purplehorse wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:38 pm
As the saying goes “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.”
Well the system is obviously BROKEN! I agree with all the comments above. At a minimum the students should be required to sign up for tickets in advance, and then any leftover seats go on sale 24 hours before the game.
Wouldn’t Dwight be the person for someone to contact and help us get educated here?
Having all those empty seats in the student section makes no sense to me! What gives?
I will be glad to enlighten everyone.
We had a large number of fans that paid us full price for tickets that decided just not to show up yesterday. Your guess is as good as mine. Pretty day. Cold and flu season. Other things in life came up. They have a right to choose to not attend. As you know we send out emails and texts every week to remind fans when our games take place and links to purchase tickets. If you are not receiving these communications and would like to, please email me and let me know how you would like to receive your updates.
We sold every seat in the house except for student tickets. We were done on Wednesday prior to the game.
We can’t hold seats for students and sell them at the same time. Since the Christmas break students have been able to claim their tickets in advance online using their cell phones or computers. It is a very simple process and has worked very well. We did this so we would know how many are coming and who is coming.
What we have found is that the student crowd we are getting is much more engaged in the game! They looked like more of a student crowd yesterday than ever before holding up signs and standing up and cheering most of the game. I believe this is because we are getting on their calendars early in the week because we distribute tickets beginning on Monday prior to that week's games and they can claim them all through the week. The students get several communications from me during the week about tickets and our marketing department works very hard to get the word out to students. (See the sidewalk chalk as just one example.) Furman Marketing gave all students that came to the game yesterday free pizza.
We could cut the students off at 24 hours prior to the game, and sell the remaining tickets, but the decision has been made for now not to do that so that we don’t shortcut tickets to students. It would be very difficult to sell tickets in the student section in 24 hours prior to the game and make any significant dent.
Also, folks on here that are saying we’re turning away folks and fans are not able to get tickets. This is just not true. We are open 24/ 7 / 365 online and fans can call the box office during regular hours and buy tickets or they can come to Timmons during the week. Our database has ballooned again this season and we’re getting repeat business from all over Greenville and the Upstate. That’s the reason we have had very good crowds for most of our games. If folks are waiting until gameday to walk up and buy, they are risking that we do not have a ticket to sell them. We only have so many seats to sell.
Please call me if you would like to discuss further. 864-607-5148. Glad to answer any questions.
I am also looking for some more group leaders for football season. If you are involved as a member of a church, Sunday school class, in a youth athletic team or league, scout leader, or would like to bring customers or your company to a game, I would like for you to become a Paladin Code Talker. We have over 60 Paladin Code Talkers that are fantastic leaders. Four Code Talkers brought a total of 453 new people to yesterday's game. That is exciting!
Go, Paladins!
Dwight Covington
