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  • dagomike said...

    If it makes you feel any better, you probably would have had to donate $2000 to have the priority level needed. Maybe $5000.

    I am guessing a 5 year pledge of $5,000 a year.

    Io Triumphe

  • Count gHostula said...

    Here's the thing: NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED ME TO DONATE. What is it, $100 or something? The donation isn't an issue, the issue is that I'm willing to donate now and MSU is unwilling to accept my money! I have another friend that donated at some earlier point and he's ineligible for these tickets as well, at least right now, for an event that's 3,000 miles away from MSU. I understand the donation issue but you would figure that MSU would welcome people willing to donate now in order to purchase tickets for an event. It's a great opportunity for MSU to get people to donate. MSU should be sending emails to alums in SW USA that haven't donated soliticiting donations and selling tickets thereby increasing the number of people donating and putting more Spartans in the stands.

    And yeah, I'm still pissed that the ticket office never sent my Citrus Bowl tickets that I paid for and never refunded my money because they said they were sent. dramaqueen

    MSU will accept your money, the donation will determine your status for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, just like everyone else. Gotta take care of your regular donors, not the people who are only in it for one event. Which long-time donor do you think you should get tickets over? That's assuming the allotment sells out. If it doesn't, fight for tix with the rest of the public. Make sure to open threads that refer to erections this week.

    MSURed

  • Count gHostula said...

    I called this morning to ask about buying tickets to the Phoenix games. Yes, there's tickets available. SO I asked if I could buy some tickets and she asked me if I was a donor and I said no, but I'd be willing to donate. No tickets for me. I had to have donated a long time ago in order to be able to buy tickets now. But it begs the question: What incentive would I have to donate if I live 3,000 miles away from MSU and can only make it to maybe one game per year? Why wouldn't MSU simply allow me to donate and buy tickets since I actually live in Phoenix? Fucking stupid... and while you're at it MSU Ticket office, I'm still waiting for my fucking Citrus Bowl tickets from 2000 that I paid for and that you never sent me.

    I live in Phoenix and still maintain season tickets to football. I usually only make 2 home games a year, but I can typically easily sell the rest or I donate them to Sparrow for sick kids to use. I also donate as much as I'm able. Thus, when I called for tickets I got them. I mean, why the hell should someone who generates basically zero revenue for the AD get priority over donors who want to buy tickets. That makes zero sense and would be a poor business model. It would also lead to a huge chunk of MSU's ticket allotment going to scalpers who would then mark the tickets up and deny alums the ability to get to the game. My advice to you is to stop crying like a bitch, head down to US Air and just scalp some tickets. I doubt they'll be that expensive.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by 007Spartan on 3/19/2012 at 1:47 PM

    007Spartan

  • I'm pretty sure each team gets 500 tickets. Good luck.

    NigelUno

  • Count gHostula said...

    Here's the thing: NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED ME TO DONATE. What is it, $100 or something? The donation isn't an issue, the issue is that I'm willing to donate now and MSU is unwilling to accept my money! I have another friend that donated at some earlier point and he's ineligible for these tickets as well, at least right now, for an event that's 3,000 miles away from MSU. I understand the donation issue but you would figure that MSU would welcome people willing to donate now in order to purchase tickets for an event. It's a great opportunity for MSU to get people to donate. MSU should be sending emails to alums in SW USA that haven't donated soliticiting donations and selling tickets thereby increasing the number of people donating and putting more Spartans in the stands.

    And yeah, I'm still pissed that the ticket office never sent my Citrus Bowl tickets that I paid for and never refunded my money because they said they were sent.

    Join the alumni association, or throw as little as $100 bucks to the Spartan fund and you'll get all the requests you can handle. Hell, you could just log on to msuspartans.com and you'll get solicited.

    In other words, try participating in some miniscule way. I mean if you lose all contact with your University for 10 years after graduating, how the hell is the school supposed to know where the F you even are? Do you expect them to independently track the movement of half a million alums? Are the they the friggin NSA?

    007Spartan

  • -PPTPW- said...

    Go back and re-read (or in your case read) what I said, BRO. I said students shouldn't be charged the same rate for classes outside of their concentration.

    Also, BRO, I think you overestimate the willingness of the general student body when it comes to retaining information learned in those humanities courses. Most students don't give a sh*t and just want the 4.0, critical thinking be damned.

    Serious question: How many of you remember most of your complementary education (that which was outside your major?)

    What's more, BRO, the information gained from those courses outside of my major is MINUTE compared to the continuing education one can obtain beyond graduation.

    If you think you're a well-rounded scholar because you took some IAH course about art history from some random point in history while exploring its influence from some war at the same time, you missed the point.

    BRO.

    U mad bro?

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    "Leave the gun.....take the cannoli" "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."

    Son of Sparta

  • NigelUno said...

    I'm pretty sure each team gets 500 tickets. Good luck.

    1,200. Demand is said to be very high.

    PRStoetzer

  • I just donated to the Spartan fund.

    RCMB Premium Poster

    Count gHostula

  • tLonelyStoner said...

    why didn't you just lie and tell her that you do donate? i mean, is she actually going to go through and check each person who gets a ticket?

    No she won't, but her computer does.....

    MLeagueGreen

  • MSU Mathguy said...

    Your computer does your math for you? Then you must have a sense about what math you need. I'm sure the course went beyond the basics. Heaven forbid that a math course might improve your thinking ability to problem solve. Math is more than just computation.

    rumor Guess I should have included the sarcasm, but thought that I was over the top enough not to need it!

    "Leave the gun.....take the cannoli" "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."

    Son of Sparta

  • Count gHostula said...

    I just donated to the Spartan fund.

    clap liar

    NigelUno

  • Count gHostula said...

    I just donated to the Spartan fund.

    I'm sure that $10 will go a long way.

    I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this.

    RP McMurphy

  • Count gHostula said...

    I called this morning to ask about buying tickets to the Phoenix games. Yes, there's tickets available. SO I asked if I could buy some tickets and she asked me if I was a donor and I said no, but I'd be willing to donate. No tickets for me. I had to have donated a long time ago in order to be able to buy tickets now. But it begs the question: What incentive would I have to donate if I live 3,000 miles away from MSU and can only make it to maybe one game per year? Why wouldn't MSU simply allow me to donate and buy tickets since I actually live in Phoenix? Fucking stupid... and while you're at it MSU Ticket office, I'm still waiting for my fucking Citrus Bowl tickets from 2000 that I paid for and that you never sent me. fingergun

    I'm not going into too much detail here, about your situation or my own. However, I agree that MSU does have some serious problems--from the way it sells and markets tickets to the way it reaches out to prospective students. They are doing such a shitty job with new applicants that my daughter might end up at UofM (she's been accepted to both schools).

    Its five o'clock somewhere.

    Hematoma

  • 5000.00 donor level can request 2 tix to PHX
    10k starts where you can request 4 tix to PHX

    They consider your donations from July 1st 2010-June 30th 2011. ----If they didn't do that many people wouldn't donate unless they had to and would jump in atthe last minute.... I get pissed off when ATT or Verizon offers people 10x better deals than what I have allthough I've been paying them for 10 years....... decent analogy I hope.

    For Columbus they got 550 tickets and 90 were allocated for the players -doesn't include coaches etc...

    Hope this helps a little.

    I'm not going and if I would be allowed to buy my allocation and leave them in your name I would but you have to be the person of record on the account and pick them up in person at team hotel on Wed or the box office on Thursday.

    That being said, please warn all the ladies in Phoenix that 2 pump Pitino is coming to town....

    This post was edited by MLeagueGreen on 3/19/2012 at 2:08 PM

    MLeagueGreen

  • PRStoetzer said...

    1,200. Demand is said to be very high.

    Yup 1,200 tickets available to MSU seems like not a lot

    Frank Mills158448

  • 1200 is nothing for MSU fan base.

    MLeagueGreen

  • Plenty of tickets on stubhub for decent prices http://www.stubhub.com/ncaa-tournament-west-regional-tickets/ncaa-tournament---west-regional-tickets-3-22-2012-1067325/

    It appears based on the availability map of tickets on stubhub that each school might get one lower section and 3 upper sections of tickets. I'm just speculating and based on the other regionals I have been to, that makes sense.

    Wizard Sleeve

  • Frank Mills said...

    Yup 1,200 tickets available to MSU seems like not a lot

    That's not MSU's problem. That's The NCAA.

    Io Triumphe

  • Count gHostula said...

    I called this morning to ask about buying tickets to the Phoenix games. Yes, there's tickets available. SO I asked if I could buy some tickets and she asked me if I was a donor and I said no, but I'd be willing to donate. No tickets for me. I had to have donated a long time ago in order to be able to buy tickets now. But it begs the question: What incentive would I have to donate if I live 3,000 miles away from MSU and can only make it to maybe one game per year? Why wouldn't MSU simply allow me to donate and buy tickets since I actually live in Phoenix? Fucking stupid... and while you're at it MSU Ticket office, I'm still waiting for my fucking Citrus Bowl tickets from 2000 that I paid for and that you never sent me.

    Been donating to the fund for at least 5 years (and I am more miles away from MSU than you), but I always buy tickets from scalpers and not through the ticket office. If you want to sit in the rafters with horrible seating, buy from the ticket office. It either takes a big donation, or a long time of giving to work your way into good seats. I know from having losy seats at the big ten tournament for 3 years in a row. If you want good seats for about the same price as you can get from the ticket office, buy from scalpers.

    shioda

  • Wizard Sleeve said...

    Plenty of tickets on stubhub for decent prices http://www.stubhub.com/ncaa-tournament-west-regional-tickets/ncaa-tournament---west-regional-tickets-3-22-2012-1067325/

    It appears based on the availability map of tickets on stubhub that each school might get one lower section and 3 upper sections of tickets. I'm just speculating and based on the other regionals I have been to, that makes sense.

    how do people that buy tickets on stub hub collect them? we won't be able to get them in time for the games, most likely.

    tVargMan Prime

  • VargMan said...

    how do people that buy tickets on stub hub collect them? we won't be able to get them in time for the games, most likely.

    I have had them overnighted to me (on the seller's dime after I paid the basic shipping fee), printed them off via the instant delivery option, and left at will call.

    Io Triumphe

  • This thread just inspired me to donate $100 to the Spartan Fund

    SonnySpartanMon

  • Count gHostula said...

    Here's the thing: NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED ME TO DONATE. What is it, $100 or something? The donation isn't an issue, the issue is that I'm willing to donate now and MSU is unwilling to accept my money! I have another friend that donated at some earlier point and he's ineligible for these tickets as well, at least right now, for an event that's 3,000 miles away from MSU. I understand the donation issue but you would figure that MSU would welcome people willing to donate now in order to purchase tickets for an event. It's a great opportunity for MSU to get people to donate. MSU should be sending emails to alums in SW USA that haven't donated soliticiting donations and selling tickets thereby increasing the number of people donating and putting more Spartans in the stands.

    And yeah, I'm still pissed that the ticket office never sent my Citrus Bowl tickets that I paid for and never refunded my money because they said they were sent. dramaqueen

    They shouldn't have to ask you.

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    RPMadMSU

  • just watch it on TV, works for me. I only donate $50 to Charter once a month.

    Free with a digital antenna

    Every once in a while I get free tix to MSU events because of a source in the department.

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    High Speed

  • shioda said...

    Been donating to the fund for at least 5 years (and I am more miles away from MSU than you), but I always buy tickets from scalpers and not through the ticket office. If you want to sit in the rafters with horrible seating, buy from the ticket office. It either takes a big donation, or a long time of giving to work your way into good seats. I know from having losy seats at the big ten tournament for 3 years in a row. If you want good seats for about the same price as you can get from the ticket office, buy from scalpers.

    This. I get better tickets usually by not donating and giving it to a broker instead.

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    Giant Moose