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Post by PantherU on Aug 3, 2018 19:22:31 GMT -6
This will seem absurd to the Braun haters since it wouldn't help their agenda but this could have NOTHING to do with working in the athletic dept at all. Maybe it's personal! MAYBE he doesn't like the city and/or doesn't want to live in this kind of weather. My company has a lot of transplants and they leave at an exponentially higher rate than those from WI. Half of my immediate team are transplants and those with no family connections to the state often talk about leaving in the foreseeable future. Hell, stories are still told of a guy at my boss' level who moved from Texas and left to go back 40 days later. Time might tell why he left. Maybe to warmer pastures, maybe to larger athletic budgets, maybe he's changing careers altogether. Sorry, I should have included that it was implied to me that it wasn't a normal departure by two of the three employees I communicated with this week. That could still be something personal, of course. |
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Post by PantherU on Aug 3, 2018 19:35:02 GMT -6
How much are Marquette season ticket holders paying to see Bethune Cookman, Presbyterian and Charleston Southern at the new palace...sorry, Forum? Stop complaining. No matter where your previous seats were, seasons tickets are cheap and a great bang for your buck. I get it, if you have a family of 4 and got hosed on the reconfiguration, fine. But my god, enough. I don't even know why I come on this board sometimes. Just a bunch of babies, whining and crying at every turn. 1. I'm pretty sure these people are angry because they 'got hosed.' They've earned the right to be pissed about it, just like you've earned the right to gripe about things you've griped about over the years. I also want to point out that most of these people are not those of us who were bashing Braun the last couple years. Some of them haven't been complaining about anything for the last couple years before this. 2. K-State, Wisconsin, UTEP, Buffalo...it isn't just low-majors that are going there. Oh yeah, and they have a conference schedule that's made up of 80% teams casual fans are interested in seeing. Marquette has a decent schedule for 2018-19. 3. I don't think these people would be complaining if they felt the price increase was justified. If this was a price increase following a championship season, I don't think people would be complaining much. 4. Complaining about the complainers...this is something like Inception, but just depressing. |
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Post by PantherU on Aug 3, 2018 19:36:41 GMT -6
Also, free after 6pm on the streets. Marquette wishes they had free street parking after 6pm. |
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Aug 3, 2018 20:14:33 GMT -6
Also, free after 6pm on the streets. Marquette wishes they had free street parking after 6pm. They do. So, does the Bucks, Admirals, Wave. It's free on 4th and such after 6pm. |
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Post by PantherU on Aug 6, 2018 8:37:42 GMT -6
Marquette wishes they had free street parking after 6pm. They do. So, does the Bucks, Admirals, Wave. It's free on 4th and such after 6pm.  |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Aug 6, 2018 14:32:05 GMT -6
How much are Marquette season ticket holders paying to see Bethune Cookman, Presbyterian and Charleston Southern at the new palace...sorry, Forum? Stop complaining. No matter where your previous seats were, seasons tickets are cheap and a great bang for your buck. I get it, if you have a family of 4 and got hosed on the reconfiguration, fine. But my god, enough. I don't even know why I come on this board sometimes. Just a bunch of babies, whining and crying at every turn. 4. Complaining about the complainers...this is something like Inception, but just depressing. My grave concern is what happens once this complaining dies out. For my part, I've loved this program as much as anyone ... but I just don't have the energy anymore. |
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Aug 6, 2018 14:44:45 GMT -6
I just picked my seats for this year on the phone with Adam Schemm. His email schemm@uwm.edu
Sounds like a good guy and he looks forward to anyone who might need help on renewals or new seats for this Panthers season!
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Post by tqp on Aug 6, 2018 15:12:46 GMT -6
Adam the new guy has been telling people that he has his own ticket guy coming so I am sure that the seat will have someone who will be there as long as Adam is there. Two minorities left UWM in the last month. The Marketing guy (asian) and the Ticket guy (black). Both were said to not fit the culture there (whatever that means). I heard the ticket guy was promised some help in the ticket office as he was hired but as we all knew that wasn't going to happen (with all of the comments about lack of service). Outside of coaches there are really no minorities (maybe one  ) working at UWM administration. Something has to be said about the ticket guy leaving as soon as AB wants to change pricing and donations. The article posted about the pricing changes says that UWM is the best value in town but yet MU now has the lowest priced "cheap" seat. I am renewing because ... well I will never be a MU fan. On another note, losing another ticket manager has got to be an absolute gut punch to AB. A major source of revenue for your program has been rudderless going on four years now. B-Mo gone in fall of 2015, Eric Becker running it as an underpaid, overworked and lone assistant for a year, the job being pushed on others who already have too much on their plate in late 2016, finally finding a guy in summer 2017 only to see him leave the following summer...gut punch. Absolute gut punch. I ran into a season ticker holder yesterday. We had a nice conversation. He's planning to renew. Did mention that another longtime season ticker holder we both know did not renew his tickets last year. No one called that fan to renew, so he didn't. There needs to be someone in that chair, and that person needs an assistant. We've been without that since Fall of 2015. The expenses of the program have only gone up since then; this is unacceptable. We have a few possibilities here: 1. You're unable to fill the position with a quality hire. Perhaps Ron Reeves was ill-suited for the job, and he was let go or moved on of his own volition. You made a bad hire after a couple years of the job being vacant; an essential position was botched when there was no room for error. 2. You're unable to convince the university that these ticket office positions are necessary for the future growth of the program, so the university has dragged its feet in putting the jobs up. You can't sell this to your superiors in Chapman Hall, so program attendance nose dives in a period you hoped would shake things up and drum up interest in the program again. 3. Perhaps Ron Reeves left because he was no longer interested in working for Milwaukee Athletics. Maybe it was low morale in the department. Maybe he was performing too many duties for his time, or wasn't compensated enough to make the job valuable to him. Maybe he didn't have the professional relationships with his superiors that he would have been 4. Maybe Lena Taylor wasn't all that off base. Take the men's basketball staff out of the equation and make your way through the staff directory. I mean I still don't believe this is the case, but you'd think someone who was so publicly challenged on the subject would have fixed the problem by now, seeing as positions tend to open up rather frequently. Or....? Any other suggestions? |
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Post by Pantherholic on Aug 6, 2018 18:40:22 GMT -6
Season ticket holders getting priority access to purchase road game tickets is rather unnecessary. You'll more than likely be competing with no one for them. I was at two conference road games last year and my 2 friends and I made up the entire MKE section for one of them.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Aug 6, 2018 18:45:45 GMT -6
Season ticket holders getting priority access to purchase road game tickets is rather unnecessary. You'll more than likely be competing with no one for them. I was at two conference road games last year and my 2 friends and I made up the entire MKE section for one of them. I think it's meant for games at Boston College and Cincinnati as an example. |
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Post by Pantherholic on Aug 6, 2018 19:56:35 GMT -6
I think it's meant for games at Boston College and Cincinnati as an example. For all those fans flying out to Boston for a Tuesday night game? Ok. |
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Post by PantherU on Aug 8, 2018 9:36:43 GMT -6
I just picked my seats for this year on the phone with Adam Schemm. His email schemm@uwm.edu Sounds like a good guy and he looks forward to anyone who might need help on renewals or new seats for this Panthers season! I've been 100% thrilled with Leah Thyne, but I make no exaggeration when I say that Adam Schemm is the best hire Amanda has ever made here. He's a future AD. |
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Post by PantherU on Aug 8, 2018 9:41:59 GMT -6
Season ticket holders getting priority access to purchase road game tickets is rather unnecessary. You'll more than likely be competing with no one for them. I was at two conference road games last year and my 2 friends and I made up the entire MKE section for one of them. This is accurate. Back when I was going to several road games per year, the only time I ran into issues getting in the Panthers section was for that first buy game at DePaul. Wisconsin was always full immediately, and Marquette was usually full as well. But besides those in-state high-majors, there was only one time in a decade I had to buy general admission tickets for a game - there was always space in our section. It definitely seems like a 'nothing' perk meant to boost the benefits of the season ticket deal without actually costing them anything. |
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Post by steveisback on Aug 8, 2018 11:40:48 GMT -6
Let's hope he is empowered , has support rather than expected to do the job of 5 people and properly compensated which could possibly translate into him staying awhile.
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Post by steveisback on Aug 8, 2018 11:41:55 GMT -6
as well as not micro managed or undermined
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) working at UWM administration. 