Season Ticket Holders Changes 2025-26

Redenbacher said:
FWIW- here is what Gonzaga and Kansas did with their reseating for existing season ticket holders. Based on Kull's email, it sounds like SJU will be similar:

(1) You rack up "priority points" by making donations to the school, NIL contributions etc. You also get points for being an existing season ticket holder, the longer the better.

(2) Based on your "priority points", you are assigned a "seat selection window"- a specific timeframe in which you can select your new seats. People with the highest "priority points" get to select their seats first. By the time you get to your "seat selection window", your old seats may still be available, or maybe not.

(3) In the case of Gonzaga, you don't need to pay upfront for your season tickets until you see what's available during your "seat selection window". If you don't like what you see, you don't have to buy the tickets. I'm not sure about Kansas.

(4) Gonzaga says you cannot "reserve" your existing seats in advance - you have to go by the process above. Kansas allows it, but you have to make a huge contribution ($50k).

(4) This is for the existing season ticket holders. They get first crack at the whole process. Then when they are finished, other people jump in, I'm not sure exactly how they do that.

Not sure if SJU will follow the same approach. But I have a feeling they are not going to try to reinvent the wheel and will do something similar.

Fun times!
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they’ve done something similar in the recent past, no? It wasn’t a full reseating but they did have windows open up based on Priority Points and you were able to upgrade your seats if any were available. This sounds pretty similar to that except all seats will be up for grabs.
 
Hardy said:
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but they’ve done something similar in the recent past, no? It wasn’t a full reseating but they did have windows open up based on Priority Points and you were able to upgrade your seats if any were available. This sounds pretty similar to that except all seats will be up for grabs.
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Yes, except the new wrinkle here is that you get priority points for donating to NIL.
 
Redenbacher said:
FWIW- here is what Gonzaga and Kansas did with their reseating for existing season ticket holders. Based on Kull's email, it sounds like SJU will be similar:

(1) You rack up "priority points" by making donations to the school, NIL contributions etc. You also get points for being an existing season ticket holder, the longer the better.

(2) Based on your "priority points", you are assigned a "seat selection window"- a specific timeframe in which you can select your new seats. People with the highest "priority points" get to select their seats first. By the time you get to your "seat selection window", your old seats may still be available, or maybe not.

(3) In the case of Gonzaga, you don't need to pay upfront for your season tickets until you see what's available during your "seat selection window". If you don't like what you see, you don't have to buy the tickets. I'm not sure about Kansas.

(4) Gonzaga says you cannot "reserve" your existing seats in advance - you have to go by the process above. Kansas allows it, but you have to make a huge contribution ($50k).

(4) This is for the existing season ticket holders. They get first crack at the whole process. Then when they are finished, other people jump in, I'm not sure exactly how they do that.

Not sure if SJU will follow the same approach. But I have a feeling they are not going to try to reinvent the wheel and will do something similar.

Fun times!
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I can live with this. After years of dealing with SJU I’m afraid they will just send an invoice with my new seats in the parking lot of CA.

Including MSG games.
 
Coaster said:
But there are no plans on the horizon to build one here. So we suffer in a glorified HS gym.
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Isn’t it apparent yet that the Garden is and will be our “real arena”? Won’t be anything more than cosmetic changes made to Carnessecca,
where the women will play their games and the men will have a handful of OOC cream puffs.

Pitino’s plan is to make every SJ game at the Garden a must see NYC event, and if he can make and keep us nationally relevant, it is entirely possible.

Madison Square Garden is and will be the team’s identity, and a major tool for recruiting and retaining talent. Never going to be a new on campus arena.
 
lycidas said:
Isn’t it apparent yet that the Garden is and will be our “real arena”? Won’t be anything more than cosmetic changes made to Carnessecca,

Madison Square Garden is and will be the team’s identity, and a major tool for recruiting and retaining talent. Never going to be a new on campus arena.
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This topic comes up every year, year after year.
I don’t know why people find this so hard to accept. Even if we had the 100 million dollars it would probably cost to build a new on campus arena, and that is a huge if, if not impossible, there is no space on campus, it would be a terrible return on investment, and I doubt the zoning by-laws would ever allow a substantially larger arena to be built in what is a densely populated residential area.
Read lycidas post above, it is just not going to happen.
 
Hardy said:
I think donations only count toward points if made during the previous fiscal year. Otherwise they reset (at least that’s how it’s been in the past). Of course none of that info is in the email so idk
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Donations to athletic department adds priority points dollar per point. This time they are factoring in university donations for the first time, also NIL
 
lycidas said:
Isn’t it apparent yet that the Garden is and will be our “real arena”? Won’t be anything more than cosmetic changes made to Carnessecca,
where the women will play their games and the men will have a handful of OOC cream puffs.

Pitino’s plan is to make every SJ game at the Garden a must see NYC event, and if he can make and keep us nationally relevant, it is entirely possible.

Madison Square Garden is and will be the team’s identity, and a major tool for recruiting and retaining talent. Never going to be a new on campus arena.
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All true but Pitino is coming to love the real impenetrable homecourt advantage CA gives us
 
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