If you're going to Texas Bowl, please buy your tix via SU...

[cto]

The school is responsible for selling a minimum number of tickets. If it does not sell them, it has to swallow them. Plus, in future years, during the selection process, bowls take into consideration how many tickets a school can sell.

 

[retro44]

one thing I do remember is if you don't buy the travel package they treat you like crap. My wife and I use to go to all the bowl games and for the peach bowl they strung us out until the last minute and when they finally sold us the tickets they had us in the endzone with about 3 other fans while the package buyers were on the sidelines. Peach Bowl was not the only game they did this, but these seats were the worse by far as we were in the upper deck.

The Hall of Fame Game they had us surrounded by Ohio St. fans. I remember meeting other Syracuse fans who did not live in Syracuse got the bad treatment as why would you take the Drumlins package when you live in other states.

until they treat the fans the same, I'm done as I usually make the bowl games a week long vacation. Sugar bowl was a 11 day ride and I did it cheaper than their 3 day package for two. Took the same flight as Doug Logan and stayed at the Sheraton at Canal and Bourbon St.

My sister and her boy friend took the drumlins package and their stay was not in a name brand hotel and was about two miles from bourbon st.

for the three days they hung out with us and avoided their hotel. Just my experience with their bad customer relations.

 

[cto]

one thing I do remember is if you don't buy the travel package they treat you like crap. My wife and I use to go to all the bowl games and for the peach bowl they strung us out until the last minute and when they finally sold us the tickets they had us in the endzone with about 3 other fans while the package buyers were on the sidelines. Peach Bowl was not the only game they did this, but these seats were the worse by far as we were in the upper deck.

The Hall of Fame Game they had us surrounded by Ohio St. fans. I remember meeting other Syracuse fans who did not live in Syracuse got the bad treatment as why would you take the Drumlins package when you live in other states.

until they treat the fans the same, I'm done as I usually make the bowl games a week long vacation. Sugar bowl was a 11 day ride and I did it cheaper than their 3 day package for two. Took the same flight as Doug Logan and stayed at the Sheraton at Canal and Bourbon St.

My sister and her boy friend took the drumlins package and their stay was not in a name brand hotel and was about two miles from bourbon st.

for the three days they hung out with us and avoided their hotel. Just my experience with their bad customer relations.

You can buy TICKETS ONLY through Syracuse. Here's a link.
https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/syracuse/EN/buy/details/13bowl

 

[snowycuse]

For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

-John Lennon

If you have the means go through the University...if you are a die hard Cuse fan on a budget do what you have to do as long as you cheer the Orange in Texas. Should never feel bad about saving a few bucks.

 

[retro44]

with today's technology you would think they could have a special code where you can call the stadium directly and have those tickets credited to the Syracuse allotment instead of being strung out by the the box office hoping to sell every ticket goes thru a travel agent they cut deals with. And from my personal experience, they treat fans who don't buy their heavily marked up travel packages like second class welfare cases.

The hall of fame game vs. Ohio St. was the last time I bought tickets from S.U.

By having a special code maybe the bowl reps. can actually see how many fans are true Syracuse fans that buy their tickets based on where Syracuse goes bowling.

I had to wait until the very last second before my flight to purchase tickets and there was like full sections that were empty between us and the Syracuse fans who got their tickets from S.U. in travel packages.

and at that point had my seasons for more than a few years.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Drumlins hasn't been involved with travel packages in years.

 

[retro44]

You can buy TICKETS ONLY through Syracuse. Here's a link.
https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/syracuse/EN/buy/details/13bowl

They will not sell over 4,000 travel packages from Syracuse preferred travel agents. When I go on trips it's for a week or so. Those travel packages give you no time to relax and enjoy life.

They could have rows blocked out in those sections for the longer term or

 

[retro44]

Drumlins hasn't been involved with travel packages in years.

they were back then...and that is what burned me.

drumlins was owned by SU until about 5-7 years ago..

 

[Moontan]

Use Mark's upcoming link/code.
Tickets will be credited to SU, you'll have decent seats and sit with fellow board members.

http://syracusefan.com/threads/texas-bowl-ticket-update.63430/

 

[cuseinchina]

You can buy TICKETS ONLY through Syracuse. Here's a link.
https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/syracuse/EN/buy/details/13bowl

Might want to get someone to call the post standard and tell them the importance of this. In their article they give links to buy through SU and links to buy from the bowl website without any indication of why it matters that you buy through SU or that the pricing is the same. Looking at the two websites without this knowledge, one might be inclined to buy through the bowl site. I'm sure they'd add a line to the article explaining why it's good to buy from Su directly.

 

[rrlbees]

SU doesn't do travel packaged anymore. They do have an agency they work with for those who do want a travel package.

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[Moontan]

Use Mark's upcoming link/code.
Tickets will be credited to SU, you'll have decent seats and sit with fellow board members.

http://syracusefan.com/threads/texas-bowl-ticket-update.63430/

That thread now includes the special link & code... Scroll down a bit, then buy your tickets.

 

[retro44]

SU doesn't do travel packaged anymore. They do have an agency they work with for those who do want a travel package.

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yes I know that.....here it is https://www.anthonytravel.com/syracuse/su-bowl/

but getting stuck in nowhere land for the peach bowl and then being surrounded by hundreds of OSU fans and seeing empty seats where Syracuse allotment seats was soured me and my bowl experiences. Trying to get my wife now to go is like pulling teeth.

the LSU bowl game wasn't as bad.

 

[Millhouse]

The school is responsible for selling a minimum number of tickets. If it does not sell them, it has to swallow them. Plus, in future years, during the selection process, bowls take into consideration how many tickets a school can sell.

what does this say about the bowl system?

 

[Upstate]

Use Mark's upcoming link/code.
Tickets will be credited to SU, you'll have decent seats and sit with fellow board members.

http://syracusefan.com/threads/texas-bowl-ticket-update.63430/

Only if I get to sit next to Cali.

 

[Millhouse]

this reminds me of season tickets. bundling charity with a product just screws things up. SU should just buy the tickets for whatever they have to buy them for then sell them on the market for whatever they're worth. if there's a gap, make some phone calls and hope for donations.

we have empty seats in between the 40s because they're trying to extract a sizable donation out of people who don't want to do it. we end up with empty seats. same goes for bowl games - at least that's the way it was with the packages.

 

[Jeepers]

Not really SU's fault, but I'm personally tired of spending a lot of money on these tickets and then seeing a Groupon etc. deal that drops the price to 1/4 of what I paid. Pretty frustrating.

 

[Scooch]

This process seems so archaic to me. We live in an age when I can pull out my iPhone, visit the StubHub app, Ticketmaster app, etc, and purchase tickets to an event within seconds AND have those tickets available electronically on my device when I go to the venue.

People seek convenience, they don't even think about *who* they are purchasing a ticket from. But this system is stuck in the 1970s by asking fans to completely change their behavior and facilitate some arbitrary need to assign ticket sale credit to a school.

Plus, my experience has been that SU sells lousy tickets. Maybe that's not the case now, but I know enough people that have tried to do the right thing in the past and gotten saddled with bad seats and won't do it again (I'm raising my hand here, I got burned buying tix through SU for a long-ago Kickoff Classic and vowed never again).

Anyway, there's gotta be a better way.

 

[Bayside44]

one thing I do remember is if you don't buy the travel package they treat you like crap. My wife and I use to go to all the bowl games and for the peach bowl they strung us out until the last minute and when they finally sold us the tickets they had us in the endzone with about 3 other fans while the package buyers were on the sidelines. Peach Bowl was not the only game they did this, but these seats were the worse by far as we were in the upper deck.

The Hall of Fame Game they had us surrounded by Ohio St. fans. I remember meeting other Syracuse fans who did not live in Syracuse got the bad treatment as why would you take the Drumlins package when you live in other states.

until they treat the fans the same, I'm done as I usually make the bowl games a week long vacation. Sugar bowl was a 11 day ride and I did it cheaper than their 3 day package for two. Took the same flight as Doug Logan and stayed at the Sheraton at Canal and Bourbon St.

My sister and her boy friend took the drumlins package and their stay was not in a name brand hotel and was about two miles from bourbon st.

for the three days they hung out with us and avoided their hotel. Just my experience with their bad customer relations.

Those things happened over 20 years ago.

 

[Bayside44]

what does this say about the bowl system?

It's a Chamber of Commerce event.

 

[Millhouse]

It's a Chamber of Commerce event.

uh ok ? and the chamber of commerce cares about which website tourists use why?

 

[Bayside44]

uh ok ? and the chamber of commerce cares about which website tourists use why?

No, these events are about who travels to patronize what city for the most part and who can sponsor what.

The website thing can probably be settled with an extra box on any site that you're buying from (What team are you rooting for).

 

[Millhouse]

No, these events are about who travels to patronize what city for the most part and who can sponsor what.

The website thing can probably be settled with an extra box on any site that you're buying from (What team are you rooting for).

i agree. measuring that by how many people buy tickets at suathletics.com isn't a great way to do that