Is it possible to do a Public Record Request to see how many basketball season tickets that institutional buyers (Ticketmaster/Stub Hub) have for basketball? I know they own a ton of football Season Tickets (I was part of the athletic department during the inaugural year of TDECU Stadium and previous administration gave them a big deal to get our season ticket count up), but have always been curious if the same was done for Ferttita Center.
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I’m not as concerned with who initially purchases tickets as I am with all of the “fans” showing up with 2 to 5 minutes left in the half, searching for the seats they are supposed to be sitting in.
Also, get to your seat PRIOR to tip. It’s not that dadgum difficult to plan 1 to 30 minutes ahead. Or, maybe just close the aisles to traffic at tip and reopen during any time outs . . . . . JMHO
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Close the aisle is the move…
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I asked about empty seats next to my season tickets that have someone different every game if they are filled. The ticket rep at ticket office said they were bought by a “sponsor”?
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In section 115 there are eight season tickets behind me that of this type, different people every game, usually opposing fans.
The two next to me are never occupied. Last year for the last game some self important big shot who was apparently the actual owner showed up and made a comment that I am a big donor and I would like to get your seats, Thing is the guy I sit with(who actually buys the tickets) is one of the named donors on the baseball stadium and is a big donor. Since I just write him a check I have no idea how much money I am donating. But thats okay. Bottom line its entertainment and I think what I pay is worth it. Ours are also in 115. Fabian Whites parents sit on the row below us. Although he is now playing in France they continue to come to the games.
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I’m also in 115, the two seats to our left were never used last year and this year there have been different people every game. Just happy to see the seats being used.
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In the dome days, our business held 48 season football tickets for gifts to folks that did business with us. I think this would be considered “a sponsor”.
In addition, the first full year open, the seats in front of us, beside us and behind us were either vacant or occupied by opposition visitors. Three different twosomes sit in front of us, same guys beside us, when they sit, and two folks behind us, same-ish at every game. Makes no dif who sits there, the tickets are sold, and, at least in the last few games, the crowd had been big, loud and excited . . . . . Lots of standing in appreciation of our defense, offense and coaches . . . . .
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I bet you would see it is really dozens or hundreds of separate individual entities and not institutional buyers, and if we have too many people buying season tickets to re-sale we need to raise the price of the tickets until it is no longer profitable. Maybe 3x-4x where they are now because at this point anybody can be a scalper all it takes is a Stubhub account and a credit card, I know plenty of people that pay for there season tickets by selling a few games, and I personally made over $2k selling Halal Guy Showcase tickets, I sold tickets to all 3 fan bases except UH, all UH fans wanted to do was laugh at my prices when I offered them to fellow Coogs at $10-20 less than my cash take home on Stubhub.
The only way to eliminate opposing fans is have UH fans willing to spend more $$$ than those fans.
As far as people not using their tickets raising the ticket price 3x-4x would solve that problem too, it would cut down on total season ticket holders so people who buy a season ticket to go to a handful of game will just buy a handful of tickets and only go to the games they really want too.
This is tongue and cheek but this is America.
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I get all that’s been said and seats going unused has been an issue at Fertitta since it opened, regardless of season ticket sell out or individual game sell out.
Thing is, it seems like other schools (Duke, BYU, Xavier. etc.) have every seat filled to the rafters. Do they not have this issue too? If not, why not? What do schools like them do differently than we do?
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I sat in section 113 and about 3/4 of my entire row were empty. Figured they belonged to a scalper or something.
No offense, but I’m positive you don’t know how the secondary market works.
Every local business who buys advertising is usually given seats. The real issue is we need to graduate more fans. My guess is those seats sit empty until someone at those companies wants to go. Like Tech fans.
And while I’m sure there are professional scalpers we have quite a few of our own fans looking to make $$$.