30% of season ticket holders ask UW for their money back

godawgst

55% rolled it over to 2021
15% gave it to UW as gift towards their all in fund.

Surprised this hasn't been talked about more.

That should be a defcon 10 for the UW AD. My assumption is most season ticket holders had allready paid their money by end of March when this all hit, so it would be a sunk cost for them. Also, the average person most affected by Covid employment wise is not a UW season ticket holder.

In 2014 (the year after the reopening of Husky Stadium) we had approx 40k season ticket holders. Today we are at 28k. Obviously not all of them are coming back, and bigger picture this program just came off their best 4 year stretch in 30 years that included 3 NYE 6 bowls and 2 Conf. Championships, yet the season ticket base has essentially stayed flat.

Narrative for UW football last 15 years

Build it and they will come..... nope
Win and they will come..... nope

Keep beating the drum of Greatest Setting in College Football Narrative. I'm sure Jimmy and Pete love(d) selling that when there's 40-45k in the stands as they come running out of the tunnel, or last year when they didn't have enough people to even hold the "Greatest Setting" banner a for a couple games.

YellowSnow

West coast football is ded. Oh well.

FireCohen

we are worshington god damn it

Doog_de_Jour

While I’m sure indifference or dissatisfaction with the program could account for the refund requests, lots of people were furloughed or lost their jobs. Might’ve just been cutting expenses.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

That’s what happens when you sell the rights to tv to determine when the game time is and then post the time at the last minute

HuskyJW

Why would you have season tickets?

Purple_Pills

Doog_de_Jour said:

While I’m sure indifference or dissatisfaction with the program could account for the refund requests, lots of people were furloughed or lost their jobs. Might’ve just been cutting expenses.

Or in my case I just got sick and tired of politics in sports. The NBA, NHL and a few cuck MLB teams boycotting games because a violent rapist was shot by police was the last straw for me. I requested my refund that day. I will be back if the politics go away.

godawgst

Doog_de_Jour said:

While I’m sure indifference or dissatisfaction with the program could account for the refund requests, lots of people were furloughed or lost their jobs. Might’ve just been cutting expenses.

I am sure there was some of that but bigger issue for the AD is the let's assume 30% (I think it's closer to 50% but to be conservative) of the people for whatever reason were on the cusp of not re-upping thier tickets and this was the tipping point for them.

That's 4000 people not coming back in 2021. Multipy that by 700-1k per ticket and that's 3 million in lost revenue minimum out of your budget.

ReignMan

Getting really tired of the money grab they call seat reallocation.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

In 2002 you could get really good seats for $36. With inflation maybe that's $55. Without looking, I know it's not like that now. Plus scamdemic layoffs and it's gayer than it was then.

kanehall

30% in the lost revenue--time for UW to start cutting sports right (?) Super shit show coming. The top brass 5% pay cut really blew me away for their generosity in the matter. Yea right.

huskyhooligan

HuskyJW said:

Why would you have season tickets?

Because I have no life. So hurtful.

TommySQC

godawgst said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

While I’m sure indifference or dissatisfaction with the program could account for the refund requests, lots of people were furloughed or lost their jobs. Might’ve just been cutting expenses.

I am sure there was some of that but bigger issue for the AD is the let's assume 30% (I think it's closer to 50% but to be conservative) of the people for whatever reason were on the cusp of not re-upping thier tickets and this was the tipping point for them.

That's 4000 people not coming back in 2021. Multipy that by 700-1k per ticket and that's 3 million in lost revenue minimum out of your budget.

all we need is for Sonic to cash in some Bitcoin and ww are BACK BABY!

GreenRiverGatorz

Purple_Pills said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

While I’m sure indifference or dissatisfaction with the program could account for the refund requests, lots of people were furloughed or lost their jobs. Might’ve just been cutting expenses.

Or in my case I just got sick and tired of politics in sports. The NBA, NHL and a few cuck MLB teams boycotting games because a violent rapist was shot by police was the last straw for me. I requested my refund that day. I will be back if the politics go away.

Houhusky

People underestimate how detrimental moving the student section is...

Not only does it lower the general gameday atmosphere, but any good entertainment industry knows that the cigarette and beer companies did it best.

You cater to the younger poorer generation, hook them on the irrational nostalgia while they are young, and they give you money for the rest of their lives when they are rich...

Alexis

Houhusky said:

People underestimate how detrimental moving the student section is...

Not only does it lower the general gameday atmosphere, but any good entertainment industry knows that the cigarette and beer companies did it best.

You cater to the younger poorer generation, hook them on the irrational nostalgia while they are young, and they give you money for the rest of their lives when they are rich...

Yes and no. The problem with UW is they made their bed in the last few decades. The jock from the local HS that grew up going to UW gaymes with his two dads no longer is the demographic that they want as a student body. My kids couldn't get in, so one, who never missed a gayme with me since he was 5 ended up taking his student ticket money to the land of Bitchfork, and never missed a gayme there. Local kids that do make the UW tend to be of the non white variety, that go to play school, and spend Saturday taking extra classes rather than getting drunk and watching football. Then they cater to out of staters because the tuition is greater. And then out of country makes up the rest of the student body.

Even if the gameday was the greatest time in the world for these kids, the majority of them leave the state when they get done and go back home, and the ones who stay are Microsoft/Amazon fags that would rather scarf up with the Sounders anyway.

Football is a dying sport with the youngs in the WA.