Michigan Football tickets
The athletic department this afternoon sent out a letter to season ticket holders for 2020 football and 2020-'21 basketball and hockey. The letter assures those who have purchased season tickets, or were considering doing so, that their purchases won't disappear into the ether if either season is canceled.
In that event season ticket holders would have the following options:
- A full refund (including preferred seat contributions)
- Transferring payments to the following season (again, PSD included)
- Changing what they paid to a donation to athletics (PSD included)
Since the 2021 football season (with MSU and OSU at home) is likely to be costlier than this year's Ball State-Arkansas State-Wisconsin-Penn State-Purdue-Maryland-Indiana slate note that you'd probably still be on the hook for the increase.
The letter also extended the deadline for ticket renewal to June 1. The upgrade and additions period was moved to a week after that, with those "if you want PSU you have to take two weak tickets off our hands" three-game packs bumped to July 7 and single-game sales moved to July 21. Basketball and hockey ticket dates were also moved forward a month.
The letter does not answer what would occur in the event of a shortened season, noting there are too many questions about that to come up with a coherent policy.
Clearly, the market for season tickets was not going anywhere during all of this. An acknowledgement of fan concerns, new deadlines, and some surety that payments will be honored was a necessary first step, however it's hard to see the market being anything close to normal times. It's still far too far out right now to predict whether sports can resume this fall, not to mention whether fans will feel safe attending them.
The entirety of the letter to season ticket holders can be found after the jump.
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