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Yeah, that was probably him. I can sort of picture what he looked like, but it's been a lot of years obviously. He'd run over to the opposite side of the ice from the student section at the old arena and get the season ticketholders going every once in a while, etc.

Is the guy who invented "Sioux Yeah Yeah" on this message board? He used to run around the inner ring at the old Ralph and fire everyone up. Maybe we need to hire that guy to come back to some games and get some new stuff going. lol

Yep, exactly. And I think everyone who's not in the Champions Club gets that they can join it.

Very, very few would be my guess. I'll bet there were hardly any actually available to the general public.

Fair point. They do sell SRO tickets though so that might account for a decent chunk of the people packed into the bars.

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I think there's a big misconception out there that the games are generally sold out. It's why you see people paying more than face and why you see people with upper bowl tickets marking them up on the secondary market. Maybe they're doing all they can to get the word out that tickets are still available and maybe they're not. There's also a segment of the market that will pay face value (or more) for lower bowl tickets, but aren't interested in upper bowl seats at all and would rather stay home instead. The general admission tickets available are almost exclusively upper bowl, so I think there's room for my idea as well as others.

$75 agreed upon price. I gave him $80 because I didn't have exact change. Messaged him from the airport and met up at the casino.

True and I did consider that. I guess I'm not privy to what the actual numbers look like as far as how many of these seats are just general admission tickets that went unsold and how many are ticketholder no-shows. Maybe there's some sort of a hybrid to my idea in there somewhere. But regardless of why the seat is empty, it's to the Ralph's benefit to get butts in those seats one way or the other though. Is there no longer a waiting list for season tickets or is that just for lower bowl seats?

I know, I know, first world problems and every other program in the country would kill for our attendance. But, how do we get over the hump and get the building filled up for home games like it used to be? So far this year and last we've seen virtually entire sections in the upper bowl empty and thin in other places. I guess the first step is to identify the cause. Has the experience as a whole worn thin? Is it the cost? Is it the team? Is it ticketholders no-showing and eating the tickets or trying to scalp them for too much? Will the football home schedule being over help? I think the lack of flashy high end talent of years past is part of the problem and that's not an easy one to solve. But, one idea would be to implement a system where season ticketholders can release tickets they know they're not going to use back into the ticket pool to be sold at a discounted price (or even face) by the REA. It could be setup where as long as you release them 48-72 hrs. before the game it doesn't matter if your actual ticket sells, you still get something back. So for example if 100 tickets were released for a particular game for $50/each and 75 of them ended up getting sold then each person that released a ticket would get $37.50 back per ticket whether their actual seats sold or not. There could be one price level for the lower bowl and a cheaper one for the upper bowl with separate ticketholder pools for each. The REA wouldn't charge a fee for this (or a very nominal one). Their benefit is getting butts in the seats and spending money in the building that wouldn't be there otherwise. I think there's two basic groups of ticketholders, the ones that think their tickets are worth $100/each and the ones that could care less about the tickets if they can't make the game and just eat them. I know a lot of people that won't bother going through the headache of posting their tickets for sale and meeting up with a person to exchange, etc. At the end of the day it's your ticket to do with as you wish though. This system wouldn't do anything about the people who are just going to post their tickets for $150 each on TicketMaster Resale no matter what, but at least it would be a hassle-free system with one click or phone call for the people who want to see their tickets get used and be guaranteed a little something back in return at the same time. Any other ideas?

There have been regionals in Fargo in the past. Trust me the pattern doesn't change. The details might, but the pattern doesn't. Panic, scalping, face value (or close) at the end.

Expecting the now typical pattern for these big UND hockey events: rush/panic to buy tickets the second they go on sale, then several months of scalping attempts at 2x-4x face value, then closer to game day a flood of tickets are available for face value or even less after the very limited market of people willing to pay outrageous mark-up for UND tickets on the secondary market has dried up. If I've learned one thing from watching this unfold over the last 5-10 years it's: R-E-L-A-X. Even for the biggest games, there are ALWAYS an abundance of tickets available if you're patient. I can't remember the last time I even paid face value for a UND ticket let alone over face and that includes Vegas. We can all help by not doing business with the amateur scalpers and also not buying tickets you have no intention of using.

Yes, usually there are people selling. But, yes it's not sold out as well which is usually true of most games.

I sent you a message.

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That is the streaming option. It's not on TV.

Adult college athletes aren't public figures? That's debatable at best.

Bros before hoes: so simple in theory, so difficult in practice.

A couple things, 1. After the security checkpoint I gave the ticket taker my Fan Fest ticket as I thought that's what they were wanting at that point. She scanned it and I walked in. I thought that was odd after I got in there and realized how it was laid out. That might be something they might want to look into for next time as that could be exploited if the word got out. 2. Stay classy OSU. It was pretty clear to me they didn't send their tickets they didn't sell back to Scheel's Arena. I understand not wanting to sell to Sioux fans and wanting to give their own people every opportunity to get their school's allotment, but it's pretty lame they would rather have rows of empty seats in their section instead of a full building to potentially watch their team play. Seems pretty counter-productive to what the mission of an athletic department should be.

Did you tell the lady in the ticketing office you were selling to UND fans? She might not allow it.

Thanks. Do each of the three non-UND teams get one of the corners then?

I didn't say the BU section I said the section that BU's tickets are in.

Anyone know what section the BU tickets are in?

Has anyone heard anything definite as far as earliest ticket pick-up times at the arena for Duluth and BU purchased tickets? It's just amazing that the ticketing is handled this way. I can't tell if they do it this inefficiently by design or what the reasoning is. Why not allow for home printing or at least just release the will-call ticket information to the arena box office and let them handle the pick-ups? It's hard to believe it's necessary to have a separate table and representative present from each school to hand out their respective tickets and that they physically mail out the tickets from the schools to the arena.