Email Hobbs and Baumgartner regarding Battle of the Bronx
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Sure, but if this is a succeess from a ticket sales standpoint they could still do it again and chalk up just deleting emails as the cost of doing business.
My wife, son and I said after the Army game at Yankee Stadium it was the last football game for us there, and it has been and will continue to be. Between R.U. getting their ass handed to them too many times in recent years, this shit show in Yankee Stadium against Maryland and having to pay full price to see teams like Howard I am not sure if we will be renewing our tickets this year. We may just pick a few games and get tickets from another source and save ourselves a lot of money. We could also go up to West Point and see a game or 2 up there and take in another Devil game or 2 with the saved money. We have bought season tickets for the last 14 years and it would be a shame not to renew our tickets and I would miss doing so but things are getting out of hand with most college and pro teams and their money grab from loyal fans!
Take it or leave it is not really a choice.
Basketball season ticket holders got the choice but Football season ticket holders do not. I wonder why?
The basketball game at MSG is part of the Big Ten Super Saturday series. The Big Ten didn't commit to any of the teams in the series including tickets as part of season ticket packages. Last year Penn State was the home team and next year Minnesota is the home team. You really can't expect teams 200 and 1200 miles away to include MSG tickets in season ticket packages.
The football game at Yankee Stadium is a deal that Rutgers made, and apparently Rutgers committed to including the game as part of the season ticket package (similar to what we did for the game at Giants Stadium several years ago). I would assume the guarantee of season ticket holders buying tickets is part of the financial viability of the deal.
Hmmmm...so what you're saying is Rutgers did this on their own and weren't forced into this by the B1G? ;)
But for BB we're not 200 to 1,000 miles away and yet...
And to my knowledge the Army game at MetLife was a moneymaker for RU before we even took a bus up the Turnpike. This one, not so much. Unless there are details we don't know about yet?
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we have a fairly set number of season ticket holders.... If a large percentage of those ticket holders complained about this game, or future games at Yankee stadium, you would hope
that the administration is at least listening
if you just consider the attendance of the game at Yankee stadium as the deciding factor
for scheduling future games there, it would be a risk of losing some of the faithful at RU stadium
that would be ignoring what the regular fans want.
I personally would not like a game a year there as part of the season package....and I since I live closer to NYC than most here, I would be less inconvenienced than most
My gut tells me the school will keep scheduling games there to make the big 10 happy, and will assume that if there is 35,000 people there, that they made a good decision, not paying attention to the pesky regulars at the games
Again, if you are unhappy, make it known...so that this does t happen again. If you enjoy this, then attend the game and have fun.
Bottom line is, this event is not getting cancelled, but we CAN voice our opinions and stop it happening again. Read my response above... Sarah expressed that she would welcome ALL fan feedback and would be open to suggestions as to how to improve the game day experience at Yankee Stadium.
Does anyone know if season ticket holders can upgrade to a suite. Or would we have to pay for our regular tickets and buy additional suite/club tickets.
The football game is a Rutgers deal.
The basketball game is a Big Ten deal which is part of a 4-year Basketball/Hockey series involving 9 schools (with 2 more hockey teams still to be named). If the Big Ten isn't forcing Penn State, Minnesota, or Maryland season ticket holders to buy tickets, then they wouldn't force Rutgers season ticket holders to buy tickets either.
As far as whether the Yankee Stadium game will make money for Rutgers, I don't know. The economics have changes since the Meadowlands game: Rutgers now uses dynamic pricing for single-game tickets and Rutgers now charges premiums for parking based on proximity to the stadium. That's additional revenue that didn't exist in 2010 and is lost by moving the game to Yankee Stadium. But without knowing how the deal with the Yankees is structured, we don't know if Rutgers is being compensated more to make up for those revenue losses.
I meant the upfront money from the Giants and Jets the last time around. That number made a lot of us go, "Okay, I can see why this happened here."
Haven't heard much on that for this game other than that we are paying the Yankees to use the field. LOL
(and I think you knew I already knew all the other stuff in your reply)
Haven't heard much on that for this game other than that we are paying the Yankees to use the field. LOL
(and I think you knew I already knew all the other stuff in your reply)
The novelty of a game at Yankee Stadium has long since worn off
And our group enjoyed our days there...ate at a diner just a block from the stadium
that had $20 buckets of Sam Adams...but that doesn't compare to tailgating...
And we parked for free closer to the Stadium than our parking at HPSS
but only due to local knowledge as one of our group works just up the block
We will be buying less season tickets next year and part of the reason is this ridiculous game at YS. 2017 schedule sucks- only 3 games at HPSS from mid September to the end of the season
And our group enjoyed our days there...ate at a diner just a block from the stadium
that had $20 buckets of Sam Adams...but that doesn't compare to tailgating...
And we parked for free closer to the Stadium than our parking at HPSS
but only due to local knowledge as one of our group works just up the block
We will be buying less season tickets next year and part of the reason is this ridiculous game at YS. 2017 schedule sucks- only 3 games at HPSS from mid September to the end of the season
Well written. We are in the same exact position. Wrote both Hobbs and Sarah expressing my concerns.
If this is a long term plan we are done.
Is there any chance the kickoff time for this game will be announced sooner than later due to the venue or is it subject to the same rules as a typical B1G game?
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