New policy for Cornell at Harvard tickets

I called the HarvardSucks box office last week and they said tix go on sale 10/1. So today, being 10/1, I gave a call to order tickets for when the Big Red comes to town. I was informed of a new policy. Individual tickets to all regular season games can be purchased with the exception of the Cornell game. If you are not a season ticket holder, the only way you can get tickets to the COrnell game is if you purchase "The Package". The Package consists of tickets to the following games:

Princeton - 11/14
UMass - 12/13
Cornell - 1/9
RPI - 2/13
All for $44

HarvardSucks officially SUCKS!! A pathetic attempt by Harvard to ensure they actually have home-ice advantage on their home ice. Unfortunately, the home-ice fans consists of a bunch of oblivious students and faculty who would rather chit-chat with one another than watch the game.

So after saying all that nice stuff about Harvard fans...do any Harvard season ticket holders want to sell me their tickets to the CU game?

My email address didn't display properly in the first message. If any one wants to respond (or sell me their tickets), I can be reached at wilkery@yahoo.com

Ryan '98 wrote:

I called the HarvardSucks box office last week and they said tix go on sale 10/1. So today, being 10/1, I gave a call to order tickets for when the Big Red comes to town. I was informed of a new policy. Individual tickets to all regular season games can be purchased with the exception of the Cornell game. If you are not a season ticket holder, the only way you can get tickets to the COrnell game is if you purchase "The Package". The Package consists of tickets to the following games:

The plot thickens... I just called the ticket office at 1-877-GO-HARVARD-SUCKS and was told that tickets go on sale for hockey either Friday or Monday. Also they are charging for their exhibition game (Guelph) this year, which I don't think was the case last year.

Perhaps they have it in their heads that they are a national contender this year and that there will be tons of ticket sales (even for the poorly attended Guelph game, which, last year, was certainly poorly attended)... remains to be seen.

Chris

Didn't think it was possible to hate Harvardsucks even more. What a bunch of dicks, buisness savy dicks, but dicks nonetheless. Sucks that they'll get an extra $33. Wish I could pay them in cash and give them some of my "ass dollars". Guess we'll just have to make sure to pack the place, another win up there would be worth every penny.

I suspect that walk-up sales will not cost $44. Two of the games will already have been played, and I doubt that they are going to stick people with the RPI ticket. I think they figure (correctly) that fewer people will travel if they don't have tickets in advance.

In any event, scalped tickets will certainly be less than $44.

Option 1: Buy package for $44 to get a $12 Cornell@HarvardSucks Ticket, donating $32 to Harvard Athletics, but assuring low attendance at some games.

Option 2: Join Cornell Club of Boston for $32 (individual membership), get $12 ticket (I think that is how it works), with the extra $32 benefitting the CCOB.

Just a thought.

Chris

Does this apply to Harvard students as well?

Also, anyone know the deal with Cornell's alotment of tickets to this game?

Pete Godenschwager wrote:

Wish I could pay them in cash and give them some of my "ass dollars".

Wow, that's quite the inflation from ass pennies. It's probably sloppier, but either way, I guess you get the upper hand.

Harvard has season ticket holders? Who? The band?

I just called the HahvahdSUCKS ass ticket office, and from my conversation, it seems that Harvard students are stuck buying this ridiculous package if they want to go to the Cornell game (unless you have season tickets).

Does the AD know about this new package? Is there anything we can do?

Do they distinguish between student and non-student tickets? That is, can we get in if we somehow can buy a ticket off an apathetic Harvard student? I only ask because in 1993 a friend and I drove to Chapel Hill for Duke v. Carolina basketball and had to beg to be let in with the student tickets my friend had secured for us. They actually wanted to see our UNC IDs.

Can we complain to the ECAC and/or NCAA about this? It's one thing to ream your own alums for Harvard-Yale football. . . but this is clearly aimed at reaming Cornell. I suggest we start a forum of ideas for signs.

Is the CCoB selling tickets to the Hahvahd game only? Because, obviously, I would rather have my money go to something remotely Cornell-affiliated rather than Hahvahd(SUCKS!).

I am no expert here, but I thought those tickets came out of the CU allotment, which, one would assume, would not be "package" tickets.

I shouldn't have stuck my neck out here too much since I don't know all the details that well.

Chris

this sucks

plain and simple. i would try to go the walk-up route. it would be a long trip to get turned away but i doubt this would happen. or the boston club route would be good too. I would think that buying from the CU ticket office would get u one ticket too. good luck, guys!

just thought of something, what would prevent them next year from requiring that you purchase tickets for every game if you wanted to go to just one game? slippery slope (overused sorry)

OK Al, as a CC of Boston member, what is the situation for tickets through them. I remember in past years you were not guaranteed a ticket just because of membership. True now or not?

What happens if you call up after the Princeton game (on 11/14 - still plenty early). Are they really going to make you buy a ticket for a game that occurred in the PAST in order to get a Cornell ticket?

@#$%@ 23$%@# $% @#$%@#@% !!!!!!!

The gentleman at the box office made it clear that you have to buy "The Package" before the Princeton game - otherwise you are out of luck. The Package will not be sold after 11/13

Did the box office gentleman say anything about standing-room tickets?

Or did he say anything about the fact that the building is unlocked before, say, 5pm and you can just walk in?

Ryan '98 wrote: [Q]A pathetic attempt by Harvard to ensure they actually have home-ice advantage on their home ice.[/Q]

I don't see it that way. It seems to me that Harvard assumes that Cornell fans will flood the rink anyway and are simply attempting to sell tickets to a few games that are likely to very sparsely attended anyway. They don't care if Cornellians show up to the other games because the seats would've been empty anyway. They're definitely trying to take advantage of Cornell fans here.

Here's a thought. If people do end up buying the package, then how about they try to distribute the otehr tickets to Cornell alums in the area. Then we get a whole bunch of pissed off Cornellians to show up at the games to root against Harvard. If we could get a loud bunch of anti-fans (prominently wearing Red, of course) to show up to one of the games they might think twice about doing this again next year.

[Naturally this is easy for me to suggest when I am 2500 miles from Cambridge].

Well, Jim, in fact I'm a Cornell Club of Cape Cod member. But the Boston Club has in the past treated us as fellow members as far as Harvard tickets go.

My recollection is that last year the Club's ticket allocation was reduced and, given this year's "package" nonsense (sounds like something Noel and Co. would do), it wouldn't surprise me if this year will be worse. In any case, last year it was first-come, first-served for tickets, IIRC.

Tom Pasniewski can, I'm sure, clarify all this for us when he figures out what's going on this year.

Having run this event for CCOB in the past (1996-1998) I can assure you that club membership does not guarantee a ticket. The highest number of tickets I was ever able to get out of Harvard was 200 and club membership was about 800 in those years. The tickets usually sold out within three weeks of the first CCOB newsletter to have an order form being mailed. We usually limited purchases to 4 tickets per member. The one time I lifted the limit someone bought 18 so I considered that a failed experiment. Also, Harvard never mentioned our purchases having anything to do with a "Cornell allotment".

Seriously, this is just an attempt to gouge Cornell fans and possibly keep some from making the trip. I think a letter campaign is in order. Or the porn email route is good too.

Ryan '98 wrote:
A pathetic attempt by Harvard to ensure they actually have home-ice advantage on their home ice. Unfortunately, the home-ice fans consists of a bunch of oblivious students and faculty who would rather chit-chat with one another than watch the game.

Note that this game is also on CSTV's college hockey broadcast schedule, so Hahvahd might also be looking to avoid having Lynah East seen on national TV.

You will not have to join CCOB for $32 to get tickets. Although we'd love to have your money for scholarship. Please see the thread I started for information on CCOB and Cornell-Harvard tickets.

Wow, I even get an introduction to my return from my summer focus on baseball. Thanks Al. We're talking but Harvard isn't but I'll post what I know. We were told Oct. 1 but obviously there's no run on Harvard tickets now.

Bill '94 wrote:

Or the porn email route is good too.

Heh...I'd say this is a worthy reason, but I'm not sure who precisely to target. The Hahvahd AD? The ticket manager?

If anyone does buy this package, be sure to root for RPI on 2/13.

Keith K '93 wrote:

Here's a thought. If people do end up buying the package, then how about they try to distribute the otehr tickets to Cornell alums in the area. Then we get a whole bunch of pissed off Cornellians to show up at the games to root against Harvard. If we could get a loud bunch of anti-fans (prominently wearing Red, of course) to show up to one of the games they might think twice about doing this again next year.

That's exactly what I plan on doing, Keith. Screw them - if they don't want me, as a Cornell fan, to show up at a game at Bright... then I'll show up at four, all decked out in Red, and possibly with fish (for the RPI game, at least, so my Cornell tickets don't get yanked). Go UMass, RPI, and Dartmouth!

what if we know a Harvard alum? Do they need to buy the package too? (sorry if that was already addressed)

Robin

How about starting at the top with their President, lawrence_summers@harvard.edu ? Keep going until you get to Dov Grumet-Morris.

Ryan '98 wrote:

The gentleman at the box office made it clear that you have to buy "The Package" before the Princeton game - otherwise you are out of luck. The Package will not be sold after 11/13

So, if the Cornell game isn't sold out by November 13, they will leave the tickets unsold? I don't care what their official position is. That's just unlikely, and I would bet that the position will be "revised" by gameday if the game isn't sold out.