AD Donati Getting an Earful on Twitter

[fwfrog]

All you +4 haters are still failing to see is that TCU wins when all the seats are sold. It does not matter who pays for them. TCU would prefer TCU fans buy them than get stuck with selling them on game day.
However in the spirit of giving the TCU fans more access, I'll be throwing my + 4 tickets back into the pool.

 

[COWTOWN FAN]

I am a plus 4 buyer on the eastside. Due to my priority points I could get better seats than a TCU grad. friend of mine. I buy the extra 4 seats in front of me. He buys my extra 4 for himself and family. The people beside me buy 4 and sell them on Stubhub for every game. Every game it is the opposing fans and sometimes there are problems. The seller was at a game a few years ago and bragged about how much he made from selling his tickets.

Buyers selling on stubhub for profit, to the visiting team, is the problem. Scalping tickets in Texas is not legal so why is this allowed.

I have been a season ticket holder since the 70's and have gone to games since the 50's so I am not a new guy to TCU football.

 

[The TCU Football Jerk]

Let's talk about the real problem this year, and that is what happened to beer sales in AGC??

 

[RollToad]

Let's talk about the real problem this year, and that is what happened to beer sales in AGC??

They’re still there.

 

[DieHardFrog2020MBA]

This is interesting because I thought this school was mostly Republican/free market but many sound like socialists.

And yet I understand it felt more like a game in OU’s stadium.

 

[nwlafrog]

Disagree. Many alumni no longer live in Ft Worth including many of my friends (I’m 4 hours away). Also most of my friends are too busy to drive up for a game or won’t leave some family behind (I’ve got 2 tix). I tried 8 friends even for the OU game before I gave up. I’m too busy to bother begging non-OU fans to take my seats. Lastly, my tix aren’t that good. People aren’t lining up to drive hours for 2nd level endzone seats to see our floundering unranked team. End result was selling them to possible OU fans. There isn’t money to be made selling TCU tix, at least not mine. TCU got my money. They should be pleased.

I too live 4 hours away and don’t seem to run into this problem

 

[nwlafrog]

If there were enough TCU fans to fill the seats, then TCU fans would fill the seats. Some of you are delusional, in denial, or both.

Or some of you are lazy, greedy, excessive with your purchases or all of the above

 

[JugbandFrog]

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Then make someone a TCU fan.... I’ll probably be bringing some Gator fans next season for a game if we have season tix available from our group that will go unused. I brought LSU fans for the Arkansas game a few years ago. Football fans like football. Bring them out and toss them some t shirts from academy.

Exactly. I was always bringing friends, students, acquaintances to TCU games. I have made fans of almost all of them. They ask when I am going again.

 

[nwlafrog]

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Exactly. I was always bringing friends, students, acquaintances to TCU games. I have made fans of almost all of them. They ask when I am going again.

 

[Jefffrog1993]

We just need more T-shirt fans get the whole city to support the Frogs! Would be nice to have 60 k worth of seat sales than what we have now.

 

[HToady]

i buy 8 season tickets. Depending on the game time, I can use all or I can use as little as 4. Playing at 11 and on Thursdays is least popular for people with children. I used to give them to TCU fans in the family...and still do. But for the past few years I don't get the feeling that my 40 year dedication is worth much....so, now if I have any left after exhausting all of my possible contacts, I sell them to the scalpers outside the Ranch Management Building, looking for possible TCU takers on the way over. So far no one has showed up in my seats.

Remember folks, this is a business to TCU...and so it should be to you too.

 

[Volare]

We just need more T-shirt fans get the whole city to support the Frogs! Would be nice to have 60 k worth of seat sales than what we have now.

Gonna have to get a better product in the stadium and on the field for the general public to get fired up.

 

[Jefffrog1993]

Gonna have to get a better product in the stadium and on the field for the general public to get fired up.

Well also when Tech, Ou or TEXAS come to town it would sell out for sure just not to Frog fans.

 

[frogs9497]

Remember folks, this is a business to TCU...and so it should be to you too.

It sounds like you’re in the red.

 

[Horned Toad]

This is interesting because I thought this school was mostly Republican/free market but many sound like socialists.

And yet I understand it felt more like a game in OU’s stadium.

Diehard, treating long time TCU season ticket holders during the reseating process like they were the proletariat and the big wigs like they are the ruling elite, exempt from the same rules of fairness as the rest of us is not capitalism, that’s the rough definition of a socialist market. Long time season ticket holders invested capital and their hard earned time in rooting for the Frogs through thick and then over the course of many years. Their near life long investments were ignored by CDC for the many Johnny come latelies with a bigger pocketbook but for many not near the investment in the team that the rest of us had made. Capitalism is based on an investment of capital, hard work and sweat equity. Many of us have made that investment and our return on equity was getting kicked to the curb. Bottom line is that CDC screwed up the reseating.

Yes the people who made the big investment to pay for the stadium rebuild should have got first choice, then the rest of the then current season ticket holders should have been able to have second choice. Then the +4 for the big wigs should have been next picking from the great seats on the east side that all they rest of us were left to choose from. They would still be able to sell them on Stubhub and make a profit or give them to their friends from other schools and there would have been no hard feelings. A half filled visitor’s side doesn’t look near as bad as a barely filled home side. In our current situation you end up with Frog fans who are long time season ticket holders who feel like strangers in their home stadium being surrounded by sometimes hostile visitors. Everyone would have been happy, instead we have prime seats that are barely used on the westside and an east side full of Frog fans surrounded by visitors who get agitated with each other. See the section 236 thread filled with examples of the bad times had by all. This is a normal occurrence on the east side. The end result of this strategy sounds like socialism. Everyone is unhappy.

 

[HToady]

It sounds like you’re in the red.

Not even close....I learned from the Master. Chris Del Conte!

 

[frogs9497]

Not even close....I learned from the Master. Chris Del Conte!

Do you make more money selling spares for a few games to scalpers at the Ranch Mgmt building than you spend on all season tickets combined? If it were a business, I’m guessing you would sell all your tickets and never attend a game.

 

[Moose Stuff]

i buy 8 season tickets. Depending on the game time, I can use all or I can use as little as 4. Playing at 11 and on Thursdays is least popular for people with children. I used to give them to TCU fans in the family...and still do. But for the past few years I don't get the feeling that my 40 year dedication is worth much....so, now if I have any left after exhausting all of my possible contacts, I sell them to the scalpers outside the Ranch Management Building, looking for possible TCU takers on the way over. So far no one has showed up in my seats.

Remember folks, this is a business to TCU...and so it should be to you too.

It will never be a business to me.

 

[flyfishingfrog]

The reality is the way to fix this problem is to triple ticket prices - then the people that are buying 4 when they only use 2 or 8-12 when they only need 4 would rethink it.

The question for TCU is would our season tickets really be sold out if we took the approach ?

I don't get the mentality of having a bunch of extra seats you don't need if they sit empty most games - those "doing family planning" aside.

That isn't any different than firms like Luther King renewing the 100's of tickets they have each year and then most of them sitting empty because it would be a fulltime job to fill them every game.

 

[Moose Stuff]

The reality is the way to fix this problem is to triple ticket prices - then the people that are buying 4 when they only use 2 or 8-12 when they only need 4 would rethink it.

The question for TCU is would our season tickets really be sold out if we took the approach ?

I don't get the mentality of having a bunch of extra seats you don't need if they sit empty most games - those "doing family planning" aside.

That isn't any different than firms like Luther King renewing the 100's of tickets they have each year and then most of them sitting empty because it would be a fulltime job to fill them every game.

Or you could just triple the price on the +4.