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RPI 2020 Off-season Overtime: In Memory of Turk181

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tony/troy said:
Received no such email despite being a season ticket holder since 1977. Have to wonder just who did receive it based on what criteria and it what order. Obviously, seniority/longevity does not appear to be one of the qualifying criteria. Guessing qualifying criteria includes the obvious like students, staff, alumni and maybe the far more cynical how much money do you give them annually (or more often).
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Students did not receive this email
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
I'm a long time STH of the same vintage as well ...but have also donated $$$ in other ways. I don't have any idea who has/hasn't rec'd the message. (Oddly enough, I typically don't receive these types of messages from RPI ....while my HFH colleagues in our loose coalition always do !)
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Wicked; The information you are providing is proving to be very interesting and, maybe revealing. You don't get very many blast emails, but, I seem to get them all. All of them includes health protocol updates, alumni chapter activities and updates, general institutional information and updates, athletic department updates and communications directly from the coach.

However, you get the season ticket communication as, apparently, others have too but I get squat. Now what could cause that? As suggested earlier, could it be side contributions? Was the communication limited to season ticket holders buying multiple season tickets (I only buy one)?

Remember, with current big brother mandates in place, a single season ticket would actually occupy a dozen SQUARE FEET of isolation space. Lose that much space for a couple of hundred bucks? Were season ticket holders who only purchase one ticket deemed as no longer having any "value" in the present reality?

Will be interesting to see how this all eventually plays out, especially if posters on this board keep sharing information.
 
Today is 6 October 2020. There are 52 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 27 November 2020 (day after Thanksgiving) for the start of next season.
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sezenack said:
Students did not receive this email
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I suspect TB is correct in that they are looking to gauge interest and generate some cash flow from one of the few RPI sports that draws paying customers. I am sure that any plan to have real fannies in HFH seats will include students...as as of course it should !
 
Ralph Baer said:
In that message which indicated that the ECAC season would be 20 games long, 10 being at home, it also said that all playoff games would be single games, no best of 3.
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So if the ECAC season is going to be 20 games long, 10 being at home and 10 on the road, which of the other 11 ECAC teams is RPI not going to play twice?
 
Waite21 said:
So if the ECAC season is going to be 20 games long, 10 being at home and 10 on the road, which of the other 11 ECAC teams is RPI not going to play twice?
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The post said that the ECAC would be divided into a New York Division and a New England Division (NJ is in NE. :-) ), and each team would play the other 5 in its Division 4 times, consisting of two home and home weekends. There would be no meeting of the two Divisions until the tourney final. Thus we would play 2 home and home series with Union, Clarkson, SLU, Cornell, and Colgate. The idea was to reduce travel and eliminate overnight stays.

A later post said that this was not yet approved.
 
I agree the uncertainty is making lots of players anxious. Some already decided to forego this college season and go pro as they sense a better likelihood they will play at all this season at that level. I imagine the leagues and universities will bend the rules to make sure players will get all the eligibility they are entitled to and perhaps extend the age by which recruits have to come to campus. I am not as worried as some the players currently on the roster will leave early. It is a big risk for players who have not demonstrated pro level skill yet with one or two exceptions.
 
Today is 7 October 2020. There are 51 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 27 November 2020 (day after Thanksgiving) for the start of next season.
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I send an email to the box office offering the following: we would buy our 2 season tickets, but we will not attend in person due to Covid and our risk level. In exchange they can offer in person capability to 2 other people instead of us. We ask, in return, to keep our seats for 2021-22 (ie same seats) and we get online access to home and away games (home is already free). Their reply (unsigned) was telling us they understand our need to stay away and our season ticket location will remain the same for 2021-22. So we will stay home, subscribe to ESPN+ or whatever the channel is and watch that or RPITV. And plop our butts back in Section 6 next year. Their loss.( $400-$30=$370. )
 
25+years said:
I send an email to the box office offering the following: we would buy our 2 season tickets, but we will not attend in person due to Covid and our risk level. In exchange they can offer in person capability to 2 other people instead of us. We ask, in return, to keep our seats for 2021-22 (ie same seats) and we get online access to home and away games (home is already free). Their reply (unsigned) was telling us they understand our need to stay away and our season ticket location will remain the same for 2021-22. So we will stay home, subscribe to ESPN+ or whatever the channel is and watch that or RPITV. And plop our butts back in Section 6 next year. Their loss.( $400-$30=$370. )
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Kudos to your generosity. While I doubt anyone has ever used the words RPI season ticket holder and poverty level in the same sentence, $370 to $400 is still $370 to $400.

Realistically, however, RPI athletics is nowhere near staffed enough to take on the running of a ticket exchange nor would there be enough volume to justify contracting the likes of a Stub Hub.

That stuff is for the big time and some very distant relatives from the Memphis area who are Ole Miss football fans and season ticket holders (who I just recently met for the first time ever). Whenever they can't make it (almost never) or need additional tickets for visitors (hopefully me next year), they end up dealing with Stub Hub directly from the schools' athletic web site.

A quick check just moments ago have tickets for this Saturdays game against Alabama going for $80 to $285 and two weeks from now against Auburn going for $120 to $360.

Have no idea why Auburn is worth more than Alabama but it sounds like we could all make some serious money if we lived in SEC country.
 
As expected, no players associated with RPI were selected in the NHL draft. Players that will be eligible for the 2021 NHL draft are: Dylan Davies, Altti Nykanen, Hunter McDonald, Xander Babich, Finn Brown, Eric Fawkes, Max Itagaki, Reid Leibold and Payton Robinson
 
Today is 8 October 2020. There are 50 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 27 November 2020 (day after Thanksgiving) for the start of next season.
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sezenack said:
As expected, no players associated with RPI were selected in the NHL draft. Players that will be eligible for the 2021 NHL draft are: Dylan Davies, Altti Nykanen, Hunter McDonald, Xander Babich, Finn Brown, Eric Fawkes, Max Itagaki, Reid Leibold and Payton Robinson
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In memory of turk181 who was known to complain when I mentioned a certain player who got away, I won't mention the #202 selection by name.
 
Ralph Baer said:
And Jake Marrello is the Grad Asst. Coach. I wonder how that differs from Volunteer Asst. Coach.
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Graduate assistants are grad students while they are coaching. A large component of the graduate assistant compensation is some arrangement around the tuition normally charged to pursue the graduate degree.
 
tony/troy said:
Realistically, however, RPI athletics is nowhere near staffed enough to take on the running of a ticket exchange nor would there be enough volume to justify contracting the likes of a Stub Hub.
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I think you are right, although I think the technology is getting there to have more convenient box office features like this, and with relatively little expense. That said, I do think there is something odd to the economics here: I used to have a Red Sox ticket package, and they scrapped their internal ticket exchange system and outsourced to Stub Hub a few years ago--which was really disappointing for fans that wanted to pick up loose tickets that they knew were not fake and without Stub Hub fees.

The larger issue is that there is has been no need for a secondary market for RPI hockey tickets in recent years. Plentiful good seats are available for every game.
 
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Today is 9 October 2020. There are 49 days (7 weeks) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 27 November 2020 (day after Thanksgiving) for the start of next season.
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