renewable season tickets?

It doesn't matter how long you've been on the waitlist. It only took me 1 year as well and I'm all the way down in row 1. What they do is tier all the donations and then rank you by priority points so you want to be in the highest tier possible. In a better economy it used to take up to 10 years with a $1000 donation every year to get season tix so thank this down economy. As for extra tickets to other games just check your email. They give season ticket holders first priority for any extras as well as away games. Congrats on the tickets! See you in the big house this fall!

Sounds too good to be true but congrats if it is.  

I've read the season ticket guidelines on mgoblue.com several times and always find them rather vague.  I just joined the waitlist a few weeks ago and haven't donated any money yet.  I have season tickets for this coming season so I'm okay for now, but is there a timeline for donations in terms of when they have to be made to be eligible to buy tickets for next season and subsequent seasons?  Realistically, how much will I need to donate to "take advantage of the economy" and get tickets? 

I got the same offer as mgoblue7 yesterday -- 2 renewable seats in the Blue tier -- but I only donated $100. That was the first time I had donated anything, but I figured this year given the down economy down, the team's record and the fact that a lot of longtime season-ticket holders would be giving up their seats to move up to the skyboxes, I would try it this year. My wife and I are both alumni, so I don't know if the points we get for those helped at all, too.

I got the All-In offer on Friday and was disappointed they weren't renewable, but fortunately I hadn't sent that back before the season-ticket offer arrived yesterday. I was so excited that I submitted my application online before I even realized they were offering me Blue seats -- I saw the description "10 yard line to back of endzone" and interpreted that to mean endzone seats. I'll take those this year, since they don't make you pay a PSD for the first year of tickets, but then depending on what seats they give me, I may switch to endzone for next year to save some money.

From my conversation with the athletic department I found that last year many were given non-renewable ticket offers because the upcoming changes in the stadium. The seatback chairs, the re-numbering of seats, etc is going to change the seating at the stadium. I was told that when season ticket holders did not renew, those were put into a pool for single game or non-renewable tickets so there would be minimal upset when the seats actually did change.

I was also told everything would be on priority points (donations). I had sweet seats and would prefer not to change them, but even at my level I was told the seats were not guaranteed. I went with 4 club seats for next season and that had nearly a 9k annual seat donation not including ticket prices (another $1700).

More donations=better seats.

One more question--if I buy, say, two seats the first time I am offered a "continuous" opportunity to purchase season tickets, is it possible to add more if/when I have more money? In other words, am I stuck with only two seats for the rest of my life or will I be able to add more later on?

Yes, you can always request more tickets. In most cases it will mean a move to get them. I had row 78 tix in the endzone next to the students. my PSD was $0 and I LOVED my seats. Easy in and easy out, concessions and restroom only a few rows down. Then they expanded the student section and I was moved to row 6 near the visitors. I hated these seats. I gave a little money and was moved to the 25 yard line (row 32). I have friends that gave big contributions and got 50 yard line seats under the press box, but they too were told that once the stadium project was finished there was no guarantee on seats any longer.

I contended that if I was happy with my seats, I would keep my current PSD and never increase my giving as long as I was happy with my seats. Just like the old folks do that sit on the 50. I was very clearly told "no". No seat in the big house (execpt for family of players) will be safe. There is no guarantee that you will have your same seats year-to-year and it is all based on priority points. The same applies for parking passes. It is very difficult to get the Blue lot pass (Chrisler) and with the new suites and club seats, if you don't have those seats you won't ever get into the Chrisler lot.

Remember that 80% of your PSD is tax deductible and counts toward your priority points. So for 1 point for every 100 dollars, the current non-club/suite ticket holders will be out of the Blue lot in 2 years. The athletic dept says it will only review points every 2 years.

I don't know if that helps anyone but it's all I know about the ticket situation.

2 items below:  helping others determine priority points to get renewable ticket offer and also what to do if you got both all-in and renewable ticket offers.

Priority Points: I'm an alum (5 points) and joined the Victor's club in December 2009 with either a $100 or $150 donation (I don't have my checkbook on me to verify which it was, either way it's worth 1 point).  I had student tickets for 4 years in football and 2 years in basketball (not sure if those get you points or not, but if they do, that's worth 6 points).  I had the All-in package last year (1 point).  So I've got either 7 points or 13 points.

Last week I received an offer for an All-In (non-renewable) ticket package.  Being excited and figuring I wouldn't get a renewable offer, I went ahead and purchased 2 All-In season tickets on Monday.  Lo and behold on Tuesday I receive an offer to purchase 2 Blue Tier (10 yard line to back of end zone) renewable tickets.  A distressed, I just called the ticket office and they said that they could switch my All-In package to the renewable season tickets!  The lady on the phone was very kind and helpful.  I'm just waiting for an email confirmation that the ticket office manager that this change has been processed.  No extra steps needed to be taken (or more importantly paid for!).