Shocks vs. OU at Chesapeake Arena Dec. 10th 3 PM ESPN2

[ShockerPhi]

Called OU ticket office. Just told me the only thing they are selling are to season ticket holders, and not to the public. Said they would be in contact with Chesapeake Arena about possible other tickets, and referred me to their site and said they were selling tickets currently. I told him I didn't want 300 level seating, that's all they had, and he said they'd have more info on the website if they would be selling anything to the public.

So we're all SOL

[ShockerFever]

Perhaps you work at the WSU ticket office. You seem to have the same attitude.

Well given your flightiness and short temper, it could just be you.

[AndShock]

Crowd is gonna look pretty ridiculous on TV with an empty lower bowl and packed upper bowl.

[pie n eye]

Well given your flightiness and short temper, it could just be you.

Trust me, it's always the first thing I consider.

[pie n eye]

Called OU ticket office. Just told me the only thing they are selling are to season ticket holders, and not to the public. Said they would be in contact with Chesapeake Arena about possible other tickets, and referred me to their site and said they were selling tickets currently. I told him I didn't want 300 level seating, that's all they had, and he said they'd have more info on the website if they would be selling anything to the public.

#welp

Come on, Han, old buddy don't let me down.

[Play Angry]

So, let's (very) generously assume OU has 8,000 season tickets locked in for the coming year (they averaged exactly 10,000 per game last year in their most hyped season in a couple decades).

Then, let's (generously) assume Chesapeake is going to block off part of the upper bowl in anticipation of crap butts-in-seats attendance, so they pare down the available tickets (reducing capacity from 18,203 down to, say, 15,000). This may or not be happening, but let's just assume that's the case for argument's sake.

Now, per today's sale, tickets were available in Sections 305-311, which comes out to almost exactly 2,000 total seats based upon a quick count on Ticketmaster.

So - ~8,000 tickets would be automatically spoken for because of the season tix package. I get that. 2,000 were put up for sale to the public. Where the hell did the other 5,000 seats go? Is there a ROFR that Thunder ticket holders and other venue customers have that is somehow capturing ~1/3 of the total tickets as holdback? I get that premium suite and license holders would have some holdback rights, but my goodness that is a huge number. Alternatively, if the ROFR is held by OU season ticket holders where they can exercise their purchase option for additional tickets after the public on-sale date, then that is pure and utter horse ****.

Pretty bizarre.

[Play Angry]

Looks like they just dumped about 600 additional tickets for sale onto Ticketmaster in the top 3-4 rows of each of the 300-level sections for sale earlier today.

[ShockerPhi]

I'm kind of assuming the 301-305 sections are the ONLY tickets that were made available to us general public peasants. Which would make me think that the rest of the upper bowl is blocked off. Maybe after they get a few more angry calls, they'll open up the other side?

[_kai_]

Looks like they just dumped about 600 additional tickets for sale onto Ticketmaster in the top 3-4 rows of each of the 300-level sections for sale earlier today.

Chesapeake Arena

[martymoose]

A lot of you must of had sour grapes for breakfast. Pull your heads out and take a step back.
1. Ticketmaster doesn't control the tickets. Tickets are controlled by the promoter of the event and/or the arena. Ticketmaster does what they say.
2. This is OU's game, not WSU's. Therefore they get first dibs on all tickets, like we do for games played at IBA.
3. Much like every other arena in the country I'm sure CEA has held back nearly a thousand prime tickets for their season ticket holders to have first dibs on and will release them if not claimed.
4. When OU plays at IBA next year, WSU fans will have the opportunity to sell out the arena before they are released to the general public...guessing OU fans won't have the same meltdown.
5. I'm sure they care what the crowd looks like on TV, but selling tickets is #1 priority and if OU has bought them all, then they're sold and the arena is happy.
6. Placing blame on our ticket office is ridiculous...They got an allotment which they use for players and families then released the remainder this morning to season ticket holders not knowing in advance how many they'd have. The people who bought them will be ranked in order of priority points. Priority points don't say who gets or doesn't get tickets this time...it was first come first serve.
7. There will be tickets on the secondary market and I'm sure they will go cheap, so just be patient.

[ArtVandalay]

A lot of you must of had sour grapes for breakfast. Pull your heads out and take a step back.
1. Ticketmaster doesn't control the tickets. Tickets are controlled by the promoter of the event and/or the arena. Ticketmaster does what they say.
2. This is OU's game, not WSU's. Therefore they get first dibs on all tickets, like we do for games played at IBA.
3. Much like every other arena in the country I'm sure CEA has held back nearly a thousand prime tickets for their season ticket holders to have first dibs on and will release them if not claimed.
4. When OU plays at IBA next year, WSU fans will have the opportunity to sell out the arena before they are released to the general public...guessing OU fans won't have the same meltdown.
5. I'm sure they care what the crowd looks like on TV, but selling tickets is #1 priority and if OU has bought them all, then they're sold and the arena is happy.
6. Placing blame on our ticket office is ridiculous...They got an allotment which they use for players and families then released the remainder this morning to season ticket holders not knowing in advance how many they'd have. The people who bought them will be ranked in order of priority points. Priority points don't say who gets or doesn't get tickets this time...it was first come first serve.
7. There will be tickets on the secondary market and I'm sure they will go cheap, so just be patient.

Agree with your points. The main frustration has been that tickets for an 18,200 seat venue were announced to go on sale today (announcement yesterday) indicating seats between $10-$39. Last OU game in OKC had 4,000 attend. Only seats released today were $19 in one section of the upper bowl, with roughly 400 released, only to have roughly 600 more released a few hours later, all in crappy section with no indication of if this is it or if there will be more later. No one should be mad at wsu ticket office, but general frustration with how it was handled in Oklahoma is understood. Why announce seats ranging from x to y the day before if you know you're only releasing one section? History says this won't sell out. OU message boards (plural) have exactly 0 threads related to this game (tickets wise).

[Shocker85]

A lot of you must of had sour grapes for breakfast. Pull your heads out and take a step back.
1. Ticketmaster doesn't control the tickets. Tickets are controlled by the promoter of the event and/or the arena. Ticketmaster does what they say.
2. This is OU's game, not WSU's. Therefore they get first dibs on all tickets, like we do for games played at IBA.
3. Much like every other arena in the country I'm sure CEA has held back nearly a thousand prime tickets for their season ticket holders to have first dibs on and will release them if not claimed.
4. When OU plays at IBA next year, WSU fans will have the opportunity to sell out the arena before they are released to the general public...guessing OU fans won't have the same meltdown.
5. I'm sure they care what the crowd looks like on TV, but selling tickets is #1 priority and if OU has bought them all, then they're sold and the arena is happy.
6. Placing blame on our ticket office is ridiculous...They got an allotment which they use for players and families then released the remainder this morning to season ticket holders not knowing in advance how many they'd have. The people who bought them will be ranked in order of priority points. Priority points don't say who gets or doesn't get tickets this time...it was first come first serve.
7. There will be tickets on the secondary market and I'm sure they will go cheap, so just be patient.

Agree with all. See the emphasis above for TRUTH.

I have been to multiple OU games each of the last 3 seasons and have NEVER paid more than $15 on the secondary market except for KU. OU people don't give 2 shats about basketball. All while Hield, Cousins, Spangler, et.al. were on the roster and OU basketball was ranked higher than their vaunted football team.

Chillax. It's OU were dealing with here.

[shocks02]

Agree with all. See the emphasis above for TRUTH.

I have been to multiple OU games each of the last 3 seasons and have NEVER paid more than $15 on the secondary market except for KU. OU people don't give 2 shats about basketball. All while Hield, Cousins, Spangler, et.al. were on the roster and OU basketball was ranked higher than their vaunted football team.

Chillax. It's OU were dealing with here.

This is true. Most of their games on Stubhub have tickets for under $10. Add in another 7K seats and I wouldn't be worried about tickets exceeding $20-$30 in the lower level on the secondary market.

[BBShox84]

MM - question: did you get tickets yesterday or are you waiting for secondary market? Called ticket office yesterday at 10:20 and simply asked if they were selling tickets. Reply was they were all gone already. Called back at 10:30, mentioned I was season ticket holder. This time they checked my status, then told me their allotment was gone and that I would be placed on a waiting list in case of cancellations. Dont understand your your comment on priority points unless the waiting list will be by points? Unless they were out of their allotment within 30 minutes, which is possible, it definately was not first come first served.

[Stickboy46]

MM - question: did you get tickets yesterday or are you waiting for secondary market? Called ticket office yesterday at 10:20 and simply asked if they were selling tickets. Reply was they were all gone already. Called back at 10:30, mentioned I was season ticket holder. This time they checked my status, then told me their allotment was gone and that I would be placed on a waiting list in case of cancellations. Dont understand your your comment on priority points unless the waiting list will be by points? Unless they were out of their allotment within 30 minutes, which is possible, it definately was not first come first served.

I think he was saying that people who bought tickets yesterday through the ticket office will be assigned their seating locations by Priority points. Higher points = better seat. They didn't provide any seating locations yesterday to people that purchased them (because they don't know yet). All they said was Lower Bowl, adjacent to the WSU bench.

The actual purchase of the tickets was first come first served apparently.