College basketball and un-sportsman like conduct - Syracuse v Georgetown

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<p>Anyone familiar with the drama regarding the Feb. 26th Syracuse at Georgetown bball game? D1 was telling us about it and I thought she was overdramatizing it. But I found some articles that basically confirm her report.</p>

<p>Evidently, Georgetown is refusing to sell any tickets for this game to anyone unless they are a Georgetown student or alum. Syracuse has a strong alumni group in the D.C. area and every year they plan an annual outing to this game. Last year they bought a block of 500 tickets. </p>

<p>So this year, Georgetown is not making tickets available for this game through Ticketmaster. This is the only game Georgetown is doing this with. And if you go to the Hoyas website, this is the message you get regarding tickets: “All home games are now available for public sale with the exception of the 2/26 home game vs. Syracuse. Due to increased demand, tickets for the Syracuse game may not be available to the public.” (by the way, someone from the Verizon center anonymously offered that they don’t think this game is anywhere near sold out).</p>

<p>The other option for individual ticket buyers is you can go to the Georgetown website, make a $25 donation to their program, which will then allow you as a Georgetown supporter the option of buying individual tickets. </p>

<p>So, Georgetown has not released any Syracuse game tickets to Verizon Center’s group sales department, and individual ticket sales for the Syracuse game have not been made available to the general public. They are basically trying to shut out any ticket sales to Syracuse fans. </p>

<p>Anyone else know of any other school doing anything like this?</p>

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<p>Georgetown U can get bitter and spiteful.</p>

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<p>Syracuse frequently embarrasses opponents by having more Orange fans show for away games than the home team. Not just in Madison Square Garden, which some sportscasters seem to think is located a few blocks south of the Dome. The last few games in the RAC at Rutgers has seen more Orange than Scarlet in the bleachers. And Syracuse’s “home court advantage” extends into the Sunshine State. Last week 7,000 SU fans showed up for a game against South Florida, who could only round up about 3,000 Bulls fans.</p>

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<p>Oh I know… we attended a DePaul game in Chicago last year and the stadium was more orange than blue. Their alumni network, I’m learning, is very strong and they are very active in a lot of cities. I think NYC, Boston and D.C. are the biggest groups. </p>

<p>However, we were at the Marquette game last weekend, and orange was not the majority. There was a lot of Syracuse fan wear, but not the majority. Most of those people came up from the Chicago area - the Orange Chicago group. And I will say I was online buying tickets for that game the minute they went on sale to the general public and we were second row from the top, but we knew for several months ahead of the game that we had tickets.</p>

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<p>teri: send me article; need to forward to London…</p>

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<p>Hey the Cuse is playing Gtown tomorrow in the Dome! Come on up and you will be guaranteed a ticket here! Stinks what Gtown is doing!</p>

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<p>rodney - since they were technically blogs, I’m sending you links since I can’t link them on CC.</p>

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<p>I think it stinks, but I wish we could do something like that here in Nashville to keep the obnoxious Kentucky fans away from Memorial Gym! :)</p>

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<p>Circumspect Jesuit conduct, just tossed out the window for what looks like pure avarice. Alas, this practice will probably be soon imitated by other schools with popular $ports teams.</p>

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<p>This makes me want to call up one of my G-town alum friends, buy tickets, and go wearing orange.</p>

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<p>^^you go, geezermom…we’ll be looking for you!!!</p>

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<p>MOWC - We could turn this thread into which team has the most obnoxious fans. For the record, despite Georgetown’s efforts here, my bet is that Syracuse fans probably are at biggest odds with WVU fans due to some of the behavior they’ve pulled. And I’m not saying Syracuse fans are perfect, but this seems to be a college-endorsed plan and not just a few rogue supporters.</p>

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<p>well it is a problem as we do have a wonderful fan base that will travel. I hope it doesn’t become the norm!</p>

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<p>IMHO it seems to be a solution in search of a problem. What’s so dastardly about fans and alumni following their teams on the road or showing support when the alma mater is in town?</p>

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<p>I guess I go back to one of my original questions. Is there another school out there that has basically attempted to shut out ticket sales to the opposing team’s fans?</p>

<p>H, who generally does not get too riled up by stuff like this commented that this is just outright poor sportsmanship. </p>

<p>I think Ticketmaster is none too pleased either because they make money on the group sales that will not happen for this game.</p>

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<p>^^you know, I wonder if the NCAA governing board knows about this issue…wonder if it violates some obscure rule…I’m sure the Orange would know though…</p>