Help me with my math
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ColumbusHawk
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I think I saw this briefly somewhere yesterday on HN, but I can't find it now.
If Iowa gets 22,000 tix and Stanford gets 22,000, and the Rosebowl seats 92,500 approximately, where's the rest of the tix?
Duh, they were sold long before the participants were named. Do you think nobody wants to goal to the Rose Bowl?
hawkdrummer1
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Tons of corporate sponsors, Big Ten and Pac 12 personalities, other "connected" people, and general public tickets. This is not just a bowl game...it's the Rose Bowl.
Some of the youngsters here may not realize that the Tournament of Roses was around for 12 years before somebody said "Hey, let's add a football game to the festivities!". It was the biggest celebration of New Years in the country, if not the world..featuring a parade, music, celebrities, equestrian events, etc. Think of the Kentucky Derby...but bigger and not horse-centric.
This is more than just a Bowl Game.
Some of the youngsters here may not realize that the Tournament of Roses was around for 12 years before somebody said "Hey, let's add a football game to the festivities!". It was the biggest celebration of New Years in the country, if not the world..featuring a parade, music, celebrities, equestrian events, etc. Think of the Kentucky Derby...but bigger and not horse-centric.
This is more than just a Bowl Game.
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99topdawg
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I think I saw this briefly somewhere yesterday on HN, but I can't find it now.
If Iowa gets 22,000 tix and Stanford gets 22,000, and the Rosebowl seats 92,500 approximately, where's the rest of the tix?
The Rose Bowl ticket people thought it was Iowa State they were inviting, so each ticket is worth 2-3 seats, because, of them behemoth Ames women. More tix available next week.
hawkeyescott
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Not only does Iowa and Stanford get that many but each school in each conference gets some as well. I would guess 3,000 to each conference to distribute to each school so there is 50,000 gone. And then after the sponsors get their tickets and others associated with the Rose Bowl you are probably only talking around 30,000 to 35,000 available to the general public.
ColumbusHawk
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I forgot that each school in the conference gets about 3,000 tickets. My best man went to the '81 game. He got his tickets from Jennings, the president of OSU. Jennings was the vice-president of finance at Iowa when Fry was hired.
1hawkeye1
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I was not aware of this. Interesting.
SpiderRico
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Stanford - 22,000
Iowa - 22,000
Pasadena Residents - 4,500
One-time Ticketmaster Ticket Release - 500
B1G non-participating schools - 3,000
P12 non-participating schools - 3,000
TOTAL - 55,000
Remaining = 37,500 for early buyers and corporate sponsors and the rest to secondary ticket market providers.
Iowa - 22,000
Pasadena Residents - 4,500
One-time Ticketmaster Ticket Release - 500
B1G non-participating schools - 3,000
P12 non-participating schools - 3,000
TOTAL - 55,000
Remaining = 37,500 for early buyers and corporate sponsors and the rest to secondary ticket market providers.
I think you added 2 too many 0's to the Ticketmaster quota. At least it felt like that anyway.
SmokeTownHawk
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Not that much different than the Super Bowl. Lots of sponsors and league bigwigs and all their families.
Ticket brokering is a big business in California (entertainment capital of this country). Tickets are an investment opportunity and the "missing" Rose Bowl tickets were gone long before the teams were decided. Tournament of Roses sponsors get ticket allotments which they can use however they like. It's a multiple tier system that includes the ticket brokers. A smaller foundation sponsor can offset some of their costs by selling their tickets through a broker. The brokers add on fees (think stubhub) and let the market determine prices. The big corporations drop huge amounts of money on the foundation. Just imagine what Disney gives. They see this as a huge advertising bonanza. Who knows what they do with their ticket allotment...
There are more than 20 million people within a short drive to Pasadena so demand is high. The Tournament of Roses is an Event with a capital "E" so every service organization, high school, and many businesses want to take part in the festivities and/or in the parade. The high schools compete in marching band and the district winners march in the parade.
And the money flows the other way as well. The foundation offers grants to qualifying organizations. Want to have a play at your community theatre for festival goers? You can get a grant from the foundation that will pay for a new sound system for example. All you have to be is a 501(c)(3) or be partnered with one.
Don't kid yourself, this is not just another bowl game.
There are more than 20 million people within a short drive to Pasadena so demand is high. The Tournament of Roses is an Event with a capital "E" so every service organization, high school, and many businesses want to take part in the festivities and/or in the parade. The high schools compete in marching band and the district winners march in the parade.
And the money flows the other way as well. The foundation offers grants to qualifying organizations. Want to have a play at your community theatre for festival goers? You can get a grant from the foundation that will pay for a new sound system for example. All you have to be is a 501(c)(3) or be partnered with one.
Don't kid yourself, this is not just another bowl game.
rschneider
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End Thread. Was just going to post about the Pasadena residents getting some.
tm3308
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That's true, but using the tickets to schmooze with the corporate types probably helps increase those TV dollars quite a bit.
jesterapparel
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Ticket master had way more than 500. I bought mine over 3 weeks ago. They had a lot. I watched a for a couple weeks and saw it was close to being sold out so I picked up 2. Good thing I did. Row 6 in the end zone. Same section on stub selling for $1400 a piece. Have to plan ahead on these thing unfortunately.
BigD
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True, but it's not what it used to be before the Bc$ got involved.
SpiderRico
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What you are describing was what I called the "early buyer" tickets in my original post. Then the Rose Bowl put out a final "general public" release of 500 tickets thru Ticketmaster on Tues Dec 8th. They were gone in something like 17 seconds...
