Cancelled Pre Sale and General Sale

[RKMCMT]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

"Only.". Buy NFL season tickets and see how many bonus playoff seats you get a shot at. Even 4 was overkill.

Pretty sure every NFL seat is held by a season ticket holder. If they have 60,000 seats, they have 60,000 season ticket holders.

MSU situation is unique. Not even FBS has something like this. A rivalry game at home for a chance to advance to the national championship. And I believe this allocation system with season ticket holders is used for regular season games - like Cat Gris.

No, this isn't true. I don't know of any franchise that sells every seat as a season ticket. Even the ones with massive wait lists for season tickets

[bobcatfan123]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

Season ticket holders already pay for every home game and a Bobcat Club membership, which is where the majority of the program’s guaranteed revenue comes from — that part I fully understand.

That said, most college programs and professional teams limit playoff extras to around 2 tickets per account, not 8. Larger additional allotments are usually reserved for major boosters, not standard season ticket holders.
Very few people actually hold 20 season tickets, so using that as an example isn’t realistic.

I’m not claiming entitlement to anything. My point is simply that allowing large numbers of additional tickets to be purchased by a small group of buyers dramatically reduces public availability — which is why the game sold out instantly

[RKMCMT]

That’s honestly great news. Now we just need to make sure our season ticket holders passed them on to fellow bobcat fans without price gouging them.

I hope so. I just want 2 tickets... I want to see this game badly, but I'm not sure I can stomach a fellow Cat fan serving the scalp fee. I sure would have loved to have had season tickets but life events and distance didn't make it feasible this year. Ugh. Just sucks.

You can't buy season tickets either. They haven't sold any to the public for the last two or three years.

This is wrong. Season tickets were available if you inquired. They even announced when those available sold out this year as a new record.

Quoting the press release

Thank you Bobcats for your support of Montana State Football. With season tickets being sold out there will NOT be a release of new season tickets on May 5th. Don't worry Bobcats, single game tickets will be released to Season ticket holders on July 28th, and to the general public on August 5th.

[GeoCAT]

I can see almost all Cat season ticket holders doling these extras out at fair pricing. I certainly will. I can also see Cat season ticket holders being extra careful to not accidentally sell to gris fans. I certainly will.

Does a picture of my MSU diploma suffice? lol

[MTnative]

If season ticket holders are buying these extra allocations with the intent to sell them on the secondary market, you’re wrong.

Get your ass in that seat and be there to be a part of the biggest game in this state’s history.

[Bocephus]

Realistically, how many tickets do you think they could sell for this game, if the stadiums capacity allowed? 100k like the Big House in Michigan?

That is a great question….


I bet 50k minimum. Maybe 75k???

Everyone in the state wants to go to this game! Hopefully it’s an eye opener for the athletic department to expedite the future expansion plans.

I think the demand for new season tickets holders next spring is going to be very eye opening to them. That is the only way to ensure playoff tickets. Especially with Cat/gris in Bozeman next year.

Hard to have demand when you don't sell any.

Good point. Time to expand.

[Cataholic]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

Season ticket holders already pay for every home game and a Bobcat Club membership, which is where the majority of the program’s guaranteed revenue comes from — that part I fully understand.

That said, most college programs and professional teams limit playoff extras to around 2 tickets per account, not 8. Larger additional allotments are usually reserved for major boosters, not standard season ticket holders.
Very few people actually hold 20 season tickets, so using that as an example isn’t realistic.

I’m not claiming entitlement to anything. My point is simply that allowing large numbers of additional tickets to be purchased by a small group of buyers dramatically reduces public availability — which is why the game sold out instantly

You have no idea how many season ticket holders have more 8 seats. I myself have 10. It started as 4 and has been expanded over many years with family and friends. The number is larger than you think.

Pretty sure this allocation system has been around for awhile. I understand you being upset about not getting tickets, but just like any business, you reward your most important clients first. Can’t fault MSU athletics for doing that and also ensuring that they are selling tickets directly to validated MSU fans.

[Cataholic]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

"Only.". Buy NFL season tickets and see how many bonus playoff seats you get a shot at. Even 4 was overkill.

Pretty sure every NFL seat is held by a season ticket holder. If they have 60,000 seats, they have 60,000 season ticket holders.

MSU situation is unique. Not even FBS has something like this. A rivalry game at home for a chance to advance to the national championship. And I believe this allocation system with season ticket holders is used for regular season games - like Cat Gris.

No, this isn't true. I don't know of any franchise that sells every seat as a season ticket. Even the ones with massive wait lists for season tickets

So the Packers have like 20,000 people on their wait list and they save some for individual sales?

[coloradocat]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

Season ticket holders already pay for every home game and a Bobcat Club membership, which is where the majority of the program’s guaranteed revenue comes from — that part I fully understand.

That said, most college programs and professional teams limit playoff extras to around 2 tickets per account, not 8. Larger additional allotments are usually reserved for major boosters, not standard season ticket holders.
Very few people actually hold 20 season tickets, so using that as an example isn’t realistic.

I’m not claiming entitlement to anything. My point is simply that allowing large numbers of additional tickets to be purchased by a small group of buyers dramatically reduces public availability — which is why the game sold out instantly

I have a feeling this was the exact point of allowing season ticket holders to get 8 extra tickets and allocate them by priority number. If they would have lowered the number even to 4 (which I think would have been the more reasonable number) there would have been many more season ticket holders able to get extras (I would have been in this group) but the lower you go down the priority list the more likely you are to get selling tickets to people who are going to scalp them. The people that go above and beyond funding the program are not going to try and make money on extra tickets, they're going to give/sell them to known Bobcat fans. The people at the bottom may do that but they are just as likely to sell them to pay off their season tickets (I know people who have done this is the past with Cat/griz tix). The lower down the list, and then opening to the public, the more likely the person walking into the stadium is wearing the wrong colors.

[kwcat]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

Season ticket holders already pay for every home game and a Bobcat Club membership, which is where the majority of the program’s guaranteed revenue comes from — that part I fully understand.

That said, most college programs and professional teams limit playoff extras to around 2 tickets per account, not 8. Larger additional allotments are usually reserved for major boosters, not standard season ticket holders.
Very few people actually hold 20 season tickets, so using that as an example isn’t realistic.

I’m not claiming entitlement to anything. My point is simply that allowing large numbers of additional tickets to be purchased by a small group of buyers dramatically reduces public availability — which is why the game sold out instantly

You have no idea how many season ticket holders have more 8 seats. I myself have 10. It started as 4 and has been expanded over many years with family and friends. The number is larger than you think.

Pretty sure this allocation system has been around for awhile. I understand you being upset about not getting tickets, but just like any business, you reward your most important clients first. Can’t fault MSU athletics for doing that and also ensuring that they are selling tickets directly to validated MSU fans.

We have 28 in our group plus regularly buy additional end zone seats

[Cataholic]

That’s honestly great news. Now we just need to make sure our season ticket holders passed them on to fellow bobcat fans without price gouging them.

I hope so. I just want 2 tickets... I want to see this game badly, but I'm not sure I can stomach a fellow Cat fan serving the scalp fee. I sure would have loved to have had season tickets but life events and distance didn't make it feasible this year. Ugh. Just sucks.

You can't buy season tickets either. They haven't sold any to the public for the last two or three years.

This is wrong. Season tickets were available if you inquired. They even announced when those available sold out this year as a new record.

Quoting the press release

Thank you Bobcats for your support of Montana State Football. With season tickets being sold out there will NOT be a release of new season tickets on May 5th. Don't worry Bobcats, single game tickets will be released to Season ticket holders on July 28th, and to the general public on August 5th.

https://msubobcats.com/news/2025/5/3/fo ... le-in-july

[catapult]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

Season ticket holders already pay for every home game and a Bobcat Club membership, which is where the majority of the program’s guaranteed revenue comes from — that part I fully understand.

That said, most college programs and professional teams limit playoff extras to around 2 tickets per account, not 8. Larger additional allotments are usually reserved for major boosters, not standard season ticket holders.
Very few people actually hold 20 season tickets, so using that as an example isn’t realistic.

I’m not claiming entitlement to anything. My point is simply that allowing large numbers of additional tickets to be purchased by a small group of buyers dramatically reduces public availability — which is why the game sold out instantly

I get your point and it is valid. I am a season ticket holder/bobcat club member and requested the additional 8 tickets. My priority point number is in the 300’s so I’ll likely have my request filled. If I do, I most definitely will be selling those tickets at face value to Cat fans only. I really hope every season ticket holder does the same. This is such a historically significant game in the rivalry I want as many cat fans as possible to be able to experience it and not take advantage of the situation.

[RKMCMT]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

"Only.". Buy NFL season tickets and see how many bonus playoff seats you get a shot at. Even 4 was overkill.

Pretty sure every NFL seat is held by a season ticket holder. If they have 60,000 seats, they have 60,000 season ticket holders.

MSU situation is unique. Not even FBS has something like this. A rivalry game at home for a chance to advance to the national championship. And I believe this allocation system with season ticket holders is used for regular season games - like Cat Gris.

No, this isn't true. I don't know of any franchise that sells every seat as a season ticket. Even the ones with massive wait lists for season tickets

So the Packers have like 20,000 people on their wait list and they save some for individual sales?

Yes. They still release individual game seats in some proportion. The Broncos wait list is a decade+ out and they still reserve some significant proportion for single game sales. It's common practice, even for the Bobcats. Otherwise they would never limit season ticket sales and would sell them until every seat was spoken for

[Cataholic]

Ok that answers it. They won't make it down the priority point list very far before they're completely gone. SeatGeek is going to be lit.

Is it? I would think the vast majority of season ticket holders are getting these tickets for family and friends. I certainly hope that's the case.

The MSU ticket office has botched this whole thing.
Not limiting the number of tickets season ticket holders can buy is crazy. Many fans that have supported this team for years and years won’t be able to see this game. What a shame.

Season ticket holders pay for every game in a season and also a Bobcat club membership as well. This accounts for the majority of the incoming revenue and makes everything possible. Not sure why you would feel entitled to getting a ticket.

And as an fyi, a person or group that has 20 season tickets is still only entitled to 8 extra tickets.

Season ticket holders already pay for every home game and a Bobcat Club membership, which is where the majority of the program’s guaranteed revenue comes from — that part I fully understand.

That said, most college programs and professional teams limit playoff extras to around 2 tickets per account, not 8. Larger additional allotments are usually reserved for major boosters, not standard season ticket holders.
Very few people actually hold 20 season tickets, so using that as an example isn’t realistic.

I’m not claiming entitlement to anything. My point is simply that allowing large numbers of additional tickets to be purchased by a small group of buyers dramatically reduces public availability — which is why the game sold out instantly

I get your point and it is valid. I am a season ticket holder/bobcat club member and requested the additional 8 tickets. My priority point number is in the 300’s so I’ll likely have my request filled. If I do, I most definitely will be selling those tickets at face value to Cat fans only. I really hope every season ticket holder does the same. This is such a historically significant game in the rivalry I want as many cat fans as possible to be able to experience it and not take advantage of the situation.

I am in the exact same boat! No Griz fans and face value. And my tickets are already all accounted for.

[coloradocat]

That’s honestly great news. Now we just need to make sure our season ticket holders passed them on to fellow bobcat fans without price gouging them.

I hope so. I just want 2 tickets... I want to see this game badly, but I'm not sure I can stomach a fellow Cat fan serving the scalp fee. I sure would have loved to have had season tickets but life events and distance didn't make it feasible this year. Ugh. Just sucks.

You can't buy season tickets either. They haven't sold any to the public for the last two or three years.

This is wrong. Season tickets were available if you inquired. They even announced when those available sold out this year as a new record.

Quoting the press release

Thank you Bobcats for your support of Montana State Football. With season tickets being sold out there will NOT be a release of new season tickets on May 5th. Don't worry Bobcats, single game tickets will be released to Season ticket holders on July 28th, and to the general public on August 5th.

https://msubobcats.com/news/2025/5/3/fo ... le-in-july

This article doesn't say that season tickets were available to the public. Even the single game tickets were largely gobbled up by season ticket holders prior to public availability.

[RKMCMT]

That’s honestly great news. Now we just need to make sure our season ticket holders passed them on to fellow bobcat fans without price gouging them.

I hope so. I just want 2 tickets... I want to see this game badly, but I'm not sure I can stomach a fellow Cat fan serving the scalp fee. I sure would have loved to have had season tickets but life events and distance didn't make it feasible this year. Ugh. Just sucks.

You can't buy season tickets either. They haven't sold any to the public for the last two or three years.

This is wrong. Season tickets were available if you inquired. They even announced when those available sold out this year as a new record.

Quoting the press release

Thank you Bobcats for your support of Montana State Football. With season tickets being sold out there will NOT be a release of new season tickets on May 5th. Don't worry Bobcats, single game tickets will be released to Season ticket holders on July 28th, and to the general public on August 5th.

https://msubobcats.com/news/2025/5/3/fo ... le-in-july

Yeah my guess is the renewal rate is near 100% and any that weren't renewed were soaked up by existing holders. Point remaining, you can't just step in and buy new season tickets. None were offered.

[kcatz]

I hope I’m wrong, but I think 8 extra per season ticket holder was too many. I think we will see more Griz fans as a result. It’s too tempting not to sell at least a couple of those if you’ve so many.

I still don't think we're going to see a bunch of Bobcat season ticket holders selling out and selling these to Griz fans but I guess we'll see. I do agree however, with 8 being too many. If I strike out on getting ANY extra tickets, after applying for them immediately when the first communication went out, after how much I've invested MSU as a season ticket holder over the past 30 years... then yes I'll be kinda bummed. That would make me think they should do it differently, maybe allow every season ticket holder to at least get one extra ticket if they want, and then distribute all the rest of them via priority points.

A total of 50 seats available on seat geek right now from season ticket holders. I know there are many businesses that have season tickets but are not fans, they just give the tickets out to clients. I also know of a few scalpers that have season tickets. These season ticket holders are the reason why a lot of us ain’t seeing the game. …. Unless we pay $600 a ticket

You say there's only 50 for resale and that's what's leep8ng "a lot of us" from seeing the game.

I get you are frustrated. I am sorry but 50 is not a lot in the scheme of 20,000 tickets.

[bobcatfan123]

I hope I’m wrong, but I think 8 extra per season ticket holder was too many. I think we will see more Griz fans as a result. It’s too tempting not to sell at least a couple of those if you’ve so many.

I still don't think we're going to see a bunch of Bobcat season ticket holders selling out and selling these to Griz fans but I guess we'll see. I do agree however, with 8 being too many. If I strike out on getting ANY extra tickets, after applying for them immediately when the first communication went out, after how much I've invested MSU as a season ticket holder over the past 30 years... then yes I'll be kinda bummed. That would make me think they should do it differently, maybe allow every season ticket holder to at least get one extra ticket if they want, and then distribute all the rest of them via priority points.

A total of 50 seats available on seat geek right now from season ticket holders. I know there are many businesses that have season tickets but are not fans, they just give the tickets out to clients. I also know of a few scalpers that have season tickets. These season ticket holders are the reason why a lot of us ain’t seeing the game. …. Unless we pay $600 a ticket

You say there's only 50 for resale and that's what's leep8ng "a lot of us" from seeing the game.

I get you are frustrated. I am sorry but 50 is not a lot in the scheme of 20,000 tickets.

I’ve got my tickets…Allowing up to 8 extra tickets per season ticket holder feels excessive. Many regulars won’t be in attendance, and that’s disappointing.

[Cataholic]

That’s honestly great news. Now we just need to make sure our season ticket holders passed them on to fellow bobcat fans without price gouging them.

I hope so. I just want 2 tickets... I want to see this game badly, but I'm not sure I can stomach a fellow Cat fan serving the scalp fee. I sure would have loved to have had season tickets but life events and distance didn't make it feasible this year. Ugh. Just sucks.

You can't buy season tickets either. They haven't sold any to the public for the last two or three years.

This is wrong. Season tickets were available if you inquired. They even announced when those available sold out this year as a new record.

Quoting the press release

Thank you Bobcats for your support of Montana State Football. With season tickets being sold out there will NOT be a release of new season tickets on May 5th. Don't worry Bobcats, single game tickets will be released to Season ticket holders on July 28th, and to the general public on August 5th.

https://msubobcats.com/news/2025/5/3/fo ... le-in-july

Yeah my guess is the renewal rate is near 100% and any that weren't renewed were soaked up by existing holders. Point remaining, you can't just step in and buy new season tickets. None were offered.

This article shows better. It is from 2023 but it says that was the first year MSU had sold out season tickets.

https://msubobcats.com/news/2023/6/2/bo ... on-tickets

I agree we are due for an expansion.

[kcatz]

Here's some perspective.

If there's roughly 16,000 season tickets and let's be gracious and say we will get to 21,000 for attendance Saturday.

That leaves roughly 4500 tickets available (took out 500 for the pandas to distribute).

At maximum of 8 per season ticket holder that's only about 560 season ticket holders who got extra tickets.

That's probably 1/3 of the season ticket holders (based on thr last time I paid attention to priority point numbers).

Limiting tickets to 4 per account wasn't going to get any more tickets to Tuesday's presale.