Season Tickets
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I've spoken to them about the delays. The problem.is that sources of priority points are stored in different databases, which works for the purpose of university advancement but not consolidated for the purpose of assigning priority points. For exsmple, for acclunting purposes things like planned giving may be stored in sepsrate databases since it is not an actualized donation. However for the purpose of calculating seating priority points are given a value.
I think the university is aware that aggregating, storing, and reporting data is something that needs (vast) improvement. Can only guess with the focus on major gifts as a percentage of overall giving, that information could be stored on a very small spreadsheet and serve a purpose.
Last minute rush of donations for the purpose of seating priority is an indicator that a significant number of season ticket holders flinched. I haven't inquired about increases, but if other schools are increasing prices by 15-20%, with a shift to more MSG games, we are likely at 20% or more.
In our case it's not only the price of success but the reality of paying to watch professional college basketball. It's great that Bill J ($32.5 mm), Repole (NIL) and a few others have pledged major gifts, but it's very clear every STH is going to pay more.
Paying more, when the product is vastly improved is worth it. Paying less and finishing in the bottom of the Big East as happened so often was no fun. Not having your team in the Big Dance year after year after year, even less so.
Growing used to the idea of more $$$ being shelled out but being relevant.
I just find it much harder at this point in the season to be as excited, with a roster filled with nouveau riche 1 year players who have less in common with other students than ever.
Seinfeld does a bit about rooting for your favorite pro team where he concludes that we are really rooting for uniforms, not the players in them.
In the past, an SJU student may have one or more players in a class over the course of his or her 4 years. Back then with a roster of local kids, they may have even been friends in hs.
Even the change from last year is dramatic - Wilcher, Brady, Vince, Luis each rotation players with eiligibility, all gone. It was fun getting to see them develop, meeting them at events, chatting about things other than basketball. Those days mostly gone for good, and the exception will be an occasional 4 year player.
All something to get used to I guess. I'm sure winning and being ranked will erase some lamentations.
But, still, a lot of this new system doesn't feel right.
CRP says play for the name on the front not the name on the back.
Seinfeld is right, I root for the name on the front not on the back, always have, always will.
Having attended University when it had a Staten Island Campus, never had a player in class and not friends in High School with anyone D1 good (except Mike Dunleavy Sr., but he went to South Carolina).
Beast, even before NILs, we had lots of great short-tenured players, a virtual Who's Who of St. John's star players only played here two years.
So, we all kind of got used to seeing our star players leave after 2 years, and some came from J.C., and had to leave after 2 years.
We only had The Truth Walter Berry two seasons.
Two year greats, Ron Artest and Erick Barkley, so many others.
Hey, before freshman could play varsity, even our best pros had three-year careers, not four.
With the portal, NILs and professional-level salaries, we will have our share of one-and-dones, unfortunately, a la Duke and the Blue Bloods, Liam McNeeleys of the world.
Ian Jackson is a perfect example. I heard him interviewed about leaving NC and going into the portal, and let's just say, it was not "roses and flowers" for deciding to come to St. John's, it was a business decision.
Brave New World.
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