Vermont/Dartmouth Weekend

[Steve M]

Good luck against Maine.  Right now we need the rest of the ECAC to keep the quality non-conference wins coming!

[billhoward]

Too bad the various athletic departments (including Cornell's) can't work some kind of better deal to get in townspeople on thanksgiving weekend so the places are filled, not just sold out, every game.

Right now it sounds as if you have to voluntarily turn your tickets back in to the ticket office? If so that means a trip to the office. (Or can an email notice suffice?) Plus I bet there's a lot of students living within driving distance of Cornell who hold on to their tickets, because they're not sure if they've had all they can take of family togetherness by noon Saturday, and keep in the backs of their minds that they could be back on campus watching the hockey team rather than hearing Uncle Freddie's tales of his exploits in the Navy one more time.

If nothing else, maybe Cornell could sell 250 more standing room tickets and say that any seats not claimed after Period 1 are theirs for the taking.

[JasonN95]

Actually, Cornell does (or at least has in the past --my experience being the two BU games at Lynah a couple years back) up the sale of standing room tickets and allow you to take unclaimed seats.

[billhoward]

Unofficially, when we bought standing room tickets for a regular weekend (ie not Harvard), it was no problem to move into the seats that were unclaimed. Dozens not hundreds of people could do this. I was thinking about something more upfront for a Thanksgiving weekend game from Cornell athletics, perhaps telling townspeople who wanted to see a Big Red game that they could get almost guaranteed seating in advance. Maybe Cornell does something like fill the most empty student sections with students (with reserved seats) from the bottom, and townies from the top. There ought to be some way to promote, "This is your chance to see the Big Red in action ... see what it's all about."

[Beeeej]

It seems to me that during Schafer's first season as head coach, there was an organized effort to provide tickets to the Thanksgiving break game to disadvantaged children or something, and Cornell students were encouraged to donate tickets they wouldn't be using.  I thought it was a great idea, and IIRC a couple hundred such tickets were used in this way.  What ever happened to that?

Beeeej

[Jordan 04]

[Q]Beeeej Wrote:

 It seems to me that during Schafer's first season as head coach, there was an organized effort to provide tickets to the Thanksgiving break game to disadvantaged children or something, and Cornell students were encouraged to donate tickets they wouldn't be using.  I thought it was a great idea, and IIRC a couple hundred such tickets were used in this way.  What ever happened to that?

Beeeej[/q]

I don't believe anything ever happened to that.  I certainly remember announcements -- or at least signs posted around Lynah -- and such in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving (and winter break, should we happen to have a game then as well) asking for the donation of tickets.