I was a season ticket holder for 25 years until the move to Martin. I called NU to see about tickets for a Wrigley game and I was told only current STH have early access but I could try when the tickets become available to the general public, seems shortsighted by NU to make me compete with visiting fans rather than sell to a former long term STH
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C'mon guys, are we just complaining for the sake of complaining?
I'm sure donors will have access to tickets prior to any general public sale. Tix will also be available through Alumni Association. I'm also Cubs STH and I think the pre-sale for that last year was 2 weeks after my NU slot.
BTW, I'm assuming your concern is for Michigan game because Minnesota will probably draw 28K with $5 tix available on the resale market the week of the game.
I'm sure donors will have access to tickets prior to any general public sale. Tix will also be available through Alumni Association. I'm also Cubs STH and I think the pre-sale for that last year was 2 weeks after my NU slot.
BTW, I'm assuming your concern is for Michigan game because Minnesota will probably draw 28K with $5 tix available on the resale market the week of the game.
After Ohio State last year, where we were LITERALLY outnumbered 100-to-1 (yes, I stood on the concourse for a while and consistently counted 100 OSU fans to every 1 NU fan), I flat-out refuse to go to the Michigan game to have the same basic experience. It will be the first "home" game in 20+ years where I am actually available to go, but don't.
Honestly, I didn't have an especially great time at the Illinois game last year, either.
Or Iowa before that.
Or Purdue before that.
Or...f*cking ever.
This "partnership" has been a humiliating disaster. It's basically a dog whistle for visiting fans to come to Chicago for the weekend getaway to take a picture in front of the Wrigley sign and then debate whether they go to Lou's or Giordano's for pizza after the game. They pencil in a win and are right to do so.
Humiliating. Disaster.
Honestly, I didn't have an especially great time at the Illinois game last year, either.
Or Iowa before that.
Or Purdue before that.
Or...f*cking ever.
This "partnership" has been a humiliating disaster. It's basically a dog whistle for visiting fans to come to Chicago for the weekend getaway to take a picture in front of the Wrigley sign and then debate whether they go to Lou's or Giordano's for pizza after the game. They pencil in a win and are right to do so.
Humiliating. Disaster.
On the other hand, it's been great for baseball. Upset Notre Dame there last year and clobbered Ohio State this year. I assume this will be the last year we will be moving a home football game there. I enjoyed the Iowa game there. Kind of a happening, but it's gone stale (and of course the results have been awful!). I think the Cubs are hoping to host a bowl game there at some point.
Not certain if bigger issue is losing at Wrigley or the massive waves of opponent’s fans at Wrigley.
The combination of the two decreases my need for tickets to these games
The combination of the two decreases my need for tickets to these games
I’m thankful that we’ll never have to hear about tickets to Wrigley or the Lake Front stadium after this season. One of the most tired topics on WR.
Haha I actually think they signed an agreement with wrigley for annual games there for a certain period of time. How long that is I don’t know but pretty sure Gcg knows.
It’s over. We’re not giving up any games at the new venue.
This isn’t complaining for the sake of complaining, this is just more bad management. This would be incompetence from any ticket and loyalty program in any major sport team. And I say that as somebody who laughs at the people who complain about our ticket prices and the like. Just another thing about athletics that’s not well run under the hood.
I think Wrigley was a good idea in concept. But when they started making tickets egregiously expensive at “face value” for STH, including some of which don’t want to drive down into the city anyways, many of which are matchups against visiting teams that travel well and are going to be favored against us… it’s a tough combination.
I think if you do all of that except still sell them to STH at normal / reasonable face value prices (I think they did this the first time before NU and Wrigley and every other ticket vendor in the world started getting greedy to maximize revenue rather than balance that with their own fans) then the outcomes would have been same on the field but it wouldn’t have been quite so imbalanced on the crowd ratios.
Great idea once or twice but it’s run its course. Glad that with the new stadium we will be able to keep the games at actual HOME.
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