Butler ticket fiasco

[Xman95]

Apparently the school gave band members, cheerleaders, etc. some advance notice about signing in and getting Final 4 tickets before others were allowed. They told them not to pass the info along. Well, should anyone be shocked that kids didn't listen and passed the sign-in info along to others? Hey, I wonder if one of those kids used to have a job as a timekeeper.

Here's the ESPN story. (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2010/news/story?id=5040810)

[coasterville95]

Gotta love social networking sites for this kind of stuff. Never before could one spread something so private so fast.

Reminds me of the teen party at Forest Fair mall earlier this year, private party for like 100 or so teens, who passed an "invite" to all the Facebook/MySpace/Twitter contacts and then wondered why hundreds showed up at the club technically uninvited, and then caused a major ruckus.

If the Butler tickets in question were TicketFast type tickets, I suppose they could void out all the barcodes and start the whole process over again. Its already on ESPN so too late to cover it up or try to save face. Also cause the venue ticket takers some gried when people show up with the voided out tickets.

I'd hate to be one of those Cheer/Band type people right about now. Particularly if you weren't involved.

[Snipe]

What a mid major move!

[boozehound]

Gotta love social networking sites for this kind of stuff. Never before could one spread something so private so fast.

Reminds me of the teen party at Forest Fair mall earlier this year, private party for like 100 or so teens, who passed an "invite" to all the Facebook/MySpace/Twitter contacts and then wondered why hundreds showed up at the club technically uninvited, and then caused a major ruckus.

If the Butler tickets in question were TicketFast type tickets, I suppose they could void out all the barcodes and start the whole process over again. Its already on ESPN so too late to cover it up or try to save face. Also cause the venue ticket takers some gried when people show up with the voided out tickets.

I'd hate to be one of those Cheer/Band type people right about now. Particularly if you weren't involved.

You seem to know an awful lot about this 'teen party'...

[xubrew]

why would they make the cheerleaders and band log in for their tickets?? it would have made a little more sense to just set those aside and not make them do anything.

[Xman95]

why would they make the cheerleaders and band log in for their tickets?? it would have made a little more sense to just set those aside and not make them do anything.

Probably for family members. Just a guess.

[D-West & PO-Z]

You seem to know an awful lot about this 'teen party'...

Haha. Oh man I got a great laugh from this comment. Well played booze. Reps to you.

[coasterville95]

You seem to know an awful lot about this 'teen party'...

Nothing that I couldn't get out of our daily bird cage liner back when it happened.

As I recall a similar incident occured at the Norwood American Legion Hall not that long ago.

(My cousin is part owner of a club that is considering teen nights, and I've been trying to talk the guy out of it...)

[xubrew]

Probably for family members. Just a guess.

maybe so.

my experience is that usually guest tickets (players, families, cheerleaders, band, etc) are set aside. i guess that isn't how it's done everywhere, though.

[coasterville95]

That was my first thought - why did you give students the keys to the asylum. They could have taken orders internally using whatever limits they wanted to set, pulled the tickets themselves, distributed them, and then opened the flood gates to the general student population.

These days, again with social networking and the grapevine being what it is...

That's one good thing about "My Musketeers", when they want to special private on sale something for us, you have to login with your own individual password, and presumeably they can limit or track ticket orders by password. The fact anybody you whould share your password with could mess around with your season tickets is another disincentive to try to cheat the system.

Still a limit of 600 or so student tickets, and Lucas Oil seats how many thousands? It always seems to me like the participating schools should get a much larger share of these tournament tickets.

[xubrew]

no one was more sick about the deal with razor gator than me.

however, in looking at it now, the price of tickets is far less than what it used to be through other brokers prior to the deal. i'm not sure exactly how it works or why the prices are down, but to the best of my knowledge the ncaa sells x number of tickets to razor gator, and they put them on the market at a marked up price, but the price isn't so marked up that people can't afford them. as a result, i guess it drives down the prices of people who are trying to scalp their tickets. it seemed like it used to be that if you didn't get a ticket at face value, you were looking at spending well over a thousand bucks. now, you can still get in for around face value.

http://www.razorgator.com/tickets/sports/basketball/ncaa-tournaments/ncaa-final-four-tickets/?performance=7368059|1

i'm with coasterville, though. i'd rather see those tickets go to the schools than to razor gator.