Season tickets

[David Harding]

Season tickets have been on sale for a week, and not a single post...

[Cop at Lynah]

A lot of season tickets are not being renewed from what I hear.

[Towerroad]

A lot of season tickets are not being renewed from what I hear.

Based on a quick scan, perhaps 10%-15% of the non student seats are still available. Season tickets are now including tickets for football and lax. I am unsure how this compares with prior years

[ithacat]

Last year you could get women's season tickets for a dollar per game when you renewed. This year those tickets were included, as well as the football and lacrosse tickets. Does anyone know when the general public waiting list disappeared?

[Cop at Lynah]

When they expanded Lynah I presume

[ithacat]

When they expanded Lynah I presume

Maybe, but I don't remember the Dept advertising season tickets for the general public in recent years.

[Chris '03]

Athletics has publically posted the names of every student line number holder for some reason: http://cornellbigred.com/news/2015/9/24/MICE_0924151023.aspx

There are a total of 190 returning undergrad and 76 returning grad ticket holders, holding numbers for a total of 355 tickets (less than 10% of Lynah). I have no idea how this compares to the past but it's not inspiring.

[Trotsky]

Athletics has publically posted the names of every student line number holder for some reason: http://cornellbigred.com/news/2015/9/24/MICE_0924151023.aspx

There are a total of 190 returning undergrad and 76 returning grad ticket holders, holding numbers for a total of 355 tickets (less than 10% of Lynah). I have no idea how this compares to the past but it's not inspiring.

Seems insanely low to me.  I'd have expected numbers 3 or 4 times that.

[LGR14]

Remember that this is the first year that Section D and E are general admission. The site indicates that new student tickets are general admission. So that would seem to mean that those students aren't included in the numbers. Still a pretty sad number, but maybe not as bad as it seems.

[Trotsky]

Remember that this is the first year that Section D and E are general admission. The site indicates that new student tickets are general admission. So that would seem to mean that those students aren't included in the numbers. Still a pretty sad number, but maybe not as bad as it seems.

OK, that's better.  Also a good decision on D and E.

[Cop at Lynah]

They'r getting desperate now by offering a split season ticket package.  Going to be awful difficult for the athletic department to handle the loss of revenue . Is this the result of high ticket prices and the atmosphere that has been created over the past few years or have people just lost interest in the program ?

[Will]

They'r getting desperate now by offering a split season ticket package.  Going to be awful difficult for the athletic department to handle the loss of revenue . Is this the result of high ticket prices and the atmosphere that has been created over the past few years or have people just lost interest in the program ?

They're all contributing factors.  Ultimately, they all feed on each other.  A winning team would result in rising demand for tickets, justifying the ticket prices and bringing back the traditional Lynah atmosphere.  But that atmosphere--when present--also usually contributes to the team's success.  (That "extra goal a game" that is sometimes attributed to the Lynah Faithful would have come in handy last season.)  How do we solve this problem?  Hopefully, we can meet the team and coaches halfway on this: we all stay upbeat at games, keep on cheering, hopefully get all the people around us to do the same, and hope the team can net a few more goals this season.

[redice]

They'r getting desperate now by offering a split season ticket package.  Going to be awful difficult for the athletic department to handle the loss of revenue . Is this the result of high ticket prices and the atmosphere that has been created over the past few years or have people just lost interest in the program ?

They're all contributing factors.  Ultimately, they all feed on each other.  A winning team would result in rising demand for tickets, justifying the ticket prices and bringing back the traditional Lynah atmosphere.  But that atmosphere--when present--also usually contributes to the team's success.  (That "extra goal a game" that is sometimes attributed to the Lynah Faithful would have come in handy last season.)  How do we solve this problem?  Hopefully, we can meet the team and coaches halfway on this: we all stay upbeat at games, keep on cheering, hopefully get all the people around us to do the same, and hope the team can net a few more goals this season.

As for the atmosphere at Lynah, I find it rather immature to constantly be blaming these outside forces such as the gestapo ushers, poor team performance, etc....    The reality is, the atmosphere can be improved by simply changing from a reactive fanbase to a proactive fanbase...   Stop sitting on your hands waiting for the team to do something great, before you cheer....    Cheer to fire the team up.   I know that sounds overly simplistic...   But, that's the main difference between the Lynah today & the Lynah of yesteryear.    All of this other garbage is blaming outside forces for the current fanbase sitting on their hands far too much of the time....

Oh yes, get off their asses & get to the games on time!!    Another not-very-difficult thing to do.   But, takes a fanbase that cares.....

[Towerroad]

They'r getting desperate now by offering a split season ticket package.  Going to be awful difficult for the athletic department to handle the loss of revenue . Is this the result of high ticket prices and the atmosphere that has been created over the past few years or have people just lost interest in the program ?

They're all contributing factors.  Ultimately, they all feed on each other.  A winning team would result in rising demand for tickets, justifying the ticket prices and bringing back the traditional Lynah atmosphere.  But that atmosphere--when present--also usually contributes to the team's success.  (That "extra goal a game" that is sometimes attributed to the Lynah Faithful would have come in handy last season.)  How do we solve this problem?  Hopefully, we can meet the team and coaches halfway on this: we all stay upbeat at games, keep on cheering, hopefully get all the people around us to do the same, and hope the team can net a few more goals this season.

As for the atmosphere at Lynah, I find it rather immature to constantly be blaming these outside forces such as the gestapo ushers, poor team performance, etc....    The reality is, the atmosphere can be improved by simply changing from a reactive fanbase to a proactive fanbase...   Stop sitting on your hands waiting for the team to do something great, before you cheer....    Cheer to fire the team up.   I know that sounds overly simplistic...   But, that's the main difference between the Lynah today & the Lynah of yesteryear.    All of this other garbage is blaming outside forces for the current fanbase sitting on their hands far too much of the time....

Oh yes, get off their asses & get to the games on time!!    Another not-very-difficult thing to do.   But, takes a fanbase that cares.....

The customer has a choice and they are choosing. Berating them is not a way to sell tickets. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Trotsky]

Stop sitting on your hands waiting for the team to do something great, before you cheer....    Cheer to fire the team up.   I know that sounds overly simplistic...   But, that's the main difference between the Lynah today & the Lynah of yesteryear.

This is important.  In Lynah at its best the noise often precedes the action.  Every game has dead spots in the action on the ice, and it was during these that the Faithful were unique, starting chants spontaneously, many of them original and clever.

I don't agree with most of the criticisms leveled at the current students, but the one thing that's true is our crowd now is far more reactive.  Their intensity is determined by the team; the point is to do the opposite.