BAMANBLAZERFAN
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RE: EMU may drop football
(04-23-2016 10:29 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Considering that everyone could sit pretty much anywhere they want, it didn't matter that they did not sell 50 yard line season tickets.
Perhaps those 50 yd line seats would not have sold to Blazer fans anyways, but we will never know since they could never legally buy them in advance. My thoughts are that UAB fans would have bought many / most / all of them and paid a premium fee to do so -- like they do for court side seats at Bartow Arena. You don't see UAB selling those court side seats at General Admission prices do you?
That may have changed the whole ticket sales calculus to UAB's advantage.
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RE: EMU may drop football
(04-23-2016 01:48 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: (04-23-2016 10:29 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Considering that everyone could sit pretty much anywhere they want, it didn't matter that they did not sell 50 yard line season tickets.
Perhaps those 50 yd line seats would not have sold to Blazer fans anyways, but we will never know since they could never legally buy them in advance. My thoughts are that UAB fans would have bought many / most / all of them and paid a premium fee to do so -- like they do for court side seats at Bartow Arena. You don't see UAB selling those court side seats at General Admission prices do you?
That may have changed the whole ticket sales calculus to UAB's advantage.
What if the Board of Trustees bought up all the Legion Field Certificate Seats to keep UaB fans from having them, and then gave the tickets away with the instructions to defend their turf with righteous indignation ?
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BAMANBLAZERFAN
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RE: EMU may drop football
(04-23-2016 08:27 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: (04-23-2016 01:48 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: (04-23-2016 10:29 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Considering that everyone could sit pretty much anywhere they want, it didn't matter that they did not sell 50 yard line season tickets.
Perhaps those 50 yd line seats would not have sold to Blazer fans anyways, but we will never know since they could never legally buy them in advance. My thoughts are that UAB fans would have bought many / most / all of them and paid a premium fee to do so -- like they do for court side seats at Bartow Arena. You don't see UAB selling those court side seats at General Admission prices do you?
That may have changed the whole ticket sales calculus to UAB's advantage.
What if the Board of Trustees bought up all the Legion Field Certificate Seats to keep UaB fans from having them, and then gave the tickets away with the instructions to defend their turf with righteous indignation ?
According to the Park Board letter, there are about 1600 owners of SCs with rights to about 5,200 prime location seats. Do you honestly believe UAB Athletics would care who bought those 5,200 seats for every home game as long as the money goes into UAB bank accounts? What the BOT did with the tickets after purchase, UAB couldn't care less.(Corporations have been known to buy UAB game tickets - BB & FB - and many are never used.)
My stand was that UAB's own fans could not LEGALLY buy any of them until days before individual games so the sections wound up being used by General Admission (or gift) ticket holders to the detriment of UAB athletic coffers, hence the damage to UAB athletic's bottom line.
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RE: EMU may drop football
Quote:My stand was that UAB's own fans could not LEGALLY buy any of them until days before individual games so the sections wound up being used by General Admission (or gift) ticket holders to the detriment of UAB athletic coffers, hence the damage to UAB athletic's bottom line.
Here's the real world story. UAB obviously doesn't know of or care about those certificates as they have sold season tickets in those areas...not waiting until the certificate holders rights expire before each individual game. The Birmingham Park and Rec Board obviously doesn't care because they have done nothing to inform UAB of those rights...or if they had, have done nothing further to "protect" the certificate holders rights. The City of Birmingham obviously doesn't care for the same reasons. The majority of certificate holders obviously don't care because 1) they don't purchase those tickets and 2) they have done nothing to prevent UAB from selling those season tickets in those areas.
While the letter of the law and the language of those certificate agreements may lead one to believe they have been a detriment, in reality those certificates haven't affected UAB's bottom line at Legion Field by one thin dime. UAB simply has not drawn a significant percentage of capacity for those "legalities" to come into play.
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RE: EMU may drop football
In fairness, he did get baited.
But then, he never fails to rise to it.
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RE: EMU may drop football
Given that UAB fans have bought season tickets, day of game tickets, or have simply sat in those seats using GA tickets, I consider it an utter non-issue.
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RE: EMU may drop football
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