2010 NCAA hockey regional ticket situation

[ithacat]

If I purchase tickets from the box office Friday afternoon, after the first game is over, will they still make me pay $45 for the two-game session?  Or, will they be selling single-game tickets at that point?  I called the box office and was told that they will only sell the two-game session, but I'm wondering if she was just saying that or if it is really true.  Does anyone know from past experience?

One ticket for each day. No price drops or split for single-game tickets.

But if they are allowing re-entry he could gamble on paying someone who wanted to just watch the first game a few bucks and getting a ticket that way.

I tried doing that after the Brown/St. Lawrence game on Saturday but didn't see anyone trying to part with tickets.  Maybe I got there too late... anyone have success with that?

RIT is offering $20 tickets to students, plus a free bus ride. Bus returns after the RIT game, so some students might be looking to sell their ticket. RIT is offering the same deal on Saturday, should the Tigers win.

RIT does a good job mobilizing its students. Anyone remember that Cornell-RIT game at Blue Cross Arena? I'm still seeing orange.
http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=47427

[sockralex]

My Credit Card just got charged by the Cornell Ticket Office :-) and the website says that the deadline to submit a fax is extended to 6pm Tuesday.

Get them if you need them!

[andyw2100]

RIT is offering $20 tickets to students, plus a free bus ride. Bus returns after the RIT game, so some students might be looking to sell their ticket. RIT is offering the same deal on Saturday, should the Tigers win.

If you decide to go this route make sure you can pass for a student. I know that last year when I bought both student (for my kids) and adult tickets, the Cornell ticket office just took the regular tickets, made some sort of mark on them to indicate that they were student tickets, and then handed them to me. So the people at the door at the Times Union Center could easily have differentiated between student and adult tickets. Naturally I don't know if RIT will be doing something like this, but they may.

[amerks127]

Not to reignite a debate about our athletic ticket office, but everyone should take note of Yale's package for its students:

The Department of Athletics, in conjunction with the President's Office and the Dean's Office, will subsidize the cost of an all-session ticket for Yale students.  All-session tickets will go on-sale directly through the Athletics Ticket Office (20 Tower Pkwy.) at 2pm on Tuesday, March 23 for $35.  The all-session ticket provides admission for all three games.  Tickets for Yale students will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.  Bus transportation (Saturday 11:30 a.m. departure) will be provided free-of-charge for students who purchase a game ticket.  The buses will return immediately after the Yale game.

On a related note...here is a quote from the article taken slightly out of context:

The Yale men's hockey team (20-9-3, 15-5-2 ECAC Hockey) got what it deserved after winning the conference regular season championship and being ranked among the nation's top 10 for most of the year.

http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-hockey/2009-10/releases/20100323sjvfwv

[scoop85]

Just got nine tickets in Section 115 for Friday (alas, we cannot attend Saturday).  We're bringing a family who's oldest son is a local hockey phenom; he will be attending one of the New England Prep powerhouses next year as a Freshman.  I don't know if he'll develop into a D1 prospect, but I might as well expose him to what Cornell hockey is all about :-D

[billhoward]

a) it's nice that Yale and RIT do this
b) sometimes children need to be taught proper behavior (support your team) with inducements

[slh10]

Just got my tickets an hour ago from the ticket office. I must say the Cornell ticket office is not the most proficient ticket office to deal with. It seams like they try to make things a lot more difficut than it really needs to be. They should just distribute tickets as people show up ( first come first serve ) It's not the first time they have had teams in the playoffs you would think by now they would no that their "system" makes far more work for themselfs. The lottery is usually a joke. In 03'they played the lottery game and got left with a lot extra tickets( Gene was trying to sell them on the street in Buffalo) Wake up ticket office you make things more difficult than it really needs to be!

[Trotsky]

I suspect they don't make policy, they're just stuck carrying it out.

[dag14]

Give those poor people a break!!! The "ticket office" is Gene plus 1 or 2 other people on a good day.  And a lot of their help is part-time student staff who are probably on break.  Between the NCAA rules, dealing with high demand for tickets for two different sports, the number of phone calls they have fielded just from people posting on the forum and their regular work, the fact that they can get the turn around the ticket orders as quickly as they do is commendable.

[slh10]

Gene was not even in the office from Thursday until yesterday so being shorthanded does not fly with me. If he was really interested in making things operate better he would have been prepared for any and all teams to be in the playoffs.Most of my complaint is the lack of direction at times and not telling his own people what is going on with ticket distribution. This is not the first bad experience with the office and probably won't be the last due to the fact that I still love CU athletics. That being said I think they could simplify the way they do things and make their jobs and our experience a lot more enjoyable

[marty]

Nancy at the Union ticket office is great.   You could ask to be traded.::whistle::

[andyw2100]

If Cornell wins, and you don't yet have Saturday tickets, that broker I spoke of has arranged to have tickets left at the hotel desk at The Hampton Inn, a few blocks from the Times Union Center. These seats are in Section 117, Row M, and the cost would be $41 per ticket, which is face value. I believe there are a total of 8 available.

I asked him if I could list his phone number, and he said that was fine. His number is 800 456 8587.