Getting Tickets for OSU game

[thewebboy]

What is the best approach to get a large number of tickets to this game (10-15 people)?

Open to ideas here.

Not sure I can talk everyone into getting BG season tix.

[Class of 61]

Doubt you can get that many. Ticket office has refused to sell me tix, " until i pay my Falcon club donation" for 2017! Dont seem to care that i'm a season tick holder for about 20+ yrs, much less an annual $500 donor to FC. They seem intent on making it harder to deal w them each year. Never had these type probs. Before. Not sure if i'll order OSU tix now or not, except my daughter, an OSU alum, was hoping to go w/ me, along w her family.

[factman]

Doubt you can get that many. Ticket office has refused to sell me tix, " until i pay my Falcon club donation" for 2017! Dont seem to care that i'm a season tick holder for about 20+ yrs, much less an annual $500 donor to FC. They seem intent on making it harder to deal w them each year. Never had these type probs. Before. Not sure if i'll order OSU tix now or not, except my daughter, an OSU alum, was hoping to go w/ me, along w her family.

61, I feel exactly the same way, and therefore will not be getting OSU tickets (I'm sure its on TV and wont have to fight with those t-shirt OSU alumni) I already ordered my season tickets ( I don't know why it has to be in March), and if they keep putting these "restrictions" on ticket buying, Falcon Club etc, they will lose another 30 plus year member and season ticket holder.

[Tech2000]

When I inquired about the tickets limit was 4 in an upper deck at $75 a piece. I like the TV idea. There's 4 if I can still get them.

[gmartin]

I called OSU ticket office last week. Didn't even say I was a BG fan. I was informed tickets for general public won't go on sale until late June. Only end zone and upper deck available and if your not a donor or season ticket holder your limited to ONE ticket per order.

[kdog27]

One single ticket? Who the heck wants one ticket?

[gmartin]

Sad news out of New Orleans and Columbus today. Former Buckeye Will Smith murdered late last night.

[Falconfreak90]

I got 4 as I did my usual donation to the FC. I hate paying $75 a ticket but since we don't appear to be playing them after this year, couldn't pass up the opportunity to see us beat them. BTW, if anyone will have 2 extra, my parents asked if I could get any extra. Just PM me.

BEAT THE EVIL EMPIRE

[falcon83]

i've decided to not get tickets nor join the falcon club. the game is on t.v. and the falcon club gets you nothing for the money. Now that they make you join to buy tickets, they can pound sand. why the hell do I care if they have fewer fans at the game? This trying to be big time crap will end up killing all support for any team. God knows they cannot afford to alienate anyone these days when there are so many other choices.

[pdt1081]

i've decided to not get tickets nor join the falcon club. the game is on t.v. and the falcon club gets you nothing for the money. Now that they make you join to buy tickets, they can pound sand. why the hell do I care if they have fewer fans at the game? This trying to be big time crap will end up killing all support for any team. God knows they cannot afford to alienate anyone these days when there are so many other choices.

It's one thing when you regularly sell out games, to require an FC membership, or seat license, or whatever. But when you can buy tickets for 99% of games at the gate, all you're going to do is drive your loyal season ticket holders away. Not everybody has an extra $500 they can give to the university on top of purchasing season tickets.

[TG1996]

If BG didn't have some form of policy to best ensure BG fans were getting a shot at those tickets, they'd be gone in 10 minutes to aOSU fans, scampers, etc. Then there'd be a whole thread about how we're getting screwed over by the ticket office because aOSU fans scooped up the tickets first. It's a pretty common practice anymore to attach some form of "donation" to the high-demand tickets and (without knowing the actual "rules of eligibility") I support BG for doing it this way. If an aOSU fan wants the tickets that bad, make sure BG gets some of their money to keep in NW Ohio.

That said, there needs to be some leeway on our end to accommodate BG fans who are/have been season ticket holders or Falcon Club members. If you've demonstrated financial loyalty to BG, that needs to be good enough, generally speaking.

Go BG!

[FalconTurf]

I just got the credit card bill that had the triple expense of going to theOSU game. $300 Falcon Club donation, $170 or so 4-pack season tickets and $300 for 4 tickets for 1 game in Columbus. Usually I break these expenses up a little with spring season ticket payment, s ummer Falcon Club donation and autumn basketball ticket payment. I didn't really like being forced to pay all of this at once but I guess I could have save $300 and watched on TV.

I would agree after buying season tickets for nearly 20 years and being a Falcon Club member for around 15 or so they should have assumed I was good for the money but I guess they were afraid that after I spent $300 for tickets they may not have gotten the usual $300 for the Falcon Club.

[pdt1081]

If BG didn't have some form of policy to best ensure BG fans were getting a shot at those tickets, they'd be gone in 10 minutes to aOSU fans, scampers, etc. Then there'd be a whole thread about how we're getting screwed over by the ticket office because aOSU fans scooped up the tickets first. It's a pretty common practice anymore to attach some form of "donation" to the high-demand tickets and (without knowing the actual "rules of eligibility") I support BG for doing it this way. If an aOSU fan wants the tickets that bad, make sure BG gets some of their money to keep in NW Ohio.

That said, there needs to be some leeway on our end to accommodate BG fans who are/have been season ticket holders or Falcon Club members. If you've demonstrated financial loyalty to BG, that needs to be good enough, generally speaking.

Go BG!

For the record, I'm not referring just to these tickets. Although, for these they should have been offered to season ticket holders first, based on length of time as such, then Falcon Club members, then general public. Personally, I'm a very big fan of not pissing off those that have stuck by the program/university through the rough times, but that's just me.

[Lord_Byron]

. . .and the falcon club gets you nothing for the money. . .

I appreciate the sentiment, and you are entitled to budget you charitable giving in any way you see fit. But when donating to a cause you believe in, in this case BG Athletics, "getting something for your money" should be pretty far down the line.

[footballguy51]

. . .and the falcon club gets you nothing for the money. . .

I appreciate the sentiment, and you are entitled to budget you charitable giving in any way you see fit. But when donating to a cause you believe in, in this case BG Athletics, "getting something for your money" should be pretty far down the line.

I join falcon83 in this sentiment. If the Falcon Club was billed as a charity and that's it, I don't think people would be complaining about it. In fact, it would be tax deductible. But, they made this club into a perks thing, and each year the perks seem to be getting less and less. This past season, our family of four had four season tickets and my father got a falcon club membership for the first time ever. He said he was looking forward to the better parking and getting access to the falcon club suite in the Sebo. By the third game, they demanded we all pay extra to enter the falcon club suite even though games one and two we didn't have to. My father is not only dropping his falcon club membership for this year (what's the point when you can't bring in the rest of your family members in your season ticket package and the "food" is a joke) but is also dropping his season tickets. That treatment turned him off enough to just simply drop season tickets.