… the more Butts-Mehre stays the same.
Georgia football fans have continued to line up for season tickets to attend games at Sanford Stadium, and they’re finding availability at away games particularly difficult. That’s especially the case for the Bulldogs’ highly anticipated season opener against Clemson in the Duke’s Mayo Classic in Charlotte.
It took a Hartman Fund score of at least 24,001 points (read that as dollars) for UGA donors to qualify for some of the 27,000 tickets allotted for the Bulldogs for the Sept. 4 game, according to a report circulated this week to season-ticket holders. If they were seeking seats in the desirable club section of Bank of America Stadium, it took a cumulative score of 90,140 just for the right to buy them.
“Demand is definitely far exceeding supply on that front,” said Ford Williams, Georgia’s executive associate athletic director for major gifts and the CEO of the Georgia Bulldog Club. “I think that’s just a testament to our fan base and how fervent they are and loving to travel places to watch the Dogs play. It speaks highly to the matchup, too, of course.”
The Magill Society is undefeated. Just ask me — forty years of season ticket purchasing and I still managed to miss the cutoff.
By the way, looks like Ford Williams has made a seamless transition from Matt Borman.
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I missed it as well, but thankfully, I found some through contacts in the Charlotte area.
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27k in a 75k stadium? Nice work, B/M.
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But I guess that’s not so far off 30k in a 71k stadium (MBS for last year’s cancelled game with UVA)
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I know they had to reserve some for the Charlotte Sports Foundation which released them in June on Ticketmaster but I don’t know if it was a total 25k. I tried and couldn’t get 2 seats together to come up, but I decided to put in 3 seeing if they wouldn’t leave a single seat stranded like Georgia was doing (Happened to be during the seat change option for us or I never would have thought of it) and I was able to get three upperlevels that way. I had a friend who was in the Ticketmaster waiting room and he was number 800 in the que and by that time there was nothing left.
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The more I see of everything happening in my favorite sport in the last few months, the better I feel about giving up my seats after 50-years giving to the Hartman Fund. Still feel some remorse but less every press release.
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I think B-M made a mistake in initial ticket allotment during the ordering process. I was allowed to order 4 tickets and got zero. I’ve had season tickets for 28 years but since I’ve never been a Magill donor or made a really large donation at any point, I was well short of the cutoff. If I was able to order 4, that means folks who were much higher could probably order 6 to 8. Well guess what they did? Filled those orders first, which left the rest of us with zero tickets. Why not limit the higher point totals to 4 or 6, then the rest of us to order 2 (which is what I was expecting to be able to order anyway)? That puts the cutoff much lower. I’m sure a Magill donor would scoff at this but I really don’t GAS. It’s crazy to me that we get 27k tickets and season ticket holders for 28+ years don’t get any.
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People ordered as many as they could and are gonna scalp them – have you seen the secondary market prices???
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Yes I have. I don’t blame them for ordering as many as they can. I don’t blame them for selling the ones they don’t need/want. What I blame is B-M’s inability to allocate tickets for the initial ordering. Surely they had to know this ticket would be in incredible demand from their season ticket holders and damn near everyone would grab as many as they could.
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Yeah. One of my partners ordered two. I haven’t remembered to ask him if he got them. But he told me early on he wasn’t going to advertise to friends that he had them if he got them because he was going to sell them on Stubhub no matter what.
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I bought tickets on Stub Hub last week. With all the fees and taxes it was about $500 per ticket. That hurt but I wanna see that game!
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Me too but I sprung for club level – cost a fortune – but worth it considering where my season tickets put me. I’m sure my upper deck season tickets will get used by family or friends so I won’t even be able to scalp them
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I paid a dollar for a ticket to the Clemson game in 1980.
Clemson sucked.
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Yep, student tickets were $1 per game back then. Those were the good old days. And you are correct, Clemson sucks.
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I sat on the railroad tracks for free. And both of you are right—Clemson sucks.
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Hell, even when I was a student (99-04), tickets were $3 per game. I think they went to either $5 or $7 by ‘04, but it was still a hell of a deal.
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It really is getting insane.
Growing up, my grandfather and all his friends went to games together for decades – they were ordinary, middle-class guys who loved Georgia football, getting together and having fun (and boy did they tell stories of having lots of fun over the years!). I am not a Magill Society member, and I say this not to brag, but there have been years (particularly when it used to be 80% deductible) where my annual donation has been more than my grandfather’s aggregate score after having been a season ticket holder for 50+ years. I did not order Auburn tickets this year because I am sure I would’ve been in the far corner of the upper deck; in 2011, I was in the front row of the north (or east maybe) end zone!
It is totally unsustainable and – particularly when I think about my grandfather and his friends – disheartening for the future….
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Yep – going from sitting in the end zone corner by the band to the nosebleed section at the Auburn Dogwash has been disheartening. But I’ve had some good times and maybe have one or two more in me.
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“Just ask me — forty years of season ticket purchasing and I still managed to miss the cutoff.” Really simple solution. Quit pissing money away on cars and you wont miss the cut.
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Now that’s just cold, brother.
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Did you ever get to use the Porsche….
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If I tell you I have to kill you.
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You need to be ordering 8 season tix and selling those you don’t use. Only way to keep your point rank. Ordering 2 or 4 isn’t going to cut it.
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I would like to see the look on Clemson fans’ faces when they see the StubHub prices. They’ve never experienced anything like this. Hell, I think you can take the family to the ACCCG for under $50. Welcome to SEC prime time, where UGA fans will send prices to the moon.
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Doesn’t matter. Every Clemson fan that requested 4 tickets or less got them.
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Senator, do you ever worry they read this blog when deciding whether you made the cut? I assume you don’t, and I don’t blame you. That’s why you have such a following. But I still wonder if they look that close?
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That’s never crossed my mind.
Honestly, I can’t imagine I’m a concern to them.
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Here’s a “fun fact” – real state senators (and representatives) get to buy lower level tickets at face value without having to make a donation! (However they are non-renewable).
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Mine are in the upper deck. Tickets were $347 but fees and tax bumped cost to $500 per ticket. Taking the whole family so club level was out of the question.
I’m starting to get nervous about if covid will affect attendance. The shit’s hitting the fan at my hospital as we speak. Covid patients are being admitted by the dozen. OR will probably shut down next week except for emergencies and outpatient.
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I was supposed to be responding to Munson above. Damn computers.
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I quit going to games years ago because of things just like this and other stuff. (Thank you Mike Adams may you burn in Hell.) The view on my 65 in TV is perfect. No line at my fridge is very short and the beer and snacks are the right price.
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Yeah, my hard earned sweat and pre season dorm/apt rent? Us redcoats busted ass, most of us worked hard for the sustainability of the OG ticket holders. And we were happy to do it. I remember Dooley, Goff, and Richt coming out to our Woodruff afternoon sessions and they all were very sociable. August is a special month for pre season, band included. That astroturf field at woodruff was the bomb.
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My wife was a flag type. They worked hard in that heat but not like the instruments. Those ladies wore skimpy outfits unlike y’all in those horse blankets on Game Day. That had to be brutal.
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Wool. Hats. Nuff said.
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First game I attended as a student was Texas A&M 1980. Bad hot. I stripped down to shoes, shorts and a quart of Jim Beam. The kid sitting next to me was a pledge and not allowed to even loosen his tie. I had worked outside all summer and just improved my tan. The pledge was lily White when the game started and beet red when the Junkyard Dogs emerged victorious 42-0. Had to help his staggering, heat exhausted ass up and out. He was nice young man.
In retrospect I should’ve been up on the tracks with my people while wearing jorts, no shirt, tenny knockers and my bottle of Beam.
Good times.
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I never thought much the band until the Rose Bowl.We went to the parade, sat next to them at the game a watched them line up for chik-li-a while boarding the busses. Those kids worked their asses off. This video is awesome, they watch Sony score, got nucking futs and in a flash are right back to the music!
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I feel better each year about stopping my donations/season ticket purchases when I started my family six years ago. The monster that must be fed seems to be doing alright without my .02.
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