Hockey season ticket holders fed a pile of hot shit
Last year the average ticket price for end zone seats equates to $21.05/regular season game (not including 2 exhibition games as games)
This year with the "15% drop" we will be paying $22.67/regular season game.
August 11th, 2014 at 10:06 PM ^
August 11th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
August 11th, 2014 at 11:04 PM ^
I just wish something would get out that gets him fired.
August 11th, 2014 at 11:57 PM ^
So I think some outrage is quite warranted.
Sadly, Even if DB is gone, a candidate just as money grubbing will have to be found to just maintain the new budget and pay off the new facilities, etc. That or cut quality, quantity, or both.
August 12th, 2014 at 12:55 AM ^
August 12th, 2014 at 1:01 AM ^
The game at the Joe is bad enough but to give up a home game vs. STAEE to play outside in Chicago is ridiculous.
If we had to give up a game for some stupid outdoor game they should have made it a non-conference game or one of the games against Wisky during spring break.
August 12th, 2014 at 9:58 AM ^
The part that sucks though is that last season was our season to have our home schedule with MSU split up between Yost and the Joe. This season we should've had two home games at Yost, which of course is what everyone is pissed off about.
Yeah, as a 10+ hockey season ticket holder, I am not happy. Fuck this.
August 12th, 2014 at 12:07 PM ^
I mean, I guess I get it's probably in a contract somewhere, but who cares about playing at the Joe? I'm sure both fanbases would rather have the extra home game against their main rival every other year
August 12th, 2014 at 1:39 AM ^
4 of those 15 non-exhibition games occur during a break. The Renssalaer series is during Thanksgiving break, while the Wisconsin home series is during the first weekend of spring break. That schedule is beyond pathetic.
August 12th, 2014 at 7:31 AM ^
I hate to do this, but the email the Athletic Dept. sent around isn't necessarily wrong. All they said was that the price was lower this year, not the per-game price:
"Season ticket prices for the 2014-15 season have been lowered; this coming season, endzone locations have dropped by 15% ($400 vs. $340), sideline/mid-endzone by 12% ($450 vs. $395), and center ice by 10% ($525 vs. $475)."
That being said, the whole situation shouldn't surprise anyone, because it's the same thing happening across the board: take advantage of the most loyal fans and screw them any way the Athletic Department can. The experience of going to games at Yost has gone dramatically downhill in the past copule of years (as someone posted above, the goal horn is a minor tweak that would make a major improvement).
It has been common practice for at least a decade to schedule high-profile games in both basketball and hockey over student breaks, not include those games in student packages, and then sell those discounted student tickets at full price to the public, so I'm not surprised there are a bunch of games over student break. Seems unavoidable to some extent that some of those games would fall over break, until you consider the fact that they take almost two months off between home games, for the second season in a row.
At some point the loyal fans need to put their money where their mouths are and stop buying the tickets. I renewed this year but after being dicked around, I'm not renewing next year. That's the only way things are going to change.
August 12th, 2014 at 8:53 AM ^
August 12th, 2014 at 9:06 AM ^
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August 12th, 2014 at 12:47 PM ^
August 12th, 2014 at 8:26 AM ^
at pissing off season ticket holders. I don't know whether it's because they don't care, or they actively want to get rid of long-time ticket holders for some reason, or are just cluelessly incompetent.
What's more than a little ironic is that for a guy who talks about the importance of branding so often, David Brandon has irreparably damaged his own brand—and by extension that of the athletic department—here in Ann Arbor, and among alumni across the country.
August 12th, 2014 at 9:10 AM ^
August 12th, 2014 at 9:56 AM ^
I don't think you can fairly lay any of this on the business school here. According to his wikipedia profile, Brandon's UM degree was in speech communication, not business.
I'd guess what's been far more influential is his experience as a corporate exec with Valassis (junk mail and printing) and Domino's (cheap delivery pizza).
August 12th, 2014 at 9:38 AM ^
Has anyone called and asked for a refund/to cancel their season ticket renewal? Contemplating doing that but curious to know if anyone has tried.
August 12th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
August 12th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^