only 5100 at the game?

[JayJ79]

why not have the corporate donors claim their tickets similar to how the student thing goes. have them claim what seats they want to use before the day of the game, and the unclaimed ones can be sold as walkups or whatever.

might encourage the corporate donors to use their tickets (or give them away as part of test drives or other business promotions).

it'll never happen, don't want to offend the income sources, but its a nice thought

[BCPanther]

I just realized something else...

We have some Valley Games (WSU, SIU, Creighton, etc..) that are going to be pretty hot tickets.

We are going to tell people that the game is sold out. They will turn on the TV to see hundreds of empty seats. This will infuriate people. These tickets have to be used.

Sorry to double post, but this is really making me angry...

[Chitown Panther]

My parents have 2 season seats....and I have 2 season seats next to them.

I will not be at a SINGLE game this year.....I live in Denver, CO now....

However, my parents bring 2 of their friends to every game they attend. They attend probably 90% of the games....

People that pay full price are definately NOT the problem with our Athletic programs at UNI......its the people that only show up for events cuz of "buy one get one free" promotions.....

I'm sure the Drake, SIU, CU, WSU and MSU games will have GREAT attendance.....

[Schack]

I don't think the seat prices are a problem but the empty corporate/season ticket seats are. I would guess that whomever owns a season ticket must realize a day or two in advance whether or not they will actually be attending the game and using the seat(s). At this point there needs to be place they can call or go online to easily notify someone at the ticket office that these seats are now available. Then either charge a small fee or give 'em away but don't just have these prime seats be empty.
I was disappointed at the select-a-seat night and wished I had done more to get a better seat. Now when I see lots of empty seats that I would have loved to have been able to select, it's irritating. How about a system where I can trade up my season ticket seats(on a game-for-game basis) for better ones that aren't being used. I would love getting closer to court side and making some noise.
I know you can move around after the game starts and just sit in open seats but I find that distasteful. Let's find a system where we can deal with this problem.

[General_Panther]

When the card is scanned it and accepted the reader usually shows a green box that says "GO". For every bball game mine has had a red thing show up and says "Stop" I have no idea if this actually means mine isn't getting counted but it always says stop for me.

When I went to school at UNI two years ago the scanners did the same thing. They did that the year prior too when they had first started the new system. I was always allowed into the games. This is the reason that they had to have a Paper/Pencil attendance for the Maniacs at all of the games because the computer system wasn't working to keep track of it for us.

[merkpanthers]

merkpanther can vouch for me on this...for our Glee Club concerts...we take pride in selling out every show...for what is now the 70th show in a row...(thats 23 consecutive years!)

but we know that it doesnt mean as much to us if the tickets are sold, but there aint no butt in that seat. It really is a motivational and confidence builder.

right on Griff, right on!!

[UNIPNTHR]

For the students who are saying their cards aren't scanning, how do you know this. Its a problem that needs to be fixed, so I am curious. The scanner doesn't light up like it does with actual tickets, so are you being told it won't scann or just assuming?

I went to two different scannes and it buzzed 'stop' on both of them. I'd gotten my ticket in the first 500 distribution so something is wrong in the system. I've already emailed Nate about it... I just want my point! haha.

[#1pantherfan]

same here, i got my ticket in the 1st 500 tickets, and when they scanned my ID, the stop sign came up but they still let me in.

[UNI Fight]

It looks kind of bad when about a dozen court side seats are empty

My guess is that those are company seats given to the companies that gave money for the mccloed center and some of them have never had a person in them at even one game!

[General_Panther]

My guess is that those are company seats given to the companies that gave money for the mccloed center and some of them have never had a person in them at even one game!

That is why attendance will never be sold out during the Season, which sucks for the up coming Valley games. I mean think about it when Wichita State comes to town and those 12 seats are empty but every other seat in the house is full then they are going to say, "Well we are 12 off from being a sell out, guess we shouldn't have just given them those tickets. Oh well what can we do about it now?"

I'm not saying that those people/companies shouldn't get tickets, but as said on here numerous times there should be a way for the General Public to get those tickets if they are not used. I had a group of about 8 people who wanted to go to a game earlier this year but they didn't want to go if they had to sit in the bleachers. Those seats on the sides would have been nice so that we could have gone to that game. I just hope I can get a Decent Seat for the Bradley game if I decide to go to that one.

[GonzoCat]

Until we get someone in the know to explain where the 5100 number is coming from it is pointless to discuss attendence figures. Does it include all season ticket seats sold whether actually in attendence or not? Does it include all students or some students or no students?

I'm not sure at this point if there is anyone who even knows the answers on this. They're getting a number of 5100 from somewhere and announcing it.

If you call the ticket office to purchase tickets to a game and are told the only seats available are on the concourse level, then technically that game should be considered a sell out, or they've got big problems with their system.

[Newsbreaker]

I would guess the 5100 is total tickets sold. That's how most places compute the number. How student tickets factor is remains a mystery.

Remember guys, 5100 for a nobody non-conference game isn't bad, and would've been IMPOSSIBLE a few years ago.

[BCPanther]

The building has been open long enough and the ticketing system has been around long enough that all of the glitches we talk about on this board in relation to ticketing and sound should have been addressed and corrected.

We are two weeks away from opening up this building to The Valley. We can not afford to look small-time. We looked small-time in the Dome and now that we have our own facility we have to look big-time to match the rest of The Valley.

[GonzoCat]

I would guess the 5100 is total tickets sold.

I'd guess that too, but that's the problem, we're just guessing. As I recall, and I'm probably slightly off here, the bowl of the arena seats 5400 plus has seating for 1200 students, for a total of 6600. Than there is an addtional 500 concourse seats/SRO for a total capacity of 7100.

If the only tickets available to the general public are concourse/SRO that should mean the attendence is at least 5400 plus 600-1200 students.

[UNIPNTHR]

[QUOTE=bcrawf;65159]The building has been open long enough and the ticketing system has been around long enough that all of the glitches we talk about on this board in relation to ticketing and sound should have been addressed and corrected.QUOTE]

I can't speak for the sound problems, but when it comes to the ticketing the problems - they can't addressed until they've been identified. When problems occur with student ticketing, unless we email Brad or Nate, they have no idea how to correct the problem or even what the problem is. One person can only be in one place at one time, there is no way that these guys can do their jobs and be at every ticket window and door to fix problems ad hoc. That's why we are still experiencing difficulties.