Kansas University Athletic Department officials Thursday sent informational packets to more than 7,200 donors and season-ticket holders explaining men’s basketball seating arrangements in Allen Fieldhouse under a new point system.
The packets include a letter showing how many points the recipient is thought to have and a chart showing how the system would have worked had it been in effect last season.
“By sending out these packets, we hope that everyone will have the information they need to make their own decisions on where they want to sit next season,” said Jim Marchiony, associate athletic director at KU.
Past and prospective season-ticket holders have until Aug. 31 to increase their point totals by contributing to the athletic department, joining the Alumni Association, joining the Endowment Association’s Chancellor’s Club or buying season tickets to other KU sports.
Department officials will begin assigning seats for the 2004-05 basketball season Sept. 1.
Those with the most points will be assigned the best seats: middle court, closest to the floor.
Seats in sections bordering the court will require at least 809 points, according to the chart.
Marchiony said of the 7,241 packets sent, 990 did not include recipients’ point totals.
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New AFH Seating“I’m hoping that those that have threatened to not take their new seat assignments follow through, because even with my meager contributions I have enough points to get seats in the corners. I can understand being upset with losing anything between the free throw lines, but imo if you’ve had those seats and haven’t been contributing enough (and/or holding fb season tickets) in order to have enough points to only be bumped on “point section” over then you’ve been freeloading. “— hail2oldku |
“These are people who have season tickets but who have never donated to the Williams Fund,” which provides scholarships for student-athletes, Marchiony said. “We could not tally their points because all we know about them is that they had tickets.”
“Should they choose to become members, we’ll have them fill out a questionnaire that will let us add up their points,” he said.
The minimum donation for Williams Fund membership is $100.
During the 2003-04 season, 2,977 ticket holders were not Williams Fund members. Marchiony said 1,987 had been members in the past; 990 never had been members.
The department adopted the priority point system earlier this year after it became clear that many ticket holders were not regular contributors to the Williams Fund. And because most games are sold out, others willing to donate to the fund could not get tickets.
Switching to a point system is expected to significantly increase department revenues. By how much is unclear.
“I’ve never been one to prognosticate on that,” Marchiony said. “I wouldn’t want to guess because I’d be wrong — too high or too low. Let’s just say it could be significant.”
Marchiony said many longtime ticket holders who also were longtime donors were likely to get better seats under the point system. Conversely, he said, minimal contributors in prime seats should expect lesser seats.
| The Kansas University athletic department plans several discussion sessions on men’s basketball seating points.¢ Lawrence: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Wagnon Student Athlete Center, Dolph Simons Conference Room, 864-3946.¢ Kansas City, Mo.: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, Westin Crown Center, Shawnee Room, 1 Pershing Road, (816) 474-4400.¢ Overland Park: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 7, Marriott Hotel conference room, 10800 Metcalf Ave., (913) 451-8000.¢ Wichita: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 8, Marriott Hotel, Salon 2, 9100 E. Corporate Hills Drive, (316) 651-0333.¢ Salina: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 9, Holiday Inn conference room, 1616 W. Crawford St., (785) 823-1739.¢ Topeka: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 14, Shawnee Country Club clubhouse, 913 S.E. 29th St., (785) 233-2373.¢ Pittsburg: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 15, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 4020 Parkview Drive, (620) 231-8700.¢ Dodge City: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 22, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 2320 W. Wyatt Earp Blvd., (620) 227-5000.¢ Hays: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 23, Holiday Inn conference room, 3603 Vine St., (785) 625-7371. |
Depending on their point totals, donors will be able to buy six, four or two tickets.
Corporate donors will not be allowed to buy more tickets than individual donors, though there’s nothing to stop a company from opening donor accounts in several employees’ names.
Point totals will be recalculated for allotting tickets to tournament and postseason play.
Seats will be reassigned annually.
After Sept. 1, any donor who has enough points to sit near the floor but who prefers a lesser seat — chair-back rather than bench seating, for example — will be allowed to trade places.
“You can move down (in seat ranking), you can’t move up,” said Williams Fund director Rodney Jones.
Jones and Marchiony said they expected some longtime donors to dispute their point totals.
“The problem we have is that donation records go back to 1978,” Marchiony said. “Ticket records only go back to 1984.”
Records from the 1970s and 1980s are on index cards rather than computer.
“If people can show that they had tickets before 1984 or were donors before 1978, we’ll be more than willing to accommodate them on points,” Jones said.
Once a base total is agreed upon, it will not be subject to change.
“This first year is going to be the hardest,” Jones said.
Most point totals were calculated by hand.
“A lot of people worked a lot of nights and a lot of weekends on this,” said Brandon Macneill, assistant director of athletics for administration.
Plans call for applying the point system to football season tickets after the 2004 season.
Kansas University Athletic Department officials Thursday sent informational packets to more than 7,200 donors and season-ticket holders explaining men’s basketball seating arrangements in Allen Fieldhouse under a new point system.
The packets include a letter showing how many points the recipient is thought to have and a chart showing how the system would have worked had it been in effect last season.
“By sending out these packets, we hope that everyone will have the information they need to make their own decisions on where they want to sit next season,” said Jim Marchiony, associate athletic director at KU.
Past and prospective season-ticket holders have until Aug. 31 to increase their point totals by contributing to the athletic department, joining the Alumni Association, joining the Endowment Association’s Chancellor’s Club or buying season tickets to other KU sports.
Department officials will begin assigning seats for the 2004-05 basketball season Sept. 1.
Those with the most points will be assigned the best seats: middle court, closest to the floor.
Seats in sections bordering the court will require at least 809 points, according to the chart.
Marchiony said of the 7,241 packets sent, 990 did not include recipients’ point totals.
“These are people who have season tickets but who have never donated to the Williams Fund,” which provides scholarships for student-athletes, Marchiony said. “We could not tally their points because all we know about them is that they had tickets.”
“Should they choose to become members, we’ll have them fill out a questionnaire that will let us add up their points,” he said.
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New AFH Seating“I’m hoping that those that have threatened to not take their new seat assignments follow through, because even with my meager contributions I have enough points to get seats in the corners. I can understand being upset with losing anything between the free throw lines, but imo if you’ve had those seats and haven’t been contributing enough (and/or holding fb season tickets) in order to have enough points to only be bumped on “point section” over then you’ve been freeloading. “— hail2oldku |
The minimum donation for Williams Fund membership is $100.
During the 2003-04 season, 2,977 ticket holders were not Williams Fund members. Marchiony said 1,987 had been members in the past; 990 never had been members.
The department adopted the priority point system earlier this year after it became clear that many ticket holders were not regular contributors to the Williams Fund. And because most games are sold out, others willing to donate to the fund could not get tickets.
Switching to a point system is expected to significantly increase department revenues. By how much is unclear.
“I’ve never been one to prognosticate on that,” Marchiony said. “I wouldn’t want to guess because I’d be wrong — too high or too low. Let’s just say it could be significant.”
Marchiony said many longtime ticket holders who also were longtime donors were likely to get better seats under the point system. Conversely, he said, minimal contributors in prime seats should expect lesser seats.
Depending on their point totals, donors will be able to buy six, four or two tickets.
| The Kansas University athletic department plans several discussion sessions on men’s basketball seating points.¢ Lawrence: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Wagnon Student Athlete Center, Dolph Simons Conference Room, 864-3946.¢ Kansas City, Mo.: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, Westin Crown Center, Shawnee Room, 1 Pershing Road, (816) 474-4400.¢ Overland Park: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 7, Marriott Hotel conference room, 10800 Metcalf Ave., (913) 451-8000.¢ Wichita: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 8, Marriott Hotel, Salon 2, 9100 E. Corporate Hills Drive, (316) 651-0333.¢ Salina: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 9, Holiday Inn conference room, 1616 W. Crawford St., (785) 823-1739.¢ Topeka: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 14, Shawnee Country Club clubhouse, 913 S.E. 29th St., (785) 233-2373.¢ Pittsburg: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 15, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 4020 Parkview Drive, (620) 231-8700.¢ Dodge City: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 22, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 2320 W. Wyatt Earp Blvd., (620) 227-5000.¢ Hays: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 23, Holiday Inn conference room, 3603 Vine St., (785) 625-7371. |
Corporate donors will not be allowed to buy more tickets than individual donors, though there’s nothing to stop a company from opening donor accounts in several employees’ names.
Point totals will be recalculated for allotting tickets to tournament and postseason play.
Seats will be reassigned annually.
After Sept. 1, any donor who has enough points to sit near the floor but who prefers a lesser seat — chair-back rather than bench seating, for example — will be allowed to trade places.
“You can move down (in seat ranking), you can’t move up,” said Williams Fund director Rodney Jones.
Jones and Marchiony said they expected some longtime donors to dispute their point totals.
“The problem we have is that donation records go back to 1978,” Marchiony said. “Ticket records only go back to 1984.”
Records from the 1970s and 1980s are on index cards rather than computer.
“If people can show that they had tickets before 1984 or were donors before 1978, we’ll be more than willing to accommodate them on points,” Jones said.
Once a base total is agreed upon, it will not be subject to change.
“This first year is going to be the hardest,” Jones said.
Most point totals were calculated by hand.
“A lot of people worked a lot of nights and a lot of weekends on this,” said Brandon Macneill, assistant director of athletics for administration.
Plans call for applying the point system to football season tickets after the 2004 season.
Kansas University Athletic Department officials Thursday sent informational packets to more than 7,200 donors and season-ticket holders explaining men’s basketball seating arrangements in Allen Fieldhouse under a new point system.
The packets include a letter showing how many points the recipient is thought to have and a chart showing how the system would have worked had it been in effect last season.
“By sending out these packets, we hope that everyone will have the information they need to make their own decisions on where they want to sit next season,” said Jim Marchiony, associate athletic director at KU.
Past and prospective season-ticket holders have until Aug. 31 to increase their point totals by contributing to the athletic department, joining the Alumni Association, joining the Endowment Association’s Chancellor’s Club or buying season tickets to other KU sports.
Department officials will begin assigning seats for the 2004-05 basketball season Sept. 1.
Those with the most points will be assigned the best seats: middle court, closest to the floor.
Seats in sections bordering the court will require at least 809 points, according to the chart.
Marchiony said of the 7,241 packets sent, 990 did not include recipients’ point totals.
“These are people who have season tickets but who have never donated to the Williams Fund,” which provides scholarships for student-athletes, Marchiony said. “We could not tally their points because all we know about them is that they had tickets.”
“Should they choose to become members, we’ll have them fill out a questionnaire that will let us add up their points,” he said.
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New AFH Seating“I’m hoping that those that have threatened to not take their new seat assignments follow through, because even with my meager contributions I have enough points to get seats in the corners. I can understand being upset with losing anything between the free throw lines, but imo if you’ve had those seats and haven’t been contributing enough (and/or holding fb season tickets) in order to have enough points to only be bumped on “point section” over then you’ve been freeloading. “— hail2oldku |
The minimum donation for Williams Fund membership is $100.
During the 2003-04 season, 2,977 ticket holders were not Williams Fund members. Marchiony said 1,987 had been members in the past; 990 never had been members.
The department adopted the priority point system earlier this year after it became clear that many ticket holders were not regular contributors to the Williams Fund. And because most games are sold out, others willing to donate to the fund could not get tickets.
Switching to a point system is expected to significantly increase department revenues. By how much is unclear.
“I’ve never been one to prognosticate on that,” Marchiony said. “I wouldn’t want to guess because I’d be wrong — too high or too low. Let’s just say it could be significant.”
Marchiony said many longtime ticket holders who also were longtime donors were likely to get better seats under the point system. Conversely, he said, minimal contributors in prime seats should expect lesser seats.
Depending on their point totals, donors will be able to buy six, four or two tickets.
| The Kansas University athletic department plans several discussion sessions on men’s basketball seating points.¢ Lawrence: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Wagnon Student Athlete Center, Dolph Simons Conference Room, 864-3946.¢ Kansas City, Mo.: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, Westin Crown Center, Shawnee Room, 1 Pershing Road, (816) 474-4400.¢ Overland Park: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 7, Marriott Hotel conference room, 10800 Metcalf Ave., (913) 451-8000.¢ Wichita: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 8, Marriott Hotel, Salon 2, 9100 E. Corporate Hills Drive, (316) 651-0333.¢ Salina: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 9, Holiday Inn conference room, 1616 W. Crawford St., (785) 823-1739.¢ Topeka: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 14, Shawnee Country Club clubhouse, 913 S.E. 29th St., (785) 233-2373.¢ Pittsburg: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 15, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 4020 Parkview Drive, (620) 231-8700.¢ Dodge City: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 22, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 2320 W. Wyatt Earp Blvd., (620) 227-5000.¢ Hays: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 23, Holiday Inn conference room, 3603 Vine St., (785) 625-7371. |
Corporate donors will not be allowed to buy more tickets than individual donors, though there’s nothing to stop a company from opening donor accounts in several employees’ names.
Point totals will be recalculated for allotting tickets to tournament and postseason play.
Seats will be reassigned annually.
After Sept. 1, any donor who has enough points to sit near the floor but who prefers a lesser seat — chair-back rather than bench seating, for example — will be allowed to trade places.
“You can move down (in seat ranking), you can’t move up,” said Williams Fund director Rodney Jones.
Jones and Marchiony said they expected some longtime donors to dispute their point totals.
“The problem we have is that donation records go back to 1978,” Marchiony said. “Ticket records only go back to 1984.”
Records from the 1970s and 1980s are on index cards rather than computer.
“If people can show that they had tickets before 1984 or were donors before 1978, we’ll be more than willing to accommodate them on points,” Jones said.
Once a base total is agreed upon, it will not be subject to change.
“This first year is going to be the hardest,” Jones said.
Most point totals were calculated by hand.
“A lot of people worked a lot of nights and a lot of weekends on this,” said Brandon Macneill, assistant director of athletics for administration.
Plans call for applying the point system to football season tickets after the 2004 season.
Kansas University Athletic Department officials Thursday sent informational packets to more than 7,200 donors and season-ticket holders explaining men’s basketball seating arrangements in Allen Fieldhouse under a new point system.
The packets include a letter showing how many points the recipient is thought to have and a chart showing how the system would have worked had it been in effect last season.
“By sending out these packets, we hope that everyone will have the information they need to make their own decisions on where they want to sit next season,” said Jim Marchiony, associate athletic director at KU.
Past and prospective season-ticket holders have until Aug. 31 to increase their point totals by contributing to the athletic department, joining the Alumni Association, joining the Endowment Association’s Chancellor’s Club or buying season tickets to other KU sports.
Department officials will begin assigning seats for the 2004-05 basketball season Sept. 1.
Those with the most points will be assigned the best seats: middle court, closest to the floor.
Seats in sections bordering the court will require at least 809 points, according to the chart.
Marchiony said of the 7,241 packets sent, 990 did not include recipients’ point totals.
“These are people who have season tickets but who have never donated to the Williams Fund,” which provides scholarships for student-athletes, Marchiony said. “We could not tally their points because all we know about them is that they had tickets.”
“Should they choose to become members, we’ll have them fill out a questionnaire that will let us add up their points,” he said.
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New AFH Seating“I’m hoping that those that have threatened to not take their new seat assignments follow through, because even with my meager contributions I have enough points to get seats in the corners. I can understand being upset with losing anything between the free throw lines, but imo if you’ve had those seats and haven’t been contributing enough (and/or holding fb season tickets) in order to have enough points to only be bumped on “point section” over then you’ve been freeloading. “— hail2oldku |
The minimum donation for Williams Fund membership is $100.
During the 2003-04 season, 2,977 ticket holders were not Williams Fund members. Marchiony said 1,987 had been members in the past; 990 never had been members.
The department adopted the priority point system earlier this year after it became clear that many ticket holders were not regular contributors to the Williams Fund. And because most games are sold out, others willing to donate to the fund could not get tickets.
Switching to a point system is expected to significantly increase department revenues. By how much is unclear.
“I’ve never been one to prognosticate on that,” Marchiony said. “I wouldn’t want to guess because I’d be wrong — too high or too low. Let’s just say it could be significant.”
Marchiony said many longtime ticket holders who also were longtime donors were likely to get better seats under the point system. Conversely, he said, minimal contributors in prime seats should expect lesser seats.
Depending on their point totals, donors will be able to buy six, four or two tickets.
| The Kansas University athletic department plans several discussion sessions on men’s basketball seating points.¢ Lawrence: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Wagnon Student Athlete Center, Dolph Simons Conference Room, 864-3946.¢ Kansas City, Mo.: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, Westin Crown Center, Shawnee Room, 1 Pershing Road, (816) 474-4400.¢ Overland Park: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 7, Marriott Hotel conference room, 10800 Metcalf Ave., (913) 451-8000.¢ Wichita: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 8, Marriott Hotel, Salon 2, 9100 E. Corporate Hills Drive, (316) 651-0333.¢ Salina: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 9, Holiday Inn conference room, 1616 W. Crawford St., (785) 823-1739.¢ Topeka: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 14, Shawnee Country Club clubhouse, 913 S.E. 29th St., (785) 233-2373.¢ Pittsburg: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 15, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 4020 Parkview Drive, (620) 231-8700.¢ Dodge City: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 22, Holiday Inn Express conference room, 2320 W. Wyatt Earp Blvd., (620) 227-5000.¢ Hays: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. June 23, Holiday Inn conference room, 3603 Vine St., (785) 625-7371. |
Corporate donors will not be allowed to buy more tickets than individual donors, though there’s nothing to stop a company from opening donor accounts in several employees’ names.
Point totals will be recalculated for allotting tickets to tournament and postseason play.
Seats will be reassigned annually.
After Sept. 1, any donor who has enough points to sit near the floor but who prefers a lesser seat — chair-back rather than bench seating, for example — will be allowed to trade places.
“You can move down (in seat ranking), you can’t move up,” said Williams Fund director Rodney Jones.
Jones and Marchiony said they expected some longtime donors to dispute their point totals.
“The problem we have is that donation records go back to 1978,” Marchiony said. “Ticket records only go back to 1984.”
Records from the 1970s and 1980s are on index cards rather than computer.
“If people can show that they had tickets before 1984 or were donors before 1978, we’ll be more than willing to accommodate them on points,” Jones said.
Once a base total is agreed upon, it will not be subject to change.
“This first year is going to be the hardest,” Jones said.
Most point totals were calculated by hand.
“A lot of people worked a lot of nights and a lot of weekends on this,” said Brandon Macneill, assistant director of athletics for administration.
Plans call for applying the point system to football season tickets after the 2004 season.
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Official KUAC seating breakdown by Allen Fieldhouse sections