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Gophers-Badgers: Not Good Enough for Mariucci

Re: Gophers-Badgers: Not Good Enough for Mariucci

Chuck Schwartz said:
And we don't claim VarsityWisconsin or UW 14.

I'll agree to disregard RinkPig if you disregard our two? Deal? You can even pick out one more bad apple if you have one.
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I don't even recognize them, so yeah, deal.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
A.) You are poor at making jokes is more obvious.

B.) Oh, so I never have to hear how Xcel is home ice for the Gophers again? Great, I was tired of that argument.

C.) First relevant thing you've said. Congrats.
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A.) I'll try to use more emoticons for your pleasure next time.

B.) If I don't have to hear how Milwaukee or Green Bay is home ice for the Badgers.

C.) Do I get an award?

:rolleyes: :confused: :D :o :p
 
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state of hockey said:
Now these are the things that we need to know.

Lucia's hair growing thinner and grayer = More Gopher losses. Look it up.
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I heard Minnesota is 0-9-3 in Lucia's career when his wife forgets to pick up his weekly supply of "The Dry Look" hair spray.

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Dirty said:
Good thing for the Gophers they don't play on Saturday this week then.
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Ha! good one.

All this one upsmanship on who did what on the last 8 games or 5 games is all crap. Wisc splits with teams with winning records and beats teams with losing records(except the gophers). That's one way to have a winning record. In November we split with them at Kohl Center, this is a big rivalry and last home series so gophers will SSSSSssss.s.s..s..s...s...split.
 
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Bakunin said:
I'm guessing most of the empty seats are corporate - so the employees of said companies never paid for the tickets. The only way to fill these unused seats is to sell SRO's and let people take these seats during the games (a better way would be to have the companies themselves surrender the unused tickets as punishment for leaving their seats unoccupied repeatedly).

As far as SRO goes, it's a ridiculous deal since the cost of these tickets is only a couple bucks cheaper than assigned seating is (at least it was the case when the U actually offered single game tickets for assigned seating a few years ago - I believe now the only tickets offered to the public are SRO). So basically to get in, you either have to buy on the street or go the SRO route - and then grab an empty seat a few minutes after the game starts and run the risk of being booted out when the actual seat holder shows up (since people come in notoriously late to Gopher games).

Beyond that, getting season tickets is a costly and difficult process. Either you go on the wait list (which is at least 2000 people deep I think) which drops only a dozen or so per season, or you go the donation route. The latter approach is really the only way to get season tickets anytime this century, and it requires a minimum donation of $500(?) per season on top of the cost of the ticket. I don't know about the rest of you, but forking over what amounts to $50 per game to see college hockey is *'ing ridiculous. Add in the time it takes to drive to / from campus in heavy traffic (particularly on Fridays) and the $10 it costs to park, and this pretty much becomes a no-brainer for most people. Why pay $60 per game + gas/travel time when you can watch it on a big screen in the comfort of your home on FSN?

Then there's the fact I could spend the same amount of money and go to a Wild game instead and see hockey at the highest level. If I'm going to blow $50+ per game, that route makes a lot more sense than going to Mariucci, doesn't it?
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You can go to a Wild game for $50? Lucky(in Napolean Dynamite voice)! I can't get Blackhawks tix in the nosebleeds for that any more. All the fair weathers have come out of the woodworks in Chicago and the ticket brokers have plenty of fibs with lots of extra cash who are willing to pay a lot to leach onto the Hawks now that they're good.

Didn't know that you had so many corpie tickets nor how much you have to "donate" to buy tickets. I have two Saturday tickets at the KC in the 200's row B on the blueline that I have to donate $25 each seat per season. So that's $50 total for the whole season. I have 4 Friday tickets in row A of the 200's in the corner that don't cost anything additional.

All I was taking umbrage with was the notion that there's so much to do up there that people aren't going to the games. They're not going to the games coz the current product isn't worth the cost or additional effort that it would take to secure a corpie seat. Same thing happens here and everywhere else(except Lambeau where there IS in fact NOTHING ELSE TO DO).
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
Ok, let's do it. I've bolded your idiotic questions.

(For reference, my questions earlier were realistic questions for real Minnesota fans in case anyone was wondering)
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I did make an honest attempt at answering your questions as I knew they were realistic, but I do not claim to have the hockey knowledge that some have on here, nor do I have the quick wit, which, as this thread shows, is clearly more necessary for uscho. :p
 
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Chuck Schwartz said:
And we don't claim VarsityWisconsin or UW 14.I'll agree to disregard RinkPig if you disregard our two? Deal? You can even pick out one more bad apple if you have one.
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RinkPig = vw = uw14. I'll bet you a 12 pack that posts from these "guys" are coming from the same address....his parent's address. :)
 
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Gurtholfin said:
You can go to a Wild game for $50? Lucky(in Napolean Dynamite voice)!
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Looking at ticketmaster, you can get lower level corner seats for some games (as long as you buy a pair of them) for $52.50 apiece before the fees. After the fees, the seats cost around $60 - which is still very reasonable for a lower level seat at an NHL game. Note: these tickets include a voucher for a brat and a drink (or a bud light), and the seats are normally $85. I'm guessing it's a special to get people to go to lower-demand games.
Didn't know that you had so many corpie tickets nor how much you have to "donate" to buy tickets.
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Yeah, it's terrible. Many of the seats between the bluelines are corporate (think gold M seats on tv that are often empty). The donations are done because the U can get away with demanding them - when you have a season ticket wait list a couple thousand deep that moves like 10 spots per year, obviously, some of these people will get sick of waiting and will just pony up the $$$ to get seats now. I don't think it's worth the cost, and many others don't either - so despite the fact we are clearly devout fans who have followed the team for many years, we aren't in the building. I used to attend a few games a year, buying SRO's to 4 games or so - but I thought it just wasn't worth the cost / hassle to do that. I could go to a game at any other school in the country for less than this and not be forced to deal with the SRO bull**** of moving from seat to seat when the idiotic late-arriving morons show up to claim them. As Brent mentioned before, you could go up to Houghton when UW plays there, and you could probably land 3 tickets in a great seating area (between the bluelines) for the same cost as a single ticket at Mariucci + parking. :eek:
All I was taking umbrage with was the notion that there's so much to do up there that people aren't going to the games. They're not going to the games coz the current product isn't worth the cost or additional effort that it would take to secure a corpie seat. Same thing happens here and everywhere else(except Lambeau where there IS in fact NOTHING ELSE TO DO).
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Cost, limited ticket availability, having to deal with SRO or scalpers, traffic, and parking are all huge factors. Other entertainment options are certainly there as well, but I would consider them to be a secondary factor in all of this. Most of the people who would go to a Gopher game are primarily hockey fans. A musical in downtown Minneapolis isn't going to dissuade them from going to a hockey game. So the real choice being made is whether or not they want to attend a hockey game - if they do, then it's whether or not to go to Mariucci, the X, or a local high school game. The other source of competition is ironically the Gophers being on tv - while the contract generates money for the U, it also keeps a lot of people at home. Why deal with all the issues I named when you can comfortably sit at home, drink, and watch the team on a huge tv?
 
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