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Post by milwsport on Nov 10, 2023 12:02:46 GMT -6
Did anyone alert the Gasthaus? They generally seem indifferent to Panther sports... Or did that change recently? I stopped by the Gasthaus on Monday and I was truly appalled. The wooden booths, wood floor and the wood bar are all gone. So is the atmosphere. It's all been replaced by a plastic bar, laminated flooring, and bright neon lights. In fact, the entire Union looks like "an IKEA showroom" to use my husband's words. He went onto say "Except an IKEA showroom has more atmosphere than this place." I was President of the Student Union for two years and remember its opening. It was supposed to be a comfortable, homey place for students. It had atmosphere. All that's been replaced by someone's idea to make it into a contemporary piece of art. The glare in some parts is so bright that it literally hurts your eyes. It's so bad that when got off the elevator on the second floor every fiber of my gay fashion sense wanted to scream. My husband couldn't stop laughing. You have to see what they did there to believe it.
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Post by milwsport on Nov 7, 2023 20:49:07 GMT -6
I bought two season tickets for this year's season. I did receive an email acknowledging the purchase. There is a link in the email to "manage tickets" which takes me to Ticketmaster. However, I can NOT access the tickets using the Ticketmaster app on my phone. Also I can't access the tickets going to the Ticketmaster site through a browser. I can access other tickets I buy through my Ticketmaster app. I can access my Badger Football Season tickets through the Badger app or through Google Wallet (they automatically load on my phone). I can put load tickets on Google Wallet app but unlike my Badger tickets all of them have to be loaded individually and all of them will appear at once rather than just the next game. Plus there's a warning that they can't be used by another google account, which may make transferring them impossible once I've loaded them. (I can transfer or sell my Badger tickets anytime even after loading them onto my phone.) So basically the only way I can access the game tickets is to search through my emails for every game, a process that will become more difficult as the season goes on. Does anyone know if the Athletic Department can send out a mobile link to tickets for each game as the games come around? All of your Milwaukee Panthers tickets, including men's basketball season tickets and single game tickets for games on campus, are managed through Account Manager at am.ticketmaster.com/uwm. The only Panther tickets that will be on TicketMaster.com or the TicketMaster app are single game tickets for games at UWM Panther Arena. Your login is likely the same for both, but the tickets are in separate locations. While Account Manager doesn't have an app, you can log in to am.ticketmaster.com/uwm through any mobile browser and manage your tickets, including saving them to your mobile wallet and transferring them. If you run into any issues with this, please let us know and we'll work through it. The Badgers use a different platform from TicketMaster, so managing your Badger Football tickets will look a little different, even if the steps to manage them are virtually the same. If you add the tickets to your Google Wallet and then transfer them, it will either remove the tickets from you wallet entirely or the tickets in your wallet just won't work anymore. I have an iPhone, so not 100% on what happens, but downloading mobile tickets won't prevent you from transferring. Thanks for posting this, as it allowed me to clarify some questions other people have had as well. Hopefully this information helps! Thanks. That worked.
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Post by milwsport on Nov 7, 2023 11:34:59 GMT -6
I already tried that. It didn't work. As I said I can only access my tickets through the email they sent me.
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Post by milwsport on Nov 7, 2023 2:03:18 GMT -6
I bought two season tickets for this year's season. I did receive an email acknowledging the purchase. There is a link in the email to "manage tickets" which takes me to Ticketmaster. However, I can NOT access the tickets using the Ticketmaster app on my phone. Also I can't access the tickets going to the Ticketmaster site through a browser. I can access other tickets I buy through my Ticketmaster app. I can access my Badger Football Season tickets through the Badger app or through Google Wallet (they automatically load on my phone). I can put load tickets on Google Wallet app but unlike my Badger tickets all of them have to be loaded individually and all of them will appear at once rather than just the next game. Plus there's a warning that they can't be used by another google account, which may make transferring them impossible once I've loaded them. (I can transfer or sell my Badger tickets anytime even after loading them onto my phone.)
So basically the only way I can access the game tickets is to search through my emails for every game, a process that will become more difficult as the season goes on.
Does anyone know if the Athletic Department can send out a mobile link to tickets for each game as the games come around?
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Post by milwsport on Jul 25, 2023 12:47:42 GMT -6
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Post by milwsport on May 7, 2023 11:25:49 GMT -6
I'd like to see us play UIC and/or Loyola. They are former rivals that drew a lot of interest from the fans, especially UIC. The coaches, teams and fan bases really didn't like each other.
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Post by milwsport on Apr 3, 2023 0:34:38 GMT -6
I would like to see us play UIC again. Those were fun games in an intense rivalry and drew crowds. Loyola would look great on the schedule too.
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Post by milwsport on Mar 22, 2023 1:25:25 GMT -6
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Post by milwsport on Mar 12, 2023 19:15:07 GMT -6
I would think his players want to keep playing. Do not be surprised to see some of them in the portal
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Post by milwsport on Mar 7, 2023 2:23:22 GMT -6
Thank You to the Coaching staff and the players. You restored real interest in Panther Basketball to me and a ton of others. I know people who went to their first game(s) in years and loved it. It's hard to turn around a program like ours, but you showed the entire city, that it's possible. You can be sure that your fans will do their best to keep building the renewed interest in the only college team with the name "Milwaukee" on its jerseys. We'll keep talking up the team in the off season just as much as we did during the season. We will continue to get our friends, family and co-workers interested in cheering you on when you take the court. Thanks for the thrills, the incredible plays, the excitement and the great times you provided. Let's build on this year together.
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Post by milwsport on Mar 3, 2023 10:34:50 GMT -6
I'd like to go but I am not going to drive there. I'm willing to share expenses with someone who will drive or to take a bus if there is one.
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Post by milwsport on Mar 3, 2023 9:03:22 GMT -6
The Bart Lundy hire got me to buy season tickets for the first time in 11 years. What I saw on court has gotten me to look forward to buying them again. This year was amazing, a total turn around from what I'd seen in the few games I attended over the last few years. I took my 40 year old Developmentally Disabled nephew to the UPFW game. He had so much fun he wanted to come to last night's contest. In the middle of the action he asked me if I could get him a UWM Hat and Sweatshirt for Christmas. So I'm thinking I may be buying 3 season tickets for next year instead of two.
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Post by milwsport on Mar 2, 2023 18:51:43 GMT -6
TURN DOWN THE SOUND SYSTEM. It's so loud you can barely understand the announcements. I have to shout to my husband sitting next to me or he can't hear me. Nit to mention it's drowning out the student cheers. What fool is operating the volume?
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Post by milwsport on Feb 26, 2023 19:56:18 GMT -6
The idea of playing at several different venues in the same season is ludicrous. Fans will get confused as to where the game is. I led the effort to get the K built back in the 70's. It was NEVER meant for D-1 Men's basketball. Not to mention the HL requirement of 5,000 seat venues. The K has at most 3,500. You led the effort to get the K built? Now we know who to blame.😉 You have no idea how hard it was. You think the deck is stacked against Milwaukee now, you should've seen it back then. We had less than 1 square foot of rec space per student vs other campuses with their 10 and more. We literally had the only Basketball game in NCAA history rained out. The roof at Baker Fieldhouse leaked creating big puddles. We wound up playing then 5th ranked Oral Roberts the next night at the Arena and nearly won before a large cheering crowd. Even that still didn't move enough votes on the State Building Commission but it did help us get one more. I went up to Madison lobbying so often that I should've gotten credit for it as part of the Political Science course. Once we got it, I was done. I had nothing to do with the design. I did however suggest the name. Ernie Spaights told me that's a no go because you can't name a building after someone who's still alive. My response was "Why wait til their dead and won't know it." To me it made sense. It was last piece in the campus that Klotsche built. Besides I promised him we'd do something to make sure he was remembered after that 75 year old man beat me and another 20 something year old at Blow Pong in the Kenwood Inn at the retirement party we threw for him. (Blow Pong involves blowing a ping pong ball off your opponent's side of a ping pong table. If you succeed they have to take a drink. We got a table moved up from the Rec Center for the game. The Chancellor was undefeated in five matches that night. His partner basically stood there and let him do all the work.) I was gone from school when it opened but I did get an invite to the grand opening. Spaights wrote in it, something like "We took your suggestion so I hope you can come." That was special for me.
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Post by milwsport on Feb 26, 2023 19:41:51 GMT -6
If the game sells out and lots of fans are left without tickets, will people still think this was a good idea? Will the images of a second rate D-2 venue on ESPNU help us to recruit the players we're targeting?
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