there have been several threads regarding attendance and estimates for this game. My sons Bday is coming up and asked to go to the game for his bday. I made my first venture to Stubhub. Several days ago there were just under 4000 tickets, last evening when I ordered there were 1100. Now there are 950. Don't know how this all translates into game day attendance, but it seems as though tix are selling pretty well on Studhub
MSU Attendance
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Stubhub removes "hard' tickets the day you looked, because they can't be mailed in time, that explains the big drop off in number on the site. That said, $80 each is an extremely high price on stubhub for the game during thanksgiving weekend. It's gonna be packed.
Penn State sells through TICKETMASTER
StubHub and the like are purely "re-sale" of previously purchased tickets
I'm surprised folks don't know this (but, of course, unless they have call to purchase tickets on occasion - - I suppose there would be no need to know)
Link to purchase via TICKETMASTER:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/penn-st...catid=8&tm_link=artist_msg-0_020050E8A83B7730
As shown there, there are THOUSANDS of unsold tickets.......and you can buy as many as you want for $50 re-sale, $60 direct from PSU (or $40, by having a student make the purchase). Even at that, when there are a lot of unsold tickets, PSU ticket office "drops" the unsold tickets into the market over time (I don't necessarily agree with their rational in doing so, but it is what it is......and I do not know for certain if they are doing that for this game or not.....my guess is that they probably do have all - or nearly all - of the tickets now "dropped")
I often buy through that site.....so I am quite familiar with the process PSU goes through.....and, certainly, this is either the most tickets available for any game - - - - or at least comparable to the levels available for the real clunker games (games against MAC teams in the OOC etc)
That's the way it always is since they started having these post-Thanksgiving weekend games.
For MSU:
The "visitors" sections are essentially completely unsold
The upper level of the South End Zone (the "chairbacks") are 1/2 unsold.
The upper levels between the goal lines (upper levels from WF-WD, and EF-ED) have gobs of unsold tickets....probably about 1/3 unsold on West side, about 1/4 unsold on East
And that doesn't even begin to tap into the "gameday" market.
That's just the nature of the beast for these "Saturday after Thanksgiving" games.
Just about EVERY stadium throughout the country experiences the same thing - - - - aside from the very few programs that still "sell out" (or nearly sell out) in the form of season tickets (UNL and a few other places)
StubHub and the like are purely "re-sale" of previously purchased tickets
I'm surprised folks don't know this (but, of course, unless they have call to purchase tickets on occasion - - I suppose there would be no need to know)
Link to purchase via TICKETMASTER:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/penn-st...catid=8&tm_link=artist_msg-0_020050E8A83B7730
As shown there, there are THOUSANDS of unsold tickets.......and you can buy as many as you want for $50 re-sale, $60 direct from PSU (or $40, by having a student make the purchase). Even at that, when there are a lot of unsold tickets, PSU ticket office "drops" the unsold tickets into the market over time (I don't necessarily agree with their rational in doing so, but it is what it is......and I do not know for certain if they are doing that for this game or not.....my guess is that they probably do have all - or nearly all - of the tickets now "dropped")
I often buy through that site.....so I am quite familiar with the process PSU goes through.....and, certainly, this is either the most tickets available for any game - - - - or at least comparable to the levels available for the real clunker games (games against MAC teams in the OOC etc)
That's the way it always is since they started having these post-Thanksgiving weekend games.
For MSU:
The "visitors" sections are essentially completely unsold
The upper level of the South End Zone (the "chairbacks") are 1/2 unsold.
The upper levels between the goal lines (upper levels from WF-WD, and EF-ED) have gobs of unsold tickets....probably about 1/3 unsold on West side, about 1/4 unsold on East
And that doesn't even begin to tap into the "gameday" market.
That's just the nature of the beast for these "Saturday after Thanksgiving" games.
Just about EVERY stadium throughout the country experiences the same thing - - - - aside from the very few programs that still "sell out" (or nearly sell out) in the form of season tickets (UNL and a few other places)
Can adults use the $40 tickets bought by the students if the student doesn't go to the game? Do they just need the student ID number?
Great insight ! Thank you... Curious based o. Your experience following the tix allotment process... How many people do YOU think will attend ?
I'm guessing 98,000... I'll be there with my family...so...98,004 LOL...
Student section is going to be atrocious, sadly, but as expected. They've been gone since last Friday.
PSU did not take any initiative to sell tickets for this game especially as it is the last game of the season and it's a big game. The whole upper section of WEU is available as well as the other areas mentioned above - nobody will pay the $140 general public / $90 NLC prices they are asking. Since they announced the repricing of the upper level sections for next year they should have reduced prices for all tickets to the MSU game to $55 for NLC members starting this week and then let the general public also buy for $55 starting this friday (to limit scalping) - and then advertised the heck out of it.
Student ID to buy them (they say limit of 2 per ID.....but that may be soft). Slide a few extra bucks to student , and they will be happy to buy them for you at the ticket office in BJC on game day
The tickets are not in student section - and anyone can sit there (there is no monitoring - or even intent to monitor vav "students")
They are EXACTLY like any other "public" ticket......
Many of the tickets they are selling this way are the "visitor allotment"......but also the upper levels between the 30s (I've bought those tix through previous "extra tickets to student sales)
I use - or at least look at - that site every game.......so it's pretty easy, and accurate, to use it as a estimator
Given the unique situation posed for students on these post-Thanksgiving games:
If the total of actual "real butts in seats" approaches 90,000.......it would be a miracle (and a VERY strong indicator of just how much interest there is in this team/game)
If the weather is decent - which helps with all the late-deciding folks who don't live too far away - I could see them at or near that 90,000 mark
(Which would probably correspond to an announced "sold" of 100,000 ish......since all the student tickets are technically "sold")
In the interest of full disclosure, I am the founder of Studhub.
it would depend on the students coming back early from TG with family. I don't know the history of our after TG Sat games. the other variable is bad weather. under the circumstances if we got 95,000 - 100,000 that would be pretty darn good turn out. I assume Sparty is not going to have many fans - as from a fans perspective their season is over. D'Antonio doesn't think so but the fans probably do. in a situation where the visitors have virtually no fans, it seems we do not get near the 106-108k numbers. drive hours and sit in bad weather to see Sparty lose (most likely) on TG weekend is not likely to resonate with many Sparty fans. even a Sparty win doesn't mean much for them. if I was a Sparty fan living in Boalsburg I might gander over to the stadium.
When many fans have to travel to the games, they like to have tix in hand. There are only so many minutes they get to spend on campus. They don't want to spend any of them haggling with scalpers.
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