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Alumni Tickets - New 2008 Policy

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scottsmith23;1188814; said:
This was my first year in the alumni association and I won tickets to the Michigan game. What are the odds of winning that game? I can't wait, I live in Colorado and will be flying back with my wife for her first OSU game ever!!!
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Congrats...

dirtysonofabitchbastardpieceofshitassholeluckyasswipe
 
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Received a response from the ticket office regarding the group seating. Sounds like being able to sit next to fellow alums in this group seating process is next to impossible!!

Mr. Vasko,

Although your group request was submitted in your lottery entry, the fulfillment of group requests received was not guaranteed. As stated in the application materials under the Group Seating topic, since the lottery is conducted randomly, only those who receive the same game will have their group request considered. For members of your group who have received the same game, we will make every attempt to provide adjacent seating.

Thank you,

Andrea
The OSU Ticket Office
 
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Very disappointed

Well today I got the sad, sad e-mail:

[ We regret to inform you that your application for the 2008 Alumni Association Football Ticket Lottery was not successful.

Please note that your payment was not processed at the time you submitted your application, thus no refund is due. To be eligible for the 2009 Alumni Football Ticket Lottery, you must be an active, dues-paying member of the Alumni Association as of March 1, 2009.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Athletics Ticket Office via e-mail to [email protected] or by phone at (614) 292-2624. Or you can contact the Alumni Association via e-mail to [email protected] or by phone at (614) 292-2281.

Thank you and GO BUCKS!]

I know that after seven years as a life member in the alumni association that I was not guaranteed any tickets. But this really makes me feel negatively about my experience with OSU Football ticketing and the Alumni Association. One would think that after two degrees and seven years of tuition and fees, I might have at least wrangled out a pair of nosebleeds to YSU.

On a positive note, my former roommate with identical alumni credentials to myself received Michigan tix for the second time in six years.

My wife was lucky enough to win the lottery and get two alumni tix to Troy.

If anyone else failed to win tix, or knows someone who did not score a pair, feel free to post and give me a bit of solace. I wrote a note to the ticket office asking them to publish the total number of applications and total number of successful lottery participants.

Congrats to all those who were successful in the alumni lottery.
 
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I also received the "we regret to inform you" e-mail today. I certainly feel your sadness and anger. As a 19-year life member of the alumni association, I'm probably a bit more ticked off than sad, but to make you feel better, in those 19 years, I never won the Michigan lottery either. Why start turning my luck around now?! My sister, who graduated 3 years later than me has won the Michigan lottery twice.

I understand that demand far out-weighs supply, but it still I'm pissed. I support the school, I attend at least 3 games a year, but this year, it looks like I get screwed.
 
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The irony in this whole alumni ticket mess is that I'll bet general sale tix go up the few days prior to YSU, Troy and OU.

I guess OSU figuring out some type of waiting list for alums shut out of the lottery for a chance at these tickets is too much work.


And I loved it when the customer service rep. told me that they will be mailing confirmation letters to the winners 'very soon'. I mean, WTF, do they have a team of monkeys working around the clock that it takes three weeks between the time they charge a visa card to actually send out a notice on paper? I'll bet that is what caused the fiasco last year. If the process is so automated, couldn't the lottery, credit payment, email confirmation and paper confirmation all be finalized on the same day? It's their friggin' job to process ticket orders.
 
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bartsch3osu;1192984; said:
One would think that after two degrees and seven years of tuition and fees, I might have at least wrangled out a pair of nosebleeds to YSU.
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If it makes you feel any better, I'm positive that you'll be able to buy nosebleeds for the YSU game for at or under face value on gameday.
 
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scottsmith23;1188814; said:
This was my first year in the alumni association and I won tickets to the Michigan game. What are the odds of winning that game? I can't wait, I live in Colorado and will be flying back with my wife for her first OSU game ever!!!
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Capacity of The 'Shoe according to the media guide: 102,329


Student Tickets for Michigan game: 35,000

Members of Buckeye/President's club and legacy season ticket holders: 67,328

Number of tickets remaining: 102,329 - 35,000 - 67,328 = 1

Number of members of the alumni association: 400,000

Your chance at a ticket to The Game: 1 in 400,000


The best chance for most of us to get in to The Game is to get one of the many press credentials that cause the total attendance figures to consistently exceed 105,000. Ironically, that is how the guy who's telling us to join the President's Club gets into The 'Shoe.
 
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FOOTBALL TICKET LOTTERY RESULTS

Ninety percent of Alumni Association members who applied for tickets to an Ohio State football game were successful in the Association's ticket lottery.


According to the Athletics Ticket Office, which administrates the distribution of all Buckeye football tickets, 44,112 Association members applied for the lottery. Of those, 39,563 received tickets to a game during the 2008 football season.

The Athletics Ticket Office was also able to increase the Association's ticket allotment prior to conducting the lottery. The Association was initially allotted 71,000 tickets for the season, 62,000 of which were included in the ticket lottery. The 62,000 total grew to 79,126.

Eighty-four percent of the tickets in the Alumni Association's allotment were for the Youngstown State, Ohio University, and Troy football games. The remaining 16 percent were divided among the four conference home games.

Total tickets distributed to Association members for each game were: Youngstown State, 25,238; Ohio, 21,280; Troy, 19,990; Minnesota, 4,122; Purdue, 3,244; Penn State, 2,450; and Michigan, 2,802.

The Alumni Association mailed 91,857 total football applications to members. Forty-eight percent of those members applied for the ticket lottery.

Entire article: Ohio State Alumni: Football Ticket Policy 2008

Interesting that more people got scUM tickets (2,802) than Penn State tickets (2,450).
 
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ScriptOhio;1197325; said:
According to the Athletics Ticket Office, which administrates the distribution of all Buckeye football tickets, 44,112 Association members applied for the lottery. Of those, 39,563 received tickets to a game during the 2008 football season.

Total tickets distributed to Association members for each game were: Youngstown State, 25,238; Ohio, 21,280; Troy, 19,990; Minnesota, 4,122; Purdue, 3,244; Penn State, 2,450; and Michigan, 2,802.
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Quick odds of getting each game:

YSU: 28.6%
Ohio: 24.1%
Troy: 22.7%
Minn: 4.7%
Purdue: 3.7%
PSU: 2.8%
UM: 3.2%
 
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