NCAA Championships tix
- Thread starter StickEm
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Spoke to another long time season ticket holder at Sundays match. Over the past two weeks we both called the ticket office and got the same answer. “Not yet!”
Got confirmation from PSU that tickets have been assigned. Specific seat locations to follow based on NLC point totals.
Got my 8 as well. Hopefully we will have the biggest fan showing in the country since we’re ranked #1….All starts in Nebraska in the Big ten tournament. Hopefully we win it and qualify all 10 of our wrestlers. Fans will have a huge impact. As Cael said it’s GO time now.
If anybodys got the plug on Friday/Saturday tix, I might fly over on unused stupid ******* airline credit needing used by March.
“pandemic”, but they held my ~$700 of airfare forever… kick rocks, Expedia. Either it was the end of the world and you should give me my money back for goods/services not delivered, or I should’ve been allowed to go.
“pandemic”, but they held my ~$700 of airfare forever… kick rocks, Expedia. Either it was the end of the world and you should give me my money back for goods/services not delivered, or I should’ve been allowed to go.
Anyone get their tickets in their Account manager yet? I got nothing so far even though I got the email saying I scored tickets.
NCAA assigned ticket allocations to each University about 2-3 weeks ago, but, as of yesterday Little Caesars has not yet assigned sections/seats. I am told that seat assignments will come o the Universities this week.
Lock Haven has extra tickets as well. I’ve got my 8 with the PSU section. Going to the Big ten tournament first. That tournament is going to be insane. WE ARE 
Ah - so I must conclude that PSU is holding off on final distribution of tickets/seat assignments to accommodate all manner of privileged insiders.
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Or maybe they just don’t act With much urgency. I’m far from impressed with PSUs ticket office, media production,public relations,etc. for the size of the university and athletic department, the accomplishments of the sports teams notwithstandin, the ticketing and media are average at best.
E-tickets have been downloaded into our accounts. I got section 227. Upper bowl, but, close to center.
This has been my experience with the Athletic Department for many years, long, long before Barbour was hired at Cal, let alone Penn State.
I always refer to the following incident as a perfect example of their approach to customer service. Several years ago I went to one of the Basketball preseason exhibition games at the BJC. According to the articles in both the Collegian and the Centre Daily times, as well as the press release on their website, AND the little promotional pocket schedule that I had picked up somewhere downtown, the game was Free Admission. I get to the gate at the Jordan Center, and they’re charging five bucks a head. OK, that‘s just one simple mistake that they made at least four time in preparation for the game.
After I pay my five bucks, a woman just inside the door is handing out coupons for a free six inch sandwich at Subway. “Here! Free Subway sandwich for the first one hundred fans!” she says with a smile. So I stroll over the the official Subway concession stand that was inside the BJC at the time and order a six inch sandwich and a drink. As I hand the ’one free sandwich’ coupon to the cashier, he tells me ‘Sorry, those coupons aren’t valid in the BJC.”
So I take my not free sandwich along with my not free admission self over to the stand where they sell the official Penn State Basketball Yearbooks, as I used to collect them. I even had managed to build a collection of them all back to the 1960s courtesy of eBay. I fish out my wallet again and hand the kids behind the counter a twenty dollar bill as the sign says ‘Yearbooks - $20.’ They ask me if I am a season ticket holder because season ticket holders get the yearbook for free. I told them that I wasn’t a season ticket holder, I just wanted to buy the yearbook like I had done every year in the past. ”Sorry, these are only for the season ticket holders and we need to make sure that we don’t run out as we don’t have that many.” I point to the ‘Yearbooks - $20’ sign to which they apologize once again and tell me they are saving them for the season ticket holders. So I politely walk away while wondering just how many season ticket holders are going to show up on a weekday evening to watch an exhibition game against Saint Sister Marathon Oil’s School for Orphans.
So after the game, I go back to the yearbook stand. The ‘Yearbooks - $20’ sign is still hanging there. There are still unopened boxes of yearbooks piled behind the counter, and they still would not sell me a yearbook.
Granted, I was never a season ticket holder beyond my student days, I’m not a donor so I would never expect to be hand fed grapes by a charming maiden while another fans my brow with ostrich feathers. But expecting basic customer service and competence one step above McLanahan’s has always been a bridge too far for the Athletic department. Just one of many reasons that my consumption of Penn State Sports has pretty much been radio, television, and streaming for several years now.
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For any PSU’er still looking for NCAA tix: Just posted 4 extra all session tickets on StubHub. $700 per seat for all 6 sessions in the PSU section (227 row 5). Turns out I need to be down south on business so I can’t make it.
Terrible but true. Logistics is always a mess, yet they have these poor folks out there who can do nothing but look on in pity. For me it was football parking. 1981 the first year we had tickets. By the time we gave them up 25 plus years later, we had to walk from Pleasant Gap to get to the stadium. Like the write-up they just did on the BT Championship. Nothing on the times, just that it will be on BTN. I hate to say it but the insulated culture of the area is half the problem. It is enough to smile and be nice, even if you are not helpful. Happy Valley, yes. Helpful Valley, no way. As long as the money rolls in, PSU doesn't care. What they don't understand is they turn off a vast number of fans who might write a 5k check every 5 years or so. I bet there are 200k fans like me who would and could, but won't because they get treated like **** when they are in State College. Guess they don't need that extra billion dollars every 5 years. Last story, a few years back, we were up for wrestling one of the days of THON. I took my $409 check along. Not one person guarding the doors would take the check. We lapped the BJC 3 times, nobody. Finally, I balled it up and when one kid opened the door enough to tell me I was not allowed in, I tossed the check in the cracked door and split. The FTK was more like Forgot The Kindness.....or you could substitute other F words.
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