azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:30 am
I agree that Fisch deserves better. He has remarkably done his job in getting us back to respectability. The public should be buying in BUT, you do realize how expensive it is for a family to go to this game don’t you. It will cost a family of four almost three hundred dollars to sit in the nose bleed section, but some drinks and dogs/ candies for the kids.
Frankly I think you are way off saying ticket prices are no excuse. Last week my OSU seat on game day was only 68+ fee’s ($3). This week it’s 96.
That family section (south end zone) should NEVER be priced at more then $20 a ticket and the upper decks ends should never be more then $15.
I know you support Heeke unconditionally but I am going to have a talk with him and tell him he was wrong on his pricing on this game
Last add, as an ambassador for UA athletics you blaming the fans at EVERY TURN does more harm then it helps. We have great fans proven by leading the conference in total attendance across all sports.
You should be spending your time working with the AD on reasonable pricing of game day tickets. We know they have very good prices on season tickets with many price points but they fail miserably on pricing for week of game sales
I'm not sure how NIL money works. I don't know if Universities add money to the pot or if the money has to come completely from outside sources. If the University is ponying up money that is another excuse to raise ticket prices. Another reason the NCAA has to limit NIL payouts. Everything else I agree completely. Its very expensive to go to a sporting event. I do think considering this is a year with high inflation and a shaky economy and we only have 4000 seats left, that isn't bad for a team coming off four losing seasons.
azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:30 am
I agree that Fisch deserves better. He has remarkably done his job in getting us back to respectability. The public should be buying in BUT, you do realize how expensive it is for a family to go to this game don’t you. It will cost a family of four almost three hundred dollars to sit in the nose bleed section, but some drinks and dogs/ candies for the kids.
Frankly I think you are way off saying ticket prices are no excuse. Last week my OSU seat on game day was only 68+ fee’s ($3). This week it’s 96.
That family section (south end zone) should NEVER be priced at more then $20 a ticket and the upper decks ends should never be more then $15.
I know you support Heeke unconditionally but I am going to have a talk with him and tell him he was wrong on his pricing on this game
Last add, as an ambassador for UA athletics you blaming the fans at EVERY TURN does more harm then it helps. We have great fans proven by leading the conference in total attendance across all sports.
You should be spending your time working with the AD on reasonable pricing of game day tickets. We know they have very good prices on season tickets with many price points but they fail miserably on pricing for week of game sales
Tickets are 36 dollars right now on the website. I know not everyone has disposable income but with a metro area population over 1,000,000 plus thousands of people coming from out of town for homecoming plus Phoenix people plus UCLA fans the attendance is an issue no matter how you want to blame it
First it was kick off times, then it was we had to win. Now it is ticket pricing? What is the next built in excuse for Tucson not to support the program?
I have no idea where you are coming up with me being an ambassador or that I support Heeke unconditionally. Lets have honest conversations and not make shit up
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So let’s do it. You ALWAYS SUPPORT HEEKE AND KNOCK THE FANBASE. Every time you call our fans bad, it’s the same shit everytime. Let’s join forces tomorrow and confront Heeke together on these prices. You know where I will be and we can walk over and talk to him but you better speak up about the pricing. I got the text today about tickets now being 25% off. Gee I wonder why.
I don’t care if Tucson has a million people. Families have to make the call on their Saturday night entertainment and spending 200-300 dollars is just not what many will do.
Alumni coming into town will definitely form out the money to see the game buts that one time a year. The issue of this being a non sell out falls directly on the insane prices of the tickets and you can’t tell me otherwise. These are the most expensive tickets of the year. Your evidence is simply calling out Tucson for having bad fans which we all know is horse shit
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azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:07 pm
So let’s do it. You ALWAYS SUPPORT HEEKE AND KNOCK THE FANBASE. Every time you call our fans bad, it’s the same shit everytime. Let’s join forces tomorrow and confront Heeke together on these prices. You know where I will be and we can walk over and talk to him but you better speak up about the pricing. I got the text today about tickets now being 25% off. Gee I wonder why.
I don’t care if Tucson has a million people. Families have to make the call on their Saturday night entertainment and spending 200-300 dollars is just not what many will do.
Alumni coming into town will definitely form out the money to see the game buts that one time a year. The issue of this being a non sell out falls directly on the insane prices of the tickets and you can’t tell me otherwise. These are the most expensive tickets of the year. Your evidence is simply calling out Tucson for having bad fans which we all know is horse shit
Okay give a few examples of me defending Heeke please
Seriously you are too good a person to make stuff up. I assume you are confusing me with someone else.
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Last week was tremendously disappointing and the only thing I can pin point was it was a big Halloween party night.
Historically it seems that Saturday night is always bad. In 98 we had a huge game vs Oregon and Akili Smith and we got less than 40k for a night game on Halloween weekend
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PHXCATS wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:21 pm
Ticket sales really bad so far
Still a bit of time to get it sold out but this ain’t good. Can tell it is really upsetting Fisch
A little disappointing but not really bad. As of yesterday there were 4000 tickets left. That is not really bad.
So we are looking at 90%+ full?
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
PHXCATS wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:21 pm
Ticket sales really bad so far
Still a bit of time to get it sold out but this ain’t good. Can tell it is really upsetting Fisch
A little disappointing but not really bad. As of yesterday there were 4000 tickets left. That is not really bad.
So we are looking at 90%+ full?
Might be looking at a little over a 1000 or sub 1000. Would not be surprised if it were a little over 500 or so which is really good IMO. Having a melt down because a Saturday game isn't sold out by Wednesday is silly. Even now we're still over 24 hours before kick off. PHXCATS needs to relax and be patient.
azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:07 pm
So let’s do it. You ALWAYS SUPPORT HEEKE AND KNOCK THE FANBASE. Every time you call our fans bad, it’s the same shit everytime. Let’s join forces tomorrow and confront Heeke together on these prices. You know where I will be and we can walk over and talk to him but you better speak up about the pricing. I got the text today about tickets now being 25% off. Gee I wonder why.
I don’t care if Tucson has a million people. Families have to make the call on their Saturday night entertainment and spending 200-300 dollars is just not what many will do.
Alumni coming into town will definitely form out the money to see the game buts that one time a year. The issue of this being a non sell out falls directly on the insane prices of the tickets and you can’t tell me otherwise. These are the most expensive tickets of the year. Your evidence is simply calling out Tucson for having bad fans which we all know is horse shit
Okay give a few examples of me defending Heeke please
Seriously you are too good a person to make stuff up. I assume you are confusing me with someone else.
Not making anything up. Heeke by default is the athletic department, they are one and the same. When you put Blame on the fans for not supporting the AD you are saying he/they are in the right and you know you have done that many times.
Where you were right in retrospect was supporting the AD in tough times. Todays game is all about the money. You want to have a good football team then you better contribute to the collective in some way or risk losing your best players. No doubt a coach will move on if he can’t get support from the fans dollar wise to keep those guys.
We have great fans who support the teams given the right price points for Tucson. Looks like we will get 50k for this gane and I bet we sell out Utah so that’s pretty darn good in year three of a rebuild. Once again UofA fans show out. Let’s give them props
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Asking him to give us credit is like asking the ocean to not be wet.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:07 pm
So let’s do it. You ALWAYS SUPPORT HEEKE AND KNOCK THE FANBASE. Every time you call our fans bad, it’s the same shit everytime. Let’s join forces tomorrow and confront Heeke together on these prices. You know where I will be and we can walk over and talk to him but you better speak up about the pricing. I got the text today about tickets now being 25% off. Gee I wonder why.
I don’t care if Tucson has a million people. Families have to make the call on their Saturday night entertainment and spending 200-300 dollars is just not what many will do.
Alumni coming into town will definitely form out the money to see the game buts that one time a year. The issue of this being a non sell out falls directly on the insane prices of the tickets and you can’t tell me otherwise. These are the most expensive tickets of the year. Your evidence is simply calling out Tucson for having bad fans which we all know is horse shit
Okay give a few examples of me defending Heeke please
Seriously you are too good a person to make stuff up. I assume you are confusing me with someone else.
Not making anything up. Heeke by default is the athletic department, they are one and the same. When you put Blame on the fans for not supporting the AD you are saying he/they are in the right and you know you have done that many times.
Where you were right in retrospect was supporting the AD in tough times. Todays game is all about the money. You want to have a good football team then you better contribute to the collective in some way or risk losing your best players. No doubt a coach will move on if he can’t get support from the fans dollar wise to keep those guys.
We have great fans who support the teams given the right price points for Tucson. Looks like we will get 50k for this gane and I bet we sell out Utah so that’s pretty darn good in year three of a rebuild. Once again UofA fans show out. Let’s give them props
UA fans do something worth praising I will praise.
Besides Vegas for the PAC-12 Tournament UA fans haven't done anything worth praising. Especially Southern Arizona and Metro Tucson
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When you have a family of 4 and spend 300 in multiple weeks then I will applaud you. Right now you are buying one ticket driving down from Phoenix then going home. Your outlay is probably less than $100 tonight.
Tucson and those fans of the UofA are great. We will have 48-50k at 7:30pm and it’s the most expensive ticket of the year. I guess we will just agree to disagree.
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Cats need to jump out early and force their offense to make plays. They have been turnover prone so if we get the lead they may force things
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Remarkably, this is Arizona’s fifth straight game against a ranked opponent. The stretch began with a 31-24 loss to Washington, followed by a triple-overtime defeat to USC before the Wildcats smoked Washington State 44-6 and topped No. 11 Oregon State 27-24. QB Noah Fifita is cooking, and the defense keeps getting better.
Arizona 17, UCLA 14
The pick: Arizona +3
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azcat49 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:12 am
When you have a family of 4 and spend 300 in multiple weeks then I will applaud you. Right now you are buying one ticket driving down from Phoenix then going home. Your outlay is probably less than $100 tonight.
Tucson and those fans of the UofA are great. We will have 48-50k at 7:30pm and it’s the most expensive ticket of the year. I guess we will just agree to disagree.
You are way way way better than this bullshit Jon. I have never had less than 2 tickets. I have high priced tickets. I donate way more money beyond the price of my tickets plus I give to the collectives. When my wife and kid go with me depending on schedule we stay at hotels.
You putting some fake ass narrative of me when you have known me for years is just BS man.
Don't make shit up
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Well I have never seen your spouse and kids at a game here or in Vegas. I do know you support the collectives and buy good seats but that is not who we are talking about. We are talking about the people who value their entertainment dollar and where to spend it. We are talking about the seats you and I probably wouldn’t buy. We are talking about the people who can’t travel down every home game and spend $200 a night for a hotel like we do.
My correlating point might not have been very clear snd for that I apologize but the point is that the AD missed priced this game if they wanted to support Fisch and get a sell out. If these nose bleeds would have been $15 a seat we both know we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
We have beat this topic up enough. If I offended you in any way I offer a public apology but I will defend AZ fans as a whole who I consider the best fans in the conference (Pac-12) which is backed up by total attendance figures.
I will always believe Heeke misjudged the fans capacity to return at least price wise. Make those tickets cheap and they will show up. Get a season long sell out of games then raise prices modestly. They already raised them 20-30% across the board this year.
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So gameday spends a nice bit on the cats and Fifita early then when they pick winners only Howard picks the cats.
Probably better that way as they are still getting disrespected and I hope the players and coaches saw that
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PHXCATS wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:21 pm
Ticket sales really bad so far
Still a bit of time to get it sold out but this ain’t good. Can tell it is really upsetting Fisch
A result of so many years of football irrelevance. Even when Arizona wins a few games the letdown expectation looms large with Arizona fans. I do feel bad for the current players and Fish suffering the ill effects of a historically bad program. People in Tucson just expect failure and lose interest in the program as a result. Changing the culture of a program can be the most difficult thing to do. Nobody wants to invest in anything knowing there's little chance of an ROI. Sustained success has never been a hallmark of Arizona football. Can't expect fans to stay interested in that kind of a product.
Captain Obvious wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:24 am
A result of so many years of football irrelevance. Even when Arizona……..
*Farts Long & Loudly*
*Takes deep breath*
“Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff!”
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
MrBug708 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:05 pm
I've never heard of a team asking another team to wear different color jerseys for a game so Scheer is definitely right, it's a first.
What happens with ucla and usc then? I thought the lose a timeout thing went away a while ago
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MrBug708 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:05 pm
I've never heard of a team asking another team to wear different color jerseys for a game so Scheer is definitely right, it's a first.
What happens with ucla and usc then? I thought the lose a timeout thing went away a while ago
USC doesn't ask UCLA to wear blue and UCLA doesn't ask USC to wear red in order to facilitate their own jersey switch. Arizona has to ask because UCLA's designated road jersey is white. I'm assuming someone in the Arizona AD announced a whiteout before finding out that UCLA wears whites on the road.
Fuck UCLA anyway. They helped kill the conference so we need to kick their ass out of here.
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This is BS. This is like Mira in 15 running out when we did. This is going to be a very physical game
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MrBug708 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:49 am
Night road game...chalk up the L.
Called it. Congrats guys. Always liked Jedd. Would have been a huge risk to hire after Mora, but probably would have been the guy.
He still may be. Fisch will be a hot item, and his resume has very short tenures at each spot.
Could see USC pursuing him especially with Riley falling short of expectations. Oddly that's a job no one can really turn down but one nobody really wants.
azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:07 pm
So let’s do it. You ALWAYS SUPPORT HEEKE AND KNOCK THE FANBASE. Every time you call our fans bad, it’s the same shit everytime. Let’s join forces tomorrow and confront Heeke together on these prices. You know where I will be and we can walk over and talk to him but you better speak up about the pricing. I got the text today about tickets now being 25% off. Gee I wonder why.
I don’t care if Tucson has a million people. Families have to make the call on their Saturday night entertainment and spending 200-300 dollars is just not what many will do.
Alumni coming into town will definitely form out the money to see the game buts that one time a year. The issue of this being a non sell out falls directly on the insane prices of the tickets and you can’t tell me otherwise. These are the most expensive tickets of the year. Your evidence is simply calling out Tucson for having bad fans which we all know is horse shit
Okay give a few examples of me defending Heeke please
Seriously you are too good a person to make stuff up. I assume you are confusing me with someone else.
Not making anything up. Heeke by default is the athletic department, they are one and the same. When you put Blame on the fans for not supporting the AD you are saying he/they are in the right and you know you have done that many times.
Where you were right in retrospect was supporting the AD in tough times. Todays game is all about the money. You want to have a good football team then you better contribute to the collective in some way or risk losing your best players. No doubt a coach will move on if he can’t get support from the fans dollar wise to keep those guys.
We have great fans who support the teams given the right price points for Tucson. Looks like we will get 50k for this gane and I bet we sell out Utah so that’s pretty darn good in year three of a rebuild. Once again UofA fans show out. Let’s give them props
UA fans do something worth praising I will praise.
Besides Vegas for the PAC-12 Tournament UA fans haven't done anything worth praising. Especially Southern Arizona and Metro Tucson
"Best environment since I've been the head coach here."
-Jedd Fisch
MrBug708 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:05 pm
I've never heard of a team asking another team to wear different color jerseys for a game so Scheer is definitely right, it's a first.
It literally happens every week in college football
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.
azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:07 pm
So let’s do it. You ALWAYS SUPPORT HEEKE AND KNOCK THE FANBASE. Every time you call our fans bad, it’s the same shit everytime. Let’s join forces tomorrow and confront Heeke together on these prices. You know where I will be and we can walk over and talk to him but you better speak up about the pricing. I got the text today about tickets now being 25% off. Gee I wonder why.
I don’t care if Tucson has a million people. Families have to make the call on their Saturday night entertainment and spending 200-300 dollars is just not what many will do.
Alumni coming into town will definitely form out the money to see the game buts that one time a year. The issue of this being a non sell out falls directly on the insane prices of the tickets and you can’t tell me otherwise. These are the most expensive tickets of the year. Your evidence is simply calling out Tucson for having bad fans which we all know is horse shit
Okay give a few examples of me defending Heeke please
Seriously you are too good a person to make stuff up. I assume you are confusing me with someone else.
Not making anything up. Heeke by default is the athletic department, they are one and the same. When you put Blame on the fans for not supporting the AD you are saying he/they are in the right and you know you have done that many times.
Where you were right in retrospect was supporting the AD in tough times. Todays game is all about the money. You want to have a good football team then you better contribute to the collective in some way or risk losing your best players. No doubt a coach will move on if he can’t get support from the fans dollar wise to keep those guys.
We have great fans who support the teams given the right price points for Tucson. Looks like we will get 50k for this gane and I bet we sell out Utah so that’s pretty darn good in year three of a rebuild. Once again UofA fans show out. Let’s give them props
UA fans do something worth praising I will praise.
Besides Vegas for the PAC-12 Tournament UA fans haven't done anything worth praising. Especially Southern Arizona and Metro Tucson
"Best environment since I've been the head coach here."
-Jedd Fisch
May Tucson get an apology, PHXCATS?
Looked nice and full on TV.
Sounded as loud as I’ve ever heard it.
Machina still thinks he’s the only fan who is willing to actually Bear Down.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
Merkin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:53 am
How many years have we seen Arizona Stadium clear out at halftime so the students could get to the parties and grandma and grandpa get home to bed?
I'm an early riser, and even I have been watching the whole games.
I’ve heard “basketball is right around the corner” so many times at the stadium after poor games I couldn’t count.
MrBug708 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:05 pm
I've never heard of a team asking another team to wear different color jerseys for a game so Scheer is definitely right, it's a first.
It literally happens every week in college football
One year during Larry Smith's tenure as coach the team decided to wear traveling jerseys at home for every home game. Every visiting team had to bring their home jerseys. Smith didn't ask anyone if he could do it, he just did it. I do believe this was a planned scheme to screw with ASU. The last game of the season against our little buddies up the road was a night game. Sometime during the afternoon Smith decided to change and wear home jerseys and since ASU was in route they did not get the word. ASU had to borrow white practice jerseys from us. Yes that really did happen. We did win the game even though ASU was a pretty heavy favorite. Larry Smith made ASU his bitch.
