Huskers Sell out Public Tickets at Pinnicle Bank

[bobcat402]

Waiting list or 25 pages on Mikael, which will come first?

we can make twenty five pages happen easily...he is visiting this weekend, which means tweeting, waiting on BR to confirm or deny rumors....than next week we can begin sweating if Miami has him the pocket, does he have any prefrence on shoe companies...than the Hyperbole begins were we really and i mean really talk ourselves into this kid...than we freakout and start looking for another player and plan D, than he (Herbert) quotes random songs, in finnish (which means they will be extra and confusing...25 pages will be easy, lets shoot for 50 by next friday.

[Silverbacked1]

 

Waiting list or 25 pages on Mikael, which will come first?

we can make twenty five pages happen easily...he is visiting this weekend, which means tweeting, waiting on BR to confirm or deny rumors....than next week we can begin sweating if Miami has him the pocket, does he have any prefrence on shoe companies...than the Hyperbole begins were we really and i mean really talk ourselves into this kid...than we freakout and start looking for another player and plan D, than he (Herbert) quotes random songs, in finnish (which means they will be extra and confusing...25 pages will be easy, lets shoot for 50 by next friday.

 

Hate to burst the bubble but look above you Bobcat.

[49r]

wow!  That means they sold nearly 300 season tickets just today.

 

crazy.

[bobcat402]

 

 

Waiting list or 25 pages on Mikael, which will come first?

we can make twenty five pages happen easily...he is visiting this weekend, which means tweeting, waiting on BR to confirm or deny rumors....than next week we can begin sweating if Miami has him the pocket, does he have any prefrence on shoe companies...than the Hyperbole begins were we really and i mean really talk ourselves into this kid...than we freakout and start looking for another player and plan D, than he (Herbert) quotes random songs, in finnish (which means they will be extra and confusing...25 pages will be easy, lets shoot for 50 by next friday.

 

Hate to burst the bubble but look above you Bobcat.

 

oh well....saddens me to say i was wrong...But on the flipside GO BIG RED!!!! crazy we sold out,

[49r]

Not quite official yet, but I'm sure Rosenthal will get around to tweeting this soon:

 

https://twitter.com/HuskerHoops/status/330417391236435968

[Hooper]

I'm proud of the fans for stepping up and also sorry that I'm not one of them, but I didn't want to buy season tickets as an out-of-state resident and have my seats sit empty. Great job by the fans!

[49r]

https://twitter.com/lonnzy/status/330425306315894784

 

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[Red Rum]

I understand that there's a whole novelty of the new building, new coach, practically all new team, lots of momentum from the end of last year that drove us to this point in selling out season tickets. I understand that this might not be the case next year. But I'm still really proud to be a part of this. Also glad I improved my seats if only a little.

[REDZONEDAN]

This is awesome!  I'm glad I bought my 4 tickets when I did.  Out of curiosity, what is the per game cost for a lower bowl ticket (just the ticket price excluding the donation)?  Thanks in advance!

[trickey]

This is awesome!  I'm glad I bought my 4 tickets when I did.  Out of curiosity, what is the per game cost for a lower bowl ticket (just the ticket price excluding the donation)?  Thanks in advance!

These are the donation levels...ticket price per seat/game in 300 level are $5...200 level  $11...100 level...not sure app. $18...suites...in most worlds, priceless!y unfordable

 

Be there...BE LOUD!!!.

[Chuck Taylor]

I understand that there's a whole novelty of the new building, new coach, practically all new team, lots of momentum from the end of last year that drove us to this point in selling out season tickets. I understand that this might not be the case next year. But I'm still really proud to be a part of this. Also glad I improved my seats if only a little.

 

Agree. Why question it? Just enjoy something positive for the program.

[49r]

Surprised Miles: Sold Out Sign Just a First Step

 

As excited as he was, Miles reminds everyone he wants more than just a sold out sign to keep Husker fans motivated. “I want everybody to show up. I want everybody to stand up, and I want everybody to shout at the top of their lungs when they get inside the arena.

[Nighthawk]

BTW, does anybody know if these seats are significantly wider than those at the BOB?

They're going to be 20" wide. I don't know what they were at the BOB, but this article says they're 17" at Memorial Stadium and 19 1/2" at Pershing.

http://journalstar.com/news/local/arena-seats----wider-husker-red-and-made/article_d525b4e0-49ed-51fc-9ea7-f5abc4cc4fc0.html

You sure they are 17" at memorial stadium? My right butt cheek is in the isle most of the season due to having to make space for people. I'm thinking that the seats are closer to 10".

[Daledangdarn]

 

 

BTW, does anybody know if these seats are significantly wider than those at the BOB?

They're going to be 20" wide. I don't know what they were at the BOB, but this article says they're 17" at Memorial Stadium and 19 1/2" at Pershing.

http://journalstar.com/news/local/arena-seats----wider-husker-red-and-made/article_d525b4e0-49ed-51fc-9ea7-f5abc4cc4fc0.html

You sure they are 17" at memorial stadium? My right butt cheek is in the isle most of the season due to having to make space for people. I'm thinking that the seats are closer to 10".

 

 

There are some people that go to games that they just need to be told to buy two tickets, it gets ridiculous for us smaller folks.

[49r]

I just measured my office chair, and it's 20" wide.  Which seems to me to be about the same (if not just a shade wider) than the padded seats at the Bob are.  The plastic back seats must be 17".

[Silverbacked1]

The planks were as wide as my backside needed, except for the Kansas and Creighton games.

[Handy Johnson]

You can now walk into any recruits house in the Country and say "You WILL play in a brand new, sold out arena". The price of that can't be undersold.

[49r]

Yeah, I get that we have an energetic young coach and a brand new arena and that's driving sales in this case, in a few years we'll need to have a decent product on the court to sustain this momentum, but consider this:

 

Colorado "Football season ticket sales are on pace with last year's total of 21,000. Bohn said they have 75 percent renewals."

Read more: Colorado booster has given a $1 million donation - The Denver Post

 

...on pace for 21,000.

 

For football.

 

Heck, we could have gotten close to that for men's hoops this year I bet.  Yeah, sure, they'll whine about how they have so many more sports options and that makes it tough for CU to draw fans.  But they also conveniently neglect to remember how they have over 3 times the population to draw from, too.

 

Yeah, there really IS no place like Nebraska!  

[49r]

One wonders how long it will be before they begin serious planning towards building the rest of the upper deck out.  IIRC, they decided after only one season that Qwest arena was in need of expansion and they went ahead and put the rest of the seats in.

[Nebrasketballer]

One wonders how long it will be before they begin serious planning towards building the rest of the upper deck out.  IIRC, they decided after only one season that Qwest arena was in need of expansion and they went ahead and put the rest of the seats in.

Do you know what the capacity of the arena would be if they expanded the upper deck?  I wonder if Nebraska basketball would want to risk the sellout by adding seats.  But on the other hand, the potential revenue would be even greater for big games if they were able to sell them out.  It's an interesting thought though. 

[HuskerActuary]

 

One wonders how long it will be before they begin serious planning towards building the rest of the upper deck out.  IIRC, they decided after only one season that Qwest arena was in need of expansion and they went ahead and put the rest of the seats in.

Do you know what the capacity of the arena would be if they expanded the upper deck?  I wonder if Nebraska basketball would want to risk the sellout by adding seats.  But on the other hand, the potential revenue would be even greater for big games if they were able to sell them out.  It's an interesting thought though. 

 

Haha, "risk the sellout"? We don't have the nation's longest sellout streak, like football. We don't have ANY streak. Why we would worry about it "risking the sellout"?

[49r]

 

One wonders how long it will be before they begin serious planning towards building the rest of the upper deck out.  IIRC, they decided after only one season that Qwest arena was in need of expansion and they went ahead and put the rest of the seats in.

Do you know what the capacity of the arena would be if they expanded the upper deck?  I wonder if Nebraska basketball would want to risk the sellout by adding seats.  But on the other hand, the potential revenue would be even greater for big games if they were able to sell them out.  It's an interesting thought though. 

 

 

Don't know why I neg-repped you there, I didn't mean to.  Must have slipped when I hit the quote button.

 

I have heard that building out the rest of the upper deck would push capacity to about 18k...not sure about the voracity of those claims, but it would be nice if we could get to that point.

[Nebrasketballer]

 

 

One wonders how long it will be before they begin serious planning towards building the rest of the upper deck out.  IIRC, they decided after only one season that Qwest arena was in need of expansion and they went ahead and put the rest of the seats in.

Do you know what the capacity of the arena would be if they expanded the upper deck?  I wonder if Nebraska basketball would want to risk the sellout by adding seats.  But on the other hand, the potential revenue would be even greater for big games if they were able to sell them out.  It's an interesting thought though. 

 

Haha, "risk the sellout"? We don't have the nation's longest sellout streak, like football. We don't have ANY streak. Why we would worry about it "risking the sellout"?

 

Because when your tickets are sold out, the demand is greater.  When people are excluded from something, the demand generally goes up. 

 

And as someone posted earlier in this thread:

"You can now walk into any recruits house in the Country and say "You WILL play in a brand new, sold out arena". The price of that can't be undersold."

[49r]

As far as "risking the sellout" I think that what Nebrasketballer meant to say was that by having too much capacity, i.e. supply, you can actually negatively affect demand for your product.  To the point that it erodes your core fan base down to a tiny level (unless that product plays at a championship level).

 

That's why it's important to see how many people they can get on the waiting list for season tix, how many people they get to renew, etc.

[Nebrasketballer]

 

 

One wonders how long it will be before they begin serious planning towards building the rest of the upper deck out.  IIRC, they decided after only one season that Qwest arena was in need of expansion and they went ahead and put the rest of the seats in.

Do you know what the capacity of the arena would be if they expanded the upper deck?  I wonder if Nebraska basketball would want to risk the sellout by adding seats.  But on the other hand, the potential revenue would be even greater for big games if they were able to sell them out.  It's an interesting thought though. 

 

 

Don't know why I neg-repped you there, I didn't mean to.  Must have slipped when I hit the quote button.

 

I have heard that building out the rest of the upper deck would push capacity to about 18k...not sure about the voracity of those claims, but it would be nice if we could get to that point.

 

That would be pretty impressive if Nebrasketball could sell out 18k