![]() ![]() “The reason for capping season tickets and ROC (student) tickets is to allow for a limited number of single-game tickets to be available to purchase for each game,” wrote Jon McBride, associate AD for communications and media strategy.Ĭapacity at LaVell Edwards Stadium from 2005-09 was 64,045. BYU athletics declined to release exact numbers when asked what the caps are for season ticket sales per year and student passes sold per year. However, an athletic department spokesperson provided answers to a few questions submitted by the Deseret News. After all, people don’t usually write letters to the editor when their garbage is picked up on time, their streets are plowed early in the morning and their Amazon packages aren’t swiped from their porch.Īsking for “patience and understanding through this process,” Holmoe said ticket demand is exceeding availability and that the administration “knew there would be growing pains.”īYU’s athletic department didn’t make Holmoe, or any other officials with direct knowledge of the process, available to answer specific questions about what the 18-year AD said in his letter regarding patrons being “displaced from previous seats” or “priced out of season tickets.” For every email that could generally be categorized as positive or accepting, there were 10 that expressed unhappiness and frustration. Suffice it to say, reactions were mixed - but overwhelmingly negative. Opinions vary.Īfter athletic director Tom Holmoe addressed concerns in an April 18 letter to “all who requested a time to buy football season tickets for the coming season,” the Deseret News asked fans to share their ticket-buying experiences, be they positive, negative or neutral. When it comes to matters such as these, it seems that beauty is in the eye of the ticket holder, until it isn’t. Others have called the process understandable, surprisingly pleasant, a bargain, a good value and entirely acceptable because the 12-year independent they have followed for decades is finally in a Power Five conference. Longtime BYU football fans are using words such as frustrating, devastating, outrageous, irritating, annoying and even horrible to describe their experiences when they tried to renew their season tickets the past few months for the school’s first season in the Big 12.
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