For all of us with high priority it should not impact our status.  I am
wondering if this early NC$$ application process is just a way to get money
in their pockets for a longer period of time.

Here is the deal, my wife and I can go to Detroit, or a tropical island for
our 25th anniversary next year.  Unless Maine makes it to Detroit, I think
we'll take the tropical island and risk missing a year on our status.
Tickets will be impossible to sell, as they will be plentiful so why spend
$380 right before we go to DC?

Bob Fitta
Umaine '83


On 1/23/09 8:48 PM, "Carol S. White" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am not going to Ford Field either... I think it's a stupid idea to
> hold such an important set of games in a place like that.  (And if
> anyone important is lurking here on the list... I am totally serious...
> I hope you all lose your shirts on this one. )
> 
> Carol
> GO Gophers!!!
> 
> 
> Hampton, Nathan E. wrote:
> 
>> Erik, et. al.
>> 
>> If only that were true. I have been looking forward to Washington DC for such
>> a long time and have been dreading Detroit for exactly the same time frame. I
>> am not going to Detroit, unless they are giving me the tickets and $189. Yes,
>> they have to pay me to go to a cavernous hole without a single good seat.
>> There are NO seats close to the ice in a football arena, so no seats worth
>> the normal price we have paid. If I have to, I will give the tickets away for
>> free (plenty of unemployed auto workers in the area who love hockey).
>> 
>> As for the two price points, it may reflect quality differences (Detroit vs.
>> Windsor) and therefore higher price is for the better good and the lower
>> price for the poorer good; but in a smaller arena I would argue price
>> discrimination, which a monopolist like the NCAA can use to increase profit.
>> Those who have revealed a strong preference for the good (each of us with
>> high priority numbers) will pay the higher price, and those without priority
>> numbers (without strong preference revelation) will pay the lower price
>> (though you may be sitting right next to each other). If they set the price
>> so that Ford Field would sell out, it would be somewhere between $189 and
>> $119, but rather than both groups (high and low revealed preference) paying
>> one price as has been the case in the past, they are now using their
>> proprietary information (whether or not we are on the priority list) to price
>> the tickets.
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/23/09 1:49 PM, "Erik Biever" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> The dates and location of the 2010 Frozen Four have also been adjusted.  The
>> 2010 Frozen Four will now take place on April 10 and April 12, 2009, at Ford
>> Field in Detroit.
>> 
>> -- Erik
>> 
>> 
>>  
>>