Shame on season ticket holders!

gregbodkin

gregbodkin

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 As I was entering the game today I noticed many tickets in the hands of 'Cuse fans were the same as mine. This means many season ticket holders sold their tickets to the enemy. Shame on them! Unless they got at least 3 times the listed price ($225 per ticket) they should be ashamed of themselves!
 
 Does anyone know why St. John's stopped the ticket policy they used to have for Garden games? Remember back in the early Jarvis years when in order to buy Syracuse or UConn tix you needed to be a season ticket holder.
 
 seaon ticket holder, you have every right to sell your tickets for $300 each and pay for your season.the sin is the student who lavin and the school provided you with a cheap ticket and went out of their way to have you present.
the school has to monitor this better and not let the few ruin the student benefit for the majority
 
 seaon ticket holder, you have every right to sell your tickets for $300 each and pay for your season.
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After yesterday's debacle, you're really defending these fair-weather profiteers? 
 
 seaon ticket holder, you have every right to sell your tickets for $300 each and pay for your season.the sin is the student who lavin and the school provided you with a cheap ticket and went out of their way to have you present.
the school has to monitor this better and not let the few ruin the student benefit for the majority
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...signed Frank, the guy who sold his season ticket to a Syracuse fan for $300...
 
 seaon ticket holder, you have every right to sell your tickets for $300 each and pay for your season.the sin is the student who lavin and the school provided you with a cheap ticket and went out of their way to have you present.
the school has to monitor this better and not let the few ruin the student benefit for the majority
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No one is saying it isn't legal to re-sell tickets on Stubhub - I was just saying those fans suck. I also don't know why you needed to start a separate thread for this.

For my money I'll take a fan like mjmaher, who chooses to sit in the 200s because he likes the group of fans around him, is still a generous donor to Red white, and who just offered to help a recent grad pay for season tix in his section if a new grad couldn't afford it. If guys like him are the core of our fan base, then I'm proud to be associated with the program. If it is guys who advocate reselling big game tickets to invading away fans, ceding our home court advatnage, then I have little in common with you. Just my opinion.
 
 As I was entering the game today I noticed many tickets in the hands of 'Cuse fans were the same as mine. This means many season ticket holders sold their tickets to the enemy. Shame on them! Unless they got at least 3 times the listed price ($225 per ticket) they should be ashamed of themselves!
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Agree here. I would rather eat my tickets then sell them to a low life Cuse fan. The entire atmosphere yesterday was brutal for a true real fan as there was more orange then red in the stands. When I was in school, there may have been many Cuse fans in the arena but they knew their place. Today's a$$holes had no idea of any basketball etiquit. At one point I yelled out, " this is a St. John's home game damn it" at which point I was laughed at, cursed at and had to leave the arena so as not to lunge at someone and get myself arrested. Not that I would have gotten anywhere as we were severely outnumbered. All in all a real BAD day.
 
 Bottom line: any so called fan who would sell his ticket to a Syracuse fan yesterday is not a real fan at all and only contributed to the debacle of the day. Money or no money, fans like that, the program doesn't need. And if it were a student who did as such I have three letters for ya. G. F. Y.
 
 Agree with you all. It sucks when somebody sells their tickets.However,they still have the right to.The student must be forbidden for every from selling when they are obtaining them from the gennerosity of the school.THEY are ruining the program for the rest of us,especially the other students who honor and respect their priveledge. The school has to put restrictions and penalties on any student caught selling his ticket.
 
 Agree with you all. It sucks when somebody sells their tickets.However,they still have the right to.The student must be forbidden for every from selling when they are obtaining them from the gennerosity of the school.THEY are ruining the program for the rest of us,especially the other students who honor and respect their priveledge. The school has to put restrictions and penalties on any student caught selling his ticket.
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Ok I'm tired of being PC and being nice. GIve me a f***cking break with the "generosity of the school" crap. And you can't be serious that it's the students who are ruining the program for "the rest of you." Who the f*** are "the rest of you?" There were probably more students at the game than regular fans and if it wasn't for us there wouldn't have been any semblance of noise for St. John's. How can you seriously sit here and say that fans can sell their tickets as they please but the students are ruining the program for doing it. You people who sit here and do nothing but chastise the students need to get real. THE STUDENTS SUCK, AND THE REGULAR FANS SUCK EVEN MORE.

This obviously doesn't apply to the guys here who attend every game, yell and scream, and are as angry and embarrassed about this situation as I am. Just like it doesn't apply to the core students who attend every game and try to make it some sort of a home court advantage. But the few people on here who continue to blame only the students, quite frankly, need to shut up already.

And one other thing. Don't think I'm condoning students reselling their tickets. I've posted on here before how it makes me absolutely sick. I've gone to Monasch about it, and I've gone to the ticket office about it. Nothing makes me angrier than seeing a student with zero pride in their school and only looking to grab some extra dollars to pay for their alcohol. But to sit here and say it's fine for regular fans to do it but the STUDENTS are ruining the program? Get the f*** outta here.
 
to me all games should be played at CA... they should of tore down alumni hall and made it bigger, if we become a Power in b- ball this might be a possibility... a 10k-12k seating arena, i know MSG attracts players but i also think a GREAT PROGRAM speaks for itself too.
 
After reading numerous threads and speaking to a few people I feel that now that we have a big time coaching and staff and trying to turn ourselves into a big time program agai we need to hire big time basketball people in the ticketing and marketing department. I also feel that thoughts on how MSG is treating us in regards to opposition apparel, Knicks stuff all over the court, and ticket policies should be relayed to coach Lavin. Even though the administration doesn't have a clue I feel he definitely will and if he knows the fans are annoyed he might push to have things changed.  An email to him might not be a bad idea.
 
 Agree with you all. It sucks when somebody sells their tickets.However,they still have the right to.The student must be forbidden for every from selling when they are obtaining them from the gennerosity of the school.THEY are ruining the program for the rest of us,especially the other students who honor and respect their priveledge. The school has to put restrictions and penalties on any student caught selling his ticket.
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Ok I'm tired of being PC and being nice. GIve me a f***cking break with the "generosity of the school" crap. And you can't be serious that it's the students who are ruining the program for "the rest of you." Who the f*** are "the rest of you?" There were probably more students at the game than regular fans and if it wasn't for us there wouldn't have been any semblance of noise for St. John's. How can you seriously sit here and say that fans can sell their tickets as they please but the students are ruining the program for doing it. You people who sit here and do nothing but chastise the students need to get real. THE STUDENTS SUCK, AND THE REGULAR FANS SUCK EVEN MORE.

This obviously doesn't apply to the guys here who attend every game, yell and scream, and are as angry and embarrassed about this situation as I am. Just like it doesn't apply to the core students who attend every game and try to make it some sort of a home court advantage. But the few people on here who continue to blame only the students, quite frankly, need to shut up already.

And one other thing. Don't think I'm condoning students reselling their tickets. I've posted on here before how it makes me absolutely sick. I've gone to Monasch about it, and I've gone to the ticket office about it. Nothing makes me angrier than seeing a student with zero pride in their school and only looking to grab some extra dollars to pay for their alcohol. But to sit here and say it's fine for regular fans to do it but the STUDENTS are ruining the program? Get the f*** outta here.
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I like your passion for the team and the school! And I agree that we can't have a double standard. Don't lose that passion. Ever!
 
The game start times now make matters even worse noon on a Saturday stinks! Then everyone is trying to get in to the newly renovated crappy designed arena and then you're stuck for 10 minutes at the entrance being herded in like animals in a sea of Orange (or whovever the opposing team is) yelling and whatnot to boot. Very frustrating for us 'real fans'. Years ago you only dealt with it for UCONN and even then as someone metioned those fans could only get limited tix.
 
The game start times now make matters even worse noon on a Saturday stinks! Then everyone is trying to get in to the newly renovated crappy designed arena and then you're stuck for 10 minutes at the entrance being herded in like animals in a sea of Orange (or whovever the opposing team is) yelling and whatnot to boot. Very frustrating for us 'real fans'. Years ago you only dealt with it for UCONN and even then as someone metioned those fans could only get limited tix.
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Another good point. 12pm games are a bitch plain and simple. Plus you have to be there by 1130 just to get to your seat in time.
 
 I think if you really look into it, it is the TV deals that the BE has that require these time slots, not to mention the availability of MSG when the knicks are in town. Nothing is going to change on this
 
I assume that the Garden has the right to sell any unsold seats to whomever comes with the cash. Most of the SU attendees at yesterday's game were sitting in seats that are normally empty. Yes there were also many SJU season seats sold to SU fans & I doubt there is any legal way to stop either now or in the future.
Don't kid yourself, the Garden LOVED yesterday's sell out - food and beverage sales alone had to be in the millions of dollars. These events at public arenas are all about the money. I had 4 SU alumni sitting next to me in Sec.108 that are normally occupied by SJ ticket holders. I asked them how hard was it to get those tickets & they replied no problem as long as you had the cash. Since there are many "well healed" SU grads living in the NYC area there is no doubt they would pay plenty to see their #2 ranked Orange play at the Garden.......cheaper and better seats than going to a game the Dome. The only way to stop this is to put a top 5 ranked SJ team on the floor at the Garden which sadly may be many, many years away - if ever...
 
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