I’ve said that, make the stadium seat less by installing more comfortable seats.
There will be more and more empty seats-
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We sold two extras for 5 dollars a piece after standing outside pitching them for an hour
Nah. They were my brothers tickets. He got the the 10 spot. We couldn’t give them away. We would have if we we have found interested fans.
Jesus, dude. You must be hurting for money. You could make more money working at McDonalds in that time period. So, either you are completely full of ****, or you have more time on your hands than you know what to do with. If it's the latter, congratulations. I can't wait until I'm at that point in life.
Lol. We got to the game early...talking to daughters, friends...etc. Nobody came up to us. No one. When we got done socializing we went up to a scalper and said they are yours. He gave us 5 dollars per tik. Not my gain or loss. Be careful who you call Dick next time. Seriously. By the way we’re you at the game? Did you bet against Neb? We’re you screaming your lungs out with 4 minutes on the clock? Didn’t think so. But I’m Dick. Nice.
Don’t even know why I started posting again. I bet I have more insight to offer this board than you (bro was 1st team Academic AA on 1994 Natty, started HI with Roz, wrote for HI website and magazine for 10 years. You are a douche. Go take a blanket. Pull it over your head. And cry. Later douche.
The "sellout" streak is kept alive because that is basically the last string that ties present day Nebraska football with the glory years.
I don't understand the desire of some to continue to celebrate the streak when it has been artificially kept alive. But to each his own.
Ticket sales or attendance is irrelevant. The fact that someone or someones are actually using actual money buying blocks of tickets, just to keep an artificial streak alive, is just bizarre to me. I can definitely find a better use of those funds
I don't understand the desire of some to continue to celebrate the streak when it has been artificially kept alive. But to each his own.
Ticket sales or attendance is irrelevant. The fact that someone or someones are actually using actual money buying blocks of tickets, just to keep an artificial streak alive, is just bizarre to me. I can definitely find a better use of those funds
Well, it's a donation to the University of Nebraska. I think it's great that there are corporate sponsors or boosters who care enough to buy the leftover tickets when there are some. Sometimes they're given to deserving groups so they can go to a game for free. I think it's a good thing.
They care enough to keep the faux streak alive, so we can watch the number turn and hear the announcers say this place has sold out for every game since November of 1962. Donating the money to the deserving group or charity would be a better use of the funds, let them determine how they want to use the funds.
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Tell your brother hello and thanks for the memories. Also, don't forget to let your Rivals bill lapse.
In this case they think the deserving charity is the University of Nebraska. I'm good with that. I'm quite sure that they give enough to the United Way etc.
They are giving the tickets to a deserving cause right? Wouldn't you think they would rather have the money than the extra hassle and work involved in getting people to go to a game.
Hey Joe, here are 3000 tickets we just bought for the game last week to keep the sell out streak alive. Give them to whoever you want. Your staff won't mind that extra work will they?
Throw them in the dumpster if they want. More room for me. IF a corporation wants to write a check to the University for ANY reason I'm good with it. What happens to the tickets afterwards I don't really care. In some cases I think employees and customers are given the tickets. It doesn't matter. What's important to the UNIVERSITY is that there is somebody willing to continue to support the school and it's sports programs. When that isn't true anymore it will be a dark day for the University of Nebraska.
This is above and beyond supporting the school. If it was just about supporting the school, just make an additional contribution to the general scholarship fund. This is about keeping the faux streak alive.
So what difference does it make? We have somebody who is willing to keep the sellout streak alive for whatever reason. THEY ARE BUYING THE TICKETS. That's good for the University. It isn't a faux sellout streak IF somebody is willing to buy the tickets regardless of whether it fits puritanical feelings about it. I just don't understand the angst over it. In order to make income budgets the University needs to sell the tickets. Somebody buys them. I "buy" tickets for every game but I'm lucky to make it to 1 or 2 games per year. Should my ticket purchases not count? I often give the tickets away. Is that a "faux" ticket sale?
Speaking of some empty seats, USC got ranked by the committee today and their message board are full of anger about it and saying they will not go to games because they are desperate to fire a coach that won 10 games in s previous season and now likely to finish the season ranked.
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It is semantics. I don't see the need for boosters to buy up tickets for the sole purpose to keep a streak alive.
When you first bought your tickets, you didn't do so for the purpose of keeping a streak alive. I would venture to say that you either had to wait a few years to get the tickets initially, and that you went to more games when you first got them. As the years go buy, it becomes less important to spend the money to get to the game, the amount of time spent on a Saturday game day is huge. I get that. I sell both of my Texans seats each week because dealing with traffic and spending 8 hours on a Sunday to watch a game is more than I am willing to invest. Luckily, right now I can sell my tickets each week and make my money back plus some.
I have used this analogy before with this streak, but I will share it again. Say I buy 400 hot dogs to sell as a vendor for each game, For 20 seasons I sell all 400 of my hot dogs. I brag that I have sold all 400 of my hot dogs at each game for 20 seasons. Then the 3rd game of the 21st season, I am struggling to sell all 400 dogs. I get rid of the first 350 but cant seem to get rid of the last 50. So I decide to buy the last 50 myself and then throw them away, just so I can say I sold all of my hot dogs and keep my streak alive. It is pointless and I am only fooling myself.
Ahhh but the university didn't buy the hotdogs and throw them away. A private corporation buys them. So in fact the University has sold them. You almost had me with the hot dog analogy. The purpose of selling hot dogs OR selling tickets is to raise money for the University. It doesn't matter if nobody eats your hot dogs as long as you MAKE MONEY. That's the ultimate goal. I understand your idea. I'm a capitalist though who has been in business for a long long time. The goal (other than to win the game) is to make money. That's the desired endpoint of ticket sales. ANY method you can use to sell tickets is fine. Those last tickets sold are ALL profit and they don't retain value if you don't sell them.
except the university didn't but it's own tickets to say it had a sellout. It was a nice try but it wasn't an accurate depiction of what happens. The university sells the tickets. There can be not disputing that fact. They aren't throwing them in the trash with no potential for them to be used. The university realizes income from the ticket sales. THAT is the goal of selling tickets. Tuco didn't realize any income from "buying" his won hotdogs and throwing them in the trash.
The university is buying them though, just not directly. The booster or the purchaser of the block of tickets is going to want something in return for saving the streak. You know as well as I do how the back channels work. There is going to be a concession made on something for those donors to continue to purchase the left over tickets.
If in my hot dog scenario, I don't buy the last 50 myself, but I get the beer vendor to buy my hot dogs. In return, I promise to buy the leftover beer from the vendor next week. We are both whole, right? Both streaks alive, they are just tainted because the sales are artificial.
C'mon man. You're really reaching now. Those corporations already have access to the "back channels". Again, it's about selling the tickets and making money. The rest doesn't matter. SOMEBODY is willing to pay money for the tickets. The problem for Notre Dame was that they ran out of people willing to fork over the money because they had SO MANY tickets going unsold. So far that hasn't been a big problem for Nebraska. IF Nebraska wanted and depending on what price they put on them Nebraska could sell ALL of their seats as season ticket packages. Would that be smart business? That would satisfy your puritanical definition of a sell out right? Screw the visiting schools who turn back tickets at the last minute. They can buy theirs on the secondary market.
If someone is part of an organization that buys a block of tickets to Iowa with no use for them PM me I’ll take 4.
...of all the things "the hot dog analogy" to be used for on here, I never wood have guessed it was going to be for tickets...
I get what you're saying.....but I happen to think that it kind of cheapens the streak when the sell outs continue in that fashion.
In times like these, I hope people that normally can't go to the games get to go. Gameday at NU is expensive when we are decent especially in the games that matter. My grandparents always gave their tickets to service members when they or family couldn't go, but I hope some Husker fans that would not normally be able to go get to go experience Memorial Stadium. Yes I know the Huskers suck, but gameday is a big deal for Nebraskan's and its still a great experience even if you leave with some disappointment. A young kid who has never been to a game probably won't remember if we won or lost, but more that they got to go to a game.
Thousands of tickets are sold to every home game to corporations sponsoring outings for customers and business associates BEFORE any turned back tickets come back. How many tickets do you really think are left for corporations to buy up at the last minute? It's a very very small percentage of total ticket sales. The way NU fans support their team is unique and deserves to be recognized. Ending the streak because Purdue turned back a few hundred visitor section tickets seems pretty stupid to me.
Most people confuse the term "sellout" with actual attendance. Sure there are games where there are empty seats. Those seats are primarily held by people who for whatever reason decided to not come or couldn't come to the game. The percentage of tickets that go to corporate boosters who wouldn't otherwise buy the ticket is VERY small. To me going to a Husker game is part of the Nebraska experience and everybody who wants to go to a game should be able to. The seemingly endless escalation of ticket prices we endured during the recent years to drive income doesn't sit well with me for the reasons you stated. I know it's about paying for facilities etc. It's why I naively gave a ticket to #2NU vs #7 KSU to a kid standing outside the stadium. Of course he sold it for $10 5 minutes after the game had started.......
The best thing about the last couple of seasons is clearing out the dead weight in the fan base. We need a "roster flip" in the fan base as much as the team does. Get rid of the whining, bitching, precious babies. You are the same moaning nancies that will be complaining when you can't get tickets when they start winning again.
I fully support getting rid of the sell out streak. I could care less. And that comes from someone contributing to it since the 80s. The simple fact is the Husker fanbase travels and supports their team unlike any other team. That is a fact. You can whinge and moan and berate the steak as much as you want, Husker Nation still puts butts in seats Saturday after Saturday home and away.
You can quibble all you want about whether there are 75k on game day or 85k or 90K. It doesn't matter in a world where many places have empty stadiums and apathetic fans. The fact is that we are in the 3rd year of 4 wins and still putting asses on benches in this stadium.
I fully support getting rid of the sell out streak. I could care less. And that comes from someone contributing to it since the 80s. The simple fact is the Husker fanbase travels and supports their team unlike any other team. That is a fact. You can whinge and moan and berate the steak as much as you want, Husker Nation still puts butts in seats Saturday after Saturday home and away.
You can quibble all you want about whether there are 75k on game day or 85k or 90K. It doesn't matter in a world where many places have empty stadiums and apathetic fans. The fact is that we are in the 3rd year of 4 wins and still putting asses on benches in this stadium.
You are always going to have this and it isn't just Nebraska. This is why we are call fanatics.. We are going to piss and moan no matter what and it makes it worse once you do something of significance. If Alabama, Clemson or some of these top teams have a downturn you are going to see the same thing. When you have a taste of success you think it should be guaranteed and come to expect it. I do hate all of the negativity, but I do understand it. I just hope for some success in the future.
The issue for me is that it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. WHY would we want to get rid of it when it guarantees income to the University? It isn't that many tickets on any given Saturday. So you would dispose of one thing we can hang our hats on just because it doesn't seem pure to some people? The bottomline is that SOMEBODY cares enough to "SOMETIMES" buy up those last few tickets to keep the streak going while providing income to the University. That is a GOOD thing.