2027 Razorback Baseball

[Sus-Scrofa]

It honestly wouldn't shock me one bit if a few years down the road we discover HY was getting kickbacks from Sexton for the contracts his coaches signed. 

I would be impressed to find out HY was capable of that kind of planning and strategery.

[DirkPiggler]

I would be impressed to find out HY was capable of that kind of planning and strategery.

It doesn't take much brains for him to say yes when someone in Sexton's office says "hey...we'll kick you a few bucks on the side if you get your coaches on our roster and give them the deals we want."

The fact that HY seems to have the IQ of your average Somali Learing Center graduate is what leads me to believe he'll slip up and we'll find out about it.  He probably deposited the cash payment into his joint checking account and added "Sexton reimbursement - Pittman Extension" in the memo line of the deposit slip. 

[buff2.0]

It honestly wouldn't shock me one bit if a few years down the road we discover HY was getting kickbacks from Sexton for the contracts his coaches signed. 

The opposite.  We'll find out that he was the only AD that was handing out bad contracts just for the love of the game, without even thinking about asking for kickbacks.

[DrMongoose]

Hearing there'll be announcement Friday if you have season tickets, you better get your wallet out

[DirkPiggler]

Hearing there'll be announcement Friday if you have season tickets, you better get your wallet out

Yep.  We're getting fucked.  Mandatory reseating. 

My donor level is guaranteed seating, but will lose one seat (3 to 2). 

If I don't absolutely love the location of my seats I'm not giving these motherfuckers another dime.   I may even start actively rooting against them.

[Vito Porkleone]

So how much are baseball season tickets, not including the Foundation contribution?  I have no clue.

[Son of Spam]

Yep.  We're getting fucked.  Mandatory reseating. 

My donor level is guaranteed seating, but will lose one seat (3 to 2). 

If I don't absolutely love the location of my seats I'm not giving these motherfuckers another dime.   I may even start actively rooting against them.

New loge boxes down the third base line. And we are going to pay for them.

[wmr]

I'm not one of the chicken littles going crazy about this re-seating of Baum online, but this may be the one that Hunter steps in and doesn't recover from.

I sit in a box with fans who have for 20 years.  These are people who have donated since George Cole Field days, and helped to financially build the program.  The numbers we are being told to retain the box are astronomical.  Others we have spoken to are already telling the athletic department to go fuck themselves. 

These are also people who will not be going downstairs and taking chairback seats left by fans who got priced out of those.

I am having a hard time believing that there are 34 corporate entities which will cough up the money being talked about for suites at Baum. 

Even if they find these people somewhere, they have sent so many long-time loyal fans packing who won't be buying back in.  There will be very small crowds for anything other than SEC weekend games. 

I'm predicting this will get walked back at some point.

[Barton Fink]

I'm on the other side of this. I donate at the BM Silver level and have only been able to get Hog Pen tickets.

[Spiderham]

I'm on the other side of this. I donate at the BM Silver level and have only been able to get Hog Pen tickets.

I am also. BM Silver since 1995.

I was moved around and higher in the lower level for basketball but I like my seats after sitting in them this year. I'm in the corner behind the Hog bench. Good seats. Not as low as I was prior to the basketball reorganization but back then I was behind the visitors bench in the corner. It worked out better in my opinion. Parking is worse but still not that big of a deal.

I sit halfway up in the lower deck on the east side 50 yard line for football. I've been in those seats for years. I love my seats and the folks around us who have also been there for years.

All I could ever get for baseball were Hog Pen seats.

[BleedinRed]

Just wait until donations are required for the pen.  RickB might burn the stadium down.  

[DrMongoose]

BWS has needed more points of sale,  more bathrooms, and cup holders to keep $14 beers from getting kicked over (boggle park has had em for 2+ years) for the last 10 years.

It is showing its' age.

Sec weekend crowds have been more than the faculty can handle adequately for quite awhile but hey here is another video board and some loge suites.

The atmosphere took a noticeable hit after the last reseating.

Why did they ever kill the radio feed playing in the bathrooms?

Fine if you want to charge more for the right to buy tickets but give the fans a better in game experience and a better non conference home schedule.

And remember this:
Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek said moving forward all three of those sports (football, men's basketball, and baseball) will be reseated every five years.

[wmr]

I'm on the other side of this. I donate at the BM Silver level and have only been able to get Hog Pen tickets.

Hmm.  Maybe there are enough people like you to take up the slack.   

The box seats are already big money.   They more than doubled.

I have no idea how anybody but big companies can afford the new numbers.  Even some relatively big local businesses are leaving.

[vegashog]

the same was said when it happened with basketball, yet the season was a sellout.

the same will happen with baseball. if there's people that will pay more for the better seats then that's who the program will cater to. considering where college sports are at when it comes to money, that can't be a shock to anyone.

i do agree that the fan experience should improve as the ticket prices go up.

[DirkPiggler]

I'm done whining about it.  We can make it with two seats if that's what we get for the next five years.  But if I don't absolutely love the location of the seats they offer I'm out, and I'm not coming back regardless of any future changes in my financial situation in a positive direction.  They will have lost me forever, or at least until Yurachek finally gets the treatment he deserves. 

I'll add this.   I would have preferred to have it like last time, where we get the option to keep our same seats for a higher donation versus just getting shut out of them the way they did the football restructuring.   The specific location of our seats is a big selling point.  I'd keep those over a lot of "better" seats if I had the chance.  If they told me we could double our donation and keep our seats I'd hold my nose and do it, just like last time. 

[Barton Fink]

The main problem is they let some donors get up to 12 tix per account. That was ridiculous. Hopefully that will be fixed as part of the reseating.

I know I can't make it to every series, but I try to give them out to folks on here and X. If you guys get squeezed out and I can somehow score seats, I'm sure we'll have some to give out.

[buff2.0]

Cool find from the way back machine that is mom's garage. I was 9 when I got this.
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[Pig Benis]

The main problem is they let some donors get up to 12 tix per account. That was ridiculous. Hopefully that will be fixed as part of the reseating.

I know I can't make it to every series, but I try to give them out to folks on here and X. If you guys get squeezed out and I can somehow score seats, I'm sure we'll have some to give out.

The email I received said the max seats per account is 6 and that's for the BM Diamond/Platinum/whatever level that requires $40K+ donation. I believe the cheaper levels were capped at 4 tickets per account.

[DirkPiggler]

The email I received said the max seats per account is 6 and that's for the BM Diamond/Platinum/whatever level that requires $40K+ donation. I believe the cheaper levels were capped at 4 tickets per account.

Wild Hog and below (under $2999) is limited d to two.  $3000 to $19999 gets four.   Above that you can buy six. 

[DirkPiggler]

Someone on another board called the foundation to ask about the prospects of getting tickets.  He was told that they expected that the minimum level to have new ticket requests filled in the main grandstand area was $10K per year.