You gotta love it. Georgia’s postseason fate is far from settled, but that’s hardly stopping Butts-Mehre from doing the voodoo it do so well.
LOL. “To positively influence” is the best new euphemism of the 2019 season.
Don’t miss the fine print, peeps.
So, on the one hand, if Georgia doesn’t salvage its season — something we won’t know until after November 1 — if you hand over the money, you may find that all you’ve done is pony up for a shot at some sweet Citrus Bowl ticket action. On the other hand, if the Dawgs do get on a roll and play for the big stakes we’ve been accustomed to the past two seasons, you may very well find that your wallet isn’t as influential as others’ are. Such a deal!
If all this has the tang of familiarity to it, it’s only because it does.
Get The Picture 
A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Somebody at Butts-Mehre(lol) must be worried about losing to Florida with this timing.
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Audacity called…said hold my beer
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This is one of the many reasons I got out. I donated to the Hartman fund for 21 years. Eventually I didn’t have access to decent away game tickets or decent bowl game tickets. We lost our tailgate spot years ago but sucked it up anyway. Finally gave up when I decided It was going to take way more disposable money than I have to make it worth doing. Shit like this is the icing on the cake. All the donors who have invested for years can get shut out by big money folks who see a shiny new toy they want.
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As a 31 year old season ticket holder since 2013 thanks to the Young Alumni Program, I wonder each February/March why I continue to be in. Prior to the creation of the Magill Society, I’d calculated out how many years before I’d be eligible for Florida tickets, as well as some away game tickets. With the MS, the Florida timeline has since doubled, and if I maintain the bare minimum $550 donation for my two tickets, I’ll be roughly 86 when I can finally get in on SEC Championship tickets. And that’s before calculating any donation increases or the continuously widening gap that the Magill Society will create with the regular donors. There’s also the simple math of what else I could do with that money as a newlywed homeowner. I’ve also accepted the idea of getting 3-4 tickets together for future children is a pipe dream.
I suppose the one reason I’ve continued to buy is I’ve had decent success selling the seats when I don’t want to go, which has become a more regular occurrence. I went to one home game in 2017, zero last year, and will go to one this year. This year I was able to make back most of my donation off the profit of the ticket sales, which was nice.
I have the belief if I get out, I’ll likely never get back in due to the cost to re-join. But each February as I stroke that donation check, I wonder if I’m the personification of insanity.
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I was never eligible for Young Alumni (my wife bailed on it early), and I regret having done that. We currently buy tickets with a friend, and we are realistic that we will never have a shot back in on season tickets on our own, for our growing family, for a long time.
Next season’s home schedule is particularly hard to swallow. But there are situations like 2017 Natty where the cutoff can play in your favor – look at the ‘low’ level donors who were able to get face value tickets for that @ 12k points.
I’d recommend seeing if you don’t have a few friends who want to go in with you for tickets, with you having the option to more quickly build up your lifetime donor score.
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I would never tell anyone to not support our school, but I think there are better ways of doing it than season tickets. I bought Rose Bowl tickets at face value from their website, same for the Sugar Bowl (which I had to sell/take a bath on). With the secondary market out there, I’d just buy a la carte and save my donations for the school that actually needs it. I don’t really care to pay for zircon encrusted tweezers for each recruit.
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My passion is waning and my wallet is empty so I accept that I’m not a Butts-Mehre kind of guy. They must know they’re whistling into the wind with this kind of solicitation.
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Reminds me of 2-3 years ago when BM pulled this same money grab shenanigans and it turned out the cutoff scores were so high that additional donations made no impact for virtually anyone.
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The worst part is that if we make the CFP, we could be the 4th team in and playing in the Peach Bowl. That would be an expensive ticket. But we could also end up in the Fiesta, which only a fool would buy through UGA.
I learned my lesson with the Sugar Bowl last year. I’ll only put in for CFP games. Everything else will be easy pickings the day of the game.
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BOWLS have been that way for years..
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There is a back-door way into Peach Bowl tickets – buy the tickets for the prior bowl game, and you’re given first priority for buying into the following year. I did that with a few of my friends last year, took a small loss, and now have Peach Bowl tickets at face value for this year’s CFP. There can be loopholes
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Rest assured, none of these donations will count toward your minimum 2020 season ticket and Magill Society goals.
#COMMITMORETOTHEG
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Butts mehre: greed of a pimp, business sense of an life long academic.
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Hmmmm….$10,000 extra donation that may or may not score the right to buy expensive tickets, or $2,000 budget for Stubhub?
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This is my second thought on giving up season tickets. The amount I spend on all games could get me really nice seats to just the games I want to attend, especially road games.
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Do you think this is the sentiment of many younger fans/alums ? Under age 40 ? 45 ? I do wonder what it’s going to look like in, say, 20 years when the majority of the fanbase has been A-OK for 2+ decades with taking more of a renter’s approach than a buyer’s approach.
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Tony, I can only speak to my friends and aquatinces. But I don’t know a ton of folks my age range that have season tickets or have an interest in getting them. Outside of my sister, anyone that had the Young Alumni tickets have since dropped them. Many of them don’t have the discretionary funds for the investment, and if they do they don’t want to spend all of their entertainment budget on season tickets. They’ll go to 1-2 games a year, but often save up for a fun road game each season, as well as spread that money around between other travel, Atlanta United, the Braves, concerts or home improvements. They also view getting to Athens as expensive and more of a hassle than watching the game with a group of friends. My wife is a Tech grad and she gave her season tickets up two years ago. She has come to prefer watching games at home with family and then getting about her day. My sister sits a few rows behind me in Sanford and as die hard of a fan as she is, I can see the day approaching where she drops out due to cost, other entertainment interests and the increasing struggle to find folks to go to the game with her.
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It’s for rich people anymore. I say that with no bitterness toward you rich folks. But there are a lot of us who just flat can’t afford this crap anymore and if you live in South Ga like I do it isn’t worth it to get up early on Friday morning, drive the three hours to Athens, watch the game, fight traffic leaving Athens, get home in the middle of the night. And all of this plus making a weekend of it, which is what it takes to make it not be a job, is just too dang expensive. I know little people like me aren’t even a consideration so I don’t feel too bad when I decide not to tune in like I did this past Saturday to watch us spend an entire half running between the guards with no success. They will finish killing the goose that laid the golden eggs soon enough and their own greed will be the reason.
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According to a leading sports talk show host here in Houston, the Dawgs have no chance against Florida or Auburn this year, as he states they are both much better football teams.
Not sure I believe him, but I wouldn’t hitch my wagon up just yet heading to the playoffs🥴
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https://www.redcuprebellion.com/2019/10/22/20924728/ole-miss-rebels-football-2019-budweiser-coors-miller-beer-vaught-hemingway-stadium
Well if this doesn’t work, they can try high-margin low-alcohol beer sales to the masses…in their own separate lines.
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