[Herky] Supply exceeds demand for Iowa-Rutgers

Kay Ramseyer g.ramseyer at comcast.net
Thu Sep 22 10:14:34 PDT 2016


I would expect the same demand for any team west of the Mississippi. My NJ neighbors in FL have never been west of PA.
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 9:28 AM, Keith Voigts <kvoigts at wisemanengine.com> wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  Do you think a lot of demand tanked when Iowa dropped out of the top 25?  
>  
> It looks like the more the fans think Rutgers will get smaked, the more they are willing to pay.
>  
> Keith L. Voigts, President
> Wiseman Technologies, Inc.
>  
> From: Herky [mailto:herky-bounces at lists.herky.net <mailto:herky-bounces at lists.herky.net>] On Behalf Of Sue Bailey
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 7:28 AM
> To: herky at lists.herky.net <mailto:herky at lists.herky.net>
> Subject: [Herky] Supply exceeds demand for Iowa-Rutgers
>  
> Supply exceeds demand for Iowa-Rutgers
> 
> New Jersey wants to see Michigan and Penn State a lot more
> 
> 
> Gazette
> Sep 21, 2016 at 11:33 am  
> Saturday’s Iowa-Rutgers game won’t be what you would call a scalper’s paradise.
> 
> Online ticket marketplace StubHub lists a lot of tickets for the Hawkeyes-Scarlet Knight game at under $20. The cheapest as of 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, were $13.
> 
> Compare that to Rutgers’ home games against Michigan on Oct. 8 or Penn State on Nov. 19. StubHub’s cheapest available seats for those two are $93 and $75, respectively.
> 
> If it’s any consolation to the Hawkeyes, the cheapest seats for the Nov. 5 Indiana-Rutgers tilt are a paltry $7.
> 
> Those numbers wouldn’t compute in Iowa City. The cheapest StubHub prices for the remaining Hawkeyes home games are these:
> 
> Oct. 1: Northwestern $60
> 
> Oct. 22: Wisconsin $105
> 
> Nov. 12: Michigan $164
> 
> Nov. 25: Nebraska $69
> 
> That Black Friday game with the Cornhuskers has never set off stampedes to Iowa’s ticket office. It’s a good day to watch games at home, but it doesn’t seem like the world is all that thrilled about traveling to go to them.
> 
> But $13 for Iowa-Rutgers? There’s work to be done selling Scarlet Knights football.
> 
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