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In very short the only reason there is demand now for sro tickets is because of people like me that couldn’t be bothered to buy tickets when they were still available days ago and the only reason we now want them is because we can’t have them.

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It’s pretty simple. People want usf tickets right now. One of the reasons people want them right now is because for the first time in forever they can’t have them. Not being able to have something they want will make people want it more and try to avoid being left out in the future. Telling them don’t worry about it no matter what happens we will make sure it’s impossible that you will ever be left out whenever you finally decide last moment that we are your best option for the day is not going to lead to them converting in the future. If it’s just a numbers game then get more students in since they paid for it anyway, will be more likely to become die hard fans and you aren’t trying to convince them to buy tickets to the majority of games that you usually can’t give away. Scarcity drives demand and value and if there is one thing our tickets have lacked it’s scarcity. USF athletics seems to have went with my weird opinion, along with any economist ever,(and I’m actually defending them which nicely is happening more often) so there is that ….

Haven’t exactly measured them but I’m sure they are beyond code and there are always painted zones where people stand in a working capacity or where seats exist for handicapped people. You paint a new zone for standing where size permits (which I’m pretty sure will be everywhere) if you actually want to have sro capacity (which I’m not sure we would actually want).

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So you are saying usf athletics without debate made a huge mistake on their biggest of days ? Everywhere I look is a concourse with a wall where a person could stand and not block a view

Except anyone thinking about going today would have already been a fan and have been many times, they just believe that tickets will always be available. They don’t need exposure they need fomo and to learn that you may actually miss out if you don’t take seriously that tickets can in fact sell out.

It’s completely the opposite, when you have actual demand you can play with monetizing and attendance record gimmicks because there is still a waiting list line for season tickets that will have people scared to defect. Not getting into the game does more to drive demand than an sro only ticket can ever dream of doing, what people imagine they missed out on will always be greater than reality.

The only way it would make sense to me today would be if you have to buy season tickets for next year in order to get your tickets today. 2007 football we were a startup company with crazy great trajectory trying to grab market share as we were challenging the biggest brands in the area (and could expand to 7x the capacity of the Yuengling center, which is a lot of butts in seats). USF basketball is countless decades into our business, we are who we are and you shouldn’t squander your once a score opportunity to establish that scarcity is actually possible and your tickets can occasionally have value.

If it’s students i agree if it’s people like me and @T-Man we have gone out of our way to show that we take for granted that you can just get tickets anytime you want. They opened up every zone, they had tickets available within the week, people were posting about selling out, warnings were everywhere and yet we said so what who cares usf basketball tickets will always be available. There is absolutely no smart financial and marketing reason to reward negative behavior and prove once and for all that everyone is actually right and there is no time ever where one would have to worry about not being able to walk up and get tickets. Making more seats available today would be brand value destroying and if I were in ticket sales i would actually walk out over it, glad we are actually doing the smart thing today and I’m actually getting to defend athletics.

Definitely a sign of the apocalypse

The Yuengling Center?

What is better for a rainy day than having something to do that’s inside?

Yes that’s the point. If you can get into every special game as a walk up there is less incentive to commit. You shouldn’t feel comfortable thinking a ticket will always be available and we need to snatch that away on one of the few opportunities we have. Not getting in trains the behaviors you want while getting in trains the behaviors you should be trying to break. Special games are the entire value of your ticket packages, make them have a premium for once.

The sea of apple is beautiful

I could not disagree more, the smartest move long term is to teach people like me that you may not be able to cherry pick your games if you remain in a wait and see mode. Either way any positive impact is going to require a win today but the fomo impact of it will be stronger than the I had to get less than ideal seats because i waited until the day of to get tickets to biggest game post CSH. Velvet ropes and lines exist for a reason and making something readily available doesn’t make it feel desirable.

I've had way fewer issues with it the last few years... but hopefully I will have more issues sooner than later.

It’s pretty close to impossible for me to not get upgraded to a class with at least free drinks if I don’t already book into the class but they alway send me free drink certificates for no explicable reason so if you ever accidentally end up with them let me know.

Flying delta anytime soon?

Perish the thought if you think domestic business food is bad you should try the wine

I’m ready to pivot off this flight not a suitable hard product, it’s aac of business class and business class is already the aac of first

But I am traveling

I don’t remember exactly but it escalated quickly

Please see above but also remember there are infinite degrees in which one can pivot, when you find yourself in a hole you should stop digging. We finally seem to not be doing that any more and for that I’m grateful and I know there are going to be plenty of people that say they saw all of these things leading to this moment but those are the exact same people that pretended to see CJS’s progress.

I thought it was because he didn't want me to hangout with his daughter