What's the call here?
Without Covid it's a no brainer.
How will attendance be?

I'm renewing.

Hope season happens
Skeptical of crowd sizes
Rowdies should sell masks

Not a season ticket holder

I have been a season ticket holder but I just bought new seats in a different location.

Renewed our 4 seats. Can't wait for November.

Most likely will renew (but haven't done it yet).....

In again. Gonna be in for TCU in FW. Gonna try to hit up a road Saturday SEC game (or the Big 12 challenge game).

Renewed football, men's basketball, and soccer.
Not sure what they will do if they have to limit capacity. There is no way to get 6' between groups of people unless they severely limit seating areas which would put all venues under 50% capacity. With season tickets how do you decide who gets to go if you have to close seats?
If there is not any notable increase in hospitalizations the next month or so there will be a lot of pressure on the governor to not limit attendance.
I think attendance will be down across all sports. Old people and less than perfectly healthy people would be smart to stay home. I see these same types of people out shopping with no masks, so who knows what they will actually do.

We also renewed for basketball. I said I would get season tickets as soon as they got rid of BK, and I'll continue to uphold my end of the deal.

I am curious to see how the re-seating of Reed is handled if they have a 50% max quantity...

I'm in and adding

bobinator said:

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Hope season happens
Skeptical of crowd sizes
Rowdies should sell masks

Not a season ticket holder

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Howdy, bobanator !

Bought season tickets for all sports. Not attending any or giving away tickets; stayin away from people & wearing a mask outside th house.

I was just trying to start a thread of haikus and y'all ruined it.

Hey, at least we now have a reason for our 6 ft (plus) spacing on D.

Renewed men's and women's! Gig 'em!

Renewed men's and women's! Gig 'em!

Renewed men's and women's! Gig 'em!

In again since Reed Opening!

Mikesyracuse1

Would you not renew basketball season tickets if they take down the Sul Ross statue?

Did you formerly buy tickets only because the statue was there?

I came here to read about basketball and can't escape the influence of politics.

When did renewals go out? We're y'all contacted? Via email? I haven't heard anything.

WHY isn't the athletic department publicizing what their plan is for reduced seating?

WHO gets in?

WHERE are they going to be seated to ensure social distancing?

WHAT is the plan? Is there a plan?

WHEN is the AD going to tell people who are spending considerable amounts of money exactly, precisely what they are getting for their money?



I'm not going to renew until I know what I am buying. I don't make major purchases without knowing what I am buying. Who just sends money in to buy a car and is happy with what shows up in the driveway? A beauty or a clunker, but happy either way?

This is BS

EXCELL said:

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WHY isn't the athletic department publicizing what their plan is for reduced seating?

WHO gets in?

WHERE are they going to be seated to ensure social distancing?

WHAT is the plan? Is there a plan?

WHEN is the AD going to tell people who are spending considerable amounts of money exactly, precisely what they are getting for their money?



I'm not going to renew until I know what I am buying. I don't make major purchases without knowing what I am buying. Who just sends money in to buy a car and is happy with what shows up in the driveway? A beauty or a clunker, but happy either way?

This is BS

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When they sent renewals out they specified it would be handled similar to football - refunds for cancelled games and pro-rated if the season is shortened. I didn't see them specifically mention seat donations would be refunded for basketball like they are doing for football and will inquire, but I expect it to be the same.

As for the actual seating plan - like every other school in the nation they are in a state of limbo. They can't tell you with 100% certainty exactly what you will be receiving, all they can do is outline your refund options if you don't like what you receive.

That doesn't begin to explain HOW or WHERE (or even IF) you will be seated.
You're buying nothing but "it will be different" statement. Got that. How different?
Half occupancy doesn't begin to explain or illuminate which half much less which seat(s) you will actually occupy.

I'll guarantee you beyond a shadow of a doubt they will not issue refunds if the games aren't cancelled but you can't be seated in the "allowed" half and certainly not based on where those seats will be located relative to what you actually paid for.

If I were AD, I'd have been burning the midnight oil coming up with a hard plan. You can always lighten it up if allowed by state/university mandate but you have to start with a really bad scenario and hope for better times. You can't begin to actually believe they have no idea how they intend to divvy up the seat allocations. They have to have a skeleton plan and if they don't then every managerial level should be flushed.

Oh, it might be noted they aren't soliciting any input from the customers, the seat purchasers, on how it could/should be done.

EXCELL said:

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That doesn't begin to explain HOW or WHERE (or even IF) you will be seated.
You're buying nothing but "it will be different" statement. Got that. How different?
Half occupancy doesn't begin to explain or illuminate which half much less which seat(s) you will actually occupy.

I'll guarantee you beyond a shadow of a doubt they will not issue refunds if the games aren't cancelled but you can't be seated in the "allowed" half and certainly not based on where those seats will be located relative to what you actually paid for.

If I were AD, I'd have been burning the midnight oil coming up with a hard plan. You can always lighten it up if allowed by state/university mandate but you have to start with a really bad scenario and hope for better times. You can't begin to actually believe they have no idea how they intend to divvy up the seat allocations. They have to have a skeleton plan and if they don't then every managerial level should be flushed.

Oh, it might be noted they aren't soliciting any input from the customers, the seat purchasers, on how it could/should be done.

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There hasn't been a football team in the nation that has come out with a detailed seating plan for 2020.

To think you're going to have one for basketball is being naive.

If you don't trust the TMF to handle the situation fairly, then don't renew?

IF there are seating significant seating modifications, then I would guess they will handle football/basketball in such a way that refunds will be offered, and those willing to accept "modified seating" will go into a seat selection process of the available seating.

I get that the corners aren't painted in yet, but it's inconceivable there isn't a fundamental foundation for a process that will be tweaked as necessary to accommodate the mandated attendance restrictions in place as the season starts up.

If you believe for one second that they don't have the framework(s) for a plan, then you are incredibly naive or you believe they are totally clueless in the athletic department management.

They aren't announcing it because they don't want to scare off donors and season ticket buyers by telling them the cold, hard truth.

I recently received a call from the Houston Center for the Performing Arts about their plans for the season. They essentially stated that they were asking donors/season supporters to "donate" their contribution irrespective of the fact they didn't intend to allow the vast majority into the performances. The seating was going to be prioritized by a combination of length of time as a season supporter and total donations outside the cost of the seats.

At least they have a clue and were bold enough to essentially state, you're not getting in but we want your money anyway. I exercised the option to defer the money as a credit against next season. So they don't have to pay me back immediately but it's not an outright donation either.

You're preaching the choir - I was the one who posted back in April we needed to hear from the ticket office on how they would handle seat "donations" if season was shortened/cancelled and everyone told me that it wasn't going to be an issue.

The "cold hard truth" is that they don't know what the situation will be. Nobody does.

Do they have plans for it? Likely yes.

Does it make any sense to break down each and everyone of those plans in a renewal email?

If you have questions, email them.

I would assume if there is significant displacement to the point where it isn't feasible to try and make every season ticket holder happy, then you offer an option of a refund or opt-in to a "socially distanced" seat selection that is scheduled based on priority. I imagine that is what they will do for football, the only reason I don't necessarily think they have to for basketball is the # of season ticket holders is significantly less and the # of comparable places you can put them is significantly higher.

If the season is altered in any way you will get the option of a refund, donate to the foundation or carry it over for 2021.

Again, I don't know why this is apparently so hard to grasp.

But even if every game is played, if the attendance is restricted then all of those prevented from attending will be affected. If season ticket holders are reseated, they will be affected. Just having the game played does not prevent the season ticket holders from being negatively impacted.

Giving refunds based simply on some percentage of games not played is NOT remotely close to a fair solution.

The lack of information is both alarming and deceptive.