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Just in case you're not on the mailing list for GopherSports and were interested in purchasing one of these packages, here's the info I just received:

We value your support of Gopher Sports, and are extending you the first opportunity at purchasing Gopher Football Mini-Packs. The Maroon and Gold packages are $90 each ($110 Value), with limited seating.

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Maroon Pack
The Maroon Pack features the home opener vs. South Dakota, a border battle that hasn't happened in 80 years! The second matchup is the homecoming game vs. Northwestern, a down-to-the-wire rival the past three years.

* September 11 vs. South Dakota
* October 2 vs. Northwestern

Click here to purchase the Maroon Pack

Gold Pack
The Gold Pack kicks off with Northern Illinois, featuring a special tribute to former Gopher and Big 10 icon Bronko Nagurski. The second matchup is against another Big 10 icon, Joe Paterno, and the Nittany Lions who are ranked in the top 25.

* September 25 vs. Northern Illinois
* October 23 vs. Penn State

Click here to purchase the Gold Pack

Thanks for all of your support of Gopher Athletics!
 

I got this email this morning too. That means they went through the season ticket waiting list. I thought the new stadium buzz would last longer than one season. I guess not.
 

I really hate the idea of making people buy two games. It's not a good way to attract "outstate" fans, or any with a casual interest.
 

CP Gopher said:
I really hate the idea of making people buy two games. It's not a good way to attract "outstate" fans, or any with a casual interest.
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I don't think they are making you buy 2 games - they are packaging them together with a small discount.

The main issue is that packaging the pairs of least interesting games together wouldn't seem to be worth the $10 discount you get. Especially when tickets for those games will be readily available below face value.
 

I took a look at the GopherSports web page, nothing there yet. The thing about e-mail lists is that the most motivated are the ones on the list. How do they expect to sell these if they don't tell anyone about them? This is the sort of package that would appeal most to those who aren't on a Gophers mailing list.

I imagine these are going to be sold at the U of M booth at the State Fair. I wonder if people will buy the packages, and sell off the less desirable tickets.

Printing out a form, writing a check and mailing it in is right out of the Stone Age. You should be able to get on the season ticket waiting and pay the $10 deposit on-line.
 


Omega015 said:
I got this email this morning too. That means they went through the season ticket waiting list. I thought the new stadium buzz would last longer than one season. I guess not.
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Wow, I thought it would last longer as well. This is kind of disappointing. The Wild are doing mini packs for the first time this year as well, but it took them 10 years to get to this point. I'm not going to dramatize it, but getting off to a fast start this season will be important otherwise we'll see too many empty seats outside of the student section in only season two. And the Iowa game will be Kinnick North (again) if we aren't playing for something that game.

Go Gophers!!
 

I'm not sure on this, but rumor is:

1) This offer is for season tickets holders (at least for now).

2) The available tickets are in the student section where sales are drastically off. They are working on filling those empty fringe sections. Students just are not buying tickets.

3) Regular season ticket sales have been fine and almost completely sold out.
 

tjgopher said:
I'm not sure on this, but rumor is:

1) This offer is for season tickets holders (at least for now).

2) The available tickets are in the student section where sales are drastically off. They are working on filling those empty fringe sections. Students just are not buying tickets.

3) Regular season ticket sales have been fine and almost completely sold out.
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If these tickets are indeed in the student section, then I am glad they are doing something about the huge hole in the upper deck from last year and I am happily proven wrong about the season ticket sales.
 

Omega015 said:
If these tickets are indeed in the student section, then I am glad they are doing something about the huge hole in the upper deck from last year and I am happily proven wrong about the season ticket sales.
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Well, just for the fun of it, I logged in and requested tickets. They were placing me in Section 215, Row 20. That is NOT the student section. However, it is the designated area for visiting fans, so maybe they will stick the visiting fans in the fringes of the student section??? I had heard last week about these two-pack deals coming out and that they were coming out because students weren't buying seats. As I said, I'm not sure on that.
 



I suppose it is better to sell the tickets to non-students than to have them sold to students but not used.
 

I'd hate to see people buy the tickets for the Big Ten game, and then have the non-conference ticket go unused. OTOH, it's possible that South Dakota fans might buy the SD-Northwestern package just for the SD ticket.
 

RodentRampage said:
I suppose it is better to sell the tickets to non-students than to have them sold to students but not used.
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Better to sell to non-students than have them unsold period, which is apparently the situation right now for a lot of the student section.
 

All gopher sport season ticket holders got the e-mail. My dad has hockey season tickets and he got the e-mail this morning
 



Seems to me the season ticket holders already have tickets.
 

Yep, sellouts are always better than non sellouts. $ to the U.
 

tjgopher said:
Well, just for the fun of it, I logged in and requested tickets. They were placing me in Section 215, Row 20. That is NOT the student section. However, it is the designated area for visiting fans, so maybe they will stick the visiting fans in the fringes of the student section??? I had heard last week about these two-pack deals coming out and that they were coming out because students weren't buying seats. As I said, I'm not sure on that.
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It is up near the Student Section which, looking at the map starts at 220. The visting sections are on the other end down by section 201, 202 etc.

http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/university_minnesota/football/

It is a nice touch though to let Season Ticket holders get some extra tickets for friends before selling the leftovers to the public read: Iowa fans.
 

Iceland12 said:
It is up near the Student Section which, looking at the map starts at 220. The visting sections are on the other end down by section 201, 202 etc.

http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/university_minnesota/football/

It is a nice touch though to let Season Ticket holders get some extra tickets for friends before selling the leftovers to the public read: Iowa fans.
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Visiting sections are on both ends, encompassing the upper rows of 201-206 and 215-218.
PDF of seating chart here: http://stadium.gophersports.com/docs/ticket_seating_map.pdf
Stadium website with smaller version of map here: http://stadium.gophersports.com/gameday_stadium_map.html
 



As an FYI --

ticket_seating_map.pdf
 

dpodoll68 said:
Not if the margin consists primarily of opposition fans.
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If we can't fill 50,000 seats in a 2nd-year stadium, then we're in bigger trouble than anyone thinks. These are exclusive offers to season tickets holders and Gopher backers. I'm guessing they sell quite a few. There won't be many left for opposition fans.

You seriously can't be suggesting the U just sit on unsold ticket inventory (at $40-50 per) for fear that some opposition fans might gobble them up.
 

First of all, good for the ticket office and marketing to try to sell this out. Secondly, I'm not going to sugar coat this - this is absolutely pathetic. One year into a new stadium, a small stadium at that, and we can't sell it out? For all of you making excuses that 10K is too big for the student section, remember...we sold that many student tickets at the Dome! Granted, there were guest passes, but the entire section was a sea of gold.

I know there are a million excuses - we need a better product on the field, there are too many student tickets, it's hard to get up for 11am games...but there's no way to spin this, it's sad.
 

I appreciate the fact that the U doesn't just convert the student section to season tickets. Once you convert them and the Gophers win the rose bowl, there'd be no way to give them back to the students. This way we can fill the empty seats without penalizing future students.
 

badgergopher said:
I appreciate the fact that the U doesn't just convert the student section to season tickets. Once you convert them and the Gophers win the rose bowl, there'd be no way to give them back to the students. This way we can fill the empty seats without penalizing future students.
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Agreed, converting them to season tickets is a permanent solution that we probably don't want. This way, we can offer 10,000 tickets to the students if they want them, if they don't, the rest can be sold to the general public. Last year, we had a sold out student section that was half full. Hopefully, this season's student ticket holders are going to be the ones more inclined to attend.
 

GopherLady said:
First of all, good for the ticket office and marketing to try to sell this out. Secondly, I'm not going to sugar coat this - this is absolutely pathetic. One year into a new stadium, a small stadium at that, and we can't sell it out? For all of you making excuses that 10K is too big for the student section, remember...we sold that many student tickets at the Dome! Granted, there were guest passes, but the entire section was a sea of gold.

I know there are a million excuses - we need a better product on the field, there are too many student tickets, it's hard to get up for 11am games...but there's no way to spin this, it's sad.
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Yes it's very sad, but it's pretty expected. The support for the team since 1987 has been pretty sad overall. The number of actual Gopher Fans has been discussed ad nausea around here. Throw-out the people who wanted to be "first" and the pro and amateur scalpers, and 3 or 4 thousand available seats shouldn't be a huge surprise.

The "we sold that many student tickets at the Dome! Granted, there were guest passes, but the entire section was a sea of gold" should be uttered with a caveat besides the passes that you mentioned. There were a heck of a lot of Non-Conference games in the Dome years that had announced attendance figures of 33 to 43 thousands fans. Nearly all of them had ticket packages that worked out to about $10 per ticket for the general public. Those often had to include a hot dog and a drink to sell them but it did put a few thousand non-student fans into those lame attendance figures.

Those of us who were at those "Mason specials" don't remember seeing a 10,000 strong "sea of gold" for those games.

I like the idea that their trying to use as many of the available NW and PSU tickets to sell the South Dakota and Northern Illinois before they go to single game status on them. I'm also pleased that first they are given current holders a shot at them. It postpones the time before they have to admit that most Gopher "fans" don't give a flying bleep about the college game or it's atmosphere. They just want to see some yearly wins against Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State or they ain't buying a Season Ticket.

And no amount of marketing, word-of mouth, begging, change in Management or cajoling is going to change that one damn bit.:(
 

tjgopher said:
You seriously can't be suggesting the U just sit on unsold ticket inventory (at $40-50 per) for fear that some opposition fans might gobble them up.
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Not at all. However, that is not what I said.

I was merely responding to a hypothetical. He suggested that "sell outs is better than non sellouts." I was pointing out an instance where that is not the case.

Or would you rather have 50,000 with 10,000 being Badger/Hawkeye fans than 40,000 mostly Gopher fans? (Hypothetically speaking.)
 

dpodoll68 said:
Not at all. However, that is not what I said.

I was merely responding to a hypothetical. He suggested that "sell outs is better than non sellouts." I was pointing out an instance where that is not the case.

Or would you rather have 50,000 with 10,000 being Badger/Hawkeye fans than 40,000 mostly Gopher fans? (Hypothetically speaking.)
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Well, frankly, I'd rather have the 50,000. It is literally $500,000 difference for the athletic department and that is a significant amount. I don't think there's a huge difference between having 5,000 or 10,000 Badger/Hawkeye fans there. Certainly not enough difference to turn away half a million bucks.

I suppose there are cases where it would not be best to have sellouts, but that is a very, very rare occurrence, IMO.
 

tjgopher said:
Well, just for the fun of it, I logged in and requested tickets. They were placing me in Section 215, Row 20. That is NOT the student section. However, it is the designated area for visiting fans, so maybe they will stick the visiting fans in the fringes of the student section??? I had heard last week about these two-pack deals coming out and that they were coming out because students weren't buying seats. As I said, I'm not sure on that.
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Has anyone thought of the possibility that these packages are available because Penn State, Northwestern, NIU, and South Dakota could not sell out their allotted visiting tickets? These tickets were not supposed to go to Gopher Fans anyway, but since those schools couldn't get rid of them, they are now being sold as a package.

Like Baseball mini-packs it gives the consumer the chance to buy tickets for multiple games without forking over the cash for season tickets. Great idea in this economy where people are a little more concerned about spending wisely.
 

Gopherdrummer said:
Has anyone thought of the possibility that these packages are available because Penn State, Northwestern, NIU, and South Dakota could not sell out their allotted visiting tickets? These tickets were not supposed to go to Gopher Fans anyway, but since those schools couldn't get rid of them, they are now being sold as a package.

Like Baseball mini-packs it gives the consumer the chance to buy tickets for multiple games without forking over the cash for season tickets. Great idea in this economy where people are a little more concerned about spending wisely.
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I don't think so, usually tickets that the opponent could not sell get sold the Monday before the game, not before the season starts. It looks like they are bundling them to sell the NIU and SD tickets. I think there will be a fair number of South Dakota fans showing up, and Northern Illinois should have a good presence, it's not that long of a drive.

They are bundled with the Northwestern and Penn State games to sweeten the deal. Looking at what tickets for the games are going for on Stubhub, the PSU-NIU package looks like a better deal than the Northwestern-SD package.
 

Gopherdrummer said:
Has anyone thought of the possibility that these packages are available because Penn State, Northwestern, NIU, and South Dakota could not sell out their allotted visiting tickets? These tickets were not supposed to go to Gopher Fans anyway, but since those schools couldn't get rid of them, they are now being sold as a package.
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Schools have until the week before the game to sell the seats. I suppose these schools might have already returned their allotments, but I doubt it.
 

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