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Solid Orange [1396]
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Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 1:19 PM
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See ya.
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Dynasty Maker [3383]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 1:25 PM
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Sadly, they won’t lose any. They do not care about the long term givers. Our 38 years ended in 2021. They want big $$$ now, not long term giving.
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Game Changer [2045]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 5:55 PM
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Hey now. All that big money just brought home a gator bowl victory and a cheez-it bowl victory the previous season.
Plus it helps to pay Browney B.
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Asst Coach [810]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 1:51 PM
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See ya.
Well, I know the FB team has the 5th highest paid staff of assistants and the highest paid HC in the country. Toss in all the facilities that have been built or upgraded and your talking huge money. My family chose to drop out after roughly 40 years when the seat equity tax was initiated. Could not justify the spend based on the very low quality of many of the opponents for the FB games. Were escalating prices to maintain current seating and parking status the reason for dropping out or was it something else? FWIW I still have easy access to tickets for most of the games but I don't have a solution for the parking issue other than paying $100+ to park. Just skip most of games due to the parking hassle.
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Ultimate Tiger [33606]
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where were your seats? Wonder if i have a chance this year***
Feb 5, 2024, 1:56 PM
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Solid Orange [1396]
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UN Row S***
Feb 5, 2024, 2:01 PM
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Clemson Sports Icon [59235]
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Wow! I was in UN row P for a long......time. I thought it was going to kill me
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Feb 5, 2024, 6:41 PM
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when we lost our tickets(got them for many years from a wealthy releative), but I have to admit, I got used to grilling on the deck and going to my bonus room Mrs. Spud redid for me....I go to one or two a year now, and with this dadgum arthritis in my spine...that is about all I can take. Clemson has sold out to the corporate group I think. I wonder how that model will work during a long losing spell...Old Clemson Fan sat through the 2-9 years and went to every game. Corporate Fan.....I don't think so. JMHO!
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Solid Orange [1385]
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Re: Wow! I was in UN row P for a long......time. I thought it was going to kill me
Feb 5, 2024, 7:40 PM
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I hear you, Spud. I hope it never happens, but it would be interesting to see what a couple of 6-6 seasons would do to attendance. Perish the thought.
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Game Day Hero [4534]
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TigerNet Elite [76768]
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Top TigerNet [30504]
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Re: We've given up 14 seats in South Lower sections UD, UE, UF, and UG.
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Feb 5, 2024, 2:20 PM
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I have been an IPTAY contributor for awhile now. I bought season tickets also. I had seats in the upper section and was diagnosed with asthma during that time. I asked if I could get lower tickets because of this diagnosis. Did not want front row but anything lower. I know they hear very excuse imaginable but I thought I would at least get a response. Nope. I no longer get season tickets.
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TigerNet Elite [76768]
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Re: We've given up 14 seats in South Lower sections UD, UE, UF, and UG.
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Feb 5, 2024, 2:26 PM
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It’s sad. The slick suits in IPTAY want the big money right now. Loyalty is for chumps. It’s certainly isn’t like it used to be, like a lot of things.
But when things go south after Dabo leaves/retires and all the slick suits in IPTAY jump ship, we are not coming back. They’ve made their bed.
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Game Day Hero [4534]
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It has changed; it's all about the big money now. Life Donors since 1978***
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Feb 7, 2024, 3:07 PM
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Ultimate Tiger [33606]
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Orange Elite [5253]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 2:20 PM
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We stopped in 2008 after 40 years. Gave up seats and pay the minimum to receive information. I miss it but don't miss it!
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Associate AD [1041]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 3:28 PM
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Sadly after 34 years, I gave up last year. Between hotels, gas, and food, they all started to price me out. Still love my Tigers.
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Heisman Winner [79958]
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What was the final straw?***
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Feb 5, 2024, 4:04 PM
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Solid Orange [1396]
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$$$$$ and HDTV at the lake house***
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Feb 5, 2024, 5:27 PM
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Redshirt [92]
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My final straw was the game at ND
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Feb 5, 2024, 5:38 PM
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I was an Iptay donor for close to 30 years. Didn't live close so never requested season tickets, just gave money to support my Tigers. Let them keep my contribution in 2020. But then I tried for the first time to request away game tickets. ND game in November 2022. For some reason IPTAY decided only season ticketholders could request those tickets. Now I would be totally fine with not getting tickets because my priority points weren't high enough (and I know Clemson didn't get many tickets), but it was a total slap in the face that only season ticketholders could even make the request. IPTAY only cares about season ticketholders? Ok then. I'm out. I'll be saving a lot of money not donating and simply buying great seats for the occasional game I can attend.
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Tiger Spirit [9353]
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Re: My final straw was the game at ND
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Feb 5, 2024, 6:35 PM
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You can buy better/cheaper tickets on the secondary market than through IPTAY.
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Redshirt [92]
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Re: My final straw was the game at ND
Feb 7, 2024, 7:27 AM
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Exactly!
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Paw Warrior [4913]
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Re: What was the final straw?***
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Feb 5, 2024, 6:37 PM
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Gave up after 39 years. Final straw was being moved out of my seats for the west end zone club. Moved us behind the opposing band’s tubas. We could even see the field.
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Dynasty Maker [3468]
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what specifically caused this? The increased cost in
Feb 5, 2024, 5:40 PM
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levels to be able to park? The "seat equity" costs? Just curious before I re-sign for my 37th year.
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Clemson Sports Icon [59235]
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I have a couple of clients that are big donors, in my opinion, who buy 14 to 20
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Feb 5, 2024, 6:46 PM
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tickets a year. 25k plus donors, who make, well. they make a lot more than Ole Spud, and they are about to call it quits. They've been going since they could walk.....
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Tiger Titan [50655]
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Maybe it was paying our head coach $11 million a year
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and continuing to increase ticket costs to see a team that has underperformed three years in a row, only to be lectured by said coach about fans who don’t behave the way he wants them to.
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Hall of Famer [8331]
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Re: Maybe it was paying our head coach $11 million a year
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Feb 5, 2024, 8:57 PM
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Has he done enough to convince you to choose another school yet?
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110%er [3879]
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Clemson Icon [26212]
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Solid Orange [1396]
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National Champion [7856]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
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Feb 5, 2024, 7:36 PM
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Unfortunately you can't have it both ways. You want to win it cost money. If someone is willing to pay more than you then out you go. If they showed loyalty to every donor the athletic department would go broke.
I understand the hurt feelings but winning is not cheap.
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Game Changer [1984]
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Feb 5, 2024, 7:57 PM
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Evidently, losing is pretty expensive as well.
And the bloated and expensive football staff makes the US government look like a lean efficient organization by comparison.
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Orange Blooded [2382]
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Feb 7, 2024, 5:02 AM
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Evidently, losing is pretty expensive as well.
And the bloated and expensive football staff makes the US government look like a lean efficient organization by comparison.
Bless your heart. Now off you go
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Solid Orange [1396]
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Associate AD [1098]
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Feb 5, 2024, 8:31 PM
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Well, an alternative for all ex IPTAY and ticket holders is the Alumni Association.
I highly recommend it. And maybe you've been donating to both. Students need our support too. Just sayin'.
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Solid Orange [1396]
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I have for 50 years also, but less than I've given IPTAY***
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Feb 7, 2024, 12:12 AM
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All-Pro [760]
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I ended my familys IPTAY membership after the 2016 season....
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Feb 7, 2024, 7:19 AM
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My folks started IPTAY in 1980. We had upwards of 6 seasons tickets for a couple of years but then slowly dwindle back down to 2 because my parents due to age and health reasons stop going to the games. I took over the membership for many years until I decided to it was becoming little too expensive. When I let IPTAY know that I was ending our membership after 36 years I didn’t get a Thank you or we will miss you or anything. Oh well. That was a difficult decision to end it. There’s so many memories at Death Valley with my folks, myself, my brother, friends, and exes that sit in those seats with us even during the “bad” seasons. Great times!
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Ring of Honor [22708]
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Re: Our 52-year run with IPTAY is ending. Clemson isn't losing any sleep.
Feb 7, 2024, 7:52 AM
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My 44 year run of giving Zero continues...
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Asst Coach [810]
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Feb 7, 2024, 12:41 PM
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Is there an increase this year in the number of folks dropping out or just the normal turnover? I had a 20 year donor tell me yesterday that he is done. His spend would be close to 9K this year for 6 seats and the parking pass. He normally sells 4 and the pass and keeps 2. Said that formula no longer works. Since he owns a parking spot off site he said he will just purchase tickets to the games he wants to see (which is only a couple per year) and will come out much cheaper. He felt there were corporate entities or individuals with money to more than fill the gap.
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Orange Elite [5125]
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Feb 7, 2024, 1:20 PM
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I love these stories.
“If I can’t work the system to my benefit, screw IPTAY…all they want is money. “
“I don’t consider it important to provide scholarships for Clemson athletes. It’s too expensive to do that just for football tickets so I’ll quit IPTAY and just buy tickets elsewhere.”
Good riddance. Somebody will get a seat upgrade.
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