Visiting teams are invading the lower bowl at Verizon, and it’s all Hoya fans’ faults
Posted by: Molly Redden in Sports, Vox Populi, tags: Basketball, Casual Hoya
Is this how you want it to be?
Hoya Basketball blogger Casual Hoya has had enough of you traitorous alumni and local fans who sell your tickets to fans on opposing teams, he wrote on Thursday. From his post:
How many times have your entered the Verizon Center to see your Georgetown Hoyas play in front of a home crowd and been blinded by the amount of Syracuse Orange, Notre Dame Green or Duke Blue in the stands. How many times have you heard the student section get drowned out by chants of opposing fans, whether against Pittsburgh, UConn or even Illinois and that horrific ILL-INI cheer?
As a season ticket holder, I dread going to my section every game, fully knowing that it will be filled with opposing fans who bought their tickets from unprincipled and dishonorable alumni and Hoya fans looking to turn a quick profit off of their seats. And because of their lack of integrity, Georgetown has never had nor will never have a true home court advantage.
A quick survey of StubHub led him to discover that over half of the 400 tickets on sale for the January 4th Duke game are for the lower bowl—where alumni and fans who donate to the Hoya Hoops Club for season tickets are supposed to sit.
Casual Hoya admits in the comments section of his post that a lot of these tickets might be from scalpers anticipating a lot of demand, but he’s not convinced that all the ‘Cuse fans in his section are the work of townies or scalpers:
“[N]ext time you go to your seats take notice of the opposing fans sitting in your section and wait for the Georgetown fan[s] to show up and then drop kick them, throw beer at them, politely voice your displeasure (after confirmation that these Hoya fans did not purchase their tickets on Stubhub).”
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Verizon Center is Screwing the Students (I cleaned up the grammar):
The reason why they aren’t giving the Duke tickets to student fans immediately is because they want to maximize the profits from regular fans. So they are selling off 400 section seats on the day of the game once they know how many students actually picked up tickets at McDonough. In addition, for those students who don’t want to pay $125 to see games like American or teams in McDonough, the individual tickets for that game are not $5 (as they are for every other game). Unsurprisingly, the tickets are $40 per student section seat in the 400 level.
Don’t believe me?
http://guhoyas.cstv.com/tickets/baskbl-studentseason.html
“Single-game tickets are $5 each for assigned seats in the arena’s upper level. There is no limit to the number of single-game tickets a student can buy for these home games.
Student single-game tickets for the 1/30/10 home game vs. Duke will go on sale Monday, November 23 at 1:00 p.m at the McDonough Arena Box Office. Duke tickets are $40 each for assigned seats in the arena’s upper level. There is a limit of four (4) Duke tickets per student.”
@ College ACB –
I think it is a great idea. Buy season tickets. Support your school and your team.
As for the $40 tickets – they are treating students as they are treating all season tickets holders and Hoya Hoop Club donors. They aren’t selling off 400 section seats on the day of the game, they are actually selling them now to Georgetown fans, and then the tickets go on sale to the general public via Ticketmaster on January 4th. They are giving Georgetown fans the chance to buy tickets before anyone else. If you wait until the day before like you do for your $5 tickets – the seats will be sold out.
Is there seriously nothing better to get righteously indignant about anymore?
If Verizon is doing this for the Duke game, whats going to stop them from doing these practices next year for other big games? Or even when the Big East play starts? I think more people should be pissed at this Duke policy.
@the photo caption – NOOOOOOOO!!!!
especially Orange fans.
@the photo caption
full of fans, and students, that actually care about the game? why not?
@narthuro
umm… ’cause they’re not hoya fans…?
I’d rather the place be empty than have our players have to endure ORANGE chants on their home court.