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TG4️⃣GonScore– @tyjuangarbutt4
It's rocking at Heinz
Kevin Doyle– @Kevin_Doyle_13
Pitt bound
gotta try and close some of these guys right away....
strike while the iron is hot, don't encourage to take their time.
strike while the iron is hot, don't encourage to take their time.
5⃣God– @JeteNificent34
Well... #BeatPennState #H2P #PittIsLit
1:22 PM - 10 Sep 2016
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Hear from my brother who was at the games and knows people on the AD's Office- PSU did not sell all of their alloted tickets and returnEd to Pitt (was also on the news) - so don't say anything about supportive PSU Fan Base.
I can tell you with 100% certainty this is absolutely not true, and in fact, ridiculous for anyone to think it's true. I'm a Nittany Lion Club holder with a point total which puts me in top 8th percentile (I have more points than 92% of other NLC members), and I couldn't even qualify for 2 tickets. I checked back with my contacts at PSU tix office earlier this week to see if any more tix became available (none had), so subsequently bought 4 tix on secondary market for $160 per ticket.
Returned tickets for any reason debunks the last bastion of PSU. Thier safety in numbers is funny to say the least. Enjoy the game and stop looking around.
Yeah and the Pitt AD has made a career out of lying to the masses on social media? Dork. This is Pitt's staff, not Penn State's crooked staff.
Actually it absolutely is true, and both the Pitt and Penn State athletic departments commented on it.
I believe what happened is that Penn State got 3000 tickets to sell to folks like you, and those all sold. They also got 300 tickets which are supposed to be earmarked for players and coaches families and athletic department people and the like. It was some of those tickets (I believe the number was 58) that they turned back to Pitt. Pitt then subsequently sold those tickets to Panther Club members.
What I don't get is that when it looked like Penn State was not going to use all those tickets, why didn't the start calling folks like you to sell the rest? Are they contractually not allowed to do that? Even so, with stories throughout the week of local UPS players trying to get lots of tickets for family members, why not just have a player who wasn't going to use his give them to his teammate for their family instead?
Yes it did happen. I was on Pantherlair at 1;00 Friday afternoon looking for tickets. Someone on Plair sent me a message that PSU returned some tickets. I called the athletic dept and talked them in to selling me one of the standing room only tickets. I am not a season ticket holder. I was told there were 50ish tickets returned. THIS ABSOLUTELY DID HAPPEN.
They are allowed to then sell them and players do trade/sell/give them to teammates, too. However, the AD doesn't give a flip about some dude in the "top 8th percentile" of their boosters.
PSU would have been smart to just buy them and give them away to a charity as opposed to returning and face ridicule due to PSU always pumping their chests about attendance.
Yeah, perhaps to a charity for troubled youth looking for guidance and support from positive male role models...
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