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  1. 12-19-2011, 09:14 PM #1
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    SU Allotment of National Championship Tickets Sold Out

    ASU Allotment of National Championship Tickets Sold Out
    by Appalachian Sports Information

    December 11, 2006 - BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s allotment of 7,500 tickets for Friday’s NCAA Division I Football national championship game officially sold out at 1:45 p.m. on Monday.

    Chattanooga officials are in discussions about making a limited number of standing-room-only tickets available. If standing-room tickets are released, they will be available here.

    Demand for Appalachian’s ticket allotment was unprecedented. ASU’s campus phone system, which allows for 300 calls to a specific number during a five-minute period, received 1,741 incoming calls to the athletics ticket office during a five-minute interval at one point on Monday morning.

    Top-seeded Appalachian (13-1) and No. 3 Massachusetts (13-1) will sqaure off for the national title on Friday evening at 8 p.m. at Chattanooga’s Finley Stadium.
    Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
    Scrooge-"Are there no prisons?". "Plenty of prisons..."
    Scrooge-"And the Union workhouses." . "Are they still in operation?". "Both very busy, sir..."
    "Those who are badly off must go there."
    "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
    Scrooge- "If they would rather die," "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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    That's seems more than our 4,000. Could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that's the right math...
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    Quote Originally Posted by NDB2 View Post
    SU Allotment of National Championship Tickets Sold Out

    ASU Allotment of National Championship Tickets Sold Out
    by Appalachian Sports Information

    December 11, 2006 - BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s allotment of 7,500 tickets for Friday’s NCAA Division I Football national championship game officially sold out at 1:45 p.m. on Monday.

    Chattanooga officials are in discussions about making a limited number of standing-room-only tickets available. If standing-room tickets are released, they will be available here.

    Demand for Appalachian’s ticket allotment was unprecedented. ASU’s campus phone system, which allows for 300 calls to a specific number during a five-minute period, received 1,741 incoming calls to the athletics ticket office during a five-minute interval at one point on Monday morning.

    Top-seeded Appalachian (13-1) and No. 3 Massachusetts (13-1) will sqaure off for the national title on Friday evening at 8 p.m. at Chattanooga’s Finley Stadium.
    That was back when the game was the following Friday night. Little more urgency was needed.
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    2006 game was in Chattanooga and the stadium was a bit larger.
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    Really? Larger? By a few hundred seats --- maybe.


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    Scrooge-"Are there no prisons?". "Plenty of prisons..."
    Scrooge-"And the Union workhouses." . "Are they still in operation?". "Both very busy, sir..."
    "Those who are badly off must go there."
    "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
    Scrooge- "If they would rather die," "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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  6. 12-19-2011, 10:45 PM #6
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    NCAA should have never sold tickets until today. They would have eliviated most of the scalping and there would have been way more tix available. Also, there are tickets bought in the opposing teams sections due to the mass panic. All could have been avoided if they waited until after semifinals weekend. I don't think NDSU is helping matters allowing 25 tickets for each priority point holder. May have a large number of team makers pissed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bison once View Post
    NCAA should have never sold tickets until today. They would have eliviated most of the scalping and there would have been way more tix available. Also, there are tickets bought in the opposing teams sections due to the mass panic. All could have been avoided if they waited until after semifinals weekend. I don't think NDSU is helping matters allowing 25 tickets for each priority point holder. May have a large number of team makers pissed.
    There's one here who is unimpressed.
    Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
    Scrooge-"Are there no prisons?". "Plenty of prisons..."
    Scrooge-"And the Union workhouses." . "Are they still in operation?". "Both very busy, sir..."
    "Those who are badly off must go there."
    "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
    Scrooge- "If they would rather die," "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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  8. 12-19-2011, 11:22 PM #8
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    The NCAA doesn't give a shit if scalpers buy tickets...they just want to sell tickets. They could care a less if one person buys every ticket in the stadium, as long as they sell them all. Which is why they put them on sale very early, so people with high hopes for their team to make it, buy tickets. It's all about the Benjamins. Mo money, Mo problems.
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  9. 12-19-2011, 11:23 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by NDB2 View Post
    There's one here who is unimpressed.
    Make that a double...
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  10. 12-19-2011, 11:48 PM #10
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    Then maybe you guys should be writing teammakers to express your displeasure. Have you ever had to utilize a back up plan in your life?
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