Texas game is sold out

[BigTime]

Restricted admission tickets will be sold on game day.

For the love of Billy Tubbs, if you or someone you know has tickets and haven't been coming to the games (there are about 3k of you) please, please make sure your seats are used for these last two games. The guys deserve it!

Also there are good seats on StubHub and Ticket City...buy 'em up!

 

[sooners78]

would love to have 2 tickets if anyone has xtras

 

[Escape Goat]

Gotta have this W.


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[BigTime]

I plan on going full assault to anyone that will listen regarding the number of tickets that were no-shows this year. They can track who those people are and they need to make some serious changes next year.

 

[BoulderSooner]

I plan on going full assault to anyone that will listen regarding the number of tickets that were no-shows this year. They can track who those people are and they need to make some serious changes next year.

Will not happen.

 

[BigTime]

Will not happen.

Yeah it will

 

[NMSooner'80]

I plan on going full assault to anyone that will listen regarding the number of tickets that were no-shows this year. They can track who those people are and they need to make some serious changes next year.

I hope you're right. This no-show thing has been embarrassing for going on 30 years now, and especially this season.

 

[BoulderSooner]

Yeah it will

no it won't ... will they encourage corp's and donors that don't come to many games to use their tickets/ give them away when the don't attend of course ..

will they limit the ability of these groups to renew their tickets?

no chance in the world .

 

[MsProudSooner]

Will not happen.

I think something will happen. What will it be? I'm not sure. If the rumors of a major reconfiguration of LNC's interior are true, I think they will make the changes then.

 

[SoMuchDramaInTheLNC]

Here's what I want to see:

OU probably can't say, "You didn't come to enough games, therefore, you're banned from buying tickets." What they can do, however, is make it easier for no-shows to give their tickets away.

Let's use the physically-ticketed season ticket holders as an example: as it is now, when these people can't attend games, they may bring them to the office to try to give them away, or maybe ask a friend or two. Judging by the no-shows, these efforts aren't being made. (To be fair, it is kind of difficult to convince non-season ticket holders at the office to use tickets to the Mercer game on a Tuesday, just as it apparently is as a ticket holder).

Instead of that, when these people (or companies) can't make games, they could simply email the ticket office. The ticket office would then make the ticketholder's seats available for general purchase on a Stubhub-type system, at around $5-$10 for the "bad" games, and more for the bigger games. Because barcodes can be invalidated, the ticket office would simply make the physical ticket invalid and create a duplicate, downloadable electronic ticket for the online purchase. Advertise the **** out of this service around Norman, and I think there would be buyers.

The same system could be used for the student tickets, but those could be free, because they basically are as they stand now. There, the student who can't go would simply email their ticket to OU, and OU would post it. I have had many experiences with student friends who want to go, but didn't know anyone selling student tickets. Similarly, I have been unable to go a time or two, and didn't know anyone who wanted my student ticket. Kill two birds with one stone.

This works because (a) OU makes more money off of already-purchased tickets and (b) OU has more people attending games, so more concession money. If ticket holders realize that they are basically paying for others to go to the game, that may motivate them to go to more games. It could also backfire and result in fewer season ticket sales, but given the Sooner Club point system and the apparent minimal interest that caused them to at least buy the tickets but not go much in the first place, the backfiring doesn't seem as likely.

 

[BoulderSooner]

agree ..

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Here's what I want to see:

OU probably can't say, "You didn't come to enough games, therefore, you're banned from buying tickets." What they can do, however, is make it easier for no-shows to give their tickets away.

Let's use the physically-ticketed season ticket holders as an example: as it is now, when these people can't attend games, they may bring them to the office to try to give them away, or maybe ask a friend or two. Judging by the no-shows, these efforts aren't being made.

...

Efforts have been made, but to no good results.

Based on my personal experience, here is what I have found to be the problem. At one time I had 4 season tickets, and had them for many many years through the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. My dad and I never missed a game. On those occasions when someone else in my party could not make a game, I could not find anyone to take the tickets for free (unless the opponent was UT or KU or Duke or UNLV or Georgia Tech or Mizzou with Norm Stewart).

For 75% of the opponents, I literally could not give tickets away in a prime seat location, near the court, be they singles or pairs. I would almost beg friends and neighbors to use the free tickets, and nobody seemed to be interested. My small scale efforts to increase attendance were a waste of time.

I even posted free tickets on message boards and only had takers for a few games.

My dad passed away in 2009, and he was unable to attend games for several years before that. I now have one single season ticket.

I hope (and dream) that OU basketball attendance will increase, but no matter what the OU administration does, they cannot generate interest where none exists. Believe me, they have tried over the years.

 

[BoulderSooner]

Efforts have been made, but to no good results.

Based on my personal experience, here is what I have found to be the problem. At one time I had 4 season tickets, and had them for many many years through the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. My dad and I never missed a game. On those occasions when someone else in my party could not make a game, I could not find anyone to take the tickets for free (unless the opponent was UT or KU or Duke or UNLV or Georgia Tech or Mizzou with Norm Stewart).

For 75% of the opponents, I literally could not give tickets away in a prime seat location, near the court, be they singles or pairs. I would almost beg friends and neighbors to use the free tickets, and nobody seemed to be interested. My small scale efforts to increase attendance were a waste of time.

I even posted free tickets on message boards and only had takers for a few games.

My dad passed away in 2009, and he was unable to attend games for several years before that. I now have one single season ticket.

I hope (and dream) that OU basketball attendance will increase, but no matter what the OU administration does, they cannot generate interest where none exists. Believe me, they have tried over the years.

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[MercedeSooner]

pretty obvious but we have to get this game.

 

[hoopsaustin]

pretty obvious but we have to get this game.

1--beat a ranked rival

2--increase 2nd seed chance in conf

3-impress Austin Grandstaff and lock him up