2013 Reseating Changes

[Dr. Blackheart]

Saw this posted but have not seen any communication on this.

• Reseating will now be every year
• You cannot select your own seats. MU staff will select for you based on your "preferences".
• You can watch the process online, but you can only see open rows and sections, not open seats.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/marq/sports/blue-gold/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/MBBReseatingFAQ.pdf

[Skatastrophy]

Oh wow... /dislike

[MUfan12]

This is a horrible policy. I can handle every year, but not choosing seats? That's ridiculous.

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This is a terrible change.

[brewcity77]

That's utter crap. Wow, I'm seriously upset.

[mu03eng]

Saw this posted but have not seen any communication on this.

• Reseating will now be every year
• You cannot select your own seats. MU staff will select for you based on your "preferences".
• You can watch the process online, but you can only see open rows and sections, not open seats.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/marq/sports/blue-gold/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/MBBReseatingFAQ.pdf

Document claims these changes are the result of changes in the charitable status requirements.  Is that true?  My aunt has season tickets to Badger football games and she can pick her seats,etc.  Not a conspiracy, just seems like a mighty big change.

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Document claims these changes are the result of changes in the charitable status requirements.  Is that true?  My aunt has season tickets to Badger football games and she can pick her seats,etc.  Not a conspiracy, just seems like a mighty big change.

I've never heard of this from another University and their athletic ticket sales.

[Husker4MU]

"charitable status requirements" sure smells like a red herring effort to squeeze more money out of the fan base, but I could be totally wrong.  Ticket office called me up a couple of weeks ago and moved me down from Row X to Row F in my section, so I have forfeited all rights to complain.

[mu03eng]

Here I thought we were in the clear for drama between now and Madness.  Shocked they didn't broadly announce this, shocked I tell you.

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Why such a large step backwards in this process?

The online selection worked well. Now we have to fill out a form with our preferences for some intern to decipher where our thousands of dollars 'donation' gets chosen? Is this form only being accepted via Western Union as well?

[MUfan12]

"charitable status requirements" sure smells like a red herring effort to squeeze more money out of the fan base

Bingo.

Essentially, their development staff is not very good. So they have to go back to the well and shake down the STH's.

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Bingo.

Essentially, their development staff is not very good. So they have to go back to the well and shake down the STH's.

unnatural carnal knowledgeing Larry Williams....

[brewcity77]

Direct complaints directly to Joe True at the Blue and Gold Fund, who handle all reseating:

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[Brewtown Andy]

"Season ticket holders will now provide their preferred location by section and row and be allowed to give detailed preferences within selected row."

Is this just a technicality now? Officially the athletic department has to be the one choosing the seats, but we can provide "detailed" preference?

If this is a tax deduction reason, why not ditch the mandatory donations and just raise ticket prices?

[MUfan12]

Shockingly enough, they pulled the PDF.

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Shockingly enough, they pulled the PDF.

Saved it.

[mu03eng]

"Season ticket holders will now provide their preferred location by section and row and be allowed to give detailed preferences within selected row."

Is this just a technicality now? Officially the athletic department has to be the one choosing the seats, but we can provide "detailed" preference?

If this is a tax deduction reason, why not ditch the mandatory donations and just raise ticket prices?

Is this some stupid website development issue where they can't figure out how to select the specific seats through the web interface and they are hiding behind the mandatory changes thing????

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Is this some stupid website development issue where they can't figure out how to select the specific seats through the web interface and they are hiding behind the mandatory changes thing????

Or they don't want to pay for the system they currently use every year.

[brewcity77]

I really hope there's simply been enough backlash from this that they are going back to choosing seats. If it's every year, fine, but especially for STHs that plan to upgrade their seats over the coming years, I want to be able to pick, not just say "ehh, throw a dart at the wall about there".

[GGGG]

Document claims these changes are the result of changes in the charitable status requirements.  Is that true?  My aunt has season tickets to Badger football games and she can pick her seats,etc.  Not a conspiracy, just seems like a mighty big change.

The .pdf said that they are reseating annually to conform with charitable status requirements.  Not that you can no longer pick individual seats due to IRS requirements.

I wonder if the "not picking out individual seats" thing is more of a time saving measure because they now have to do it every year.  I can't see how it is though...

[Brewtown Andy]

I wonder if the "not picking out individual seats" thing is more of a time saving measure because they now have to do it every year.  I can't see how it is though...

Considering that staff now has to do every single entry instead of watching and handling questions/problems, this can't possibly be a simpler way of doing it.

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Is it a reasonable request to write in not to be seated next to anyone that chooses to wear NASCAR apparel or resemble Honey Boo Boo's family?

[Dr. Blackheart]

Considering that staff now has to do every single entry instead of watching and handling questions/problems, this can't possibly be a simpler way of doing it.

More so, you won't know if there are better seats unchosen that you could move into in advance.  So you can still watch online but not select the better seats as you already gave your preferences?  So, will there will be an IM system that I can converse with MU AD when my points appointment comes up to move up?  Cluster.

As to the yearly reseating, not a bad idea.  Now, folks give more in one year and the minimum the next which makes for uneven revenue flow.

[Brewtown Andy]

They tweeted out a link to the PDF with a letter from Broeker.

The more I read this, the more I read a "you give us DETAILED PREFERENCES, *WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE*, but we have to officially pick the seats for you to keep the tax writeoffs for you."

[brewcity77]

They tweeted out a link to the PDF with a letter from Broeker.

The more I read this, the more I read a "you give us DETAILED PREFERENCES, *WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE*, but we have to officially pick the seats for you to keep the tax writeoffs for you."

But the problem is you still can't see seats. So if my preference is the best row with aisle seating, I have no idea where that is. If I'm in one of the sections right on midcourt and prefer to be as close to the halfcourt line as possible, I can't tell which row has seats which correspond with my preference.

There might be a wink wink nudge nudge attempt, but if you have to pick section and row first, there's only so much leeway you can get unless you pick an empty row.