Georgetown vs. Syracuse Ticket Fiasco-Fest 2011

I was at that game and we absolutely took over that building. I felt like I was in the dome….I freakin lost my voice at that game….next year, you could only buy that matchup as a package…..HA!

I don’t blame dem hoyas one bit…..us ORANGE tend to TAKEOVA!!!!

It only took the GU Alum I know 20 seconds to order single game tickets for me with no ‘mini-plan’ required. I call BS on that point.

If your looking to get the ticket package, wait until after the WVU game, so it will drop another 25 dollars. Its questionable because I have a hard time seeing uppers go for 75 dollars a pop as the week approaches and who know how much of that your going to be able to get back through selling the tickets when your out of town.

In general, as games approach people want to be able to unload their supply before the game. Verizon Center /DC has some pretty nasty laws for reselling tickets if the decide to enforce them (they generally don’t).

However if you really feel you need to lock in uppers @ 75 a pop (assuming it drops after saturdays game) then go ahead. Who knows maybe it drops another 25 after the next weekend game. Its all a educated guess at this point.

What kind of retarded business model is this? I want to make it more difficult for people to spend money on my school. Must have a group to buy tickets? And how is it they are all already sold out? I have a feeling we are going to see a lot of scalping for this one. Eff you Georgetown, you’re idiots.

amazing that it’s sold out but tickets are going on sale to students week of Jan 17 I believe…as for the mini-plan, if tickets are $100 for four games (boo, only upper deck seats), but $100 is what you will probably spend to watch the cuse game if you bought tickets solo. this way you can sell the extra games on the mini plan. go orange

I can’t say I’m surprised…‘Cuse fans travel well and have a lot of alum in the DC area. It’s just like when any game at MSG or the RAC or Dunkin Donuts Center quickly becomes a home game. My sister went to Seton Hall, and she went to get us tickets to the game this weekend but they were sold out. She said to me, “I don’t understand it, there are usually thousands of empty seats every game.” To which I replied, “Yeah, it’s sold out because it’s going to be another Syracuse home game. It wasn’t the SHU fans buying tix, it was ’Cuse.”

Same deal here, but SHU would rather fill the stands with opposing fans than have empty seats. I have a sneaky feeling there will still be a nice smattering of orange in DC come game day.

For 25 years the DC and Baltimore alumni clubs have received and distributed huge blocks of tickets to SU alumni and their friends. This year, like everyone else, we are being jerked around—first we were told we would know about our tickets by 1/03, then we were put off further.

We have already complained, throught channels—and I was contemplating writing to ESPN, SI, and whatever network broadcasts the game to let them know what’s going on.

However, I spoke to a friend of mine, and he explained that MD does essentially the same thing. I am told that we will be getting tickets (soon!) but some people do like to be able to make their plans in advance. I mean, it would be embarrasing to tell your sister you couldn’t make it to her wedding because of the SU v GT game, and then not get tickets to the game!

It seems like there should be some kind of NCAA rule about making a certain percentage of tickets available to a team’s opponents. This BS about ticket packages—and it exists in every sport at just about every level—is abusive, especially when the team is already getting a break by usin a public venue for the event!

Joe H.
Stevensville, MD