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For The Clowns That Were Going To Renew Their Season Tix

hoops156 said:
TedHendricksOffspring said:
For the record, people in the athletic and administrative departments are expecting season ticket package sales to fall of at very close to 52% because the FSU-UNC package that was offered this year was included in the original season ticket sales.

Also the big reason they raised the pricing is because since they expect such a drop off in attendance that they're hoping to squeeze the blindly dedicated fans and they've already started to get emails because this is insulting to their menial intelligence. To put it in short, the fans who decided to hang on with Golden into next year are ****ed now because of this stunt.

It's a shame it's come to this but the admin is falling apart at the seams and they'll get their dues with furthered embarrassment.
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how is young alumni seating gonna work? do i lose my seat I've had in that section for the past couple seasons?
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I will ask tomorrow and get back to you.
 
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Some of you just talk & don't know what you're talking about. The Herald reported that UM was never consulted on the stadium renovations which has resulted in FEWER SEATS due to LARGER SEATS (for fat azzes) etc. Stephen Ross the owner was quoted as saying "UM wasn't consulted on the renovations, I"M paying for it....however they are a good tenant". For those of you clamoring for a 'smaller venue' you're getting it so what are you complaining about? There will be changes & season ticket holders will be paying for it and/or relocating if you're beat out by someone who has been in the section longer than you. That's the way these things work.
 
"your seats" do not exist anymore.

And people wanted to renew because they wanted to keep their seats, they just slapped you in the face and asked for money too :roll-canes2:
 
DCF in LA said:
If they are tripling and quadrupling prices for some, it stands to reason that they are banking on the math dictating that even if half the season ticket owners cancel their plans (which is probably unrealistic), the rest are paying so much more that they'll still turn a profit anyway. What cynical ********.
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Sounds like a pretty retarded way to expand your customer base.
 
Dingaan1828 said:
DCF in LA said:
If they are tripling and quadrupling prices for some, it stands to reason that they are banking on the math dictating that even if half the season ticket owners cancel their plans (which is probably unrealistic), the rest are paying so much more that they'll still turn a profit anyway. What cynical ********.
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Sounds like a pretty retarded way to expand your customer base.
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We're talking about the biggest retards in major college sports. I challenge anyone to find me a worse administration anywhere in the country and even spanning back over the last decade.
 
Even the Marlins had enough sense to at least pretend they cared about winning when rolling out a new stadium.

UM mang....

They could **** up a free lunch.
 
We the Boss said:
Even the Marlins had enough sense to at least pretend they cared about winning when rolling out a new stadium.

UM mang....

They could **** up a free lunch.
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What's currently happening to this program is an intersection of incompetence and apathy.

A decade later and we all see the results. Something that couldn't be ****ed up, has been torn to shreds.
 
COULD THIS CLOWN SHOW OF A PROGRAM GET ANY WORSE??? BEEN A SEASON TICKET HOLDER FOR 8 YEARS WHAT A SLAP IN THE FACE! **** THOSE PUNKS. THEY'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A FAN THEY GET PAID WHILE WE GET SCREWED!!!! SHI**Y TEAM EVERY SEASON AND NOW YOU WANT TO RAISE PRICES TO YOUR MOST LOYAL FAN BASE. DISGRACE! BUMS!!!! CAN'T BELIEVE IM SAYING THIS BUT I WILL NOT GO TO ANY MORE UM GAMES UNTIL THEY GUT THE STAFF STARTING WITH BLAKE GOLDEN AND D'ONFRIO.
 
What a **** show this whole program has become? I care less and less about it everyday.
 
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UM is no different than any other university or athletic program. All of them are scrambling for money and using it for a number of reasons. You really shouldn't be surprised, especially by a private school that can't rely on state funding.
 
The perfect storm of avarice and incompetence. Yet they will have the nerve to complain about the fans and attendance.
 
felix said:
UM is no different than any other university or athletic program. All of them are scrambling for money and using it for a number of reasons. You really shouldn't be surprised, especially by a private school that can't rely on state funding.
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Coming off a 6-7 year at the UNIVERSITY OF ******* MIAMI?

Sorry dude...I hear what you're saying but it doesn't apply here. I guarantee you any of the other hypothetical programs you are alluding to do a lot more in the way of putting together a solid program and actually making changes to ATTEMPT to improve than the current inept set of decision makers we have.

You attempting to lump our situation in with others is simply asinine. 3 straight bad coaching hires, 3 straight extensions of those ****** coaches, and then a delayed response in all 3 cases to fire those ****** self imposed coaches.

They deserve every ounce of hate, venom, and embarrassment that is about to come their way this season. I'm actually looking forward to the **** show so I can laugh in their incompetent, apathetic faces.
 
Republicane said:
Dan E. Dangerously said:
jifarina said:
Don't tell Jesse Marks that Dan, he's been tweeting out that graphic of what the school has "put into" the program. That $350 mil or whatever it is for the stadium is a joke, as they aren't paying a single dime. Do they really think we are idiots?
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Jesse Marks isn't a very bright person
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In the same graphic they claim to have spent $1m on new football uniforms, uniforms which they can no longer wear because they switched to Adidas. They thought the best time to spend a million dollars on uniforms would be the year before the contract might expire and preventing them from ever wearing them again.

The school who claims to have no money spent a million dollars to rent uniforms for a year.
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Why would UM be paying Nike $1M for uniforms? Shouldn't Nike or Adidas or whoever the official equipment sponsor is be paying UM for wearing their equipment?
 
You candy asses can stay home if you want. Chit I only get to see them live 6 or 7 times a year, I ain't missing that for nothing. Go Canes!
 
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Canefam said:
You candy asses can stay home if you want. Chit I only get to see them live 6 or 7 times a year, I ain't missing that for nothing. Go Canes!
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This right here basically encapsulates the incompetence currently running the program.

Go root for another team. You're part of the problem. I'd neg you 400 more times if this **** allowed it.
 
jifarina said:
Don't tell Jesse Marks that Dan, he's been tweeting out that graphic of what the school has "put into" the program. That $350 mil or whatever it is for the stadium is a joke, as they aren't paying a single dime. Do they really think we are idiots?
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Actually yes. Some people believed that bullchit propaganda they spit out. (AN EMAIL TO JESSE AND BLAKE BELOW)

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Let's breakdown UM and their "investing" in UFootball and athletics.

$350 Million for Sun Life

UM isn't paying a dime for the renovation. So UM's is investing ZERO. Thanks Stephen Ross for "investing". When your landlord paints your apartment and re-paves the driveway do you as the tenant claim you were investing in the rental? No. The landlord is investing in the property they own, you may receive some minor benefits indirectly. By the way, that stadium is a train-wreck and offers nothing in terms of a home field advantage (but not the point of this email).

Net Investment Towards Athletics $0.00

$120 Million for UHealth

Congrats on the investing here. It's a shame that this has ZERO to do with ATHLETICS. From the UM website… "The University of Miami Health System has announced plans for a 200,000-square-foot ambulatory center on the University’s Coral Gables campus that will provide students, faculty, staff, and surrounding communities easy access to UHealth’s leading physicians." (See below Source #1)

On your own website, the following words are not mentioned "football" or “athletic” or “sport”. The UHealth ambulatory center is not a direct investment in sports. This is a joke and a flat out lie to claim this is an investment in athletics.

Net Investment Towards Athletics $0.00

$56 Million for the Student Activities Center

Two quick points about the SAC:

First, the total investment seems to be off. According to two different sources, the correct number is closer to $45-46.5 Million. (See below Source #2). Not that it matters.

Second, this investment is not for “athletics” or "sports" or "football" it is for “student life”. From your own website… “the SAC is an important addition to student life on the University of Miami Campus. The Center includes a 24-hour study space, student organization offices and lounge spaces, a Grand Ballroom, a Senate Room, multi-use meeting and activities rooms, and a media suite. Also housed in the Center are the offices for Student Life departments including: Student Activities and Student Organizations, the Butler Center for Volunteer Service and Leadership Development, Orientation and Commuter Student Involvement, and Reservations for the Student Center Complex. The Center is also the site of Starbucks, Jamba Juice, M2O, and the Rathskeller, which includes roller gliders and an outdoor bar with views of Lake Osceola.”

This again is not an example of directly investing in athletics. Another lie.

Net Investment Towards Athletics $0.00

In summation, UM’s three biggest claims towards investing in athletics are all misleading. You claim $557 Million but the real number is about $520 Million less.

Not only does UM pretend to have standards for our coaches we also lie to our alumni and fan base about investing in athletics.


Source #1: http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/uhealth_at_coral_gables_announced/

Source #2: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article1954324.html andhttp://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2013/08/22/um-student-activities-and-schwartz.html?page=all
 
felix said:
UM is no different than any other university or athletic program. All of them are scrambling for money and using it for a number of reasons. You really shouldn't be surprised, especially by a private school that can't rely on state funding.
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Do you understand that there are better ways of increasing revenue than raising ticket prices on the remaining morons still willing to hand you their money coming off a 6-7 season and then telling them to pretend Joe Robbie is a new stadium and that your seats don't exist any longer in this imaginary new stadium?

If they really wanted to raise money and sell tickets the right way all they would have had to have done was fire Folden and create some buzz around the program. Show the fans you care about the program, and they will support it. Instead, they're doing nothing but insulting fans every chance they get.

Now, to go along with the invisible changes to the football program we have a pretend new stadium with the same name in the same location.
 
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