Season Tickets???
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I'm like an addict that needs a fix. I renewed. Although, it didn't make me feel particularly good.
More than 20-year season ticket holder who gave mine up last season. I told the athletic department that I did not renew because the product was well below expectation. I also voiced that I would not renew until a new coach was in place.
I understand that my lone pocketbook doesn't necessarily change things, but I felt that they needed to know.
I did not renew. Generally apathetic with the whole of our revenue sports operation. Sure I'll go to some games and just take advantage of the kids club and discounts on seats that are seem to be available most, if not all, games.
I did not renew last year, so I am renewing my non-renewal this year.
Smart play 2K. I wonder how many others came to the realization last year that you can pick up a $5 ticket to pretty much any game while taking your kids for free and you can make that call on whether you want to go on game day.
Nope gave up after the loss against Miami NIT.
It was a hard call this year but I did renew. I have two kids that live in Richmond and we use the games as a way to come up and be with them. I didn't renew them because I enjoy the product. I am optimistic enough to believe there is a day when Moon Man will be gone and we will be a better team.
We didn't renew after 10 years of season ticket holding. Why? One word: Mooney.
Since my wife is on staff we can get free tickets to certain games. Same with football - there are 2 faculty/staff games that we plan on going to this year. Not sure about hoops yet.
We did spend $25 a piece for women's season tickets (which we've done for a while). Actually look like they are turning the corner. The $25 is like a donation to women's hoops every year since we only go to about 5 games.
Since my wife is on staff we can get free tickets to certain games. Same with football - there are 2 faculty/staff games that we plan on going to this year. Not sure about hoops yet.
We did spend $25 a piece for women's season tickets (which we've done for a while). Actually look like they are turning the corner. The $25 is like a donation to women's hoops every year since we only go to about 5 games.
I plan to stay home and watch that new Kevin Bacon show.
To be fair, this thread was set up to be Kevin Baconed. Honestly, the movie The Air Up There wasn't that good.
Thanks for sharing your plans and feelings on this. I agree with most everything posted. After much thought I decided to renew today at the last hour for the singular reason of enjoying the experience of coming to games with son and grandson (oh yeah, wife too). Thanks again and wishing for an unexpected turnaround.
One thing to keep in mind is that the tax laws recently changed where you can no longer deduct contributions tied to seating for athletic events. To offset lost revenue U of R has raised ticket prices and is making people pay separately for parking. This should result in potentially getting better seating and parking. If you give up your season seats and buy them again in a few years you will be at the end of the line for seating priority.
It might depend on the level of seating. I am pretty sure my went up, in addition to having to pay for parking.
Watching the games at home rather than listen to school aged kids make a ton of noise.
I really don't think it's going to be that big of a deal. Once Mooney is booted, we'll jump back in. It's not like we had excellent seats anyway. We'll get by.
This is part of the reason I renewed. I am in the same seat I was in my freshman year (November 1982). With my parents then, not with the student section.
I am nostalgic...
We deserve what we get at this point. There's zero motivation for the administration to care about winning when everyone shows up no matter what.
Why would you say no matter what? Why are you judging 05 for renewing? Maybe he is renewing because he is excited about this team. Or there could be numerous other reasons to renew, none of which have to be "no matter what". Getting mad and criticizing a fan for renewing and supporting our school and players seems awfully weak.
So, what would please you? 0 fans? You think it is good for our school if our guys, all non seniors, played in front on no one?
Obviously I was not judging 05 or anyone else. He indicated that the same percentage of people are renewing as in the past. If that's the case, why would the administration care whether we win, lose 20 for the third year in a row or do something in between? IMO, this is how we got to this point to begin with. I'm not interested in repeating it every year.
My guess is the same amount of people are renewing because there is optimism with this season. Also, it can't hurt that we have really good guys on the team that are easy to support and cheer for. It is your opinion that the administration does not care about winning because they did not fire the coach. That is your opinion and that is fine. I'm sure it is shared by others. However, you can also look at it by saying the administration feels like our coach gives us the best chance to win this season so therefore we kept him.
I don't think our fans will renew at the same rate next year if we have another losing season but I don't think we will get to find out if that is true. I also don't think our administration would be too thrilled with three straight losing seasons, and I don't think our coach could survive that. You think the administration does not care about winning. I think they do. We can just disagree.
I don't think our fans will renew at the same rate next year if we have another losing season but I don't think we will get to find out if that is true. I also don't think our administration would be too thrilled with three straight losing seasons, and I don't think our coach could survive that. You think the administration does not care about winning. I think they do. We can just disagree.
There will most definitely be plenty available. But wait until right before the first game. The price will fall dramatically.
Better to watch on DirectTV sports package. Why drive or pay? I don't pay for tickets except for a few select games for our guys. I can watch every single game here in Jersey with my package. I go when I have a bunch of guys to hang with in Philly for the weekend or if we're at Fordham or Barclays. I get around 10 games live and enjoy the rest after work in front of my large screen. I just might pay for tix at the Stu if I were in RVA, but the cost is prohibitive even for locals. Would rather get single game tix. Season tixs are a racket in every sport.
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I'd say it's indisputable that the administration doesn't care about winning, however you want to look at it. It failed to admit several guys who would have helped us win and who would have been admitted at every other school in the league. It also paid an exorbitant sum of money to a coach and then watched him miss eight NCAAs in a row without changing anything, something only one other school in the nation at a comparable level has allowed to happen with its coach during the same time.
No program that values winning would have done either of those things.
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But, what about paying so much money for your coach after back-to-back tourneys? Doesn't that show that winning matters? Can't just pick and choose which events help your argument while ignoring ones that hurt it. It is fair for you to have this opinion, but it is certainly not indisputable.
That 10 year contract was idiotic. Demotivated moon man. What a waste of time.
It’s hard to argue that the university doesn’t want to win, they’ve invested in a bunch of things that suggest they care.
At the same time, it’s hard to argue that they’ve invested properly in what’s arguably the most important component to winning. And they seem unwilling to write off that investment.
At the same time, it’s hard to argue that they’ve invested properly in what’s arguably the most important component to winning. And they seem unwilling to write off that investment.
Attendance was down ~12% last year. You’d think that was not all walk ups or single game sales & logically decent amount was STH. If on par from last year that may mean similarly down. Or perhaps AD wants us to infer STH is steady as they have vested interest in that narrative to create additional optimism and not to add fuel to the Mooney questions. Given the misdirections employed by AD whether on radio, email or message board I would not blindly take it as gospel.
That said I hope we draw good crowds and recoup that 12% or more as it certainly helps the team. playing well to start the season will be key imo.
I think we care about winning although if we don’t make NCAA this year & u bring back a coach who is then 0-9 in 9 straight seasons well they don’t care about making NCAA.
That said I hope we draw good crowds and recoup that 12% or more as it certainly helps the team. playing well to start the season will be key imo.
I think we care about winning although if we don’t make NCAA this year & u bring back a coach who is then 0-9 in 9 straight seasons well they don’t care about making NCAA.
This is ridiculous.
I’d bet we all have alumni friends, well most of us, that are very financially
successful. I know a couple that donate a fair amount of money to the school and
are huge supporters of the Spiders. They also have absolutely no interest in being
on this board. Not their thing.
If they thought the administration wasn’t interested in winning they would make a lot
of noice, and they would be heard.
I enjoy being on this board, but some of the naive and in some way narcissistic thoughts
are just plane silly.
I’d bet we all have alumni friends, well most of us, that are very financially
successful. I know a couple that donate a fair amount of money to the school and
are huge supporters of the Spiders. They also have absolutely no interest in being
on this board. Not their thing.
If they thought the administration wasn’t interested in winning they would make a lot
of noice, and they would be heard.
I enjoy being on this board, but some of the naive and in some way narcissistic thoughts
are just plane silly.
Again, they can want to win and still make a variety of decisions that aren’t aligned with that intent. So that is perhaps their intent but they aren’t fully committed? It’s hard to say definitively either way, there are lots of examples supporting both narratives.
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