Student ticket sales increased from 2,000 to 3,100

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Again, they print misleading information. Student ticket sales are at about 86% of what they were at this point last season. That's not good, but they give the impression that student ticket sales will be only 3,100. That 86% projects to season ticket sales of about 5,200. That's not good, but better than the article implies.
 

Makes it quite a bit better, if they win the next 2-3 games they probably will sell more.
 

My bold prediction is that a) we will not see a bump in sales if we beat New Hampshire BUT b) if we beat New Hampshire AND Western Michigan, there will be more than 6,000 students in the stands for the Syracuse game.

And yes, I think we'll end up around 5,000 student tickets sold before Saturday's game if last year is any indication.
 



For student season tickets, do they pro-rate the price after games have been played, or do they pay the full price whether or not some games have already been played. If they don't pro-rate the price, students might say "Why should I pay for all seven games, when one of them has already been played?" On the other hand, if they do, students might decide not to buy until after the Big Ten season starts, to get the cheaper rate on games they are more interested in.
 



They'll pummel the 3,100 number. It's bad reporting and not understanding the process well.

Doesn't mean student season ticket sales are where they "should be", but I don't take the 3,100 number as much more than a status update of an ongoing process.

If anyone wants to make a bet, I'm in. Let me know your cutoff point and what you'd like to wager (i.e., you bet that it'll be x,xxx or less and I will take the above if I think you're being silly). The key is I don't care to look at what the 'final number' appears to be until a good two weeks or so from today.
 



I think a lot of students are just so sick of how bad our football team has been. The upper classmen now were freshmen during the worst years of the Brewster area. It's time to start over with the under classmen and get them to see that we can have success and get them buying in to the program. The upper classmen are set in their ways and believe we just plain stink. We absolutely need to make it to a bowl game this year.

I think a 7-5 finish would go a long way with student ticket sales. Even 6-6 would be huge.

EDIT: I'm not saying this is an excuse. But Minnesotans are notorious for being fair weather fans. They'll only support a good product. They WILL back a quality product and they have proved that many times. I wish that wasn't they way it is, but it's the culture we have created here in Minnesota.
 

I picked up my tickets yesterday over lunch and there were three other girls and a guy picking up their tickets. fwiw
 





Does anyone have the means of getting the student attendance numbers for Brewster's second year? Right after the 7-1 start? That was coming off a pretty pathetic performance the year before as well. Just curious to see if the 7-1 record spiked interest.

Either way, the U hasn't done much to generate buzz around campus. Off campus, sure. But for the direct population they service? Not so much. This is a culture issue, and it will take time to fix.
 

afurry91 said:
But Minnesotans are notorious for being fair weather fans. They'll only support a good product. They WILL back a quality product and they have proved that many times. I wish that wasn't they way it is, but it's the culture we have created here in Minnesota.
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Minnesota, along with the overwhelming majority of every other sports market everywhere. This is in no way unique to Minnesota.
 

Just for a little perspective during the Wacker years

There were less than 800 in 1992 abd 810 of us in the student section in 1993 in the second deck, not counting the band, cheerleaders or non-students mixed in. Students have it easy compared to then.
We had Chris Darkins the Heisman hopeful in 1995 and could score points like crazy but could not stop anyone. Now those were truly depressing times.
3,100 is a lot of folks if you compare the Wacker years. Not even a thousand people. I know the Mason years had a lot but this will take awhile to get past the Brewster syndrome years he set us back to Wacker era level enthusiasm.

It will get going, they start winning a little and the students will be on board once the Kill Zone is in full effect.
 

It really is all about winning, and we're not unique in that situation. Purdue - in West Lafayette, where there is literally no other game in town - had sold 6,400 tickets in advance of their home opener against Eastern Kentucky, in part (I'm guessing) because they haven't been a generally good team for several years - 4-8, 5-7, 4-8, 7-6 the last four years. This is a team who many have said is a darkhorse for the division title this year.

The way to turn it around is winning momentum. Anything else won't register on the scale. I actually wish I had a dataset with student ticket sales (as a percent of available) and past year's winning percentage for the entire NCAA to see how well it correlates. I bet they correlate pretty well.
 

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As Borat would say "very nice"
 

If I read the story correct, 3100 plus students have bought season tickets and 5500 tickets were given out last week for the opener by Kill and the administration. So at least 8600 students have tickets for the opener if I understand the article. How many student season tickets are available anyway? Is it still 10,000 or has the U cut it back to 6,000. I would guess they have 10,000 available since 8600 have already been given away or sold. What a poorly written story by the StarTribune again.
 

goldfan24 said:
If I read the story correct, 3100 plus students have bought season tickets and 5500 tickets were given out last week for the opener by Kill and the administration. So at least 8600 students have tickets for the opener if I understand the article. How many student season tickets are available anyway? Is it still 10,000 or has the U cut it back to 6,000. I would guess they have 10,000 available since 8600 have already been given away or sold. What a poorly written story by the StarTribune again.
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There's more variables than that. How many of those freshmen given tickets had already purchased season tickets?
 

goldfan24 said:
If I read the story correct, 3100 plus students have bought season tickets and 5500 tickets were given out last week for the opener by Kill and the administration. So at least 8600 students have tickets for the opener if I understand the article. How many student season tickets are available anyway? Is it still 10,000 or has the U cut it back to 6,000. I would guess they have 10,000 available since 8600 have already been given away or sold. What a poorly written story by the StarTribune again.
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This is actually a good point too, I'm guessing a number of freshmen are holding off on buying tickets until they go to a game, for free, to "test it out" so to speak. So sales could pick up after the game if it's a good one for us.
 

A few weeks ago, the Star Tribune had a similar article that was misleading in the same way. I would have thought that this article would have corrected the mistake, but it makes the same mistake, implying that the student ticket situation is worse than it is by leaving out context. I'm OK with articles that don't paint a positive picture of ticket sales, but it should be accurate. 5,200 isn't good, but it is better than 3,100. If you're going to compare last year's total student ticket sales to this year's current sales, there needs to be added information, such as what the student ticket sales were at this point last year.

Now, I wonder, if Kill and Teague are able to increase ticket sales above last year's numbers (it would take an increase of about 800 over what I project based on comparing this year's ticket sales to last year's) would we get articles about increased student ticket sales?
 

goldfan24 said:
If I read the story correct, 3100 plus students have bought season tickets and 5500 tickets were given out last week for the opener by Kill and the administration. So at least 8600 students have tickets for the opener if I understand the article. How many student season tickets are available anyway? Is it still 10,000 or has the U cut it back to 6,000. I would guess they have 10,000 available since 8600 have already been given away or sold. What a poorly written story by the StarTribune again.
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It's still 10,000. There have been no changes to the # of student seats.
 

RodentRampage said:
A few weeks ago, the Star Tribune had a similar article that was misleading in the same way. I would have thought that this article would have corrected the mistake, but it makes the same mistake, implying that the student ticket situation is worse than it is by leaving out context.
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I didn't even need to check the byline when I read it to know it was written by the same guy (Kaszuba) who hacked it up last time. Imagine my shock when I did look and found that my suspicions were correct. /sarcasm.
 

The U just put themselves in an interesting situation if all 5,500 of those freshman tickets get used for the game, and they also reach around 6,000 season ticket packages sold. Unless they pro-rate a portion of those packages to only include the remaining 6 games, they would be looking at 11,500 students showing up to stand in a section that holds 10,000.

Not saying all of the Freshen will show up, but it that were to happen and additional ticket packages get sold....oops! What are they going to say if someone goes to buy last minute season tickets? "Here are your season tickets, the first game you can go to is next week." What?!
 

Gopherdrummer said:
The U just put themselves in an interesting situation if all 5,500 of those freshman tickets get used for the game, and they also reach around 6,000 season ticket packages sold. Unless they pro-rate a portion of those packages to only include the remaining 6 games, they would be looking at 11,500 students showing up to stand in a section that holds 10,000.

Not saying all of the Freshen will show up, but it that were to happen and additional ticket packages get sold....oops! What are they going to say if someone goes to buy last minute season tickets? "Here are your season tickets, the first game you can go to is next week." What?!
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I doubt they are worried. The free tickets are only for the first game. Does anyone see them selling 2,900 season tickets by Saturday?
 

GoAUpher said:
I doubt they are worried. The free tickets are only for the first game. Does anyone see them selling 2,900 season tickets by Saturday?
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Good point. Wonder how many students are trying to sell those "free tickets"? Good for the U for trying though; don't give a damn how many students are outside drinking at TCF, it's how many actually go in that counts!
 

What exactly is the agenda of the Star Tribune in constantly bringing up or reporting Student season ticket sales for Gopher Football. Why do they continue to pound this "drum" of negativity unless they are trying to help create this perception that Gopher football is boring or always has a "half empty stadium". What is the objective? Are they reporting on the news or looking to create "News". Where was this spotlight on student season ticket sales pre-TCF stadium. Can we have another article on beer sales at TCF?
I really have to ask because this has wound people up pretty tight and there are even rubes taking pot shots on comment sections for other articles and cracking jokes about it.
Have they reported on Gopher basketball season ticket sales for both the Mens and Womens basketball team? Have they reported on Gopher Hockey student season ticket sales. We get it, everyone or at least this newspaper want's to make a big deal out of Student football season ticket sales or lack there of because of the subsidy the State put into build the stadium (A much smaller contribution) I might add then they did for the Twins or Vikings stadiums. What really is the point are they still peeved that they are missing out on parking revenue generated from the Gophers not playing at the Metrodome. This has as much to do with it as any need to keep bringing it up.
It's funny but all of the pundits like Reusse are going to keep beating this dead horse. We get it the Students at the U don't care about Gopher football because they preceive we will still suck or lose. Is the $84 bucks really that much money? I have seen students pee loan funds away, and grants on reidiculous stuff like gambling at a Poker room or playing blackjack, I just don't get the constant droan about lack of student ticket sales for Gopher football.
Where is the equal coverage for Vikings games, and there reduction in Season tickets. I'm sure going 3-13 they took a hit on there season ticket fan base. The Vikings are not sold out for Sundays game against Jacksonville and they have been papering the market with free ticket give aways on the radio and such, but you do not here the incesent reporting about the downturn in Vikings ticket sales at this time. What's good for the Gophers should be good for the Star Tribune to report about the Vikings, they can deny it all they want but there are just as many people not showing up to Twins games and Vikings games because the teams suck as they are not showing up to Gopher football games.
 

gopherdudepart2 said:
What exactly is the agenda of the Star Tribune in constantly bringing up or reporting Student season ticket sales for Gopher Football. Why do they continue to pound this "drum" of negativity unless they are trying to help create this perception that Gopher football is boring or always has a "half empty stadium". What is the objective? Are they reporting on the news or looking to create "News". Where was this spotlight on student season ticket sales pre-TCF stadium. Can we have another article on beer sales at TCF?
I really have to ask because this has wound people up pretty tight and there are even rubes taking pot shots on comment sections for other articles and cracking jokes about it.
Have they reported on Gopher basketball season ticket sales for both the Mens and Womens basketball team? Have they reported on Gopher Hockey student season ticket sales. We get it, everyone or at least this newspaper want's to make a big deal out of Student football season ticket sales or lack there of because of the subsidy the State put into build the stadium (A much smaller contribution) I might add then they did for the Twins or Vikings stadiums. What really is the point are they still peeved that they are missing out on parking revenue generated from the Gophers not playing at the Metrodome. This has as much to do with it as any need to keep bringing it up.
It's funny but all of the pundits like Reusse are going to keep beating this dead horse. We get it the Students at the U don't care about Gopher football because they preceive we will still suck or lose. Is the $84 bucks really that much money? I have seen students pee loan funds away, and grants on reidiculous stuff like gambling at a Poker room or playing blackjack, I just don't get the constant droan about lack of student ticket sales for Gopher football.
Where is the equal coverage for Vikings games, and there reduction in Season tickets. I'm sure going 3-13 they took a hit on there season ticket fan base. The Vikings are not sold out for Sundays game against Jacksonville and they have been papering the market with free ticket give aways on the radio and such, but you do not here the incesent reporting about the downturn in Vikings ticket sales at this time. What's good for the Gophers should be good for the Star Tribune to report about the Vikings, they can deny it all they want but there are just as many people not showing up to Twins games and Vikings games because the teams suck as they are not showing up to Gopher football games.
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i was going to pose these same questions regarding the vikings, twins, etc. where is the constant coverage on their difficulties in selling tickets? where is it? oh...wait.....that's right.....the star tribune is trying to get the vikings to buy a bunch of parking lots and unused buildings from them when the new pro stadium in this town is build. can't go making them upset now can we star tribune?! dick wads.

the hack journalists and tabloid writers at the star tribune are a freaking joke. nothing but a bunch of sensationalism and cheap-shot stories on various topics. with completely misleading and false headlines to boot. nothing but a lame attempt to generate as many "hits" on website stories as possible. so they can run to their advertisers and say "see, look how many clicks we get at startribune.com every month".

and to the media apologists who posts here.......save it. i don't want to hear about how your heroes reusse, souhan, mike max, randy shaver, barreiro and tom powers are "just telling it like it is". no they are not. they are selectively and strategically deciding when, and if ever, they want to actually tell the whole story and provide actual context to their diatribes against the U of M. it is cheap-shot journalism and a tabloid culture that has taken over much of the media in this town.
 

It has been a mixed bag. There's been some really good articles. Then there's harping on the student ticket sales, and in particular, creating the appearance that the student ticket sales situation is worse than it really is.
 

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