SEC Tourney & Tornado Fallout....

[War Machine Dawg]

Looks like the SEC is planning on refunding the tickets for the closed sessions, and could lose as much as $2.5M. ESPN: SEC Refund

 

[cowbell9]

nm

 

[Hanmudog]

Tournament tickets should be sold by the session and not in books for the whole tournament. It is BS to have to buy tickets for Thursday games when your team does not play until Friday. If they sold tickets by the session then we all would not have to compete with UK fans and scalpers for tickets.

 

[cowbell9]

*** who buys them and it is less administration to sell whole books. sorta like a hotel will have 2 night minimums on certain special events.

 

[topdawg.sixpack]

with the tourny in Tampa?

 

[cowbell9]

nm

 

[Bigohh]

If they only sold the tickets to the sessions your team is playing in (which might not be known until late Saturday night before the tournament starts Thursday), no way they could get them distributed. And as has been pointed out, they sell out anyway so why change?

 

[DawgatAuburn]

This is complete BS from the SEC. They have no intention of refunding anywhere close to $2.5 million. If only the original ticket holder can get the refund, and only if it was bought through the SEC, how far down does that reduce their liability? I don't even want to think how many people were in the Dome with tickets they bought no ebay, stubhub, the street corner or through a friend of a friend. Those people are flat out getting screwed. Was their money not spent as well??? Did the owner of a ticket not have the right to attend games on Saturday and Sunday? This is just a PR method to make it look like they have some sympathy for the fans. Also, if they were going to do this, why did they wait two weeks to announce ANYTHING? I'll tell you why....so people would throw the tickets away and they wouldn't have to refund it.

 

[patdog]

NCAA tournament teams don't know where or when they'll be playing until Sunday evening and the first games are on Thursday afternoon. They don't have a problem distributing tickets to the fans of the participating schools. They use this thing called "will call." The SEC could do the same very easily. Of course, there's no real reason for them to since they sell out like it is now. If they held some tickets back for the participating schools, they'd hurt their overall ticket sales.</p>