Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

[ericredaxe]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Technically all ND season tickets cost the same ($390), but there are 5 donation levels at which different seats are available for you to buy. Minimum level is $120 for upper deck corners, up to $3K to have a lower bowl seat between the blue lines.

Can you imagine how much the place would empty out of they tried to do this at Agganis?

 

[brassbonanza]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Really, for me at least, I think the Dates are equally important.... or at least to know that the games will be primarially on Friday and Saturday evenings as per usual.

The only issue with dates would be if the league has yet to release their master schedule. If they have, then there's really no reason not to. I've been told by people from within BU's athletic department that the reason they don't release until late is because they want to be 100% sure of all dates so they don't have to issue, and reissue the schedule with changes. I see their point there, but at some level, you have to weigh that against asking people to pay lots of money while largely in the dark about what they're paying for, especially for 13-14 with a completely new conference game structure and no guarantee that every HE team will be playing at Agganis. I'd say just give us what you have on June 15, if dates are tentative, make that clear.

 

[brassbonanza]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Can you imagine how much the place would empty out of they tried to do this at Agganis?

I'm not sure the place would necessarily empty out, but most current season ticket holders would probably just ditch those and buy single game tickets since there's what, maybe 1,500 season ticket holders? So 75% of the arena is available for every game? The exhibitions and ECAC games would be barren wastelands, the others probably wouldn't change much.

 

[Agganis]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Can you imagine how much the place would empty out of they tried to do this at Agganis?

It's a different world there. 12K seat arena and all of it besides one section is sold exclusively to season ticket holders at a minimum of $500 a seat and anything in the lower bowl over $1,100.... and there is a waiting list

Ideally I would like BU to take the upcoming PSU approach shown on pages 10 and 11 disregarding the actual prices they used. Put all the students in one endzone and have cheaper tickets in the other end. Make center ice and first row more expensive, because people will pay it.


ETA:

there's what, maybe 1,500 season ticket holders?

There have been between 3K and 4K season ticket holders every year since HAA opened.

 

[pirate]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Has, or will, the Freep ask the AD directly if he is assessing the current state of the team re: the coach's future? I know college hockey aint the MLB but by this time every person in the sox organization would have had some comment on the manager's future. I think it would be helpful to get the AD on the record and force him to start publicly supporting or backing off the coach. Can't let him do the "Sgt. Schultz".

 

[brassbonanza]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

There have been between 3K and 4K season ticket holders every year since HAA opened.

I remember seeing one of Ms. Brassbonanza's letters from BU Hockey, I want to say it was in 09-10 or 10-11 that itemized a bunch of things related to donations, and one of the things listed was that there was something like 1,800 season ticket holders or so. Don't remember the exact number, but I'm positive the first number was a 1.

That PSU chart is actually a great structure for Agganis to look at. Even the prices aren't that far off, maybe tack on a few bucks to each, but charging $15 for the endzone seat BU shoots at once is a realistic price for BU. Plus, I've always wanted them to move the students all to one end, the split thing is always a stupid idea. We posed the idea when I was a student to them of 116-120 for students, but they didn't want to do it at the time.

 

[ericredaxe]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

There have been between 3K and 4K season ticket holders every year since HAA opened.

I remember seeing one of Ms. Brassbonanza's letters from BU Hockey, I want to say it was in 09-10 or 10-11 that itemized a bunch of things related to donations, and one of the things listed was that there was something like 1,800 season ticket holders or so. Don't remember the exact number, but I'm positive the first number was a 1.

Are those numbers season tickets? Or ticket holders? If there are 1,800 season ticket holders, it is pretty safe to assume there are more than 3,600 season tickets.

 

[brassbonanza]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Are those numbers season tickets? Or ticket holders? If there are 1,800 season ticket holders, it is pretty safe to assume there are more than 3,600 season tickets.

Ah, OK, that might have been what it was, account holders and not number of tickets. Makes sense now.

 

[ericredaxe]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Well... I renewed.

I wonder how many tickets they assume for the free season ticket lottery.

If there are a lot more Sunday and midweek games next year with the new conference schedule, I'm going to be annoyed.

 

[mookie1995]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

The '02 team had potential. That was the "great" freshman class of Whitney, Maiser, McConnell, miller (which was their best year, the FR yr). Fields soph season when he took over for good from sharing with tapper. Decent co-captains. 12 guys with 20+ pts. Decent 6 dmen skating. Had the bye in Worcester then lost to umo as stated.

 

[Friend_of_BU_Hockey]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

If there are a lot more Sunday and midweek games next year with the new conference schedule, I'm going to be annoyed.

I heard there's a possibility next season's schedule (and beyond) might resemble a typical college basketball schedule. The first 2 months will be mostly, if not all, non-conf games, with conference play starting either right before or right after the holiday break.

If conference play won't start until the 2nd half, I can potentially see more midweek games in HE play, esp. against opponents where travel is not an issue.

 

[Rover]

Has, or will, the Freep ask the AD directly if he is assessing the current state of the team re: the coach's future? I know college hockey aint the MLB but by this time every person in the sox organization would have had some comment on the manager's future. I think it would be helpful to get the AD on the record and force him to start publicly supporting or backing off the coach. Can't let him do the "Sgt. Schultz".

I was thinking of this the other day. Wasn't Parker the AD's boss until a few months ago (the task force recommendation)? I bring it up because is it plausible he'd now tell Parker its time to take a walk? We might need a 2 for 1 special over in the athletic department (coach and AD).

 

[mookie1995]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

When agganis opened we got to pick our seats based upon our terrier points. And the premier sections were all high. Row J and up the single center ice block, row K and up everywhere else on the sides. End zones did not have premium sections as I recall.

We all got letter with our points and the blocks of time & day when you could call and reserve your selection.

 

[ericredaxe]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

I heard there's a possibility next season's schedule (and beyond) might resemble a typical college basketball schedule. The first 2 months will be mostly, if not all, non-conf games, with conference play starting either right before or right after the holiday break.

If conference play won't start until the 2nd half, I can potentially see more midweek games in HE play, esp. against opponents where travel is not an issue.

To some degree that is how it is now (at least with the exception of the beanpot all the OOC games are done by the end of winter break)... would make sense that with 7 fewer conference games the early season ones are the ones that go...

regarding mid-week... travel is not much of an issue now so hopefully not much will change.

 

[brassbonanza]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

To some degree that is how it is now (at least with the exception of the beanpot all the OOC games are done by the end of winter break)... would make sense that with 7 fewer conference games the early season ones are the ones that go...

regarding mid-week... travel is not much of an issue now so hopefully not much will change.

If this were the case, and say starting on Jan 1 they went to two conference games per weekend, with the single game Beanpot weekends, that would mean 18 conference games could fit in between the new year and the end of the regular season, assuming it ends March 8, 2014. That would mean either four mid week games during this time, or four randomly placed conference games early in the season. I have to think the coaches would want nothing to do with four three game weeks in the second half of the season and those four games would be played in the first half of the season.

 

[Agganis]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

If this were the case, and say starting on Jan 1 they went to two conference games per weekend, with the single game Beanpot weekends, that would mean 18 conference games could fit in between the new year and the end of the regular season, assuming it ends March 8, 2014. That would mean either four mid week games during this time, or four randomly placed conference games early in the season. I have to think the coaches would want nothing to do with four three game weeks in the second half of the season and those four games would be played in the first half of the season.

Regular season will end on March 1st, needs to be one week earlier to accommodate another playoff week. That alone could create more weekday games, or break games, or fewer of the 1 game weekends early in the season.

Normally I don't have a problem with deposit before the schedule, but this year when we have so little of an idea what the schedule actually looks like it is a bit more frustrating.

 

[ericredaxe]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Regular season will end on March 1st, needs to be one week earlier to accommodate another playoff week. That alone could create more weekday games, or break games, or fewer of the 1 game weekends early in the season.

Normally I don't have a problem with deposit before the schedule, but this year when we have so little of an idea what the schedule actually looks like it is a bit more frustrating.

The thing is that the total number of games is not going to change... so there is no need to cram more in after the break.

If anything (only a guess), I'd say we see October / Novermber being mostly OOC games, then some conference games in December, OOC over the break (holiday tourneys etc), then conference games (other than the beanpot) from there on out.

Heavier on the mid-week / sunday games would be a bad thing (at least in my eyes)

 

[Agganis]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

The thing is that the total number of games is not going to change... so there is no need to cram more in after the break.

If anything (only a guess), I'd say we see October / Novermber being mostly OOC games, then some conference games in December, OOC over the break (holiday tourneys etc), then conference games (other than the beanpot) from there on out.

Heavier on the mid-week / sunday games would be a bad thing (at least in my eyes)

There will be the same number of RS games (34) in one fewer week, so in overly simplistic terms the 2 games BU is playing against NU to end this year need to move to some other time during the year, so in that sense more games will be "crammed" in whether before, during, or after winter break.

 

[ericredaxe]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Interesting that when I renewed, the Hockey East "quarterfinals" were still an option to purchase in advance... so one way or another there must be a best of 3 series involved early in the playoffs.

 

[brassbonanza]

Re: Boston University season thread - strike 3! last man there turn out the lights.

Interesting that when I renewed, the Hockey East "quarterfinals" were still an option to purchase in advance... so one way or another there must be a best of 3 series involved early in the playoffs.

Has the tournament structure been determined? I haven't paid any attention to that, if it's been discussed.