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Bowl game date, time, location, and travel and event information will be announced on Sunday, Dec. 2nd, immediately after Bowl selection broadcast.

Tickets Go On Sale:

• Tier 1: Monday 12/3 - 9:00 AM PT
• Tier 2: Monday 12/3 - 12:00 PM PT
• Tier 3: Tuesday 12/4 - 9:00 AM PT
• General Public: Tuesday 12/4 - 12:00 PM PT

For additional assistance, please call 800-GO-BEARS and press 3 to speak with a Gold Standard representative.

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dunno from tiers, nor network / times for this..
> immediately after Bowl selection broadcast.

Stub hub= better seats. Buy the day before

oskidunker said:

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Stub hub= better seats. Buy the day before

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I always support Cal Athletics by purchasing through the school and in the Cal rooting section.

Me too. This is especially true for bowl games so we don't have to eat seats.

So if you can stand not sitting on the 50, please consider buying through cal

Every time I buy through Cal I end up in ABSURDLY terrible seats at absurdly high prices.

I get that people want to support the department, but it is just outrageous how bad the tickets and prices are.

It is too bad that bowls make schools eat tickets, but that is between the teams and the bowls. Not the teams and me. Negotiate better seats, or lower prices. The bowls dont exist without teams to play in them. Especially these lower tier bowls. The schools own the product.

(Sadly)Don't buy from Cal if you want good seats...

Signed, sadder but wiser

Of course the seats that cal gets aren't good, but it's not like it's cal's fault. These are simply the seats they are given from the bowl. So yes, it will take some sacrifice so you can support cal athletics.

Look at it this way. Karma is a biotch. If/when that day actually comes that cal makes the rose bowl, you will want to buy through cal (and not through the secondary market). And fortune will favor those who have sacrificed in the past.

I haven't been to a Cal Bowl game in quite a while (well, then, neither have the Bears) but the tickets for the Citrus Bowl were pretty good (albeit that was quite some time ago)
Tickets for away games are almost always awful - I think Tennessee was one of the worst away games I attended (for the seat location - the game itself was pretty awful). Ohio State wasn't terrible- but it wasn't good either.

Price is important. Location is important. Not having to stand for the entire game is important. I donate enough to Cal and Buy season tickets for two sports. If I buy cal tickets likely all three situations occur. Younger people, hey go for it. I probably won't go anyway as I have no desire to fight traffic to the niner stadium. If it is somewhere else, maybe.

ducky23 said:

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Of course the seats that cal gets aren't good, but it's not like it's cal's fault. These are simply the seats they are given from the bowl. So yes, it will take some sacrifice so you can support cal athletics.

Look at it this way. Karma is a biotch. If/when that day actually comes that cal makes the rose bowl, you will want to buy through cal (and not through the secondary market). And fortune will favor those who have sacrificed in the past.

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Unfortunately, those who buy bowl tickets through Cal probably won't have any advantages when it comes to Rose Bowl tickets in the future. Thinking otherwise would be naive.

I've been to the Holiday Bowl, Poinsettia Bowl, and the Vegas Bowl. Each time, I bought tickets through Cal's ATO. Each time, the seats were craptastic. IIRC, at Qualcomm, the seats were up high behind one of the end zone; in Vegas, the seats were up high toward a back corner of an end zone. The only positive experience was sitting in the same section as other Cal fans (including some players' families).

I get buying tickets through Cal to support the school and maximize the net gains for the school, but if Cal fans are rational consumers (as free marketers assert), then it's in our best interest to pay the lowest prices for the best possible seats. Those seats happen not to be the ones sold through the Cal ATO.

Exactly.

To me buying through the ATO and the guarantee I will be sitting exclusively with Cal fans is definitely worth the less than ideal sight lines. Have had too many unpleasant interactions with opposing fans over the years. I have good seats at Memorial. I can suck it up for a few OOC games a year.

I like sitting with cal fans too but the value isnt a toss up. Its bad paying twice as much for a seat that is twice as bad AND there will be empty seats in front. Feel like a chump everytime i buy a haas nose bleed n see all those empty seats.

Not that I'm very likely to buy tickets through the ATO, but does anyone know who is in each tier? Seems pretty silly that they send out an email with different on-sale times for different tiers, but they don't define the tiers.

Sebastabear said:

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To me buying through the ATO and the guarantee I will be sitting exclusively with Cal fans is definitely worth the less than ideal sight lines. Have had too many unpleasant interactions with opposing fans over the years. I have good seats at Memorial. I can suck it up for a few OOC games a year.

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Came to this conclusion quickly after just a couple of away games. Bad seats, yes, but the experience of being surrounded by enthusiastic, friendly compatriots , who have also made the journey, far surpasses that of having to moderate your reactions during the entire game in deference to the home team crazies in whose midst you find yourself.

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ducky23 said:

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Of course the seats that cal gets aren't good, but it's not like it's cal's fault. These are simply the seats they are given from the bowl. So yes, it will take some sacrifice so you can support cal athletics.

Look at it this way. Karma is a biotch. If/when that day actually comes that cal makes the rose bowl, you will want to buy through cal (and not through the secondary market). And fortune will favor those who have sacrificed in the past.

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Unfortunately, those who buy bowl tickets through Cal probably won't have any advantages when it comes to Rose Bowl tickets in the future. Thinking otherwise would be naive.

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Yeah I never said it would.

I'm just saying, if you try to do the right thing, usually karma has your back

ducky23 said:

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travelingbears said:

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ducky23 said:

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Of course the seats that cal gets aren't good, but it's not like it's cal's fault. These are simply the seats they are given from the bowl. So yes, it will take some sacrifice so you can support cal athletics.

Look at it this way. Karma is a biotch. If/when that day actually comes that cal makes the rose bowl, you will want to buy through cal (and not through the secondary market). And fortune will favor those who have sacrificed in the past.

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Unfortunately, those who buy bowl tickets through Cal probably won't have any advantages when it comes to Rose Bowl tickets in the future. Thinking otherwise would be naive.

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Yeah I never said it would.

I'm just saying, if you try to do the right thing, usually karma has your back

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Well no. Because Priority Points > karma.

At one point in the near past, the conference subsidized unsold tickets. I think it was up to half the total allotment.

ColoradoBear said:

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ducky23 said:

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travelingbears said:

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ducky23 said:

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Of course the seats that cal gets aren't good, but it's not like it's cal's fault. These are simply the seats they are given from the bowl. So yes, it will take some sacrifice so you can support cal athletics.

Look at it this way. Karma is a biotch. If/when that day actually comes that cal makes the rose bowl, you will want to buy through cal (and not through the secondary market). And fortune will favor those who have sacrificed in the past.

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Unfortunately, those who buy bowl tickets through Cal probably won't have any advantages when it comes to Rose Bowl tickets in the future. Thinking otherwise would be naive.

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Yeah I never said it would.

I'm just saying, if you try to do the right thing, usually karma has your back

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Well no. Because Priority Points > karma.

At one point in the near past, the conference subsidized unsold tickets. I think it was up to half the total allotment.

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I'm just saying, if you're not tier 1 (or probably tier 2) you better say your prayers to the football gods if cal ever makes the rose bowl.

I learned my lesson the last time around in 2004. I bought a crap load of tickets from Michigan, not for the tons of friends and family who were looking for tickets, but so I could scalp them for a fortune and pay my way thru law school. Well...we all know what karma thought of my plans.

ducky23 said:

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If/when that day actually comes that cal makes the rose bowl, you will want to buy through cal (and not through the secondary market). And fortune will favor those who have sacrificed in the past.

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When that day comes, I'll get tickets however I can.

Unfortunately, "fortune" does not favor those who've sacrificed in the past. It favors the smart, the wealthy, the powerful and the lucky, none of whom would have had to sit in crummy seats at a bowl game to get good seats at Cal's Rose Bowl.

People often mistake random events & outcomes as "fortune" "karma" or "fate." It's a way to help oneself to feel more in control as we live in a universe that is much more chaotic than we want to acknowledge. That's just how it is.