2024 Seating Changes

[dollarbill44]

which is the photo i posted.. thats what that cupholder clip is 4..

I wonder if I could sneak in a drill and a screw to add a hanger to my new seat in front of me.

Most definitely. I brought an 18" sawzall in last year to cut out a section of bleachers in front of me so I could have some extra legroom.

 

[ChrisCourt]

See my quote below. I confirmed this for someone else.

Thank you sir!

 

[dollarbill44]

Its probably just as important to compare where your number was compared to the 2023 donor page. Then lower your new number by 30% then divide by 4 thats a better idea how many are ahead of you picking seats let alone the area you are in.

You also have to factor in that this is a leap year, so everything is divided by e(ln)-1

 

[AlaskaSUfan]

So you think the math is off in how many tickets people own?

How many STs does the school sell? 20K is about the number we heard in the past. We have about 5k of STH. That makes it about 4 per person. It could be 25K and 5 per person

We only had 32-37K most games
We had a huge number of people who only bought the small game packages lets say 5K
We had walkup of what 1-2K on game day?
Students were some number 2-3K?

Thats about 20+5+2+3 for 30K? Then the one offs
or Thats about 25+5+2+3 for 35K? Then the one offs

It’s all being reset in this cluster.
And donation wise I am up $1100 this year from last. From adding seats and giving to give. But well short of next level up. Kind of in tier no man’s land.

 

[JRHEETER]

It’s all being reset in this cluster.
And donation wise I am up $1100 this year from last. From adding seats and giving to give. But well short of next level up. Kind of in tier no man’s land.

Same

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Having spent the last 15 years successfully doing this, I’m afraid I’m getting dumped for the group leader who buys for his friends and gets reimbursed So long front row.

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm losing my front row seat as well.

 

[upperdeck]

Same

We know people got moved around in the donor level process.

But the issue with the process for fball is that some people were tied to exact seat location more than others. Some wanted a row or an aisle more than a section/area. Some will move because of price.

If you were row 6 and have to move to row 8. Probably not a big deal. But if you had row 1 or an aisle seat that took you years to move into some of those are going to be lost.

Still if you remove the students and the box seats we have under 40K of seats to sell.

We have 5000 STHs buying. This process is still only going to fill 60 % of the Dome. A few areas will be congested. Some larger groups may have to move a bit to stay together. Some areas like the visitor upperdeck were underserved before and people can flip sides of the field and get pretty much the same seat if they want. Some areas like the end zone upperdecks are really being compressed if people want to stay in the same type of seat that may not happen.

On the flip side for some losing aisle seats some will gain aisle seat that they wanted and couldn't ever move into. Some who wanted to be between the 40s but couldn't might get there now.

Money grab in some ways, but everyone had a chance to throw money at it if they wanted to jump around I guess.

For everyone who had a seat for 30 yrs there were others who waited for 30 yrs, who knows.

 

[David321]

I'm almost certain that we're going to lose our aisle seats but honestly that may be a good thing; casuals walking up and down the stairs all game long during live play was getting really old. Especially if attendance was up.

Most likely moving to a new section anyway.

 

[Chip]

My group of season ticket holders had 5 different accounts (me being a single ticket), so we went this route. We piled onto the longest held account. The caveat was that all newly added tickets were counted as $99 tickets, even though we all previously had seats in a section with donation requirements. So the account went from 3 tickets to 10, but not all seats hold the same donation rank. From what I understand, this holds regardless of where the original number of tickets were.

We did the same (unless you're one of the people in my group).

The $99 ticket still carries a donation, but a smaller one. They did this to try to keep it fair.

I had the most long time donations, so I became the..

 

[upperdeck]

so now you get to deal with the transfer of the tickets every week. Bigger deal if you all had Su Parking passes for some groups since you wont have as many as before.

 

[JRHEETER]

so now you get to deal with the transfer of the tickets every week. Bigger deal if you all had Su Parking passes for some groups since you wont have as many as before.

Also, In order to keep those seats in the future, they will ALL have to stay on that account.

If they don’t, they will be treated as new season ticket holders and will have to wait until after the “seat upgrade” process in 2025 where people will be able to go in and steal seats.


Also, ticket to parking pass ratio was what kept my group from doing this

 

[upperdeck]

You also loose other things like buying tickets earlier for away games and bowl games and such down the road. Everything has to now go through the one person.

 

[Chip]

so now you get to deal with the transfer of the tickets every week. Bigger deal if you all had Su Parking passes for some groups since you wont have as many as before.

That's fine. SU and/or TM have made that such an easy process. Takes 30 seconds tops. We've been doing that every week to shuffle around who goes anyway.

I'm also good ordering any away or bowl tickets. It's all so easy, and with Venmo or PayPal they send the money before I even order.

Local guy will get the keys to the kingdom for the parking pass.

If your group gets along well and none of them are deadbeats, then this stuff is really easy. And worth it for everyone to do what we can to keep front row.

 

[JeremyCuse]

Also, In order to keep those seats in the future, they will ALL have to stay on that account.

If they don’t, they will be treated as new season ticket holders and will have to wait until after the “seat upgrade” process in 2025 where people will be able to go in and steal seats.


Also, ticket to parking pass ratio was what kept my group from doing this

Ya that's something that could become a major issue. Also not to be morbid but if the person who now has all the tickets in his name passes away or for some reason gets out of the SU fball ticket game, those other people will likely be screwed, SU is very particular about transferring ticket accounts, if your not direct family your SOL.

Still I understand why people did it and don't blame them.

 

[Chip]

Ya that's something that could become a major issue. Also not to be morbid but if the person who now has all the tickets in his name passes away or for some reason gets out of the SU fball ticket game, those other people will likely be screwed, SU is very particular about transferring ticket accounts, if your not direct family your SOL.

Well, I hadn't thought about THAT, so thanks pal!

But who cares, I'll be gone so them.

 

[upperdeck]

perhaps make a general Gmail address that the group has access to, then you can contact the reps via email as needed and also change the phone number perhaps that the tickets go to as needed?

 

[Chip]

perhaps make a general Gmail address that the group has access to, then you can contact the reps via email as needed and also change the phone number perhaps that the tickets go to as needed?

I'll be using an aol.com email address for this.

 

[OrangeAl]

I'm almost certain that we're going to lose our aisle seats but honestly that may be a good thing; casuals walking up and down the stairs all game long during live play was getting really old. Especially if attendance was up.

Most likely moving to a new section anyway.

I'm hoping to keep my seats in the exact middle of the row. I don't need to get up to go to the bathroom or buy more food, but lots of other people do, apparently.

 

[David321]

I'm hoping to keep my seats in the exact middle of the row. I don't need to get up to go to the bathroom or buy more food, but lots of other people do, apparently.

Took me a couple years but I'm beginning to learn this.

 

[JRHEETER]

Took me a couple years but I'm beginning to learn this.

Or depending where you are in the dome, sit on the aisle where less view of the field would be impacted

Your usher should be doing a better job holding people until a stop in the action

Sounds like they might not be doing their full job

 

[David321]

Or depending where you are in the dome, sit on the aisle where less view of the field would be impacted

Your usher should be doing a better job holding people until a stop in the action

Sounds like they might not be doing their full job

Meh, maybe but I like my usher. I think there are just so many people that do it that it may be to big of an ask for them to police it. I do agree that if the aisles were to the opposite side of where I'm looking it'd be a non issue.

But when I have to look left and the aisles are left it's brutal.

 

[cusefan88]

Or depending where you are in the dome, sit on the aisle where less view of the field would be impacted

Your usher should be doing a better job holding people until a stop in the action

Sounds like they might not be doing their full job

It gets pricey but I prefer the last 4-5 rows of the lower bowl. Cheaper to sit on the away side of course but that doesn't bother me.

 

[richmondcuse03]

It gets pricey but I prefer the last 4-5 rows of the lower bowl. Cheaper to sit on the away side of course but that doesn't bother me.

Away side is just as much fun. Been sitting in 117. It’s always amusing seeing yourself on tv after. Just have to avoid getting thrown out for heckling Dabo. (He’s a good sport. Unfortunately Venables was not.)

 

[310Pigpen]

Or depending where you are in the dome, sit on the aisle where less view of the field would be impacted

Your usher should be doing a better job holding people until a stop in the action

Sounds like they might not be doing their full job

I really wish they would enforce this. I always wait for a stop in action before going to my seats and some of the ushers look at me like I’m insane while I stand there and wait.

 

[FrancoPizza]

I really wish they would enforce this. I always wait for a stop in action before going to my seats and some of the ushers look at me like I’m insane while I stand there and wait.

A simple PSA on the video boards before the game starts would be really helpful. Like how the movie theaters remind you to silence your phones.