PSL's Next Year for UNI football???

[Cat80]

Re: PSL's Next Year for UNI football???

That just doesn't sound right to me. There's not much possible gain to tick off 1-2% of the season ticket holders. If you said that 95/98% of PSC donors are not affected it would make sense.

What about the student section? Are they getting moved any? They are taking up a huge number of those seats identified....

I think the number of seats not affected is very close to the number of PSC accounts not affected. It's ok by me if 1-2% of season ticket holders are ticked off. While seating position is not that big a deal where I'm at, how about season ticket holders on the 49 yd line(the 50 is an aisle) who are not PSC contributors and people next to them at $2,000-$5,000 a year? Or worse, someone contributing that amount who may like the 49yd line but are at the 35 and can't move over? To me, a season ticket holder who is not a PSC contributor gets first choice of seats; after all PSC contributors who are season ticket holders get their choice. This isn't that big of deal, UNI is just trying to put a little equity into the seating.

[Cat80]

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Anything between the 30's on the West side and between the 40's (above the students) on the East side is included in this plan, I believe. From the 30's to the 40's is at a $50 per seat donation level and between the 40's is at $100 per seat. On the East side it is just between the 40's above the students and it is $50 per seat.
I also believe the 95% figure is referring to current PSC members. There will be more non-donors affected in this area that will either choose to become donors to maintain their seats or will move to seats outside the 30's.
As someone else mentioned, right now we are the only school besides the Trees to NOT have something like this. In fact, most schools either have actual PSL's or per seat giving levels much higher than this. It is a good plan and very positive for UNI's future.

This makes sense and probably what Matt was referring to. Any rumors about how many season ticket accounts that are not PSC contributors? That would be the interesting number.

[Newsbreaker]

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How many donors does the PSC have????

1600+ PSC members

If that is true there is no way it ends up being every seat described.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I'll be interested to see how hard the PSC/Athletic Department/Ticket Office is on the time frame/due dates. I know in the past they have been very very lenient with letting people do things they were to damn lazy to do before the due date because they knew they could get away with doing it after the due day. That caused all kinds of problems for everyone. I hope they start setting due dates for things and sticking to it. If you don't have your renewal order in by the due date tough you lose your seats.

Because of the nature of this plan and the potential desire of some donors to "upgrade" their seats, I would expect that these dates will be firm. I certainly wouldn't test it, anyway, if a person likes their seats.

[ronfitch]

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Amazing to me that we do this, but we can't charge $5 a car for parking that people wouldn't blink an eye at.

$5 a car for parking on the west side of Hudson Road and in the Schindler lot ... would anyone blink at that? Especially if parking across Hudson was still free?

I don't live in Cedar Falls anymore, so I am seriously asking.

(For St. Paul Saints baseball games, the pre-game in the Saints lot is so much fun that it is full of paid vehicles at least an hour before every game I have attended. I've toyed with the idea of simply paying the lot fee to tail gate and skipping the game ... but the games are too much fun.)

[DMulligan]

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would have made more sense to move students toward the end zones and create more $$$ seats. But I would also make it so a student could buy up to premium seating. There are some true student fans, but some that are just party and distract true football fans. It just seams like there might have been a better plan.

[UNI83]

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Because of the nature of this plan and the potential desire of some donors to "upgrade" their seats, I would expect that these dates will be firm. I certainly wouldn't test it, anyway, if a person likes their seats.

I hope they are firm on the dates, not just for this but for everything from now on.

I'm sick of being able to pay for my season tickets on time, MVC tickets, etc... on time only to hear that people are doing if after the deadline for that same rate. What incentive does that give me? Or to hear that the athletic department will release the seats of those that don't have their order in on time only to find out someone I know this past season turned their season ticket request in 2 months late and still got their seats because he called the athletic department.

Set a date and stick to it.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I hope they are firm on the dates, not just for this but for everything from now on.

I'm sick of being able to pay for my season tickets on time, MVC tickets, etc... on time only to hear that people are doing if after the deadline for that same rate. What incentive does that give me? Or to hear that the athletic department will release the seats of those that don't have their order in on time only to find out someone I know this past season turned their season ticket request in 2 months late and still got their seats because he called the athletic department.

Set a date and stick to it.

I agree. People will figure out the policy in a hurry if there are actually consequences to not following it.

[TravelingPanther]

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That just doesn't sound right to me. There's not much possible gain to tick off 1-2% of the season ticket holders. If you said that 95/98% of PSC donors are not affected it would make sense.

What about the student section? Are they getting moved any? They are taking up a huge number of those seats identified....

The numbers are right, most of the people in those seats are donors and in no danger. Rather than do a complete reseating (like we did when we opened the McLeod), they decided this would be more prudent.

[TravelingPanther]

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would have made more sense to move students toward the end zones and create more $$$ seats. But I would also make it so a student could buy up to premium seating. There are some true student fans, but some that are just party and distract true football fans. It just seams like there might have been a better plan.

Why move the students? Apparently no one wants to fork over a PSc donation to buy seats judging by some of the reaction so far.

[TravelingPanther]

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I agree. People will figure out the policy in a hurry if there are actually consequences to not following it.

Unfortunately UNITix does not believe in deadlines. I upgraded to better playoff seats after the ticket deadline, found out they had let the original ticket holder have their seats after the deadline, and the ticket office didn't call me for 5 days. So they knew their mistake, but didn't feel like calling me.

That's what I hate about our "deadlines".

[Trapped in California]

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Unfortunately UNITix does not believe in deadlines. I upgraded to better playoff seats after the ticket deadline, found out they had let the original ticket holder have their seats after the deadline, and the ticket office didn't call me for 5 days. So they knew their mistake, but didn't feel like calling me.

That's what I hate about our "deadlines".

http://www.panthernation.com/showpost.php?p=229132&postcount=45

[ronfitch]

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Unfortunately UNITix does not believe in deadlines. I upgraded to better playoff seats after the ticket deadline, found out they had let the original ticket holder have their seats after the deadline, and the ticket office didn't call me for 5 days. So they knew their mistake, but didn't feel like calling me.

That's what I hate about our "deadlines".

Ouch ... nothing succeeds like kicking a customer in the teeth. Except a monopoly.

[UNI83]

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Unfortunately UNITix does not believe in deadlines. I upgraded to better playoff seats after the ticket deadline, found out they had let the original ticket holder have their seats after the deadline, and the ticket office didn't call me for 5 days. So they knew their mistake, but didn't feel like calling me.

That's what I hate about our "deadlines".

The ticket office does as told. Unfortunately they problem is at all levels here and the ticket office takes all of the blame, some of which they deserve. The problem starts up told and continues all the way through.

[TravelingPanther]

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The ticket office does as told. Unfortunately they problem is at all levels here and the ticket office takes all of the blame, some of which they deserve. The problem starts up told and continues all the way through.

So the athletic department told them not to call me and tell me they allowed that person to buy their tickets after the deadline?