No reselling tix on secondary markets if your package has been renewed from the previous year and/or seasons prior. By doing so, you have been getting discounts on the package as a grandfathered ticket holder. School has agreed with Stubhub and other online ticket sites to help them enforce this. Meaning you resell on their sites, Texas will be informed. You face punishment of being stripped of season tix. Unsure if there is a first offense warning. Either way you'd be flagged and naturally can't resell again without losing seats.
Option 1: Renew your seats, yet at the market renewal rate that matches the current amounts it would cost a new buyer. Good luck making that increase up on the secondary resell market, no chance in hell if you divided the grand total by the per ticket cost for every game.
Option 2: Renew at your discounted rate as usual, and find a buyer in private with no way for the university to track. Which we all know is a task in itself with the program watered down for so long.
This no resell policy is the biggest problem I have with renewing. We have a large group that's been going together for a few decades. Every year, there's a couple here and there that can't make it due to life events. Events most people don't choose a football game over...family wedding, injury, whatever. When we sold tix it was meant to cover the cost of absence, not seen as an extra revenue stream. Which in the last few years was a a task in itself to break even and often impossible.
I would've strongly disagreed with the price increase after a losing season, but swallowed it. I'd have been more upset with charging for parking as it was a perk we got for being loyal fans/donors. Which to me is removing a longtime privilege and clear sign we aren't valued as much by the new AD. But the resell policy is the one that my values can't stomach, and has forced a decision between lowering donations to the minimum, or forfeiting seats altogether.
I love Texas athletics, and have put in my time, blood, sweat, tears, and wallet for a very long time. When a Johnny-come-lately AD shows complete and utter disrespect for any of that in chase of the almighty dollar, that's something I can't accept without a major downgrade in financial support.
I hope as many others follow suit as possible and at least reduce to the minimum donations for the upcoming season. We need a united way to teach this greedy sob we won't stand for absurd disregard like this going forward. And the only language he speaks is money, so that's where he needs to see his miscalculation.
Patterson's in a trial and error period now, feeling out the fan base and where his limits are. He's dictating to us now, but we're the ones with the real power, the core that funds this program. We need to push back hard if we don't want to be treated this poorly again going forward. By reducing donations, no one loses their priority seats they've earned. You can always increase in the future and get back to your norm.
Last edited: Mar 21, 2015