softball....wednesday

[Frenchie35]

_ a little bird told me that they start taking apart the bleachers and moving them to the outfield on wednesday. _

Did that little bird tell you what Wednesday he had in mind????????

[Tiredof theBS]

I'll make them a deal!

1) This season I'll buy my season tickets, 2) be a game day sponsor, 3) sit in the outfield this season, and 4) make a donation to the team...

and they will...

...bring back the old concessions with fair prices and get rid of the jerks with poor attitudes who worked in the concession stand last season. This change needs to be permanent!

I sure hope they don't expect us to pay normal prices, sit in the outfield, and continue to get ripped off at the concession stands!

When the new stadium is completed I sure hope that those of us with season tickets for many years will have first choice of seats in the new stadium. My fear is that we will get first choice with the understanding that we give an additional donation to the RCAF. I also hope that the price of tickets in the new stadium is in line with the prices we have paid in the past. I go to games to watch the team play ball and I was plenty happy with the old stadium.

[Cajun90]

Cajun90:

I work too hard to simply chalk up the price of my season tickets as a donation to the team. The reason that I pay a premium price for my tickets is so that I can sit in relative comfort and be close to the action. If I have to sit in outfield bleachers, then that defeats the reason why I am paying a premium price. As I stated in my previous post, I have tried but cannot get any information from anyone at the university to explain to me what they plan to do with the season ticket holders for this season. If the university expects me to pay full season ticket prices so as to sit in the outfield bleachers, then they can most definately expect to lose me as a season ticket holder. From talks that I have had with other season ticket holders who sit around me, this same sentiment prevails with them also. I have had my box seats for the past 5 years. Maybe all of this is some type of grand plan by the univeristy to get me (and others) to drop our season tickets so that they can then sell them to corporate sponsors at an inflated price. Regardless, this whole affair has been handled extemely poorly by the university. And the university wonders why there is so much apathy toward UL athletics.

I understand your position. Just don't be surprised that you could be half right. You drop your season tickets and you might find it difficult to acquire that brand new prime seating once it comes around.

In the business of big time college athletics it goes on all the time. I'm not defending it just pointing it out. Once they have the new grandstand they are going to have a much nicer product to market and I can easily see demand out stripping supply. Certainly happened in baseball when they went to the CWS and installed the chairbacks.