GopherLady
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Last night I had a friend offer me 4 free courtside tickets plus a parking pass, club room tickets, etc, for free. This was at the very last minute - and I was coming back from being out of town - so we barely managed to get the ticket hand-off. Since there was no time to coordinate giving my tickets away, I figured we could just sell them at The Barn, and get there a few minutes early. I have a promise to myself to never let a ticket go un-used, it's one of my biggest pet peeves. I actually dropped my friend off to sell our pair while I was parking. I thought since the face on these was $70, I could for sure get $40 or at least $30 for them. When I arrived, he said he couldn't sell them to anyone, he ended up getting $10 from a scalper for the pair. Then Moonlight came to meet us (I was giving her the other 2 free tickets) and she said she could not even give her two seats away. I sat there in the atrium of The Barn, yelling "who wants free tickets?" and there were no takers! We literally couldn't even give them away. Finally, this teenage kid came up to me and wanted them. I found out after the fact, he was a scalper.
I know it was cold last night, and I know it was last minute - but it saddens me that you can't even give tickets away to the thing I love the most, Gopher Basketball. I really hope at some point, the U does something to appreciate their season ticket holders - we get no discount on the games, have to pay $35 to play St. Cloud State, and quite honestly - I could have probably gone to just about every game this year, and paid about 1/2 of what I do for being a season ticket holder.
We're in our 3rd season into having Tubby as our coach, and there is already this little demand? And don't even get me started on football...as that mystique wore off and tickets weren't highly in demand by the 4th home game.
I know it was cold last night, and I know it was last minute - but it saddens me that you can't even give tickets away to the thing I love the most, Gopher Basketball. I really hope at some point, the U does something to appreciate their season ticket holders - we get no discount on the games, have to pay $35 to play St. Cloud State, and quite honestly - I could have probably gone to just about every game this year, and paid about 1/2 of what I do for being a season ticket holder.
We're in our 3rd season into having Tubby as our coach, and there is already this little demand? And don't even get me started on football...as that mystique wore off and tickets weren't highly in demand by the 4th home game.