Big 10 Paying $75 For Seat Fillers to Watch Title Game?

Flying Headbutt · Dec 1, 2011

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Clemson and Virginia Tech meeting in North Carolina at least gives the ACC a chance. Both schools travel relatively well, and it's only a few hours away.

Really, these games should be played at the better team's home field if you really want a crowd.

93Devil · Dec 1, 2011

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Which pays better?

Watching the game as a fan for this company or busting your ass stringing the game?

Mystery Meat II · Dec 1, 2011

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Steak Snabler said:

Second Thoughts said:

Are any of the conference title games meaningful this year?
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C-USA. Houston doesn't get a BCS bowl bid without winning.

And honestly, attendance at the Big 12 championship game will still probably look like the US Festival compared to any of the ACC title games without Florida State playing in them.
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Sold out last year, sold out this year. Not coincidentally, both games were held in Charlotte.

three_bags_full · Dec 1, 2011

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dixiehack said:

Sparty was well represented at the Cap One Bowl too, at least before halftime.
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Nice.

Michael_ Gee · Dec 1, 2011

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Getting paid to watch a rematch of the most exciting game of the year seems like a good deal to me. My guess is these tickets were owned by a coalition of Omaha ticket and travel agencies.

Pancamo · Dec 1, 2011

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dixiehack said:

SEC Championship could be a soft ticket. LSU fans have little incentive to go, and UGa fans are convinced their team is doomed.
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Darren Rovell sent out a tweet the other day saying tickets average $350 for last year's SECC and this year it was hovering around $125.

LongTimeListener · Dec 1, 2011

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Layman said:

Something about this just isn't adding up for me.

As a disclaimer, I'm attending & really looking forward to it. Also, I'm a huge fan of having it in Indy. It's a central location for the conference & downtown Indy is terrific. So much (food & bar wise) is located in close (& safe) walking distance of the stadium, the convention center (where most of the related "events" are taking place) is connected to the stadium & there's plenty to do downtown (NCAA hall of champions, etc) during the day on Saturday. Contrary to some of the previous posts, I think Indy is the PERFECT place to hold the game.

When the tickets went on sale (July, I think), the demand seemed very high. I was one of the dorks who was on Ticketmaster, hitting refresh, as soon as they went on sale. The game showed as "sold out".....and stories were run stating it was sold out....within an hour of tickets going on sale. I had friends try to buy tickets after that date...still showed "sold out", with the exception of the blocks being held for the two schools. Now they're having to pay folks to fill the stadium? WTF am I missing? Did they have blocks held for sponsors? SOMEthing doesn't sound right....
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There's a pretty common trick of "selling" large chunks of tickets to a re-seller, and sometimes even one that is just a subsidiary of the team itself. I think it was the Cubs that were caught doing this. But that's a big feature of why StubHub is the "official" re-seller for a lot of teams, they get this kind of treatment.

Wouldn't be surprised to learn that re-sellers "bought" many of the tickets from the B10 in this manner. If they declared it a sellout way back when, why is even StubHub selling tickets for $7, as another blog (I think NYT) wrote yesterday?

trifectarich · Dec 1, 2011

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I hope someone from AP has the common sense not to include an attendance figure in its agate. Or include a notation. I think it would be nice to see . . . Att.: 61,785-f. (f—fraudulent)

Stitch · Dec 1, 2011

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93Devil said:

Which pays better?

Watching the game as a fan for this company or busting your ass stringing the game?
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Watching.

Bob Cook · Dec 1, 2011

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LongTimeListener said:

Layman said:

Something about this just isn't adding up for me.

As a disclaimer, I'm attending & really looking forward to it. Also, I'm a huge fan of having it in Indy. It's a central location for the conference & downtown Indy is terrific. So much (food & bar wise) is located in close (& safe) walking distance of the stadium, the convention center (where most of the related "events" are taking place) is connected to the stadium & there's plenty to do downtown (NCAA hall of champions, etc) during the day on Saturday. Contrary to some of the previous posts, I think Indy is the PERFECT place to hold the game.

When the tickets went on sale (July, I think), the demand seemed very high. I was one of the dorks who was on Ticketmaster, hitting refresh, as soon as they went on sale. The game showed as "sold out".....and stories were run stating it was sold out....within an hour of tickets going on sale. I had friends try to buy tickets after that date...still showed "sold out", with the exception of the blocks being held for the two schools. Now they're having to pay folks to fill the stadium? WTF am I missing? Did they have blocks held for sponsors? SOMEthing doesn't sound right....
Click to expand...

There's a pretty common trick of "selling" large chunks of tickets to a re-seller, and sometimes even one that is just a subsidiary of the team itself. I think it was the Cubs that were caught doing this. But that's a big feature of why StubHub is the "official" re-seller for a lot of teams, they get this kind of treatment.

Wouldn't be surprised to learn that re-sellers "bought" many of the tickets from the B10 in this manner. If they declared it a sellout way back when, why is even StubHub selling tickets for $7, as another blog (I think NYT) wrote yesterday?
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Current StubHub rates for Big Ten championship:

http://www.stubhub.com/big-ten-championship-football-tickets/2011-big-ten-championship-football-12-3-2011-1703620/

Range from $12-200. 3,600 tickets available.

By the way, these count as sold tickets. If the Big Ten got full price for them -- success!

Matt1735 · Dec 1, 2011

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Steak Snabler said:

Second Thoughts said:

Are any of the conference title games meaningful this year?
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C-USA. Houston doesn't get a BCS bowl bid without winning.

And honestly, attendance at the Big 12 championship game will still probably look like the US Festival compared to any of the ACC title games without Florida State playing in them.
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The Texas-Plus-9 conference doesn't have a championship game. Bedlam is just the last regular-season contest.

Layman · Dec 1, 2011

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LongTimeListener said:

Layman said:

Something about this just isn't adding up for me.

As a disclaimer, I'm attending & really looking forward to it. Also, I'm a huge fan of having it in Indy. It's a central location for the conference & downtown Indy is terrific. So much (food & bar wise) is located in close (& safe) walking distance of the stadium, the convention center (where most of the related "events" are taking place) is connected to the stadium & there's plenty to do downtown (NCAA hall of champions, etc) during the day on Saturday. Contrary to some of the previous posts, I think Indy is the PERFECT place to hold the game.

When the tickets went on sale (July, I think), the demand seemed very high. I was one of the dorks who was on Ticketmaster, hitting refresh, as soon as they went on sale. The game showed as "sold out".....and stories were run stating it was sold out....within an hour of tickets going on sale. I had friends try to buy tickets after that date...still showed "sold out", with the exception of the blocks being held for the two schools. Now they're having to pay folks to fill the stadium? WTF am I missing? Did they have blocks held for sponsors? SOMEthing doesn't sound right....
Click to expand...

There's a pretty common trick of "selling" large chunks of tickets to a re-seller, and sometimes even one that is just a subsidiary of the team itself. I think it was the Cubs that were caught doing this. But that's a big feature of why StubHub is the "official" re-seller for a lot of teams, they get this kind of treatment.

Wouldn't be surprised to learn that re-sellers "bought" many of the tickets from the B10 in this manner. If they declared it a sellout way back when, why is even StubHub selling tickets for $7, as another blog (I think NYT) wrote yesterday?
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The worst part is, I'd have bought better tix, if allowed / available. My seats are fine (almost identical to my Colts seats), but would have spent some extra cash to get down a deck lower. Had no option, at the time.

The whole thing just kind of smells. Whether blocks were held for big wholesalers....or in anticipation of gouging fans from a team that didn't make it, but would have traveled better (tOSU, Michigan)...the B1G (or, the Indy Convention Cntr, who actually is running the event) certainly seems to have screwed the pooch on this one. Don't believe it had to be this way.

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