000 (at that time) weren't really eligible. It will be interesting to see how many of the new 11,000 are.
How many of the 54 are football season ticket holders? I believe they go to the front of the line
UI was hopeful to know by this weekend whether the Rose Bowl would make any additional tickets available.
Based on the above from the Register, I'm guessing the ticket office is going to start making their lists, but not announce a point-cutoff until they know whether the RB will give them extra tickets. Looks like we are all waiting until Monday.
Still didn't say how many of the 11,000 more they got yesterday were really eligible.
Based on the above from the Register, I'm guessing the ticket office is going to start making their lists, but not announce a point-cutoff until they know whether the RB will give them extra tickets. Looks like we are all waiting until Monday.
Still didn't say how many of the 11,000 more they got yesterday were really eligible.
A "longevity" bonus is a good idea and would seem to be the most equitable way to "take care" of the long time season ticket holders who do not have the financial resources to donate large sums of money.
People that don't have season tickets and applied and have pretty much all but been told by the UofI to plan to take another route to get tickets.
This, but also I-Club members.
So if you are a season ticket holder/I-Club member you are "eligible" (my term, not the ticket office's). So it doesn't include just alumni, or fans. Also, they aren't including any "extra" tickets. So if someone is "eligible" for 2, and request 10, not counting the 10.
But those additional tickets they requested are part of the total requests being reported I assume.
Yes. On Wednesday they reported 43,000 total. 24,500 or something were what I called "eligible", the other 18,500 were not. Since then they have sold 11,000 more tickets, but haven't reported which are "eligible".
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