Shooter: 92+% season tickets renewal for football; 1,650 new season tickets sold

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I was hoping there would be more season tickets sold.
 

does that men that they have sold more season tickets than last year...?
 

8 % of the base from last year didn't renew. Wasn't the base around 40,000? So using my stupid math that is 3,200 lost holders. So we are negative 1,550 or so. Visiting fans for Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska will give us close to sellouts. Here's the kicker. You can bet some of those Nebraska fans bought season tickets just for the Husker game. They will sell the rest on line. The students? The last I heard was a tad over 2,000 tickets. With the Vikings playing at MOA that night, the State Fair, and I think the Twins afternoon. You will be lucky to have 40,000 at TCF.
 

Ruppert, I don't think we were at 40K last year, as that would essentially equate to a sell-out of non-student tickets.

Go Gophers!!
 


ruppertflywheel said:
8 % of the base from last year didn't renew. Wasn't the base around 40,000? So using my stupid math that is 3,200 lost holders. So we are negative 1,550 or so. Visiting fans for Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska will give us close to sellouts. Here's the kicker. You can bet some of those Nebraska fans bought season tickets just for the Husker game. They will sell the rest on line. The students? The last I heard was a tad over 2,000 tickets. With the Vikings playing at MOA that night, the State Fair, and I think the Twins afternoon. You will be lucky to have 40,000 at TCF.
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No no no, Rupert, you are way off.

I'll leave it to someone else to dredge up last year's numbers, but we were far below 10,000 season tickets. This is a nice improvement.
 

There were/are chairback seats in the upper level available for purchase in the 2-pack promotion so there is nowhere near 40k season ticket holders. I'd say it's closer to 30k.
 

No way there were only 10,000 season ticket holders last year. Maybe more like the high 20's which I believe is about what we had our last year at the dome.
 

Here's from the Strib, 365 days ago:

Three years after opening a new football stadium, the University of Minnesota is scrambling to get students -- and fans in general -- interested in going to the games.

Student season-ticket sales have steadily dropped from 10,000 in the first year at the 50,800-seat TCF Bank Stadium, to 7,800 the second year to less than 6,000 last year. Now, with the team's first home game on Sept. 8 less than a month away, roughly 2,000 student season tickets have been sold for the $288 million on-campus stadium that was seen as a key to rekindling passion and attendance after almost three decades in the Metrodome.
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http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/166352516.html?refer=y

So I guess it matters whether we're talking about student season tickets (which we were a year ago today) or overall season tickets.
 



Things like how many are sold, etc. are out of my hands so I don't worry about it.
I know I will be there on Aug. 29 and for every home game. That's all that matters.
 

The following was posted by GopherLady (Nadine Babu) back in May of this year.

For those with inquiring minds, here are the Gopher Football renewal numbers from the ticket office:

The customer renewal rate is 92%
Season Ticket comparison is:

2012 season tickets = 28,902
2013 season tickets = 26,307

None of this includes the new season tickets they have sold for this year.
 

Some Day...Is Coming! said:
The following was posted by GopherLady (Nadine I believe) back in May of this year.

For those with inquiring minds, here are the Gopher Football renewal numbers from the ticket office:

The customer renewal rate is 92%
Season Ticket comparison is:

2012 season tickets = 28,902
2013 season tickets = 26,307

None of this includes the new season tickets they have sold for this year.
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I figured that number had to be in the high 20's. At least above 25k anyway.
 




Is it possible that by increasing the price of student tickets you could somehow make them more desirable? Combine this with winning of course :)
 



Well if Nadine's figures are correct 2013 and it was 26,307 and 92.5 renewed that would be 24,992. Its a loss of 1,315 season tickets. Now they have sold 1,650 new season tickets. The total right now would be 25, 327.
 

husker70 said:
Well if Nadine's figures are correct 2013 and it was 26,307 and 92.5 renewed that would be 24,992. Its a loss of 1,315 season tickets. Now they have sold 1,650 new season tickets. The total right now would be 25, 327.
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Sooouuunddsz goooooood.
 

There will have to be one hell of a walkup sale to reach 40,000 for UNLV. As reported, no promotions so far for opener.
 

ruppertflywheel said:
There will have to be one hell of a walkup sale to reach 40,000 for UNLV. As reported, no promotions so far for opener.
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What we don't know Ruppert is how many Iowa, Wisconsin or Nebraska fans packaged the UNLV game with their team for the Two-Pack tickets. Though by reading between the lines are you guessing that they'll use the Western Michigan or San Jose State games instead? Just guessing but maybe they're hoping for those "rabid" ticket bases to snap-up as many of the Two-Packs that they can before they have to start heavily discounting them.
 

I wonder if the walk up might be pretty decent considering the weather should be beautiful and lot of kids won't be back in school yet (except Mpls and maybe St. Paul). The Twins are getting great walk ups because of the nice weather and their outdoor stadium.
 

nokomismod said:
I wonder if the walk up might be pretty decent considering the weather should be beautiful and lot of kids won't be back in school yet (except Mpls and maybe St. Paul). The Twins are getting great walk ups because of the nice weather and their outdoor stadium.
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I think many people are waiting on the $10 tickets. I think if they're not offered for the UNLV game, the walk-ups will be tiny. A 6 PM start on a Thursday against a bad program during the State Fair and fighting rush-hour traffic and parking problems isn't a good recipe for walk-up numbers at TCF.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were only 30k people(including students) with their butts in the seats on Aug 29. I think all 3 home NC games could be in the 30k range, unless they undercut the season ticket holders again and sell the $10 seats.
 

husker70 said:
Well if Nadine's figures are correct 2013 and it was 26,307 and 92.5 renewed that would be 24,992. Its a loss of 1,315 season tickets. Now they have sold 1,650 new season tickets. The total right now would be 25, 327.
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2012's numbers (last season) were 28,902, with 92% of that (season tickets sold thus far) being 26,307, a 2,595 gap. New season ticket sales is reported at 1,650, bringing this year's total up to 27,957. Again, thus far. I doubt how many new season tickets we'll see sold between now and the start of the season, and after that it will be zero. It's a bummer that we're seeing a net loss (of 950) in season ticket holders again. On the flip side, it's impressive that there are ~28,000 people who care enough about Gopher Football so much that they're willing to buy tickets at likely higher prices than what they could pay cumulatively through deals and scalping.

Then again, how many of the 28k are ticket agencies, scalpers, and corporations? What % of the base would we guess is true Gopher fans buying them with the intent on making it to 6-7 games a season?
 



Why is the UNLV game starting at 6 pm? Thats 4 pm UNLV time on a Thursday.

Seems that 7 or 7:30 would have made more sense for us and them.

Shaking my head. SSDD.
 


RailBaronYarr said:
2012's numbers (last season) were 28,902, with 92% of that (season tickets sold thus far) being 26,307, a 2,595 gap. New season ticket sales is reported at 1,650, bringing this year's total up to 27,957. Again, thus far. I doubt how many new season tickets we'll see sold between now and the start of the season, and after that it will be zero. It's a bummer that we're seeing a net loss (of 950) in season ticket holders again. On the flip side, it's impressive that there are ~28,000 people who care enough about Gopher Football so much that they're willing to buy tickets at likely higher prices than what they could pay cumulatively through deals and scalping.

Then again, how many of the 28k are ticket agencies, scalpers, and corporations? What % of the base would we guess is true Gopher fans buying them with the intent on making it to 6-7 games a season?
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You can help sell tickets by inviting more friends and family to games.
 


GopherinPhilly said:
Why is the UNLV game starting at 6 pm? Thats 4 pm UNLV time on a Thursday.

Seems that 7 or 7:30 would have made more sense for us and them.

Shaking my head. SSDD.
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So then 250 people would be watching out there rather than 200?
 

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