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Skipper

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  1. Because there aren't enough flights to get 30K+ people from the Seattle area New Orleans. And regardless, with that kind of time and cost commitment, you have a significant chunk that will keep their powder dry for Houston in case they win. I will be surprised if uppers in UW allotment aren't at or below face by kick.
  2. For that one, I had family that couldn't come last second. I had their 2 endzone seats purchased at face. There was absolutely zero market. I ended up trading to a couple of guys on the golf course in exchange for about 15 beers and a couple of plastic bags with ice. Considering we were completely unprepared to tailgate and were about to walk over to the Texas Exes tent and pay $7/beer or whatever they charged, it was one of the best ticket deals I've ever made considering the market. I knew multiple people that couldn't unload extras at all. Ended up moving from my endzone to pretty good (unused) seats solely based on the extras floating around.
  3. I remember this as well. Had a buddy sell tix to a random couple in the elevator that were just Ole Miss fans in town celebrating New Years for about 50% of face for 300 corners and that was a STEAL compared to what he could sell on the market. Many tix went unused last minute that game. I don't think it will get anything close to that low for this one, but there is still a shit ton of inventory. I'm checking about 2X per day just to keep tabs on inventory and trends but not seriously considering buying at these prices yet.
  4. The biggest problem with Tickpic is lack of inventory. People just don't list with them. If exact seats you want are listed on multiple places by a professional broker, they may end up the cheapest. More often than not, their inventory is shit and much better deals on other sites. As a consumer, all that matters is the all in price regardless which is characterized as fees.
  5. If they hadn't already played that card in 2020 when they were about to get rolled, I absolutely think they would be looking for a way forfeit. As it stands, the potential to get your ass kicked is probably less embarrassing than the shit they would get for backing out of 2 bowl games in 4 years. Also, I don't know how bowl revenue is shared in the SEC but would think they can't afford to get more on Sankey's bad side than they already are.
  6. Unless you have a big group I wouldn't even start seriously looking yet. Seats from team allotments are just starting to hit the market today.
  7. A lot of that depends on where you want to sit although I still think all price levels drop from where they are. If you are willing to sit in shitty seats in the UW ticket allotment I would bet those end up pretty damn cheap.
  8. Pretty sure started getting access today as those started to pop up on ticketmaster when I checked a bit earlier. Same for the UW allotment. I still think prices drop significantly from current levels across all price points.
  9. Yeah, value of season tickets is convenience + playoff option. So somewhat always assumed we would lose money on resales but not to this level (particularly weekday games). We are probably 1 and done as a full blown season ticket holders. Just too hard to consistently make games with young kids. But will be nice come playoff if we make a run to not have to worry about tix.
  10. My definition of Net = Listed price less TM fees. So way under 'face'. Selling for $85/ticket total. Season ticket cost per game is > $150.
  11. Can't make it and selling 2 Stars tix for tonight if anyone on thread interested. Only netting $85 each after ridiculous Ticketmaster fees. 123 Row J.
  12. That looks like gemstone setting I had for TX-OU Friday party last year. But after a win, I go all orange. We have an extremely busy street for people looking at Christmas lights. I'm betting some non-Texas fans were wondering why all of the warm white with intermixed red and green around our house were topped off with Burnt Orange around the roof line the night after we won the Big 12 CCG.
  13. This is greatness. Another collective just needs to structure an agreement with indemnification for any losses with guaranteed representation from a friendly attorney pro bono. Let those fucking idiots "sue" a former athlete and see how that goes for them. Please let this happen.
  14. But they can fit plenty of the donors that aren't on Surly but receive emails from Texas Exes who, if introduced to Texas NIL efforts at the party, might consider contributing going forward. I just think having this email blast from the Texas Exes be about the party at Mannings could have really helped One Fund. Instead, we still have Texas Exes and LHF grabbing donors to fund their over the top administrative bloat.
  15. Is Texas One Fund not frustrated they chose to compete? I mean I don't think anyone is going to pay for both parties. The vast majority of folks at your event are going to be ticket holders. I'm still relatively confident prices are going to come down to a level that anyone that pays to stay in N.O. won't break their budget to attend the game. I just think no doubt their party is going to pull away people that may have otherwise ended up at Mannings. Especially "olds" that absolutely need to be introduced to Texas One Fund.
  16. Really seems like it's bullshit. @immamac - I'm assuming they were well aware of the competing event and didn't give a shit? Too many Texas Exes administrative salaries to pay. Absolutely ridiculous.
  17. Why the fuck are the Texas Exes throwing a competing tailgate siphoning $$ away from the Texas One Fund. Just got an email. Fuck them.
  18. That's insane. Wow. It's amazing how far SWA has fallen.
  19. I don't think anyone is disputing his resume. Nor is anyone disputing he would have been a huge hire in 2010. People are questioning whether it's still a big time hire in 2024.
  20. Yep. If people just want to get in the door I don't see any reason to not wait. I think the shitty seats will end up close to if not at or below face. The mid range to good seats are a bit more unpredictable. It all depends on how much inventory comes on the market from sponsor seats (i.e., employees that get them and list instead of attend). You have a bunch of high net worth donors at both schools that just got shitty seats that will be looking to flip and buy better. The large brokers are all going to collude, keep prices high, and play chicken that most of those individuals won't fly to NOLA without seats in hand. Those fans may very well buy up a bunch at or around current pricing. But if a significant amount of premium inventory hits the market from individual sellers (which I think is a possibility), you will see intermittent relatively decent deals pop up that sell quickly then have the same scenario that played out with Big 12 championship (where club level seats ended up at or below face by night before the game and day of game as the large brokers finally started discounting in tandem).
  21. I still think Sugar bowl goes down a lot. The demand for the championship compared to the sugar bowl is just not remotely in the same ballpark.
  22. Definitely agreed with this. Texas/Michigan will be 2005 Rose Bowl except playing out online instead of around the stadium. Will be fascinating to watch and painful to pull the trigger.
  23. I have zero problem with it. Nobody selling tix is even remotely recouping what they donated to be at the front of the line. With our fickle fan base, home games typically resale at a steep discount for season ticket holders with extras so they lose money on those regularly. I didn't make cut for the sugar bowl but would be trying to flip shitty uppers to help finance better seats if I did. I think people buying need to have some patience. I'll be a bit surprised if "get in" price isn't too much above face in a couple of weeks. The more team allotted tickets that get added to the resale inventory the better for those loooking.
  24. I made those purchases and I knew what they cost. My balance was about 25% higher than I expected because of how insane pricing for everything else is right now. So in the context of a chart reflecting peak credit card balances, it just reminded me of the exact conversation I had last night (without seeing the chart) that I don't see how this doesn't all blow up in the first half of '24. My prediction is one last big consumer spending push this quarter and then a big slowdown into first half of next year with a noticeable bump on delinquencies on cards, car payments, etc.
  25. For Big 12 champ tix I had good seats but purchased around 9PM Friday night before game for about a 60 or 70% discount of what the same seats were selling for the Monday prior. I'm hoping for a similar experience with the Sugar Bowl but not quite as confident we will see the same drop.
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