Scholarship table
A group of us have decided to go to the BET this year for the first time since 2006. I've been waiting for the ticket packages email to be sent for season ticket holders. I called and was informed that since there are so many season ticket holders, they already sent the email to people that spend $5000 or more. If there are any left after those people, the rest get a chance. It's new this year.I suppose, my question is, why not send it to everyone and assign based on priority points like they have done with everything else? So if someone is a first time season ticket holder this year and spent over 5k, they get priority over me who has been a season ticket holder for 20 years and only spends a couple thousand a year? personally, I think that's kind of jacked up and not rewarding loyalty to the program. Have any big ballers on here seen the ticket email, just wondering on prices and what to budget if it should get to us pee-ons in the mid 100 level seats.
Thanks. but didn't say I needed 6, just a couple. Not sure why they would cut allotments so much that a 2nd year STH in 2006 was able to get 2 no problem, but now a 20 year STH who also donates won't have a shot.
While I can't speak to the BET, one of the things I've been told at least as far as the NCAAs go is that allocations to individual schools are far smaller than in past years. The NCAA is selling packages themselves, or through their agents, rather than allocating to schools.In effect, they're doing the same thing the Chicago Cubs pioneered years ago -- scalping their own tickets.Once upon a time, a contributor to Marquette University at a certain level was all but assured of getting tournament tickets. It's how I was able to get NCAA regional tickets one year several rows behind the MU bench. We lost but, hey, my 10 year old daughter had a great time. Getting tickets with a contribution and a call isn't easy anymore.Now, the NCAA and, probably, the Big East Conference, learned from the airlines. Tickets prices are yield managed based on complex algorithms. Turning more and more tickets over to the schools reduces the optimal yield.Long story short: Ticketmaster!
Of course MU lost, dog jinx!
My backside.The game was in Winston-Salem, NC at Wake Forest. Tom Crean took our Warriors to play Michigan State and was thoroughly outcoached by Tom Izzo. We got clobbered. That's no jinx!It was a great Dad/Daughter trip. She was the envy of her fifth grade class when she told people she was at the South Regional.