What a difference a year makes
The UGA athletic association already had said that contributions to the Bulldog Club/Hartman Fund this year were off about $2.5 million to $3 million, attributable mainly to the economy and the fact that this year’s Dogs aren’t a preseason No. 1 pick. So it was expected that the cut-off cumulative score that determines who gets to buy new renewable season tickets would fall this year as well from last year’s lofty $10,651.
And it sure did. The athletic association announced today that the 2009 cut-off score for renewable season tickets is $4,205.
The cumulative score for each contributor is based on lifetime giving to the Hartman Fund. So if you did not have renewable season tickets last year, you had to have a cumulative score of $4,205 to get them this year. And Hartman Fund contributors requesting additional or new renewable season tickets with a cumulative score less than $4,205 will not receive them. However, if you had renewable season tickets in 2008, you get to keep those even if your cumulative score is below the cut-off.
Cumulative score requirements for single home and away tickets will be announced in late July, the Bulldog Club said today, but Georgia Sports Blog cites an athletic department source as providing these partial single-game cut-off scores: Arizona State (18,050), LSU (32,500) and Kentucky (10,000). The Tennessee Tech ticket requests were all filled, the report says. Of the away games, the report says the cut-off for Tennessee is 21,950 and that all requests for Arkansas tickets were filled.
Bottom line: From a fan’s point of view, there’s something to be said for flying under the radar.
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BurningRedBleedingBlack
July 15th, 2009
2:14 pm
I won’t be going to all the games BIll, however as always to can count me in for some of them. I live in Coastal Ga the golden isles so it’s a trip to my favorite place Athens. I feel good about this season and my feeling usually don’t let me down. I feel if we have a big win against OSU, then the fans will pick it up. Our Dogs always play great under the radar. I just feel like the majority of th efans feel as if we are heading into a 2006 season again. Not so we did not have the amount of talent we do now Bill, You agree?? Plus areO-line is loaded for once. We all now that a great o line makes a average half back look special. Plus if you give any quatarback enough time in the pocket great things can happen. I promise the DAWGS defense won’t be in question this year. Thanks for keeping us together on info in this to long off season. Oh and GO DAWGS!!!
FIRST
snot bubble
July 15th, 2009
2:14 pm
I use to take my family to at least three maybe four games a year. Now with the gas and ticket prices those days are gone. So sad that my grandchildren will never get to experience the old days of college football. I guess I’ll sit in front of my 52′ T V and enjoy……..GO DOGS !!!!!!
Trouper
July 15th, 2009
2:21 pm
Bill,
Great news! By the way what happened to your blawg on which game we want to win most? I thought the comment on wiping the smile off Tech fan’s faces this year was classic. Wanted to share it with some friends but it is gone. Did the blawg police make you remove?
red hill
July 15th, 2009
2:23 pm
I suspect there will be a higher demand for tickets once Willie Martinez is gone.
UGADawg83
July 15th, 2009
2:33 pm
red hill–I seriously doubt anyone based ticket purchases or donations on the employment status of Willie Martinez–what an asinine statement.
mcdawg
July 15th, 2009
2:39 pm
Who is going to cover Dez Bryant?
red hill
July 15th, 2009
2:49 pm
I know for a fact there were people who did not renew based on his “employment status”. Asinine? I think not. Next you will question whether I am a Dawg. That’s why I never post on these blogs and rarely read them. CMR said after the UF game in ‘07 that insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. A change at DC will made at some point. How many more games must a lack of fundamentals and effort cost us??
Dave
July 15th, 2009
3:02 pm
Will the AA take payment in cows? I got a big brown heffer named Bessie that’s really good…if you know what I mean.
Mark
July 15th, 2009
3:05 pm
I am looking for two UGA visitor tickets for the UGA ARK on Sept 19th. Does anyone have any?
JB
July 15th, 2009
3:16 pm
If the Defense falters this year, mark Won’t be able to save Him…….I do know Dawg fans that are so passionate, they have withheld donations because of Willie……The Bulldog club meeting I attended this year ( i’ve been to them all since Richt arrived) we had the smallest crowd ever. Economy or disappointment ?
READY
July 15th, 2009
3:26 pm
How much longer do we have to wait for a NC? It’s unfair that FL has 2 in 3 years and we have none in 30. What price do we have to pay?
Herschel Talker
July 15th, 2009
3:32 pm
BKLM
PBR=America in a can
July 15th, 2009
3:37 pm
JB at least you had a Bulldog club meeting the North Georgia Bulldog Club didn’t even do a meeting this year. Don’t know why but they didn’t, I think the economy has alot to do with the drop-off, I know a few loyal Dawg fans who cant get tickets this year because of the recent downturn. And i don’t want the fair-weather fans that get disappointed over one season. They can buy tech tickets and have a hot dog, coke, and concert at halftime and im not going to lose any sleep over it
Macon Gator
July 15th, 2009
4:12 pm
$10,651…and no ring. I’d say those fans got “F-d.”
Now, they can get “F-d” for $6,446 less.
folkston funnel
July 15th, 2009
4:19 pm
Hmmmmm….$10K to watch:
1. a Moreno hurdle
2. a Black-Out that turned into a beatdown/funeral
3. Vince Dooley/Larry Munson Day disaster to the techies.
Just plain lucky that UF was an “away” game. HAHAHAHA
You folks got RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-oooooobbbbbbbbeeeedddddddd !!!!
ROTFLMAO
Dawgdays
July 15th, 2009
4:22 pm
I had season tickets way back in 2000, starting to get caught up so I can get them. Maybe next year!
I should be able to get the free (three) game package at GT which will include the UGA game, have not missed that one in about a decade.
51 and counting!!
folkston funnel
July 15th, 2009
4:44 pm
I wonder if those folks that ponied up 10,000 to see the dawgs, are the same folks that are…having their car(s), boat(s), ATV(s), etc. repoed, credit cards cancelled, house(ATM) foreclosed/auctioned off…and…are now demanding that their red-neck good-ole boy Congress Man make the Fedrul Guvment give them free healthcare?
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
SC Dawg
July 15th, 2009
4:48 pm
Georgia Tech quit offering Georgia in a three game package. You either buy it as part of
the season ticket package or not at all.
D. Evans
July 15th, 2009
4:55 pm
UGA tcket buyers were “bent over” as far as possible last year.
Toothdawg
July 15th, 2009
5:23 pm
Shameful, Georgia sees a huge drop in donation requirements to get new season tickets. Embarrassing as heck! Georgia Tech on the other hand saw no decrease in the donation minimum to get new season tickets. Last year required zero donation. This year requires zero donation. I am sure the bloggers from the “Bestest (sic), Brightest, Smartest School in the Whole Wide World” will find a way to brag about that!
mdc
July 15th, 2009
6:04 pm
Ihave been buying 4 tix per yr and this yr I went down to 2 because I have heard that you cna get moved easier that way. I took my other two and went in with my x roomie whos Father in Law had great seats in the shade on the 50 and decided he didn’t want those others ones So maybe I will get moved as well (with my other two) the point is…it has gotten out of hand and the fans that help GA win with noise don;t go anymore. they show up for the tailgate but watch on the dishes outside… Let’s get them in the stadium…Maybe now with the 4K entry they may….we will see…
third quarter fan
July 15th, 2009
7:39 pm
Wow! Tech wins and cost of tix drop. What will happen when it’s Johnson 2/0?
also
July 15th, 2009
7:41 pm
Fun blogs Bill. Do you get paid by the hour or piece rate per blog?
Cuz
July 15th, 2009
8:08 pm
third quarter, If Tech wins in Atlanta then we can start giving away free hot dogs and cokes. This year I am betting on the acorn over the blind squirrel. You heard it here, the acorn by ten points.
AltamahaDawg
July 15th, 2009
10:04 pm
As far as somebody withholding thier financial support of the University for no other reason than they disapprove of job done by one of the assistant coaches on one of the extracuricular sport team, you know…..that sort of speaks for itself. As the saying goes….”if you can live with it, they can live without it”.
Now if the contribution is for no other reason that to secure tickets to the football game, and trust me I understand that, Thats fine, but who exactly would you be proving something to, to deny YOURSELF that privilege? So they are so interested in the affairs of the football program, they decided Not to attend the football games. No that’s not asinine at all!
jacketbacker
July 15th, 2009
10:17 pm
wow…maybe ya’ll aren’t as stupid as i thought……why would anyone pay $4000+ to watch the most underachieving team in college football with 90,000 drunk rednecks????…….$10,000?????…hilarious…..ya’ll need to get a life…..
45-42!!!!!
THWG
Cuz
July 15th, 2009
10:44 pm
backer, it is usually about 87,000 drunk rednecks. We give the opposing team 5,000 tickets. Tech just returns 3,000. I am sorry, we don’t give the free hot dogs and cokes the Techmites are used to getting at home.
My favorite Tech joke. What time does the Tech game start? Answer, What time are you going to show up.
8-1!!!!!!!!!!!
Wreck Tech, oh yeah, it has already been done. Did you get any stimululs money to repair that road kill of a jalopy? Laughing my redneck ass off. LMRAO.
Allen Waters
July 16th, 2009
4:21 am
Our record during the CMR era is one of the best. FL and LSU were lucky because of other teams loosing to get the chance to play for NC. At least they represented the SEC and won. Until BCS becomes a true playoff, like the former 1-AA, we will have to hope for an undefeated season or the same luck. GEORGIA
takedowndawg
July 16th, 2009
9:33 am
I do think that Damon Evans and Michael Adams have begun to treat the Bulldawg fans like a cash cow for the University. Coerced donations in order to see games at this level for season tickets is out of hand. Where is your devotion to lifetime Dawgfans. Alumni 1975.
M. Adams and Dam-On Evans
July 16th, 2009
10:33 am
You people ARE nothing but cash streams to OUR business, whose only purpose is to serve OUR requirements.
Just shut up, and keep bending over.
AltamahaDawg
July 16th, 2009
12:39 pm
I’m guessing because if they just sent out letters periodically asking for pure donations to build new locker rooms and weight stations and jet engines…… the devotion on the other end might not be strong enough produce that check book?