NCAA Ticket Allotments
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I was looking through some old emails...
In 2015, PSU had all of their requests fulfilled, and the NCAA offered the NLC 200 ADDITIONAL tickets.
In 2016, PSU requested 1500 tickets, and received 750.
I was also looking at prices of suites...
2015 (St Louis) - $600/seat
2016 (NYC) - $800
2017 (St Louis) - $1275
2018 (Cleveland) - $1940
2019 (Pittsburgh) - $2000
In 2015, PSU had all of their requests fulfilled, and the NCAA offered the NLC 200 ADDITIONAL tickets.
In 2016, PSU requested 1500 tickets, and received 750.
I was also looking at prices of suites...
2015 (St Louis) - $600/seat
2016 (NYC) - $800
2017 (St Louis) - $1275
2018 (Cleveland) - $1940
2019 (Pittsburgh) - $2000
Adds/corrections;
2011 (Philly) - $300/club seat
2016 (NYC) - Two levels of clubs, Madison & Signature, one was $500, the other $800
2018 (Cleveland) - $1389/club seat through PSWC
The exponential increase in club seat pricing is startling to me.
That is the obvious downside but if there is one thing rust belt reisdents will do it is travel to fla
You would have to convince Tampa to submit a bid. Not sure why, but people don't seem to realize that the locations are chosen based on how much money the NCAA can make on the event, not by what is best for the fans, or the wrestlers for that matter.
Cleveland had a "club" section, $600 --- the middle sections
St Louis had the END ZONE club, you could buy a table, 4 seats, $2400 ( you had table service for food / beverage )
Pittsburgh has a LOGE BOX as well, 8 seats --- $2000 per ticket!
it's getting outrageous ---
who'd have thunk.. the oldest sport in the world that requires nearly no equipment would morph into a rich man's sport.. haha..
Oh no doubt. Obviously Tampa is a top 50 convention city so they know how to do that sort of thing. The key intriguing thing is they have an indoor stadium that is neither typically basketball sized (15-20) nor typically football sized (50). A good place to see what the market will really bear without the ridiculous minny cavern approach)
I paid $600 for my loge box seat through the season ticket holder of that box. A $1400 increase to the public is outrageous. The demand must be off the charts.
Turning into a rich man's sport was something that I noticed when wrestling clubs started to become popular.
As they get more and more competitive, all sports are becoming rich people's sport because of the amount of year round training, coaching and travel it takes to compete at the highest level consistently.
I tried to purchase 4, received none. Though haven’t received my refund yet either....
Oooh, my wife might go if they do that. And we could go sailing between sessions.
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got my rejection from lehigh today. said they were only able to get tickets for season ticket holders, some mini plan holders, and wrestlers' parents. i thought about buying season tickets to them to increase my odds of getting ncaa's, but i knew i wouldn't be able to go to any duals so it was a $150 gamble to increase my odds an undetermined amount and i wasn't willing to shell out the extra dough. kicking myself now.
In theory I am a yes, but since I do not have a rich uncle I know it is going to be outside my monetary constraints.
I am interested, but can't commit until I see what happens with the government shutdown.
Nova, sorry to hear you are being impacted. I live in MD and alot of people around me having a really rough time. I hope for everyone it gets resolved soon...
any updates on tickets from PSU? Last Friday, the ticket office said we would get the info "the week of Jan 21".
That probably meant they were snail mailing letters this week. I expect my rejection shortly as I am under 1200 points.
My Mom is retired and likes to spend her time doing surveys online for extra pocket change so I told her that if she spent that time this week calling around to some schools, I would pay her for her time. Well, she went above and beyond and called every school with a D1 wrestling program over the past few days. Exactly zero had any tickets they were willing to sell to her. The best she got was "We'll put you on a list if any become available." and that was only from a handful of schools. It seems like secondary markets are the only way to get tickets if you don't already have them.
True, but one mat can and will be used for thousands of matches, which makes the cost per match almost nothing.
If a guy by the name of vodka gets a hold of your moms information and offers to pay her to call compliance offices, tell her its a scam and report it to your local authorities.
True, also.
Still, it is much easier for a poor kid in America to play soccer or basketball than wrestling, because he would much more easily be able to find a field or a court as opposed to a mat. And even the cheap sports of soccer and basketball are already multi-billion-dollar businesses.
I guess I should have just let a throwaway comment (about rich man’s sport) pass without adding my comment ... perhaps unless my comment could have been made arguably funny. Next time!
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I spoke with the ticket office this morning and mentioned their promise of informaation "the week f the 21st". The ticket agent could not himself answer my inquery but put me on hold for a good while to find out what his manager knew. He came back to report that allocations to NLC members have not yet been made because they still have not recieved our allotment of tickets. He added that it would probably be "a couple weeks" before we would know anything more. This did not seem like accurate information to me as Cael has already stated he knows our alottment is less than last year. I have a lot of NLC points after 30 plus years of annual giving and never thought I might miss out on NCAA tickets, but now I'm starting to getting nervous!
I don't buy that either. Why would all the other schools know their allotment and PSU not have been notified? That doesn't add up at all.
Every single time I call the ticket office, or NLC, I receive a different story. It's obvious these people are just making it up on the fly and have no interest in passing on factual infomation to us. The email from last Friday explicitly states "The NCAA informed us this week of our allocation of championship tickets".
"Dear Penn State Fan,
We are contacting you concerning your request for tickets to the 2019 NCAA Wrestling Championships at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on March 21-23, 2019. The NCAA informed us this week of our allocation of championship tickets. The allocation is significantly less than in previous years. We know we will not be able to fulfill all the requests we have received with the tickets allotted to us. As we shared with you in the fall, the NLC point cut-off for the 2018 NCAA Championship was 1222. Based on the NCAA allocation and requested tickets, the 2019 NLC point cut-off will be much higher. We expect to inform you of the number of tickets we are able to allocate to you, if any, the week of January 21. Please note as we expect the NLC point cut-off to be much higher than in previous years, we are bringing this to your attention now in order to give you the opportunity to explore other ticket options."
Very good friend of mine is a proud Pitt alum. Donates yearly and has had season football/bball tix for 25+yrs. Figuring it couldn't hurt, and knowing he isn't a wrestling fan at all, I asked a while ago if he would request tix for the NCAA championships. Happy to say that he was able to get 4 all-session tickets. Upper bowl/2nd row and having been to many Pens games I know the view will be pretty good.
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