One Week to Go (Plus Sweet new ticket Design!)

[mwatje]

Almost a week until UNI opens up the basketball season with an exhibition game against Wartburg! I'm really excited to see the new guys in the system and how this year's team looks.

Anyone else really like how this year's season tickets look? No more bland white tickets with "UNItix" printed all over it! Received mine in the mail Saturday and celebrated by popping in the 2008-2009 DVD and reliving some magic! (since UNI refused to make a highlight DVD of last year!!!)

Here's the start of a new era with a young but talented team!

[SMK4UNI]

Re: One Week to Go (Plus Sweet new ticket Design!)

Almost a week until UNI opens up the basketball season with an exhibition game against Wartburg! I'm really excited to see the new guys in the system and how this year's team looks.

Anyone else really like how this year's season tickets look? No more bland white tickets with "UNItix" printed all over it! Received mine in the mail Saturday and celebrated by popping in the 2008-2009 DVD and reliving some magic! (since UNI refused to make a highlight DVD of last year!!!)

Here's the start of a new era with a young but talented team!

You need to make sure you know who you are upset with about why there was no highlight DVD from this past season for the basketball team. It wasn't that UNI didn't want to make one, it was that Learfield would not sign off on one to be made.

[TravelingPanther]

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The new season tickets for reserved seating are pretty boring.

[mwatje]

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I'm not upset with UNI...I'm upset I didn't have a '09-'10 DVD to watch this weekend!

I attached a photo of the new ticket style below. I think it's a nice change of pace over the white tickets with "UNITix" plastered diagonally all over it.




(Note: UNI contracts Learfield to handle its sports marketing functions. Learfield advised UNI that it would not be financially feasible to produce a DVD based upon the license fees required to acquire film from ESPN and CBS, when taking into consideration our historical level of highlight DVD sales. UNI listened to said advice and went along with the decision, as they have ultimate say in any important decision because they pay the bill. Learfield cannot operate completely autonomously from UNI because UNI is their customer. Furthermore, I'm not upset at UNI for not making a DVD, I posted the bashing head icon because I wish I could watch highlights of last year. UNI in fact could have pushed the subject further and produced the DVD with the expectation that sales would increase well beyond historical levels; especially when taking into consideration the level of success and national attention garnered last year. But that was a financial risk and they chose not to take.)

[TravelingPanther]

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As a season ticket holder I've never had white tickets with UNItix on them.

[Jonsoup]

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Did you noticed they gave you a free ticket for a womens game?

[JCPanthers]

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I'm not a big fan of the "This is Panther Town" marketing theme. I think it sounds generic/amatuer and personally, I like "Panther Nation" better.....but hey I'm biased.

I'm wondering if the Panther Town idea came from the popular "Party Town" theme that is used by the Waterloo Black Hawks for their marketing of Young Arena...or maybe it's just a coincidence.

[Newsbreaker]

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I just printed that image with the bar codes and I'll be using your seats all year. Thanks!

[UNI83]

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So, UNItix using their standard stock which comes with UNItix printed on it is a problem....even though they don't do it for season tickets?

Wow.


When was the last time football or men's basketball tickets were just plain stock?


I agree, this years tickets look bland compared to last years.

[Cannic88]

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maybe they switched from Panther Nation because its kind of a common theme using nation...or maybe they wanted to match B&B West gas station on 31st and Hudson's new Panther Town sign they installed a year or two ago

[JayJ79]

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I just printed that image with the bar codes and I'll be using your seats all year. Thanks!

kind of like how they want people to show off their Lincoln Savings Bank check card on the big screen at the football games. That way people can copy down their card number and run up a tab.....
(haha, riiiiight. like the video screen has anywhere near the resolution to make that possible0

[Panther1979]

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We sent in our money for St Louis! Did you notice there is a Mardi Gras celebration in SL at the sametime so hotels are expected to be snapped up quickly?

[TravelingPanther]

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kind of like how they want people to show off their Lincoln Savings Bank check card on the big screen at the football games. That way people can copy down their card number and run up a tab.....
(haha, riiiiight. like the video screen has anywhere near the resolution to make that possible0

If you watch the board, they actually plant a card. I'm guessing its not active.

[JayJ79]

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If you watch the board, they actually plant a card. I'm guessing its not active.

you mean it's all a lie????????

(just like the "text for tunes", but anyway.... the companies are providing sponsorships for UNI athletics, so they can do it however they like)

[mwatje]

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hmmmm....last year was my first year with season tix and they lost them in the mail, and then sent reprinted ones to me. They must have reprinted on the standard white with UNITix logo for the reprints, and that was why I was surprised to see a full color season ticket this year.

Anyways, the theme itself isn't that bad- just how they present it. What I really don't like is that discombobulated and cheesy radio ad that goes something like this:

"You hear the noise of the crowd, and then you realize... TICKETS is what you need! ...(more jumbled cheesy cliches)...This is our town...and we need everybody to know...this is PANTHER TOWN."

I turn down 1540 each time I hear it...