Michigan Athletic Ticket Office notification of Orange Bowl Tickets
As rumored on MGoBlog, the athletic ticket office sent me info on my request for Orange Bowl tickets. Same language of “unprecedented demand” as for the B1G Championship game. I was a lucky winner of tickets. FYI…. I have 630 priority points. We’ll need to see what the trip package is for the game.
On to Miami and Beat UGA!
December 5th, 2021 at 9:17 PM ^
Due to incredibly high demand we were only able to fulfill requests for those with at least 250 priority points. We received over 28,000 requests for 12,500 tickets.
Edit: Brian, I'd like to cash in my MGoPoints please.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:21 PM ^
hab, new avatar is outstanding.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:40 PM ^
Thanks! It's on par with Desmond's pose and Woodson's interception in my opinion.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:21 PM ^
I got denied again for tickets. I didn’t have enough points for the BTCG, and with even more demand for Orange Bowl, I wasn’t surprised I got denied again. Secondary market it is! Or MGOBLOG community can help. hehe
December 5th, 2021 at 9:35 PM ^
I don't think luck has anything to do with your fortunate situation. They didn't conduct a lottery.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:13 PM ^
There's luck in where the cut-off lands. Same deal as for Boston Marathon qualifiers versus entrants.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:39 PM ^
I can't even imagine what the demand will be if they make the title game in a driveable location. It was interesting that it wasn't included in the bowl request form.
December 5th, 2021 at 10:50 PM ^
It's in Indy -- same place as the B1G Championship ?
December 5th, 2021 at 9:39 PM ^
-1 for a pretty blatant flex. There was no luck in your draw there. We get it…you give a lot of money to Michigan and probably have for quite some time.
December 6th, 2021 at 8:50 AM ^
I think this was a post made in a giddy, happy state of getting tickets. I highly doubt this was intended as a flex. People that aren't in the season ticket system don't have any idea what those points even mean. I had no idea if 600 or whatever points was a lot or not.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:40 PM ^
12,500 tickets is 250 points and up? So the top 3,000-5,000 donors (assuming 2-4 tickets each) have 250 or more points.
for reference, I’ve had tickets every year since 2005 (approximately) and have about 125 points? Maybe?
December 5th, 2021 at 9:51 PM ^
Well I have 242 points and I'm #8142.
We've had tickets since 1977 but they only give us credit from 1992 on or something.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:40 PM ^
Argh, just missed it.
December 6th, 2021 at 9:04 AM ^
Same here. Missed by a couple points.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:45 PM ^
That's a lot of points!
I got tickets, too.
298 points. It says my rank is roughly 6400 out of 60,000 people.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:48 PM ^
I don't get it. Schools should demand that they get the best majority of tickets. 12k is pathetic. If a school doesn't fulfill it's allotment then they can sell on the open market. I just don't get it.
December 5th, 2021 at 9:55 PM ^
It usually doesn't work that way. The usual case is that the school is given an allotment that it has to sell and the school has to buy the portion of the allotment that they can't sell. The allotment is more of a burden to the school than a blessing.
December 6th, 2021 at 6:03 AM ^
That burden would apply to the Taxslayer bowl, but not the freakin' CFP.
December 5th, 2021 at 10:28 PM ^
Bowls are in the business of making money for the bowl corporation. The games and fans are merely inconveniences that the bowl organizers have to put up with to make their money.
December 5th, 2021 at 10:32 PM ^
Another thing to remember is that these NFL stadiums typically only seat like 50K nowadays with the club levels, etc
December 5th, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
oh yeah well I have 69 420 points
December 5th, 2021 at 10:30 PM ^
Lucky? Whatever.
Humble? Nope.
Really made a boast post.
December 5th, 2021 at 10:52 PM ^
Tickets on stubhub are already like 5x more than the other semifinal game...a lot to do with tens of thousands more seats, but still.
Michigan and Georgia would've sold our Jerry's World.
December 5th, 2021 at 10:56 PM ^
Wasn’t notified yet. Odd
December 5th, 2021 at 10:57 PM ^
I don't understand the bitterness that's directed by some people on this board toward people who might seem to have achieved financial success or who post something that provides evidence that they might have a certain level of wealth.
It shouldn't be a surprise that many people who attended the University of Michigan might be successful business owners, attorneys, doctors, accountants, executives...or work in finance, tech, etc.
Good for the OP. Maybe he's a long-time season ticket holder. Maybe he inherited points from a relative. Maybe he is a major donor; there are quite a few Michigan grads who are older and have accumulated wealth that they've decided to share with Michigan's AD. Who cares? Why is this so offensive to some people?
Plus, there have been opportunities to get bonus points. My account lists 50 bonus points; not sure how I got them...but they're there.
(I'm not at all a major donor, BTW.)
December 5th, 2021 at 11:09 PM ^
Probably just people frustrated that they can't get tickets. I've had season tickets for 44 years but it wasn't enough because my seats are only in the Blue seat license area and I haven't made enough extra donations.
I knew what the score was and haven't made a bunch of extra donations. Generally I have enough points to get things (Scoring Final 4 tickets was easy) but the demand for this is greater than anything since the 1997 Rose Bowl.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:13 PM ^
I understand the frustration, but there has to be some system for managing demand when the demand exceeds the supply.
You can't expect people to give and then not provide them with some benefits for doing so.
Any business owner will tell you that you should always provide all of your customers with the best-possible experience...but that you certainly should take special care of your largest customers.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:17 PM ^
Exactly. We benefit from their donations. Thank you OP. Glad you get some benefit back.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:20 PM ^
I would love to hear from any business owners who don't give their largest customers, clients, etc. a special level of service and/or benefits for being a large customer/client.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:44 PM ^
It sounds like I had the same Econ Professor that you did. Supply/Demand is very dynamic and fluid. No one should criticize others for their success.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:22 PM ^
Yeah, I kinda wish they would have given out 2 tickets to more people instead of 4 to a few, but they have to make decisions. There is the chance to donate extra money every year on your season tickets and I rarely do, so I have made choices too.
The only thing that would piss me off is if people are getting the tickets only to sell them. Hopefully most of the people getting tickets intend to use them.
December 6th, 2021 at 12:02 AM ^
Are there people that got 4 tickets? I asked for 2 and got 2. Have about 290 points. Haven't seen anyone say they got 4, but haven't been looking either.
Having watched Michigan play FSU in the same stadium after having purchased on Stubhub, really looking forward to sitting with Michigan fans. It was unpleasant sitting with drunken whooping FSU fans that brought up politics at a football game.
December 6th, 2021 at 2:59 AM ^
Yes a few people have posted that they got 4 tickets. It was people who have a ton more points than I do, and I'm in the top 15%.
I get it--the top doners get what they want. I just selfishly wish they had given out 2 tickets to more people.
I also wish I got credit for the 15 years I had season tickets between 1977 and 1992 but those years don't count for whatever reason.
December 6th, 2021 at 8:44 AM ^
Interesting that some got 4. I may have to call the ticket office when things slow down in a week and ask what priority points were needed to secure 4.
December 6th, 2021 at 11:19 AM ^
I asked for 4 and got 4. Have roughly 300 points which is about top 10% on the priority list.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:17 PM ^
The 50 bonus points were most likely from letting the athletic dept keep your contribution money from last season. Then you would have only had to have paid for the tickets for this season. If you had donated your psc and had to pay for everything again this season, they would have given you 100 bonus points.
December 5th, 2021 at 11:20 PM ^
If I had known I needed 7.5 more points I would have done that. :)
December 6th, 2021 at 6:42 AM ^
Let them eat cake.
December 6th, 2021 at 8:42 AM ^
I think you've completely missed the point of the negs. The 'bitterness' of them has nothing to do with the wealth OP may have accumulated, or the fact that he scored some tickets. It has everything to do with the (not) humble brag that rubbed our noses in his "lucky" lottery draw. I mean, do you even MGoBlog? Every time someone posts a humble brag, regardless of what it might be, they get called on it. This is no different.
It's certainly possible (probably probable) that OP didn't mean to remind the rest of us about how AD-points poor most of us are. But that's how it came off. And that will never go over well. Perhaps he could have omitted his points total and just relayed facts about the situation - he was lucky enough to score tickets, and there is high demand. That alone may have been enough to spur people to the secondary market sooner than later, while saving himself a neg party.
I'll agree with you here, though - good for the OP! I'm glad Michigan will be well represented by people that clearly devote time and energy to the program. I hope that enough people travel to Miami that it negates the much closer UGA fan base.
And I look forward to hearing yet another spontaneous chorus of Mr Brightside!
December 6th, 2021 at 10:13 AM ^
You nailed it. I totally screwed this up by mentioning points. Previous threads had people asking about points, so I threw that in before thinking carefully about what would happen. Live and learn and Go Blue!
December 6th, 2021 at 4:40 PM ^
Thanks for posting this. The timing of original post wasn't good but I can imagine you were as excited as others of us were disappointed. Have a good time at the game.
December 6th, 2021 at 9:08 AM ^
The bonus points were basically how you treated last year's tickets. I think there were three tiers of bonus points given depending on what you did. 0 for requesting a refund of PSL and ticket cost, 50 for rolling over payment to the next year, 75 for donating the PSL but applying cost of tickets to next year or 100 if you donated the cost of the tickets AND the PSL.
I think I also have a couple bonus points for paying with an e-check instead of credit card back a few years ago or something when they offered that.
December 6th, 2021 at 9:39 AM ^
Glad I gave up my tickets. All this shit makes my head spin. I get tickets for the one or two times I want to go from my partners - there's someone always looking to sell. PSL, donations, parking, concessions. Just adds the hell up. I'd like the chance to get tickets for the bigger games not off the secondary market, but between the money I save not having season tickets, I don't mind spending the money there for the "big game."
December 6th, 2021 at 10:07 AM ^
Posted in the ticket thread that’s stickied too, looking for two tickets to take my 6 year old. Thanks!