Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

[SAEMike]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

You have photos? Why don't you post them then? What do you got to lose?

This site won't let me post photos. They are on my Facebook and I might soon make a public Facebook page addressing this "Seat Mafia".

 

[Seawolf Fan]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

So your saying that the customer is not always right? Many/all business owners would refute this statement. But because UAA sucked for so many years, it makes it ok under these circumstances. WOW.

The customer is always right only within reason.
This jerk (I really don't care how many games he's attended, he has no more rights than the first time attendee) is a scofflaw.
UAA has made the decision not to sell tickets for seats in the upper balcony.
He bought a ticket for a specific seat not a ticket to sit anywhere he wanted.
Using his reasoning he can buy a ticket to sit in coach class on an airplane and sit in a first class seat if it's empty.
Try it and after being asked to move and refusing see how long it is before he's speaking with a law enforcement officer.
UAA is not selling tickets to sit in the upper balcony.
Deal with it.
The customer is only right within reason.

 

[SAEMike]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

The customer is always right only within reason.
This jerk (I really don't care how many games he's attended, he has no more rights than the first time attendee) is a scofflaw.
UAA has made the decision not to sell tickets for seats in the upper balcony.
He bought a ticket for a specific seat not a ticket to sit anywhere he wanted.
Using his reasoning he can buy a ticket to sit in coach class on an airplane and sit in a first class seat if it's empty.
Try it and after being asked to move and refusing see how long it is before he's speaking with a law enforcement officer.
UAA is not selling tickets to sit in the upper balcony.
Deal with it.
The customer is only right within reason.

Who owns the team? For that matter, who owns the Sullivan Arena?

 

[Suze]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

They are full of it. The lower bowl was full of empty seats and the "extra" 350 seats are the ones in the balcony that's already open. If they "opened up" more of the balcony, why was the seat mafia swarming people with five or more staff members trying to kick them out? They are full of it. People started sitting there and refusing to leave and UAA staff gave up. I watched it happen and I have photos.

I'll admit that there was confusion as to why the balcony was opened up when there were empty seats down below - but the mezzanine seats were all sold out. Sponsors might not have shown up, students who picked up their free tickets in advance may not have shown up (no big surprise there), and those who had season tickets may not have attended. These seats showed up as "tickets sold" and the seats cannot be sold a second time. You know what, they actually had to open up additional stock on Ticketmaster for those who wanted to purchase at the door, meaning they had to open up the balcony for seating. Yes, there were lots of seats open, I agree with you on that, but they weren’t available on the manifest to purchase because they had already been purchased prior.

You can choose to disbelieve this, (and you probably will) but it is the truth. Another reason why there were so many empty seats in the south mezzanine is because once the balcony opened up people who had purchased tickets in the lower bowl moved up there. Sully staff didn't check their tickets like they should have. Do me a favor, go to the Guns & Hoses game this year - get there early, and try to sit in the balcony. They will have chains across there so you can't get through. You will have bought a general admission ticket, meaning in theory you should be able to sit anywhere you want, except you WON'T be allowed to sit in the balcony if the lower bowl is not full. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

Look Mike, you wanted some big changes at UAA, and they have stepped up to the plate and have made big changes and they are trying to make things better for the hockey program. According to the article Doyle Woody wrote, the new coach wants the balcony closed off - he has undertaken a program that has had a lot of problems, and he is trying to get it back on track. Give him a chance. Give the changes a chance. I'm sure the Sullivan Arena staff will be discussing all of this, as will UAA administration. I know that Sullivan Arena staff were in a meeting about the seating before the UAA game on Saturday night. Please wait and see what they come up with before publishing a lot of negative stuff on facebook or the ADN, ok? If you are a true fan and want hockey to succeed at UAA, have some patience and see how this all shakes out.

 

[Suze]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

I do this all the time. Every month, I have a big fight with the bank and tell them I paid the house and car payments but somehow they lost it. They just say sorry for the error and say they will credit my accounts.

How did I miss this post? LOL.

 

[Alaska Hockey]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

Also, nobody's told me why it would be the end of the world to allow general admission seating in two sections of the balcony? Should rock concerts force everyone into the mosh pit? Give people choice.

The Sully has moved up in the societal hierarchy in ticketing for UAA Hockey. They have deleted most seats related with bus type seating (go sit where you want) and have more like airlines seat selection. You were offered a seat; you bought it, now go sit in it.

If I “owned “the Sullivan Arena or just the UAA Hockey team all seats would be sold like reserved seats and with a stipulation if not in your “purchased” seat and the yellow vest’s have been advised of a difficulty with you while seating in your “upgraded seat” to one not purchased by you is cause for a mandatory walk to the closest no reentry door and escorted out.

Alienating fans is not the way to go, especially when those fans OWN THE TEAM. Regardless of what Tim McDiffett thinks, he does NOT own this team.

If you "own the team" you also "possess the UAA Campus" when are you going to build more dorms? They need more dorms for 20,000 students than 946. And a student center and additional parking and all with plug-ins and while you are at it toss in 3 or 4 of those Battery vans .......How about spoiling UAA like you do to the campus in _airbanks. Man up and get this done. Better email Capt Zero and say........"Take a stand"

 

[SAEMike]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

Suze - Being a fan does not me being blindly loyal to bad leadership that makes decisions in a public university unilaterally and without public and student input. This was the problem with Dr. Cobb and a major part of the problem is that Tim McDiffett is of the exact same mindset. I won't be blindly loyal to anything, or anyone - ever. If someone is doing something, I will speak my mind. Thankfully I have column space in the ADN, talk radio hours and a huge Facebook audience to make my argument to, and I will continue making it.

I would be happy to include with my argument the Universities side and temper my comments, especially if they were open to compromise. However, sadly they are not. When I try to discuss this with them, I get short "form letter" type responses and the department is unbendable in the decisions they've made, as they were for the entirety of Dr. Cobb's tenure. When they decide to compromise and consider the possibility that there are ideas out there other than theirs that might be good ones, please let me know, I'd be happy to talk to them. I reach out to them on a regular basis. michaeldingman@gmail.com

 

[Seawolf Fan]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

Who owns the team? For that matter, who owns the Sullivan Arena?

Your attitude is way out of bounds. You just don't get it. You don't own anything. Unfortunatly for the rest of us you are a member of a community that has a structure. Elected officials make many decisions, some not popular to all members of the community. See if you can wrap your brain around that last sentence and follow it down to your "point". Those who are effective work within the rules which the community has set up. Those who don't follow the community rules end up in trouble with the community.

 

[SAEMike]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

Your attitude is way out of bounds. You just don't get it. You don't own anything. Unfortunatly for the rest of us you are a member of a community that has a structure. Elected officials make many decisions, some not popular to all members of the community. See if you can wrap your brain around that last sentence and follow it down to your "point". Those who are effective work within the rules which the community has set up. Those who don't follow the community rules end up in trouble with the community.

So your assertion is that I don't understand governmental and university structure and decision making processes? Interesting.

 

[Seawolf Fan]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

Suze - Being a fan does not me being blindly loyal to bad leadership that makes decisions in a public university unilaterally and without public and student input. This was the problem with Dr. Cobb and a major part of the problem is that Tim McDiffett is of the exact same mindset. I won't be blindly loyal to anything, or anyone - ever. If someone is doing something, I will speak my mind. Thankfully I have column space in the ADN, talk radio hours and a huge Facebook audience to make my argument to, and I will continue making it.

I would be happy to include with my argument the Universities side and temper my comments, especially if they were open to compromise. However, sadly they are not. When I try to discuss this with them, I get short "form letter" type responses and the department is unbendable in the decisions they've made, as they were for the entirety of Dr. Cobb's tenure. When they decide to compromise and consider the possibility that there are ideas out there other than theirs that might be good ones, please let me know, I'd be happy to talk to them. I reach out to them on a regular basis. michaeldingman@gmail.com

I have no idea who you are however you appear to have too high an opinion of yourself.
"Huge facebook audience"? Huge? must be in the hundred of thousands. Or is it millions?
Newspaper column? Wow I'm impressed!!! Wonder which end of the political spectrum that falls off?
Which dingbat (no play on your name) radio show is it? I'll be sure to tune in.
You come across as a my way or the highway kinda guy.
You sound like a self important moron with no reasoning ability.
But it's a great day to be a Seawolf!

 

[Seawolf Fan]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

So your assertion is that I don't understand governmental and university structure and decision making processes? Interesting.

It's very obvious that you don't.

 

[SAEMike]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

It's very obvious that you don't.

What makes it so obvious that I don't?

 

[AKSWF]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

Are you talking about the attendance shown for the UA_ / Air Force game? The paper listed 3,000 fans for that game, and there is no way there were that many fans there. For the UAA game, however, it was really full. We sit in the balcony and had a good view of the arena, and there weren't many empty seats.

I spoke with someone who works for SMG tonight and they opened up the balcony because the lower bowl sold out. It will be interesting to see the numbers from tonight's game, there were a LOT of people there.

I swear I saw a lot of empty yellow and orange seats but I digress.

 

[AKSWF]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

As far as the actual hockey goes - I am very impressed with this new coach. The passing last night was the best I've ever seen from a UAA team. (Tonight's passing wasn't great, but they got it done when it mattered) I am really impressed with all of our goaltending options. I wanted them to go with Gunderson again tonight, but Matyas did great and I was glad to see him have such a great game and play so well at the end when the pressure was on. This is a much better team than people think and I think they can do some serious damage in the new watered down WCHA.

It will be very interesting to see who gets the most ice time out of those three. I hope it's a friendly battle for ice time, three guys fighting for one net hopefully brings their respective game up.

 

[AKSWF]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

I saw whole game on TV and the new HD format is worth the 8 dollars!

Bad timing to have switched to DirecTV

 

[UAA08]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

SAEMike. How about you and I plan a "sit-in" for the Huntsville series? I'll meet you in the balcony.

 

[AKSWF]

Re: Kendall Classic: UAA, Quinnipiac, UA_, Air Force?

SAEMike - give the changes some time to see how it all works out. UAA won their tournament! We have an excellent new coach who the players love. There is a new DJ who is actually very good. The on-ice pregame laser show was great. They drew more fans this weekend than they have in quite some time. Please, try to see the positives!!

Yes! Hopefully gone are the times of rock, rock, rock, classic rock, 80's pop, really quiet soft rock song, and random as hell dubstep song. Though I kinda miss the "That's the way uh-uh uh-uh I like it!!" I still believe we should save it for very early goals/late goals to tie and or win, and sweet/fantastic goals.

 

[UAA08]

SAEMike. How about you and I plan a "sit-in" for the Huntsville series? I'll meet you in the balcony.

I'm over it. Lets play hockey. And let's win some more games. Starting in _airbanks.