Hahvahd @ Cornell 01/27/17

[LGR14]

where is this secondary market of tickets that people are buying for $100?

students didnt even buy 75% of their tickets this year and havent for many years.

I dont really have a problem with the bundling but making it a 4 game package is a bit excessive.

Considering that just before xmas you could buy the Harvard ticket stand alone for $30 and they didnt sell many why would they expect $80 tickets to fly out the window?

Why not some alternative price scaling? Harvard for $50, 2 games for $60?

there are roughly 400+ tickets available right now for sat night just 2 days out.

what do they do when it gets to friday?

The Cornell Ticket Buy/Sell group on Facebook is where most students make exchanges now. I have several friends that were able to sell for $100 while I was there (class of 2014). Maybe that has changed, but there's still a ton of demand for Harvard ticket. This could also be because people just assume that the game is sold out and don't even check with Bartels. When I went a couple years back as an alum, I was able to get a Section B ticket for face value from the ticket office.

[Willy '06]

Can anyone rationalize why single game ticket prices were increased this year?

Someone's gotta pay for the girls' polo team.

Nope. http://ithaconomy.com/2015/11/30/eleven-cornell-university-varsity-sports-rely-on-self-funding-to-operate/

[Dafatone]

I used to be a big believer that ticket prices are too high.  They still are, probably, but I also think there are a bunch of kids who can afford season tickets but then just don't make the games a priority.

This is based off of one freshman that I know, so clearly my data set is sufficiently large to draw conclusions.

[Jim Hyla]

Can anyone rationalize why single game ticket prices were increased this year?

Someone's gotta pay for the girls' polo team.

Nope. http://ithaconomy.com/2015/11/30/eleven-cornell-university-varsity-sports-rely-on-self-funding-to-operate/

Thanks for finding that. I thought it was self-funded, but with a quick search, I didn't see it.

After all, we need true facts and not alternative facts, around here.

[BearLover]

I used to be a big believer that ticket prices are too high.  They still are, probably, but I also think there are a bunch of kids who can afford season tickets but then just don't make the games a priority.

Of course.  But the goal isn't to get every last person at Cornell interested in hockey--it's to fill the stadium.  I think season tickets are a downward-sloping demand curve like most other goods.  When I was a student I knew a few people who would have bought season tickets if they were cheaper and instead just went to a few games a year.

[djk26]

Wouldn't there be more sellouts if the team were better?  They haven't been a regular national power for several years.

Beat Harvard on Friday.  They suck.

[upprdeck]

cornell sold out for years when they were not very good .  demand has dropped and prices have gone way up..

[A-19]

maybe if they went back to the days where you actually had to spend time and effort to wait in line for season tickets, you'd get more committed fans who actually attend games. the easier you make it to get tickets, the less likely it is that the people who get them deserve them/want them/show

[Dafatone]

I used to be in the camp that thought prices were everything, but I'm coming around to the idea that the line had merit.

Granted, my two years of season tickets were just after the line, having won out at the lynah entrance trample-a-thon in 05-06 and in the first lottery after that.

Sadly, I fear the line is never coming back.  Apparently kids are supposed to go to class.

[BearLover]

This is a few hundred seats we're talking about here.  Just lower the damn prices.

[Trotsky]

The Line is among my favorite memories of Cornell, and as a freshman it was something that really helped my bond with other hockey fans and with the identity of the Lynah Faithful.

[Johnny 5]

As I've mentioned before, I think that a large part of the non-attendance by students issue is millennial.
There are so many digital ways to capture their attention, a 2 1/2 hour, live action hockey game just can't compete.
Just look at the latest NBA discussions about shortening events because kids' attention spans are so limited.
Yes, I've marveled of late about the number of students who are texting on their phones throughout much, if not most of any given game.
You combine that with a team that hasn't been as competitive as it was back in the days of "the line", ticket prices that only seem to rise, and it's little wonder that many seats are bare.

Oh, and they can't write in cursive anymore, either.
And, what's with the "man-bun" !?

Never mind,...."LGR"!!
::cheer::

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

At the Princeton game, there were a couple of young women - obviously students - sitting next to us who were on break,  They said that the reason they even bothered to come to the game was that we were ranked 19th in the polls!  (Isn't that great?)

I didn't have the heart to tell them that we were 15th in the Pairwise (at the time) and the polls don't matter.

And like the others, I loved my time camping out in the line.

[Jim Hyla]

As I've mentioned before, I think that a large part of the non-attendance by students issue is millennial.
There are so many digital ways to capture their attention, a 2 1/2 hour, live action hockey game just can't compete.
Just look at the latest NBA discussions about shortening events because kids' attention spans are so limited.
Yes, I've marveled of late about the number of students who are texting on their phones throughout much, if not most of any given game.
You combine that with a team that hasn't been as competitive as it was back in the days of "the line", ticket prices that only seem to rise, and it's little wonder that many seats are bare.

Oh, and they can't write in cursive anymore, either.
And, what's with the "man-bun" !?

Never mind,...."LGR"!!
::cheer::

And even NASCAR is changing to try and renew interest. They're breaking up their 4-500 mile runs into 3 shorter ones. It's the times more than anything else.

[marty]

As I've mentioned before, I think that a large part of the non-attendance by students issue is millennial.
There are so many digital ways to capture their attention, a 2 1/2 hour, live action hockey game just can't compete.
Just look at the latest NBA discussions about shortening events because kids' attention spans are so limited.
Yes, I've marveled of late about the number of students who are texting on their phones throughout much, if not most of any given game.
You combine that with a team that hasn't been as competitive as it was back in the days of "the line", ticket prices that only seem to rise, and it's little wonder that many seats are bare.

Oh, and they can't write in cursive anymore, either.
And, what's with the "man-bun" !?

Never mind,...."LGR"!!
::cheer::

And even NASCAR is changing to try and renew interest. They're breaking up their 4-500 mile runs into 3 shorter ones. It's the times more than anything else.

And the Albany Devils are moving to Binghamton partially due to falling attendance. (How might this affect Brady?)