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Post by Tigardbeav on May 24, 2019 20:08:56 GMT -8
The two best home games (OK State and UW) are on Friday nights; very difficult for out-of-towners to get to unless you take a day off work and take kids out of school. Tickets for FCS games can be had for practically nothing. That leaves 3 Saturday home games that are worth going to. In a non-Civil War home year, that’s a pretty lousy schedule to sell. You mentioned the UW game, so I would love some advice..... My boss, who is a UW alum and lives in Seattle, expressed interest in taking his wife to this game......I have convinced him to Amtrak down and join my wife and I in Corvallis for the game. I am NOT a season ticket holder, but feel some pressure to show him a good time. I understand he has sweet 50 yard line season tix at Husky stadium, so the bar might be high. So - serious question - what is the optimal experience for an early November game at Reser for 4 people, say for under a grand? I note this is Fall Family Weekend, so I don't know how that complicates things...... Should I just buy when single game seats come available? Wait for some season ticket holder to dump their Friday tickets in the ticket forum? Stubhub? My wife is a fair weather type (not as in bandwagon fan, as in "sitting in cold/rain sucks" which is why we don't go often), what location would work best to counter that? If you are an out-of-towner who knows they can't make the game and have sweet seats, I am all ears as well (though of course I will post that in the Tickets forum at some point, especially if that is the route to the "optimal experience"). Thanks for any advice you can give someone who hasn't been in Reser of late.......and is going to have to put up with a UW alum/manager upon his return.....all I can hope for is a reversal to some of the recent drubbings at the hands of the puppies :-). Go Beavers! I think you are looking for Club seats. Dry,can go inside. Beer & liquor. Probably cost better than a grand to get them early. UW will bring a good crowd.So Club may be over sold.Or if he fires you before then do the endzone seats with the food cart. I can get ya in with our seats on the 5 yd line and the easy access to the beer wagon *sorry my space key ain't working and I'm not going back to fix all of em
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Post by ostate on May 24, 2019 20:12:52 GMT -8
The two best home games (OK State and UW) are on Friday nights; very difficult for out-of-towners to get to unless you take a day off work and take kids out of school. Tickets for FCS games can be had for practically nothing. That leaves 3 Saturday home games that are worth going to. In a non-Civil War home year, that’s a pretty lousy schedule to sell. You mentioned the UW game, so I would love some advice..... My boss, who is a UW alum and lives in Seattle, expressed interest in taking his wife to this game......I have convinced him to Amtrak down and join my wife and I in Corvallis for the game. I am NOT a season ticket holder, but feel some pressure to show him a good time. I understand he has sweet 50 yard line season tix at Husky stadium, so the bar might be high. So - serious question - what is the optimal experience for an early November game at Reser for 4 people, say for under a grand? I note this is Fall Family Weekend, so I don't know how that complicates things...... Should I just buy when single game seats come available? Wait for some season ticket holder to dump their Friday tickets in the ticket forum? Stubhub? My wife is a fair weather type (not as in bandwagon fan, as in "sitting in cold/rain sucks" which is why we don't go often), what location would work best to counter that? If you are an out-of-towner who knows they can't make the game and have sweet seats, I am all ears as well (though of course I will post that in the Tickets forum at some point, especially if that is the route to the "optimal experience"). Thanks for any advice you can give someone who hasn't been in Reser of late.......and is going to have to put up with a UW alum/manager upon his return.....all I can hope for is a reversal to some of the recent drubbings at the hands of the puppies :-). Go Beavers! Go club and put in for reimbursement... And get club ticks early, like, right now if you can...
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Post by halverbk on May 25, 2019 9:22:32 GMT -8
Some school districts start before Labor Day. Portland starts 2 days before the OkST game. The early start means the end of their 1st qtr day off for grading is on Fri, Nov 1. REALLY good for teachers who don't have to deal with sugar high kids that day. But not good for the Huskies game on Fri, Nov 8. Kids are out the following Monday for Veterans Day so that helps. Lots of variables, but still won't be as good of a crowd vs. Saturday.
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Post by baseba1111 on May 25, 2019 11:11:59 GMT -8
Some school districts start before Labor Day. Portland starts 2 days before the OkST game. The early start means the end of their 1st qtr day off for grading is on Fri, Nov 1. REALLY good for teachers who don't have to deal with sugar high kids that day. But not good for the Huskies game on Fri, Nov 8. Kids are out the following Monday for Veterans Day so that helps. Lots of variables, but still won't be as good of a crowd vs. Saturday. Other than the sleeper NC Friday night games, attendance figures prove you wrong. Friday night high quality opponents have always drawn big, loud, fun crowds.
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Post by halverbk on May 25, 2019 17:39:36 GMT -8
Some school districts start before Labor Day. Portland starts 2 days before the OkST game. The early start means the end of their 1st qtr day off for grading is on Fri, Nov 1. REALLY good for teachers who don't have to deal with sugar high kids that day. But not good for the Huskies game on Fri, Nov 8. Kids are out the following Monday for Veterans Day so that helps. Lots of variables, but still won't be as good of a crowd vs. Saturday. Other than the sleeper NC Friday night games, attendance figures prove you wrong. Friday night high quality opponents have always drawn big, loud, fun crowds. Loud yes, fun yes if they can get there depending on the start time. I hope they are big crowds. Better than Thursday night!
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Post by zzufrevaeb on May 26, 2019 11:43:15 GMT -8
Season tickets are barely into the four digit area...that's how far they've fallen.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 26, 2019 16:44:43 GMT -8
Season tickets are barely into the four digit area...that's how far they've fallen. So, just over 1,000 season tickets? I think you are sadly mistaken, sir.
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Post by fridaynightlights on May 26, 2019 18:08:13 GMT -8
For anyone who might know, I am curious what year was our high point in season ticket sales and how many were sold? Also how many season tickets were sold last year? I believe I heard that we are about 10,000 season tickets down from our high point.
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Post by zzufrevaeb on May 26, 2019 18:29:36 GMT -8
Season tickets are barely into the four digit area...that's how far they've fallen. So, just over 1,000 season tickets? I think you are sadly mistaken, sir. sorry, should read barely dipped into the four digit area. Most corporate tickets are gone due to the change in Trump laws and OSU not responding.
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Post by babeav on May 27, 2019 7:29:59 GMT -8
I heard a couple weeks ago the number was in the 7500 range......maybe BS but he should know.
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Post by billsaab on May 27, 2019 7:45:41 GMT -8
Look forward to improvement. I rewewed 35 Years 4 Tickets and don't gripe about what I don't get. Seen more than many of You. Some really bad football and some good football. No reason to complain as we have a good schedule and it should be fun this Year. Go Bea
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Post by zzufrevaeb on May 27, 2019 9:07:28 GMT -8
I heard a couple weeks ago the number was in the 7500 range......maybe BS but he should know. That's about right...a little higher but in the ballpark.
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Post by spudbeaver on May 27, 2019 10:28:58 GMT -8
One of the more confusing threads to answer a straight forward question.
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Post by OSUprof on May 27, 2019 11:44:04 GMT -8
Season ticket sales were 25,000 in 2013. They have dropped every year since hitting 15,393 in 2018. That's where the 10,000 off the high value comes from - 10,000 of your fellow Beaver fans gave up season tickets over the past 6 seasons. Between 2001 and 2015, the number of season tickets sold averaged between 20,000 and 25,000. There are folks projecting season ticket sales at or just under 10,000 for 2019.
To put that number in perspective, the last time OSU sold less than 10,000 season tickets was back in 1998.
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Post by fridaynightlights on May 27, 2019 12:44:58 GMT -8
Thanks for info prof. Hopefully were not headed back to the dark ages of the 70s and 80s of half empty stadiums. If season ticket sales are indeed at around 10,000 for 2019, that is a loss of 5,000 from the year before...Ouch. Where as it took 5 years to lose 10,000 season ticket holders, we may lose 5,000 in one year? Why so many people jumping ship after just one year of the JS era? There must be a significant amount of pressure in the Athletic Dept. to get things moving in the right direction or things could get really ugly.
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