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Unless you have a big group I wouldn't even start seriously looking yet. Seats from team allotments are just starting to hit the market today.

A lot of that depends on where you want to sit although I still think all price levels drop from where they are. If you are willing to sit in shitty seats in the UW ticket allotment I would bet those end up pretty damn cheap.

Pretty sure started getting access today as those started to pop up on ticketmaster when I checked a bit earlier. Same for the UW allotment. I still think prices drop significantly from current levels across all price points.

Yeah, value of season tickets is convenience + playoff option. So somewhat always assumed we would lose money on resales but not to this level (particularly weekday games). We are probably 1 and done as a full blown season ticket holders. Just too hard to consistently make games with young kids. But will be nice come playoff if we make a run to not have to worry about tix.

My definition of Net = Listed price less TM fees. So way under 'face'. Selling for $85/ticket total. Season ticket cost per game is > $150.

Can't make it and selling 2 Stars tix for tonight if anyone on thread interested. Only netting $85 each after ridiculous Ticketmaster fees. 123 Row J.

That looks like gemstone setting I had for TX-OU Friday party last year. But after a win, I go all orange. We have an extremely busy street for people looking at Christmas lights. I'm betting some non-Texas fans were wondering why all of the warm white with intermixed red and green around our house were topped off with Burnt Orange around the roof line the night after we won the Big 12 CCG.

This is greatness. Another collective just needs to structure an agreement with indemnification for any losses with guaranteed representation from a friendly attorney pro bono. Let those fucking idiots "sue" a former athlete and see how that goes for them. Please let this happen.

But they can fit plenty of the donors that aren't on Surly but receive emails from Texas Exes who, if introduced to Texas NIL efforts at the party, might consider contributing going forward. I just think having this email blast from the Texas Exes be about the party at Mannings could have really helped One Fund. Instead, we still have Texas Exes and LHF grabbing donors to fund their over the top administrative bloat.

Is Texas One Fund not frustrated they chose to compete? I mean I don't think anyone is going to pay for both parties. The vast majority of folks at your event are going to be ticket holders. I'm still relatively confident prices are going to come down to a level that anyone that pays to stay in N.O. won't break their budget to attend the game. I just think no doubt their party is going to pull away people that may have otherwise ended up at Mannings. Especially "olds" that absolutely need to be introduced to Texas One Fund.

Really seems like it's bullshit. @immamac - I'm assuming they were well aware of the competing event and didn't give a shit? Too many Texas Exes administrative salaries to pay. Absolutely ridiculous.

Why the fuck are the Texas Exes throwing a competing tailgate siphoning $$ away from the Texas One Fund. Just got an email. Fuck them.

That's insane. Wow. It's amazing how far SWA has fallen.

I don't think anyone is disputing his resume. Nor is anyone disputing he would have been a huge hire in 2010. People are questioning whether it's still a big time hire in 2024.

Yep. If people just want to get in the door I don't see any reason to not wait. I think the shitty seats will end up close to if not at or below face. The mid range to good seats are a bit more unpredictable. It all depends on how much inventory comes on the market from sponsor seats (i.e., employees that get them and list instead of attend). You have a bunch of high net worth donors at both schools that just got shitty seats that will be looking to flip and buy better. The large brokers are all going to collude, keep prices high, and play chicken that most of those individuals won't fly to NOLA without seats in hand. Those fans may very well buy up a bunch at or around current pricing. But if a significant amount of premium inventory hits the market from individual sellers (which I think is a possibility), you will see intermittent relatively decent deals pop up that sell quickly then have the same scenario that played out with Big 12 championship (where club level seats ended up at or below face by night before the game and day of game as the large brokers finally started discounting in tandem).

I still think Sugar bowl goes down a lot. The demand for the championship compared to the sugar bowl is just not remotely in the same ballpark.

Definitely agreed with this. Texas/Michigan will be 2005 Rose Bowl except playing out online instead of around the stadium. Will be fascinating to watch and painful to pull the trigger.

I have zero problem with it. Nobody selling tix is even remotely recouping what they donated to be at the front of the line. With our fickle fan base, home games typically resale at a steep discount for season ticket holders with extras so they lose money on those regularly. I didn't make cut for the sugar bowl but would be trying to flip shitty uppers to help finance better seats if I did. I think people buying need to have some patience. I'll be a bit surprised if "get in" price isn't too much above face in a couple of weeks. The more team allotted tickets that get added to the resale inventory the better for those loooking.

I made those purchases and I knew what they cost. My balance was about 25% higher than I expected because of how insane pricing for everything else is right now. So in the context of a chart reflecting peak credit card balances, it just reminded me of the exact conversation I had last night (without seeing the chart) that I don't see how this doesn't all blow up in the first half of '24. My prediction is one last big consumer spending push this quarter and then a big slowdown into first half of next year with a noticeable bump on delinquencies on cards, car payments, etc.

For Big 12 champ tix I had good seats but purchased around 9PM Friday night before game for about a 60 or 70% discount of what the same seats were selling for the Monday prior. I'm hoping for a similar experience with the Sugar Bowl but not quite as confident we will see the same drop.

Just had a similar conversation with my wife. I always pay off card monthly but not sure I've ever had a higher current balance than when I logged in yesterday to make the payment. Granted there are extenuating circumstances (Big 12 champ tix, Sugar Bowl trip flight and hotel prepaid, refundable flight/hotel to Houston for championship game) on top of all of the typical Christmas related charges, but still, it was a bit shocking and I did a double take. It's just crazy how expensive everything is. I've got reserves to absorb it but I don't know how people living paycheck to paycheck or "budgeting" based on prior spending are handling it. The chart above is not surprising at all. Feel like this all has to come crashing down at some point in '24 but I've been saying that this entire year so who knows.

Schools were only allocated 26K total tickets (out of ~77K capacity) so neither. Schools will each have their allotment in sections on their sideline. Texas is visitor. But pretty much everything for sale currently are the sections that will be mix of Texas, UW and neutral (largely sponsor/corporate/local tix that are on the market)

Interesting. My buddy that was right on the edge moved down like 400 spots from where he was when he submitted his request (without additional donations)

What I'm hearing is that your ranking in this range may have changed materially based on people that made supplemental donations at time of purchase (i.e., check your rank again and you likely dropped). I think I dropped some but wasn't really that close to the cutoff so didn't pay much attention to it. But it's all the more reason to just give your money to Texas One Fund where the funds will actually be used to enhance the program instead of administrative bloat that is the LHF.

It may mean the broker is short selling them to you. I wouldn't be worried about getting in with similar or better seats but they are betting market cools and will be able to buy the tickets to be delivered to you for cheaper.