[NU Sports] The tickets are in

[John Labbe]

The bowl game application I received from NU offered seats in both the 
$45 and $37 sections.  Did you request seats in the higher priced 
section and get stuck with the lesser seats, or did you only request 
the lesser seats?  As it stands, your seats are in the best section for 
the price-range you got.  If that's what you requested, you got the 
best seats in the price range you requested.  Plus, I think 30-yard 
line seats are above average seats.  The only 50-yard line seats that 
were available from the Sun Bowl's website were in the highest 2 rows 
(you had to click through to select seats to find that out).

On a slightly different subject, I tend to think that the issue about 
our fans buying directly from the bowl rather than through NU are 
probably a bit exaggerated.  If the Sun Bowl was really so 
"overwhelmed" with direct NU-fan orders, than you would simply need to 
take a picture of the full-house of purple to show to other bowls.  If 
you read the El Paso news stories about this, however (and I don't have 
the links handy), they said that something like all three or four 
people in the office were busy the first day after the announcement of 
the bowl.  That doesn't really prove anything if the sales dropped off 
the next day.  Plus, it wouldn't take many calls for three or four 
people to be "overwhelmed."




On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:13 PM, cherron604 at aol.com wrote:

> Got my NU officially-requested and approved Sun Bowl tickets.
>
> Sec. 7, Row 50
>
> In looking at the seating charts, these look like 30-yard line or so, 
> on the West side (probably shaded by the press box as the sun goes 
> down).
>
> The Sun Bowl web site was selling 50-yard line seats for $55, 40-yard 
> line for $45, so I guess 30-yard line was decent given that the ticket 
> office was selling $37 seats.
>
> Not sure how the rows lay out, but I prefer sitting higher (Box 230 at 
> Dyche), so hopefully row 50 sets up well.
>
> As Mike pointed out, when 30-yard line seats are the best the 
> University can sell you, it is not surprising that fans look elsewhere 
> to buy.
>
> Instead of lecturing the fans on the need to buy only from them (these 
> guys enjoy lecturing more than Robert Eisner did), the high-priced 
> marketing talent on Central Street should be MARKETING THE PRODUCT !  
> I still have yet to see RW on any of the local TV stations...maybe 
> newspaper or radio ads would drum up some sales.
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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