I don't even know what you're talking about, I'm talking about STHs reselling on StubHub, not demand-based pricing
Cheapskates better not sell out again for PSU
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Any source on that number counting student section? I can't imagine a scenario where that's the case
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...ll-sold-ahead-of-2022-home-opener/ar-AA11zQHS
Does not include students
For the second consecutive season, Rutgers has increased its pool of season tickets sold.
As of Tuesday, Sept. 6, the Scarlet Knights sold a total of 21,260 season tickets for the 2022 campaign, according to a document obtained by NJ Advance Media through an Open Public Records Act request. That total is a 6.2% increase from the 20,050 it sold in the 2021 season and a 26.1% increase from the 16,863 it sold in 2019 season, the final campaign under the previous regime led by head coach Chris Ash.
While the total number of season tickets sold increased, the total number of season ticket account holders decreased. According to the document, Rutgers has 5,568 unique season ticket accounts, 67 less than the 5,635 it had at the start of the 2021 season. That remains a significant improvement over the 4,798 it had in 2019 (16.1% increase) but remains well short of the 6,454 accounts there were active during the 2018 season.
There was a significant drop in active “young alumni” accounts, which decreased 25% from 432 in 2021 to 324 in 2022. The number of total season tickets sold to young alumni also fell, going from 474 in 2021 to 432 in 2022, an 8.8% decrease.
I'm amazed at the "young alumni" small amount..
i' don't understand why RU wouldn't "give" young alumni that have been out of school for less than 2 years besides a discount some sort of non-transferrable ticket that they need to claim before Sept 1 they can't transfer. and for select games, encorages returning for at least one game... make the money on concessions/parking and good will..
Does not include students
For the second consecutive season, Rutgers has increased its pool of season tickets sold.
As of Tuesday, Sept. 6, the Scarlet Knights sold a total of 21,260 season tickets for the 2022 campaign, according to a document obtained by NJ Advance Media through an Open Public Records Act request. That total is a 6.2% increase from the 20,050 it sold in the 2021 season and a 26.1% increase from the 16,863 it sold in 2019 season, the final campaign under the previous regime led by head coach Chris Ash.
While the total number of season tickets sold increased, the total number of season ticket account holders decreased. According to the document, Rutgers has 5,568 unique season ticket accounts, 67 less than the 5,635 it had at the start of the 2021 season. That remains a significant improvement over the 4,798 it had in 2019 (16.1% increase) but remains well short of the 6,454 accounts there were active during the 2018 season.
There was a significant drop in active “young alumni” accounts, which decreased 25% from 432 in 2021 to 324 in 2022. The number of total season tickets sold to young alumni also fell, going from 474 in 2021 to 432 in 2022, an 8.8% decrease.
I'm amazed at the "young alumni" small amount..
i' don't understand why RU wouldn't "give" young alumni that have been out of school for less than 2 years besides a discount some sort of non-transferrable ticket that they need to claim before Sept 1 they can't transfer. and for select games, encorages returning for at least one game... make the money on concessions/parking and good will..
The inherent nature of college sports.... You don't have to be an alumnus/alumna of a school to be a devoted, enthusiastic and loyal fan. In fact, some of the most "fanatical" followers are non-alumni, with a multi-generational attachment to a U. Case in point: the U of Our Lady. A tremendous national following, with an additional appeal to a certain nationality and religion. LOL. That said, loud-mouth schmucks with assorted baggage are a subset and just part of the atmosphere. I'm sure RU has a following in that regard, although no where near the numbers of those established programs who are perennial "winners."
The first half seemed "meaningful", at the time, but eventually would be proven with less "meaning" than was imagined.
Still.. I get your point. But it was likely Rutgers and their ticket broker-dealers that sold the bulk of the tix to UM fans. And the RU fans that sold could not imagine this game would be "meaningful" to Rutgers fans. But to UM fans from the area.. quite "meaningful".
I cannot no one has mentioned this: RU offers extra tickets to season ticket holders every game. So we keep our 5 and my friend buys 4 more in 108 and a parking pass. He put them on stubhub and made enough to pay for the entire season. The parking proceeds got us some beautiful NY Strip steaks. We actually had a conversation about even going into the game, which we did in the end. But you CANNOT argue that it has nothing to do with the product on the field. We've been in 121 since 2005 and we may not be back at all next year. And it is 100% to do with this awful product we are forced to pay to watch each week.
Ok , I’ll commit to attend with my 6 tickets to Penn state game.
What time does it start ?
What time does it start ?
A for your friends financial ingenuity...According to most on this topic F for fandom..
Well according to most, $200 is nothing and you should just burn it if that's all you're going to get.
That's just not true. I've been in 121 forever and it and 122..season Tix sections..were overrun by black shirts.
Fyi. Transferring Tix from your season Tix account requires Their ..the buyers email or cell number. Nothing from you. It's just the same as listing on SH from your account.
Juxtapose the constant begging for NIL against this.
You’re telling loyal fans to both eat tickets if they can’t attend and donate to NIL.
Hmmmmmm….
So then why was my sec..121.. which is listed as pretty much sold out from the get go just filled with black shirts from the kickoff. Pretty much same for 122.
I know exactly which seats and rows tend to be empty. Just a few.
So it was either a dump by fans, somebody buying season Tix just to sell, or UM fans buying a season pass just for this game every other year.
Not telling anyone what they must do. But if you did make a buck off visiting fans then kicking a bit back to NIL might be a feel good benefit.
Visiting fans funding our NIL. Perhaps there's something to that?!
Find a bunch of loyal Tix holders. Instead of RU dumping on SH. Give a bunch to that group, have them sell the Tix, then have them donate the funds they got to NIl in exchange for tax benefits and perhaps their Tix package free.
Just put me in Red lot. I'll do it.
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When I make money off of visiting fans, I put it towards my season tickets so I don't feel as bad about getting bent over for tickets and parking at a game that we have no chance of winning, every. single. year.
yes im aware its more the payment process (zeele, venmo,paypal) that people don't like thats outside of stubhib...and the haggling or someone palying your availability of tickets with others...
I know. I feel your pain. But you guys were there yesterday. Even if in lot you didn't put UM folks in your seats. And if you did. That's your call. It's tough. I feel like throwing in the towel too.
I'm committed to the PSU game and honestly not sure how to prepare .
Those are conference games. Wish we can schedule more winnable games like BC but the B1G money is too good.
I was blessed to have family friend transfer club seats to me. I was amazed that I was surrounded on all sides by abnoxious young (drinking age) UM fans. I met a few other UM fans elsewhere who wre nice and commented that our GameDay atmosphere, production, and operations were terrific.
I’m not that surprised because most of them are probably corporate accounts. They use them to entertain clients.
What we should do looking ahead long term is have everyone sell all their tickets, take the proceeds, and donate to NIL. The money going to NIL will do more good building the program than having RU fans filling the stadium watching another lopsided game.
It’s ridiculous there’s people b—-ing about this.
every team has season ticket holders that sell tickets absolute fact.
every team has season ticket holders that sell tickets absolute fact.
Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first got my tickets that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve had lots of event tickets and I tell you people do that all the time.
September 13, 2014. Our first Big Ten game against Penn State. PSU fans, thinking back to Meadowlands days, crowed all week how they were going to take over the stadium with a white out. It was a sellout. And there were next to no PSU fans. You couldn't see them or hear them the whole game. I was there, I saw it.
What's the difference with today?
1. A competitive Rutgers football team. Competitive hell, Rutgers should have won that game. When Rutgers fans have a good team and a good chance at victory they show up. In droves.
2. A sustained record of winning that built up the fan base. In the ten years leading up to 2014 Rutgers missed a bowl game only once. This wasn't one good team. It was a good successful program for a decade.
3. Rutgers now has not posted a winning record in the past 7 years. I don't care who your team is, they're not going to sell out stadiums with a record like that.
4. Rutgers performance this year has been particularly frustrating. Three years into the Schiano regime, we don't have an FBS caliber offense or quarterback. Wimsatt gave us some hope Saturday. But we need to win Big Ten games NOW. That means Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan State and Maryland. No one expects us to run with OSU, Michigan and Penn State. But it's time to show that we can consistently put up a winning record in the Big Ten. Do that and they will come.
Blaming people for not going to games or selling their tickets is like blaming the passengers on the Titanic for not booking a return trip. Yeah they didn't. And yeah there was a damn good reason for it. Until Schiano turns this around, many fans no longer want to go to these games and I can't blame them. Here's hoping it happens soon.
What's the difference with today?
1. A competitive Rutgers football team. Competitive hell, Rutgers should have won that game. When Rutgers fans have a good team and a good chance at victory they show up. In droves.
2. A sustained record of winning that built up the fan base. In the ten years leading up to 2014 Rutgers missed a bowl game only once. This wasn't one good team. It was a good successful program for a decade.
3. Rutgers now has not posted a winning record in the past 7 years. I don't care who your team is, they're not going to sell out stadiums with a record like that.
4. Rutgers performance this year has been particularly frustrating. Three years into the Schiano regime, we don't have an FBS caliber offense or quarterback. Wimsatt gave us some hope Saturday. But we need to win Big Ten games NOW. That means Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Michigan State and Maryland. No one expects us to run with OSU, Michigan and Penn State. But it's time to show that we can consistently put up a winning record in the Big Ten. Do that and they will come.
Blaming people for not going to games or selling their tickets is like blaming the passengers on the Titanic for not booking a return trip. Yeah they didn't. And yeah there was a damn good reason for it. Until Schiano turns this around, many fans no longer want to go to these games and I can't blame them. Here's hoping it happens soon.
3 years into a rebuild and we expect to beat Iowa and Mich State. We have some delusional fans.
You would never see anything like our West sideline at Nebraska and they're just as terrible.
Other B1G schools have sucked worse, and for longer- despite our fans idiotic protestations otherwise- and don't have the same issue.
Also I have to laugh at people saying they needed the $200.
On this board it's constantly crowing about who is the wealthiest, who has the fanciest tailgate, who has this vacation here and that beach house there...
And the minute it's time to pony up to help Rutgers, the poor house fills up.
Meanwhile I would bet dollars to donuts that in terms of average salary, RU would probably be in the top 25% if not top 10% in P5 average alumni income.
Even a teacher that recently graduated on a NJ salary isn't going to have their year broken by eating the tickets.
People can't eat tickets, but yet we're going to use NIL? Are we going to offer players cookies and cake?
On this board it's constantly crowing about who is the wealthiest, who has the fanciest tailgate, who has this vacation here and that beach house there...
And the minute it's time to pony up to help Rutgers, the poor house fills up.
Meanwhile I would bet dollars to donuts that in terms of average salary, RU would probably be in the top 25% if not top 10% in P5 average alumni income.
Even a teacher that recently graduated on a NJ salary isn't going to have their year broken by eating the tickets.
People can't eat tickets, but yet we're going to use NIL? Are we going to offer players cookies and cake?
theres 5000+ tickets on stubhub for next weekends nebraska game.
Again…that’s 5000 tickets that people are trying to give away.
difference, again, is the demand..hence these nebraska tickets will likely go to nebraska fans
Again good for you if your salary is in the top 10% in P5 average. Mine, and others I know…don’t come near that.
so yes, while I make enough to live fine…I do appreciate the extra $200
I’ve been eating tickets for 20 years. And agree my years haven’t been broken. There’s a BIG gap between that and not appreciating an extra $200
I hope that nobody who would ever consider buying tickets for away games from brokers like StubHub is complaining about RU ticket holders selling their tickets because there's a chance they'll be bought by fans of opposing teams. Not all fans of opposing teams are obnoxious jerks, and why shouldn't as many people as possible be able to enjoy a game in person if they want to? If it's a problem, fix it by fielding a successful team, and the percentage of RU fans in the stadium will increase. And until then, increase stadium security if it becomes necessary.
And if all else fails, use any extra tickets to bring along designated enforcers....
And if all else fails, use any extra tickets to bring along designated enforcers....
Bullship. Northwestern, Illinois, Indiana even Maryland has or has had the same issues with a lot of opposing fans. Michigan before Harbaugh did too. When your good locals come out, when you are bad it's an opportunity for the other fans to come. You and the OP love to bash our fanbase and absolutely love to tell people how to spend their money. Ridiculous! How about you and the OP go buy up all the tickets on StubHub and then sell them to Rutgers fans only. Otherwise STFU and stay out of people's finances issues.
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Couldn’t agree with you more, total A holes.
Nebraska fans were very respectful.
Give us a reason not to sell. I sold mine to MU, but draw the line for PSU... I would rather eat it then allow any more of them in our building.
Maybe our fans who are upset with RU ticket holders selling tickets that end up in the hands of opposing fans should start a ticket collective like the NIL collectives, to buy up unwanted RU tickets so the other teams' fans can't get them. And that way the voluntary contributors to the collective could eat the tix if they can't use them or give/sell them to other RU fans, since many seem to agree that intentionally taking the financial loss is a worthwhile sacrifice...
The PSU game is going to be mostly blue. You can see this coming a Mile away. At the end of the day, people will do what they want.
How are going to know that a buyer is a Rutgers fan?? And only the OP and a few others think its a good idea to throw other peoples money down the toilet.
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