2025-26 Men's Schedule

[upprdeck]

There are 100s of season ticket left, J and H look half empty

[George64]

There are 100s of season ticket left, J and H look half empty

What a change from my grad school days, when we lined up at 5 am, and later, spent the night in Barton Hall.
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[scoop85]

There are 100s of season ticket left, J and H look half empty

What a change from my grad school days, when we lined up at 5 am, and later, spent the night in Barton Hall.
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As has been discussed on this forum, the ability to stream games surely has impacted the season ticket sales.

[Trotsky]

Freshman year, three days on line.  I won't say this is "worse," how could one compare?, but I have a fond memory.

[BearLover]

There are 100s of season ticket left, J and H look half empty

What a change from my grad school days, when we lined up at 5 am, and later, spent the night in Barton Hall.
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As has been discussed on this forum, the ability to stream games surely has impacted the season ticket sales.

Eh. I have a hard time believing this is a major cause. It may affect out-of-towers from making the trip to Ithaca, but I doubt many who live close by are spending their nights at home streaming the games. The quality of the streams is just so much worse than attending in-person. The only people watching the streams are hardcore fans who would attend in-person if they could.  

They should reduce ticket prices if they want more people to attend. It's just simple economics.

[BearLover]

Things that I don't think are causing poor attendance:
—team success (great team success continues to coincide with poor attendance)
—streaming (only the hardcore fans stream)

Things that I do think are causing poor attendance:
—change in student/adolescent culture (kids want to stay in, smoke weed, play video games, browse their cell phones)
—ticket prices (this is just simple economics; if you want more people to buy, then lower prices)

They could try selling more beer at the games too.

[upprdeck]

Tickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

Concessions I think many places have found that lower prices brings in more money.  Fountain drinks vs bottles brings in more money as well.

[BearLover]

Tickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

$400 season tickets is a lot for most locals.

Don't need to bring in twice as many people, just 10% more. Goal is to fill the rink, not earn the biggest profit possible. Better atmosphere=better program=more money in the long run.

[Trotsky]

—change in student/adolescent culture (kids want to stay in, smoke weed, play video games, browse their cell phones)

If you think today's student culture is more stoner than before, please time travel back to West Campus, 1981.

If anything, keeeds today are more emotionally healthy, more social, less alcoholic, and way less stoner, (at the cost of being bizarrely and terrifyingly prudish, closed minded, and judgmental AF).

[BearLover]

—change in student/adolescent culture (kids want to stay in, smoke weed, play video games, browse their cell phones)

If you think today's student culture is more stoner than before, please time travel back to West Campus, 1981.

If anything, keeeds today are more emotionally healthy, more social, less alcoholic, and way less stoner, (at the cost of being bizarrely and terrifyingly prudish, closed minded, and judgmental AF).

I'm mostly comparing today's crowds to the recent height of Lynah atmosphere, the early-to-mid-2000s.

[The Rancor]

Tickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

$400 season tickets is a lot for most locals.

Ah yes. The local poors from down the hill. If only we had cake to eat.

[BearLover]

Tickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

$400 season tickets is a lot for most locals.

Ah yes. The local poors from down the hill. If only we had cake to eat.

Yawn. What is the point of this dumb post? You're welcome to face the reality of 2025 America, particularly in Ithaca and surrounding towns with low average family income. $400 is a lot for most people. Not everybody who attends the games is a Cornell grad with a white collar job. Why don't you ask some  townies if $400 is a meaningful amount to them? Which is a not a judgment, by the way, even though you seem to think it is.

[marty]

Tickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

$400 season tickets is a lot for most locals.

Ah yes. The local poors from down the hill. If only we had cake to eat.

Yawn. What is the point of this dumb post? You're welcome to face the reality of 2025 America, particularly in Ithaca and surrounding towns with low average family income. $400 is a lot for most people. Not everybody who attends the games is a Cornell grad with a white collar job. Why don't you ask some  townies if $400 is a meaningful amount to them? Which is a not a judgment, by the way, even though you seem to think it is.

The point seems to be that you have begun your seasonal bloviating.  How many townies have you talked to?  Ditto your dopey post about dope.  How the hell would any of us know the number of dopes that use weed?  At least some of your hockey posts make sense.::whistle::

[BearLover]

Tickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

$400 season tickets is a lot for most locals.

Ah yes. The local poors from down the hill. If only we had cake to eat.

Yawn. What is the point of this dumb post? You're welcome to face the reality of 2025 America, particularly in Ithaca and surrounding towns with low average family income. $400 is a lot for most people. Not everybody who attends the games is a Cornell grad with a white collar job. Why don't you ask some  townies if $400 is a meaningful amount to them? Which is a not a judgment, by the way, even though you seem to think it is.

The point seems to be that you have begun your seasonal bloviating.  How many townies have you talked to?  Ditto your dopey post about dope.  How the hell would any of us know the number of dopes that use weed?  At least some of your hockey posts make sense.::whistle::

His point was obviously not that I've begun my "seasonal blovating," it was that I hold an ignorant view of the townies attending Cornell hockey games. Somehow it's controversial to suggest there are a lot of people who aren't willing or able to pay $400 for season tickets?  

Also lol@calling it "dope," haven't heard that one in awhile. Marijuana is legal now, and it's more prevalent relative to alcohol than it was in the past couple decades. It really isn't that hard to know townies and students even if you are not yourself a townie or student. It's as simple as having friends, family, and acquaintances in these communities. Really not a difficult concept.

Anyway, my blovating isn't seasonal. I've been doing it all summer.

[The Rancor]

My point wasn't the blovating, it was that you're the living embodiment of the type of prick that goes to Cornell for 4 years and spends a lifetime looking down their nose at the very people that provided your education. Prices be damned, we all know the economy sucks. What people do with their entertainment dollars is no matter to you. $400 is the price of a TV or a couple of video games. Locals certainly can't be expected to afford such luxuries. Who do they think they are, the Kennedys?