[NU Sports] Football Ticket Renewal

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For comparison sake, my renewal for Louisville football and
*basketball*contributions (not tickets which is the cheap part of this
package) is April
30.

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:39 PM, mlinhardt at netzero.com <
mlinhardt at netzero.com> wrote:

> This the first year I used the online renewal which charges your credit
> card instantly.
>
> By mail it would sometimes take a month or more for NU to charge your
> credit card.
>
> We bought away MSU ticks and we will make our bi-annual Urbana trip, but we
> always scalp there.
>
> Next year it will be new TCF Stadium for the gophers.  My sister(UofMn)
> alumni is sooo excited about being outdoors and on campus.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>
>
> Last year the season ticket renewal deadline was the day of the spring game
> as well (end of April).
>
> Note that the deadline is only to guarantee your current season ticket
> location.  You can always renew later, but your seats are no longer
> guaranteed.
>
> I don't think the deadline is very surprising - the ticket printing is
> probably the biggest lead time obstacle that NU is trying to address with
> this deadline - that way their ticket printer has time to process
> everything
> and get them sent out by August.
>
> Also, I'm sure NU is using the renewal rate to determine what other ticket
> promotions they can offer (like family packages, special promotions for
> certain games, etc.), so they need an early deadline to get working on that
> stuff.  AD Phillips has said that they are working on some new pricing and
> I'm sure we'll see more of that rolled out into the summer to try and get
> more "casual" fans in the seats.  Right now they just want to get the
> already-dedicated fans out of the way.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM, <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I received my e-mail on renewing Football season tickets.? I was a bit
> > surprised to see the renewal date - April 25 ?? I don't recall last
> year's
> > date, but I do recall spending recent Memorial Day weekends in Florida,
> and
> > handling the renewal at that time.
> >
> > Does anybody know - do our conference mates renew even sooner ?? Does our
> > Athletic department need our money that much sooner ?? If they needed to
> > know renewals fast, so they could aggresively market the remaining seats,
> I
> > might understand it.? But when have we known them to market any seats
> > aggresively ?
> >
> > Chuck Herron?? Tech '85
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