Cornell/BU Thanksgiving (11/24) Ticket Info

[Rosey]

[quote Beeeej]I'm hoping for the former.[/quote]
I'm kinda hoping for the latter: a sidewalk full of annoyed scalpers would be amusing schadenfraude for the $70 @Harvard tickets I bought 3 years ago. ::barf::

Kyle

[Jacob '06]

I'm curious if companies that have corporate season tickets for the Knicks and Rangers got to keep their seats for this event. If that is the case, I wonder how many of those will actually fill up.

[mttgrmm]

from what i've heard, they do.  not 100% certain, but i'm pretty sure they do keep their boxes.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote krose][quote Beeeej]I'm hoping for the former.[/quote]
I'm kinda hoping for the latter: a sidewalk full of annoyed scalpers would be amusing schadenfraude for the $70 @Harvard tickets I bought 3 years ago. ::barf::

Kyle[/quote]

Annoyed scalpers would be the way to go, so long as there are at least 10K+ for the actual game. That way its actually a very good showing, with a bunch of annoyed scalpers (and cheap tickets for various last minute fans) to boot.

[Jordan 04]

I can't imagine there's going to be thousands of scalped tickets going to waste on the street.

Scalpers usually aren't dumb. They know which events will make them money and which ones won't, and must know that street demand for college hockey is not going to bring in the big dollars.

I would be surprised, and disappointed, to see thousands of empty seats.

[Molly]

According to the jumbotron during last night's BU-Harvard game, there are still tickets for Saturday's game available through the BU athletic office.  

Whether or not the jumbotron lies, I don't know. :-P

[redice]

From today's Ithaca Journal:

Jack Parker:  "We will officially be the home team, but we will not be the home team as far as the fans are concerned."


I hope he's correct!    This has all the earmarks of being one of the most exciting Cornell Hockey games that I've attended since Ned & the boys took over the old Boston Gahden.   I can't wait!!

[Beeeej]

"The Cornell Club-New York has a limited number of tickets in a MSG luxury suite.

Tickets are $75 each and include the cost of the ticket only.  Please contact Kerry Strassel for availability at 212.692.1381 or k.strassel@cornellclubnyc.com."

[jaybert]

damn, sounds like a pretty good deal.  I paid $60/ticket from ticketmaster for my section 60 tickets...oh well

[RichH]

[quote redice]From today's Ithaca Journal:

Jack Parker:  "We will officially be the home team, but we will not be the home team as far as the fans are concerned."


I hope he's correct!    This has all the earmarks of being one of the most exciting Cornell Hockey games that I've attended since Ned & the boys took over the old Boston Gahden.   I can't wait!![/quote]

About 6 months ago, people on this forum postulated that the then upcoming lacrosse game in Baltimore could be the largest crowd a Cornell athletics team has played for in recent history.  (See this thread.)  This is going to be up there for indoor sports.  HSBC arena holds 18,690, so given a sellout for both, the 2003 Frozen Four would win.  The important thing about this game, however, is the percentage of the crowd that will be CU fans.  Only a small slice of the Buffalo crowd were actual Cornell fans (as opposed to interested upstate-NY supporters).  No, it won't be Wisconsin-in-2006 or Minnesota-in-2002, but I am getting chills about what I hope will be the loudest "Let's Go Red" chant in my experience.  It'll definitely be the most Red and White I've seen.  Wait...they wear Scarlet, not Red.  Scarlet is off-Red.

I think I remember a 4-team college hockey tournament in the late-90s that had to be moved from MSG to the Hartford Civic Center due to lack of interest.  A little research later:

http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/id,689/PushingTheTournamentEnvelope

[Q]The doubleheader, the first of what Fanter promises to be a number of cooperative ventures with Hockey East, was originally slated for Madison Square Garden. However, slow ticket sales there prompted a move to Hartford.


"New York City is just not a college sports town," Fanter said. "Something could work there, but not this."

Sales in Hartford weren't great either, and a 5 p.m. start time on a Monday night before Christmas between Maine and Colgate had much fewer than 3,000 people there. RPI and New Hampshire played the late game. [/Q]

What vision for the old ECAC administration:  "I know!  Christmas Eve!"  This BU-Cornell event just makes a lot more sense.

[Chris '03]

[quote RichH]

Sales in Hartford weren't great either, and a 5 p.m. start time on a Monday night before Christmas between Maine and Colgate had much fewer than 3,000 people there. RPI and New Hampshire played the late game. [/Q]

What vision for the old ECAC administration:  "I know!  Christmas Eve!"  This BU-Cornell event just makes a lot more sense.[/quote]

To be fair the Monday night before Christmas in 1998 was the 21st. Wodon's column just ran on Christmas Eve.

[RichH]

[quote Chris '03]To be fair the Monday night before Christmas in 1998 was the 21st. Wodon's column just ran on Christmas Eve.[/quote]

Ah, my mistake.

[BCrespi]

[quote RichH]No, it won't be Wisconsin-in-2006 or Minnesota-in-2002, but I am getting chills about what I hope will be the loudest "Let's Go Red" chant in my experience.  [/quote]

Couldn't agree more, though I'll say I'm more excited for the "RED" in the anthem than anything else.

[Josh '99]

[quote RichH][Q]"New York City is just not a college sports town," Fanter said. "Something could work there, but not this."[/Q][/quote]New York does just fine with the Big East basketball tournament.  The problem isn't that New York can't ever get behind college sports, the problem is that there's no local rooting interest in college hockey.  Saturday's game gets around that by picking schools with HUGE alumni bases and scheduling it on a weekend when lots of students will be home and alumni will be able to make travel plans.  

I guess my point is, saying "New York City is just not a college sports town" was Fanter making the easy excuse for a poor scheduling decision.

[dargason]

The jumbotron does lie, just went to the BU ticket office, nothing left for public or students.  Does anyone know if MSG would release any day-of-game?  I was thinking of stopping by when they open on saturday.