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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: ticketgate

« on: December 23, 2016, 02:25:48 PM »

Folks, here's a positive way to spin this. When we're back in Frisco next season, can our Athletic Department not lie and screw up?!

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YSU Penguin Athletics / ticketgate

« on: December 23, 2016, 12:23:10 PM »

Is there a link to that manual? It should be shared with all local media.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 21, 2016, 08:00:08 PM »

Here is how it works. 8k seats are held back for the allotments to the schools. The remainder were open up to the public back around August 25th. They sold out in a day. Mostly to Bison fans because they have been buying early since the second year of their run. For 2013-2015, they even sold 3 year packs. This year was less tickets because the end zone section is under construction.

I think it is on the Sunday or Monday conference call after the semis the AD has to indicate if the band is coming and how much of the allotment they want of the 4k. They probably should move that call to Tuesday and let the schools presell the allotment. The school could have opened up the online sales, pre-sold tickets, and if they went over 4k, base it on priority points and then request order. It isn't like this is rocket science. Refund those who didn't qualify. It isn't like schools haven't set a precedent with this since the last time YSU has gone to a championship game. NDSU learned after the first year and a lot of mistakes how to sell the allotment after the semis through Sunday then be in a position to know exactly how much to request during the NCAA call. Of course it has been all of them, but we are a little stir crazy to get out of Fargo for a few days come January. The bottom line is I am sure if YSU didn't have a plan, they could have reached out to a fellow Valley school for their plan and work from it.

I think you hit the nail on the head. YSU wasn't doing any of these things. James Madison had an online application system which in addition to selling tickets also gauged demand. They were doing that all weekend. YSU should have had a system up and running Saturday at 10PM much like JMU did on Friday at 10PM. If requests were going through the roof for YSU, they could have asked the NCAA for those 3K tickets.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 21, 2016, 04:41:17 PM »

That makes no sense at all... Why would we have to pay for 1000 tickets if we don't make it to the championship game? Does that mean the other 6 teams that were in the quarterfinals and put in their bid for tickets are paying for tickets? If that is the case then someone needs to investigate the NCAA because that is the biggest rip off I have ever heard of!

That's the one sticking point, and one where I think YSU isn't telling the truth. If you go on twitter and follow JMUtickets account, they said early sunday that they were through their allotment and that their sections were 100-107. Then on Monday evening they said they added 128-133. To me, that means the NCAA offered YSU (which refused) then came back to JMU and asked if they'd want them. By then JMU knew their demand and took them.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 21, 2016, 12:26:17 PM »

When looking at home playoff attendance, you have to consider several things. First, those games were not known until 6 days max ahead of time. That's not much time to alter plans, family commitments, work, etc. There's 3 weeks between the EWU game and the title game. Plenty of time for people to change work schedules and make plans. The weather was also atrocious for both of those games. 30 and windy/cold/rainy is pretty unlikely in Frisco. Plus, it's the championship. How do you engage non-diehard fans? Let them purchase tickets to this game. Not only does this turn away the lukewarm fans, it also pissed off a lot of people in the Penguin Club who couldn't get tickets. The JMU ticket office was working overtime all weekend from Friday night on with both travel/ticket arrangements and keeping people informed on social media. YSU did none of that. How did JMU magically end up with 3 thousand extra tickets? It was because they were actively soliciting fan interest and had people requesting tickets via a sort of lottery system. If YSU had been doing something like that they probably could have asked for those 3 thousand tickets. Shame on our grade school level athletic department. The kicker to all that is they were letting people know by Monday AM if they had gotten tickets. It was mostly their Penguin Club equivalent who had gotten tickets, and the entire group of Dukes Club members that got tickets received them. Those who ordered but didn't receive tickets then got on the secondary market a full day before anyone knew anything about what was going on here.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 11:42:49 PM »

The Vindy or Dana Balash should try and contact JMU's communications director as to when exactly those allotments were made. YSU is trying to feed a BS story that it was done several weeks ago. Sure doesn't sound like it here. JMU had a revealing presser today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4g0UfSO44E

Watch the video starting at 2:55 for all the important info.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 04:06:34 PM »

This is pretty funny, or sad..

http://wkbn.com/2016/12/18/tickets-to-fcs-national-championship-game-quickly-running-out/

Trevor Parks from the YSU Athletic Department said after the Jacksonville State game, Youngstown State committed $75,000 to purchase 1,000 tickets.

The university was able to provide tickets to loge holders and others, but have since run out. YSU was hoping to have more tickets, but none were available. NB: what a lie!
 
“Despite not having any additional tickets available to provide to fans, we are optimistic that fans will be able to locate tickets in secondary markets. We are thrilled to have as much support in Frisco on January 7,” he said.

To me, the other part of the story that doesn't hold up is why were we not allowed to purchase those 3K seats after the EWU game. James Madison made it seem like we refused them, which makes sense.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 03:48:36 PM »

Seriously, NDSU fans and twitter were much more useful than our athletic department. Once JMU said their allotment was on the west side, we were fortunate to scoop some decent seats on the YSU side when they were still below face value...

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 03:28:56 PM »

Tressel has done some great things for the university.  He must....simply must....turn his attention to the dysfunctional athletic department and take out the garbage.

One would think that a screw up of this magnitude would show how incompetent the athletic department is.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 03:20:15 PM »

Ron Potesta saying that "someone" from the university told him that WE only asked for 1000 tix.  WHAT?!?!?!  Would love to know the truth. Either way...its absurd and highly disappointing.

Ron Potesta's source is lying through his teeth, said we had to request the tickets by the end of the 2nd round. LOL. No f'ing way. 21 WFMJ is going to bring this up and it's not going to be pretty watching the university backtrack here.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 02:37:47 PM »

YSU sold out!!  Unreal!!  Bonehead NCAA!!

It's not the NCAA that was boneheaded, it was our athletic department.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 02:25:41 PM »

The JMU ticket office sold out their ticket allotment in sections 100-107 and 128-133. 

If you look at a stadium seating chart, I assume sections 128-133 were originally YSU's allotment and they returned them or just refused them.  It doesn't any much sense but the fact is JMU has sold out 14 sections and YSU has 2.

That makes sense because the 2 remaining YSU sections are 126-127. We're going to be massively outnumbered not because there isn't fan interest, but because YSU chose to twiddle their thumbs all weekend and turn away tickets while JMU fans scooped them all up. I feel bad for the people who think they're going to get tickets from the school. Hurry up and get to the exchange because the prices are only going up.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 01:55:16 PM »

They shame many people into going to games and the one time where YSU can capitalize with the fan base at large they screw the pooch. Unbelievable. Can't wait to see all the propagandists handle this one. Don't you wait to gauge interest before deciding whether or not to return tickets?

FWIW, just look at all the packages and options JMU fans had merely minutes after the NDSU game. http://www.anthonytravel.com/jmu-fcs/

Go look at JMUtickets and JMUsports on twitter. They were helping the fans buy tickets right after they beat NDSU. YSU is treating this like the 80s if not earlier.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Frisco tickets. .

« on: December 20, 2016, 10:57:04 AM »

Is it true you guys only took 2 of your 5 allotted sections? JMU ticket office reporting that we have 3 sections on your side of the field in our allotment.

Longtime reader, first time poster. Your school's ticket office is first class and ours is pathetic. 10 minutes after you guys beat NDSU you were sending and tweeting out info about tickets and even bundled travel packages. YSU doesn't say anything until late Monday PM, the occasional cricket tweet being sent out on Sunday. By then JMU had already blown through their allotment and was looking for more on the secondary market. Other than the few YSU fans who get tickets from the school in the 2 sections, the only other fans not getting screwed over are the ones who were smart enough to buy on the exchange earlier or directly from an NDSU fan. Thankfully JMU was tweeting out that they were the home team and what sections were theirs on Sunday so we knew where to look.