MSU removes Michigan from season ticket package

Submitted by poseidon7902 on

Interesting choice.  It seems if you're part of the group who pay the donations, you get the UM game.  If you buy one of the left over season ticket offerings though you don't get the UM game.  I imagine this is an attempt to take advantage of what they likely feel is their biggest game of the season by marking the price of it up as high as they can.  Good business move if you're after money, but it leaves the option of allowing quite a few opposing fans in the building.  

http://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=FST&l…

I hope everyone who can buys into that game and fills the stadium with as much maize and blue as possible.  

ijohnb

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^

think this is a very questionable decision by MSU.  Clearly there are season tickets with all games available or they would not still be offering any packages.  I believe that, despite their recent success, consistent support of that football team is still relatively fickle.  This seems like a "too big for their britches" move to me.

gholt6633

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:05 AM ^

Brilliant way to alienate your own fan base.  I have no idea why Mark Hollis is lauded as some sort of exceptional AD.   He is a buffoon.

gwkrlghl

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:10 AM ^

Thats gonna piss a lot of people off and hurt sales more than they think. MSU hasnt been selling their stadium out consistently in the last few years. I imagine this will only exacerbate the issue.

ijohnb

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:19 AM ^

is certainly in a rough patch right now.

1. Bama drubbing

2. Middle Tennessee State drubbing

3. Certain "difficulties" with former players

4. Josh Jackson to Kansas

5.  "Amended" Season ticket packages

Could it be that they used all their good forture remaining on one particular play that I can't seem to recall?

socrking

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:55 AM ^

B1g champs in both major sports and undefeated against rivals > anything m did last year. Let's not lower our standards folks. I know it's been a rough decade. Things will get better but this sniping is something I would expect from rcmb.




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socrking

June 3rd, 2016 at 4:54 PM ^

I've been a Michigan fan my whole life. Buying full season ticket packages is the only way to get good seats at our away games. How many away games do you go to a year?




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jmblue

June 3rd, 2016 at 11:45 AM ^

That's not a conference championship.  It's just a little tournament.   No one ever speaks of our "1998 Big Ten title."  

J.

June 3rd, 2016 at 2:17 PM ^

No, because it's not a conference championship.  Sure, it'd be nice to have won more, just like it's nice to win the occasional Preseason NIT or Maui Invitational.  But it doesn't make it important.

People still talk about the Fab Five's back-to-back Final Fours, even though they were vacated.  However, when Michgan won the Big Ten outright a couple of years back, nobdoy was talking about 1998.  I don't know that it ever came up.

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jmblue

June 3rd, 2016 at 7:48 PM ^

Yeah.  The "No Big Ten titles since 1986" storyline was around forever until we finally ended that drought in 2012.  (And then it became "no outright titles until 1986," until we ended that, too.)  

No one ever credited us with the '98 title, even before we vacated it.  The first-place team in the regular season is considered the Big Ten champion, and rightly so.  Winning the BTT is a separate, lesser accomplishment.

 

 

 

SpikeFan2016

June 3rd, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^

The Big Ten Tournament Champion in basketball is NOT the conference champion. 

 

It astounds me how people can make the same stupid mistake every single year. Indiana was the Big Ten Champion. MSU has not won a Big Ten Basketball Championship since 2012. 

mgoblue0970

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:32 AM ^

Not so fast. Michigan is going to club baby seals on Sep 3 against a morbid program and it will be a sellout.
In conference the questionable home games are Illinois -- but that's homecoming and Maryland.
I expect for those games Michigan Stadium will be more full than the picture above.

socrking

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:14 AM ^

I don't get the controversy. If I'm missing something, fill me. I'm an MSU season ticket holder. I've got 4 on the 50 yard line. It costs me as much as my 2 at Michigan stadium in the corner. I get the MSU Tix for the m game And sell the rest. It's the only game that sells out there. So they have no individual tickets left for that game. they've already been offered to and purchased by alumni. Hollis now has a ton of tickets to the rest of their games that they can't move because the only games state fans care about is the m game. So Hollis packages them up and tries to sell them together.

M does the same thing for their less desirable games. Didn't you all just get that email for an a la Carte season ticket package?




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mgoblue0970

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:28 AM ^

I guess I don't get your post.

MSU removed UM from the season ticket package.

MSU's attendance could be improved.

UM is MSU's biggest game.

If you want to sell more tix, why remove the biggest game from the package???

It's not that it's controversial, folks are just questioning the logic.

Blue DVM

June 3rd, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^

There was an article yesterday in the Lansing State Journal where it seems the UM game is sold out. MSU has 7 home games, with the UM game sold out, there are only 6 games left that new season ticket holders can end up purchasing. Which is the ticket package offered in the link.  

socrking

June 3rd, 2016 at 10:51 AM ^

All of the "normal" season ticket packages have been renewed by now. And all the individual m game tickets have been sold. Hollis is now just trying to move tickets to other games that have not been sold out yet.




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MGoBender

June 3rd, 2016 at 2:14 PM ^

But the OP is jus speculating, right?  I'm genuinely asking.  It seems to me this isn't the ONLY season ticket package. In fact, I'd assume that regular season packages with UM have been sold a while ago.

So, why not try to sell packages for all the remaining games with tickets at a discounted price?

oriental andrew

June 3rd, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^

I think you're misreading this. It looks like there is a "standard" season ticket package which includes all home games and is sold out, and this so-called "6 game mini-plan" excluding the Michigan game. Basically, season ticket renewals were super popular, there are a ton of "internal commitments" (special events, hospitality, recruiting) for the UM game, and now they don't have enough to include with all new season ticket sales. Can you imagine the uproar of only the first few thousand got the Michigan game and everyone else didn't? 

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/college/msu/football/20…

Complete seven-game Michigan State football season-ticket packages have sold out for the upcoming season before they go on sale to the general public.

Any new season tickets purchased this year won’t include the Michigan game on Oct. 29. This is due to high demand for additional season tickets from current season-ticket holders and the size of the standard allotment given to the Wolverines.

(ED: also Hollis is TOTALLY channeling Dave Brandon here) “There’s been an opportunity to buy season tickets, really forever, and individuals that wait, this is kind of what happens,” Hollis said.

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mgoblue0970

June 3rd, 2016 at 11:26 AM ^

That last one sent a chill up my spine.

For a second, I had empathy for Sparty.

Then I came back to my senses!

WTF is up with these ADs that think they are smarter than or know what's best for their customer base?  Ouch.