Rest Easy- Response from the NCAA

[CincyPanther88]

1st round is on Thanksgiving weekend.
The first round game in '05 against Eastern Washington had downright pitiful attendance (only 7746 officially. maybe slightly higher actually, but not by much).

Shouldn't be quite as bad this year, but I wouldn't put any money on it being sold out. But it's still a good idea to get tickets ahead of time and not wait until the last minute

Thanks.

I'm thinking about coming back to Iowa for Thanksgiving and make a side trip up to CF on Saturday so I figured tickets wouldn't be a problem but I wanted to make sure.

[GoCats05]

The problem with playoff games is season ticket holders have until Wed before the game to buy their seat. If they don't, it goes on sale to the public. A lot of season ticket holders don't buy all their tickets. Therefore, it is hard to sell out a playoff game because we are trying to sell every single seat.

[JayJ79]

It is important to give season ticket holders the opportunity to get their playoff tickets.
Though I could see moving that deadline up to Tues.

As long as the athletic department can put together a press release explaining how the process works for playoff tickets, and gets the information out there (maybe even the week before, though they'd have to word it in terms of "if UNI gets home playoff games"), I'm thinking we can get decent attendance.

Whether it is a sellout or not, I don't know. But frankly, as long as we get a GOOD crowd (15K is good, not no sad 7K), I'm happy.

[UNI4Life]

The problem with playoff games is season ticket holders have until Wed before the game to buy their seat. If they don't, it goes on sale to the public. A lot of season ticket holders don't buy all their tickets. Therefore, it is hard to sell out a playoff game because we are trying to sell every single seat.

Another problem IIRC is that the students will need to buy tickets for the playoffs. This will reduce the number of students in attendence even without the Thanksgiving break issue.

[Newsbreaker]

What they could do is send, two to three weeks before the season ends, an order form to season ticket holders and let them buy their seats for the playoffs, but put a deadline of the friday before the last game on it, so they know what seats are available. Season Ticket holders buy tickets for each potential home game, and UNI simply refunds for any games that don't happen.

That's pretty standard practice for the post-season for professional teams.

[Cat80]

What they could do is send, two to three weeks before the season ends, an order form to season ticket holders and let them buy their seats for the playoffs, but put a deadline of the friday before the last game on it, so they know what seats are available. Season Ticket holders buy tickets for each potential home game, and UNI simply refunds for any games that don't happen.

That's pretty standard practice for the post-season for professional teams.

UNI has done something similar in the past. Season ticketholders have the option to go week to week in the playoffs, but you can commit for all three games. You give the ticket office the cc # and if the Panthers host, your tickets are at will call. If we don't host, no charge. They obviously push for the every game commitment to reduce the busywork each week.