Baseball series with Delaware cancelled

[ShockTalk]

I want a partial refund of my season tickets since they're just giving them away to everyone who shows up to a couple of other events this weekend.

Yea, that's a bummer. Since there is no baseball game, I wonder if people only need to go to 3 events now?

[1972Shocker]

I want a partial refund of my season tickets since they're just giving them away to everyone who shows up to a couple of other events this weekend.

There are two sad things about this offer.

#1 is that the felt compelled to make it in the first place, and

#2 the probabality that it is unlikely that very many fans will (or would have) pursued it.

[SPEShockAlum]

Yea, that's a bummer. Since there is no baseball game, I wonder if people only need to go to 3 events now?

As of yesterday, they were still offering this promotion if you attended both basketball games and the tennis match.

There are two sad things about this offer.

#1 is that the felt compelled to make it in the first place, and

#2 the probabality that it is unlikely that very many fans will (or would have) pursued it.

If I had not renewed my baseball tickets this year, I would have definitely done this. I will probably not renew them next year after they pulled this move. I was a little put out by the holiday offer of buying a Valley-only basketball package and receiving a 20-game baseball package, but this took it to a new level. I understand the logic, but it's a slap in the face to baseball season ticket holders (and softball too, I suppose) and it seems a little low-budget (a la UNI Athletic Department) for our guys. Disappointed.

[tru2thaduce]

I hope someone from the athletic department is reading this.After hearing of this BS I will not renew my baseball tickets next year.I already have buyers remorse this year and have had tickets for 15 years.Why in the hell did I spend my money that I worked my butt off for and you they give away tickets for next to nothing.If I could return my tickets I would and I love baseball.I have missed 3 games since 2000.Dont really care to pay for tickets if the university sees them as almost worthless.

[ShockTalk]

As of yesterday, they were still offering this promotion if you attended both basketball games and the tennis match.



If I had not renewed my baseball tickets this year, I would have definitely done this. I will probably not renew them next year after they pulled this move. I was a little put out by the holiday offer of buying a Valley-only basketball package and receiving a 20-game baseball package, but this took it to a new level. I understand the logic, but it's a slap in the face to baseball season ticket holders (and softball too, I suppose) and it seems a little low-budget (a la UNI Athletic Department) for our guys. Disappointed.

I hope someone from the athletic department is reading this.After hearing of this BS I will not renew my baseball tickets next year.I already have buyers remorse this year and have had tickets for 15 years.Why in the hell did I spend my money that I worked my butt off for and you they give away tickets for next to nothing.If I could return my tickets I would and I love baseball.I have missed 3 games since 2000.Dont really care to pay for tickets if the university sees them as almost worthless.

I believe it to be most important that all those feeling slighted by this promotion let ADES know of these exact feelings as expressed here.

What I do not understand is why the athletic department didn't come up with something like 2 tickets to 4 games of baseball and softball. That would have been a plus for even season ticket holders as they could have invited others to the games to join them or given some away to get others to experience the games without them having the feeling they spent hard earned money for something less ardant fans now get free.

There appears to be an attitude that if you support WSU athletics, you must be well heeled and such a promotion would mean nothing to you as you have money to burn. Maybe its time they took a further look at the number of rank and file that help make WSU athletics successful.

[cmoore]

A lot of your frustrations can be attributed to the fact that the majority of the workforce in the athletic department is a bunch of inexperienced twenty somethings coming up with these wonderful ideas. Just look around when you're at an event. At best, a handful of very young thirty year olds looking for the next best job out there.

[Rosewood]

"Other people got free stuff that I paid money for whaa whaa whaaa"

When I went to WSU they let people, especially the elderly, audit classes. You could show up and learn the material but you didn't get credit and you didn't take exams. Maybe some people here could audit an Econ 101 class.

WSU said the tickets cost X.
You agreed to their value and paid X.
Later WSU said the tickets now cost Y.

You don't get to complain that the cost changed. You agreed to their value at X. What happens after that has no affect on what you thought of their value.

And besides me busting your chops, if you don't see the value in financially supporting baseball (something you claim to enjoy well enough) then you really don't get it.

[ShockTalk]

"Other people got free stuff that I paid money for whaa whaa whaaa"

When I went to WSU they let people, especially the elderly, audit classes. You could show up and learn the material but you didn't get credit and you didn't take exams. Maybe some people here could audit an Econ 101 class.

WSU said the tickets cost X.
You agreed to their value and paid X.
Later WSU said the tickets now cost Y.

You don't get to complain that the cost changed. You agreed to their value at X. What happens after that has no affect on what you thought of their value.

And besides me busting your chops, if you don't see the value in financially supporting baseball (something you claim to enjoy well enough) then you really don't get it.

Oh, but they can complain. WSU has set a precedent that they did this before and may do it again. Next year, people may elect to not support the program or they may wait (through the cold/possibly canceled part of the season) to see if they do it again. As I said, there were other ways of doing this promotion other than at the beginning of the season for 2 full season ticket packages to 2 sports that would have been seen as a win win for all parties.....early mid-week/Friday game giveaways, 4 game packages to both sports, mid season special. Actually just about anything other than what WSU did.

As far as busting chops and financially supporting the team, maybe you should keep to evaluating yourself and not others. Maybe they are not as ardent a fan of baseball, maybe they are upset about how far the program has fallen to resort to this kind of promotion, maybe their financial decision was just not as easy as yours, maybe they support a lot of other WSU sports more than you and made a decision to place their funds elsewhere. Whatever, this promotion just dropped a once proud baseball program into the "just another sport" category at WSU and gives the same image of the baseball program here as many others on this board laugh about at other schools.

[1972Shocker]

Did any ShockerNet members take advantage of this promotion? Do any ShockerNet members know of anyone who took advantage of this promotion?

Just curious.

I guess the 1st thing you had to do was stop by the ticket office and pick up a Shocker Passport. Then have the passport stamped when presented at each event.

Anyone go to the Tennis match? If so, what kind of crowd did they have?

I will go first: No I did not take advantage of the promotion and no I do not know anyone else who did either.

[Rosewood]

I did. I go to the games and now that my daughter is old she will tag along to many of them. So this makes it easier than sneaking her in. Plus I knew two diehards who couldn't afford to renew so I gave them a pair.

At most 100 people at tennis. Many people came, stamped, left. Some stuck around for free food.

[Rosewood]

And for clarification - if one person went to all 3 events then the reward was a pair of season tickets, any chairback section. So grandstands row 13+.

[1972Shocker]

I did. I go to the games and now that my daughter is old she will tag along to many of them. So this makes it easier than sneaking her in. Plus I knew two diehards who couldn't afford to renew so I gave them a pair.

At most 100 people at tennis. Many people came, stamped, left. Some stuck around for free food.

So at most his promotion attracted 100 participants. Does that imply that it was simply a poorly run/marketed promotion are that the apathy towards Shocker baseball is widespread?

[rrshock]

So at most his promotion attracted 100 participants. Does that imply that it was simply a poorly run/marketed promotion are that the apathy towards Shocker baseball is widespread?

That or people just couldn't bare to spend a chunk of their day watching softball and tennis. But the apathy is there towards baseball as well.

[1972Shocker]

That or people just couldn't bare to spend a chunk of their day watching softball and tennis. But the apathy is there towards baseball as well.

There was no softball to watch. You watched men's basketball, women's tennis and women's basketball, all of which I am able to enjoy. You received season tickets for baseball and softball. I actually went to both basketball games and probably would have done the tennis but I had other obligations to tend to. I would actually like to get to a tennis match or to this year. Why not? It's the Shocks and it is a sport competition.

About the only Shocker sport I would probably not watch would be Cross Country, which just doesn't lend itself to spectating. Not a lot of opportunities to watch the Golf teams and I would only want to watch that if I could follow the team around the course.