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re: VOLS with 72,680 season tickets sold
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:09 pm to Serraneaux
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:09 pm to Serraneaux
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NO, mini season ticket packages were always 3 games and were always for face value which varied for the 3 games: Austin Peay $45 Mizzou $70 Alabama $70 There is no way face value on 3 home tickets were ever $100. Thanks for paying full face value to two home games where tickets weren't even selling.
They weren't selling them just for face value, they were selling them at a discounted rate because the Alabama game is ALWAYS the last game they have any hope of making money off of when you are bad. If they still had boat loads of tickets available for the games post Alabama (South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, North Texas, etc) then they were f'd.
Therefore, they used Alabama as a carrot to get people to also buy 1-2 of those remaining games and they took a small hit on them.
You can argue with me if you want, we did it for a decade. This is the first year there wasn't a pre-season option and made arrangements figuring there wouldn't be an in-season option because Tennessee would have sold tickets and would be good.
They also offered tickets for almost free ($5-$10) through a lot of the state's large employers, invited High School bands to come to games and offered every members family 4 tickets at a miniscule rate ($5-10), etc. Dave Hart pulled out ALL the stops the last 5 years.
This post was edited on 8/31/16 at 2:11 pm
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Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:10 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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they used Alabama as a carrot
gross
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:13 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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They weren't selling them just for face value, they were selling them at a discounted rate because the Alabama game is ALWAYS the last game they have any hope of making money off of when you are bad. If they still had boat loads of tickets available for the games post Alabama (South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, North Texas, etc) then they were f'd.
Therefore, they used Alabama as a carrot to get people to also buy 1-2 of those remaining games and they took a small hit on them.
You can argue with me if you want, we did it for a decade. This is the first year there wasn't a pre-season option and made arrangements figuring there wouldn't be an in-season option because Tennessee would have sold tickets and would be good.
No, you didn't do it for a decade. The mini season ticket packages didn't come out until 2011-2014. They never sold the Alabama ticket as an individual ticket in any year.
2006 - Tennessee won 16-13 - you definitely didn't do it that year
2008 - Going into the season, Tennessee was coming off 2007 SEC E title and was preseason #3
You were able to get tickets easily from 2010-2014 though. Not for a whole decade.
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