> I don't mind people selling the tickets on list but am I the only one
that
> draws the line at profiteers?
 
Good line and point taken, but speaking as somebody who will know for
certain whether he needs tickets only by Sunday night, I wish there was
some way to organize people to defeat what I think is a serious
paradox/ripoff caused by the NC$$.  IMHO, this is the way the NC$$ should
sell tickets to the Frozen Four. (Please don't tell me this is
technologically impossible, because even those bozos have somebody on their
payroll who understands databases):
 
1.  Decide EARLY which bracket's representatives will occupy which portion
of the building.  #1W advancee in the South-East corner, etc...
 
2.  Mark off the center ice segments on both sides and just sell them
higgledy-piggledy (big time "sp?").  Sell them four years in advance for
all I care.  Sell them to law firms in exchange for billable hours for
those tragic Zamboni accidents, I don't care.  Have the building protect
its butt.  Now then, for the rational and fair part:
 
3.  Tag orders for the corner sections by team affiliation, if the orderer
wishes it.  In other words, I can buy my seats outright, and they are mine
unqualifiedly, or I can tag my order with "Cornell".  Similarly, people
from North Dakota and Miami can order my same seats, tagged with their
school, with a max of one order from each school.  Whoever advances, that
decides who owns the tickets ("Who own the Chiefs?" "Owns, owns...")
 
4.  There probably has to be some provision for a block reserved for each
team to sell, for the same reasons these blocks are available now.
Currently, this consists in the regionals of 100x6=600 tickets out of
10,000.  I think they can do better than that, but perhaps with the above
system they wouldn't have to.
 
5.  Of course all this ignores the real economic potential of college
hockey:  putting each team's NCAA Final Four future on the Commodities
Market.  :-)
 
- Greg
 
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