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TDN: How are season ticket sales going?

Bowen: We have surpassed last year’s record. Season football parking is sold out. That’s never happened. We’re north of 8,400 season tickets. Last year at this time we were at maybe 3,500.

TDN: What about a ticket package that would be a hybrid of some football and some basketball games, have you looked at doing that?

Bowen: That will be the next step. That component creates real revenue stability for us. I think it’s a natural progression for us and that will happen for sure (at some point), yeah.

Good stuff - thanks for posting!

I'm not going to be a happy camper if I have to buy basketball tix to get football tix.

I dimly recall Louisville employing the dual ticket strategy.

I do not favor it, although I hold season tickets in both football and basketball.

(06-15-2017 10:44 PM)mapdude Wrote:  I'm not going to be a happy camper if I have to buy basketball tix to get football tix.

Remember the not to distant past, when they considered that in reverse ? Who would have thunk it.

That's not how I interpret that scenario. A hybrid ticket package offering some bball and some fball games differs from having to buy one to get the other. Sounds rather intriguing and inventive to me, like something we might take advantage of as out of towers who can't make every game in either sport.

(06-16-2017 05:51 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  I dimly recall Louisville employing the dual ticket strategy.

I do not favor it, although I hold season tickets in both football and basketball.

I remember it too .... I believe that you were required to buy Football season tickets at that time, in order to buy Basketball season tickets ... This was before they played in their current facilities ...

(06-16-2017 05:51 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  I dimly recall Louisville employing the dual ticket strategy.

I do not favor it, although I hold season tickets in both football and basketball.

I just don't think it's a good idea to demand that people but a ticket to something they don't want to go to. Whether it's football or basketball.

(06-16-2017 07:09 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  That's not how I interpret that scenario. A hybrid ticket package offering some bball and some fball games differs from having to buy one to get the other. Sounds rather intriguing and inventive to me, like something we might take advantage of as out of towers who can't make every game in either sport.

I agree with your interpretation that it is not having to buy basketball to get football or vice versa. It is a combination package of some football games with some basketball games tickets.

(06-16-2017 12:13 PM)Tiger57 Wrote:  

(06-16-2017 05:51 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  I dimly recall Louisville employing the dual ticket strategy.

I do not favor it, although I hold season tickets in both football and basketball.

I just don't think it's a good idea to demand that people but a ticket to something they don't want to go to. Whether it's football or basketball.

Yeah I sort of agree...But what is the difference between requiring purchasing football tickets and requiring a large donation?

(06-16-2017 07:09 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  That's not how I interpret that scenario. A hybrid ticket package offering some bball and some fball games differs from having to buy one to get the other. Sounds rather intriguing and inventive to me, like something we might take advantage of as out of towers who can't make every game in either sport.

I think an optional hybrid ticket package program like the one you described is a good idea.

Of course it's a good idea.
People are yelping over NOTHING, as usual.
Facts are rather easily distorted here.
The school is not going to force people to buy anything they don't want.

It will merely be a good option for folks with a limited budget, that would like to see their Tigers play both sports.
Get real.

(06-16-2017 06:34 AM)jsw3ent Wrote:  

(06-15-2017 10:44 PM)mapdude Wrote:  I'm not going to be a happy camper if I have to buy basketball tix to get football tix.

Remember the not to distant past, when they considered that in reverse ? Who would have thunk it.

(06-16-2017 05:51 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  I dimly recall Louisville employing the dual ticket strategy.

I do not favor it, although I hold season tickets in both football and basketball.

You are correct Sir. Good memory...

Matter of fact UofL did it for 14 or 15 years. From 1983 to 1996 or 1997, if you wanted basketball tickets, you had to first purchase football season tickets; then you paid your yearly PSL and then bought your basketball tickets.

That's how the seats got sold and a basketball fanbase got interested in football.
CJ

(06-16-2017 07:09 AM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  That's not how I interpret that scenario. A hybrid ticket package offering some bball and some fball games differs from having to buy one to get the other. Sounds rather intriguing and inventive to me, like something we might take advantage of as out of towers who can't make every game in either sport.

You are correct. It's a total misinterpretation to think that they're considering required purchases of one to get the other. That only works if you have hard sellouts for one of your sports. We don't.

Instead, it's a creative option to generate more interest in both.