pathetic attendance tonight

[Warrior of Law]

Unfortunately this is my last year as a STH. I split a pair of lower bowl tickets.  Reason for giving them up: 1) can't attend all the games, 2) weak schedule, 3) no resale market for tickets, and 4) can get a good ticket for any game for less than what I pay for season tickets.

Based on the no-shows this season, I think it's fair to say a lot of STH look at ticket renewals as simply a charitable exercise.

[brewcity77]

This year really makes it tough for a number of reasons. The combination of a weaker Marquette team and such a weak schedule killed any hopes of making back some of your STH investment. I saw lower bowl tickets for Butler listed at face value this week on StubHub.

I expect the product to improve in the coming years. Marquette will be better, which hopefully will lead to improved scheduling. I'm looking at this year as a one-off. Yeah, it's ugly, but it'll get better.

That said, if I could get lower bowl to any game I wanted at face value (like Butler) then it'd be hard to justify keeping season tickets.

[bilsu]

Well, if you keep donating (without buying tickets), I don't believe that's true. 

• 1 point for each consecutive years of donating to the Blue & Gold Athletic Scholarship Fund, effective July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2005.
• 2 points for each consecutive years of donating to the Blue & Gold Athletic Scholarship Fund, July 1, 2005 and after.
• Minimum donation requirement: $100 per fiscal year.

I was told only count while you are a season ticket holder.

http://www.gomarquette.com/bluegold-fund/bgf-priority-point-system.html

[bilsu]

•Season ticket holders must maintain full season ticket holder status in order to maintain their points in their entirety. If a season ticket holder drops their seats and then renews at a later date, the priority points will reset using the new start date. For example, Mary was a season ticket holder from 1981 to 1996. She dropped her season tickets in 1996 and then decided to renew in 2005. Mary's priority points are calculated using the 2005 start date. Any donations she made in the past that has the 80/20 rule applied, will apply to her point statement when she renews her Season Ticket Holder Status. All other points (Season ticket holding points, Consecutive year giving points, etc) will start accruing with the new 2005 start date. Effective July 1, 2010.

This is the rule effective July 1, 2010, so I would be able to keep my donations.
However, if I drop my tickets I will not invited to be part of the next year's reseating process. So my points would have no value the first year I comeback in if I cannot get my name on the list.

[GoldenZebra]

If you want attendance up, tell MU to start winning games, and not lose at home to DePaul.

[mu_hilltopper]

The least expensive solution to keeping tickets if you think there's a chance in the future to get the back is .. buy a $125 seat in the upper deck, and throw in $100 for the B&G fund too.

I suppose you could get two $125 seats and try selling some tickets .. I suppose the on the on-years, the UW game could fetch $75 a seat or so.  (A total guess on what the value of an end-zone seat is for that game..)

[4everwarriors]

BTW, da halftime presentation today blows donkey nuts, hey?

[WarriorPride68]

BTW, da halftime presentation today blows donkey nuts, hey?

What was it, for those of us who aren't there?

[4everwarriors]

A bunch of Native Americans and kids walkin' 'round to a drum poundin'. 'member da First Warrior? Hundred times more painful than dat, hey?

[dgies9156]

A bunch of Native Americans and kids walkin' 'round to a drum poundin'. 'member da First Warrior? Hundred times more painful than dat, hey?

My only question was, "They chased away Willie Wampum for.... this?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My only question was, "They chased away Willie Wampum for.... this?

Willie Wampum is a stain on Marquette history. Anything was an improvement