[Husker] Re: Baylor home games (fwd)

[Mike Jaixen]

First, to clarify my original statement, I should have
said that Nebraska declined half of their allocation
of 4,000 tickets, not that they returned half of their
tickets unsold.  I would expect that this was the
fewest number of tickets sold by Nebraska to an away
game in quite some time.

My understanding is that donors get first shot at away
game tickets in priority point order.  So, for
example,  if Warren Buffett wants tickets, he'd be
pretty high up the list.  (Assuming, of course, that
he's an athletic department donor...)  After donors,
season ticketholders get next priority, and after
that, the general public.  Donors and season
ticketholders make their requests in the spring at
ticket renewal time.  Once the tickets go on sale to
the general public, it's first come first served. 
4,000 is the minimum that Nebraska is guarenteed, and
the maximum is the number of Husker fans the opponent
wants money from.

Missouri has operated both ways in the past.  Most
years, Missouri will provide Nebraska with a seemingly
endless supply of tickets; however, in 1999, demand
for Missouri football was enough that Missouri only
gave Nebraska the minimum.

--- Patrick Weigel <Patrick462 at aol.com> wrote:

> > How about this scenario. 
> > 
> > I believe you have to have "donor points" to be
> afforded the luxury of 
> > purchasing tickets through the Athletic
> Department. Isn't it possible that 
> > non-donors bought their tickets through BU or
> other sources rather than 
> > through the NU Athletic Department?
> > 
> > Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
> > Overland Park, Kansas
> 
> I bought tickets to the Kansas game (@ Kansas) a few
> years ago from NU. 
> I don't have any donor points. Maybe NU offers road
> game tickets to 
> donors first (and this year's Baylor game sold out
> to them), but the 
> Kansas a few years ago didn't (so normal people like
> me were able to buy 
> tickets).


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


		
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