Can someone briefly explain to me how the 4 game, 10 game, etc. packages work exactly. I've only ever been a individual ticket buyer so I'm pretty clueless to these things. Do you pay for the whole package up front and have to pick which games you want right up front as well? I already cant afford to go to very many games a year. The price will go up with a new stadium. Thinking I'll need to save up for a package for the opening season.
I don't think so. There are actually two jobs that have been advertised in the past six months, both of which focus entirely on the Crew. One is a new, more senior VP position that this Director reports to. I don't know that the Crew have had that senior VP role before. The Crew website still says that Nick White is Director of Ticket sales, so it remains to be seen if he's leaving or being promoted into the VP role. Regardless, the sales team is growing by one, at the top. I'd note that in some ads I've seen, for the Director position, it says sales for games and events at Mapfre. While the VP ads reference Columbus Crew SC Stadium. A good reminder that the organization, very soon, will have two overlapping facilities to run. Just hypothesizing, but it may be that the VP will start focusing more on sales at the new stadium, once construction is underway, while the Director will handle management of these tasks at a Mapfre. Eventually we'll just be in the new stadium, of course. But that'll be run based on an entirely new set of (if you'll excuse the phrase) business metrics. A agree totally that corporate sales and suites will be a very big deal in the new stadium. Partner this new VP with recent hire Lyons and suddenly we're operating in an entirely new tier of professional sports.
You do have to chose your games upfront but there were options for one payment up front or quarterly/monthly payment plans (0% interest so it's just your total payment divided by your chosen payment plan installments.) This was in 2016 so it may have changed by now, plus new ownership may have different ideas.
Donny giving #Crew96 Stadium the warm fuzzies..... pic.twitter.com/p9RfJNswui— HeyHeyPaula⭐️⭐️ (@PugmomSTC) July 31, 2019
If anyone wants it, here's the (paywalled) source of the above screenshot: https://theathletic.com/1108954/201...all-star-board-of-governors-cba-negotiations/ PS - The athletic is great and totally worth the subscription. We bitch about bad journalism, so let's support the good stuff.
Here's an easier to read.clip: Ownership groups from Cincinnati, Columbus, Austin, Nashville and Miami presented updates on their stadium plans, Garber said. Garber said he was impressed with the plans in Columbus and called the plan, “remarkable.” “It’s in a terrific part of town, I think it will transform the Columbus Crew, really reaffirming our decision to manage through that process in a way that we were really proud of. Their stadium is really, really going to be breakthrough and cool.”
While, I too, have little faith in Don Garber's ability to identify 'cool' when he sees it (Miles Davis, he's not), I do wonder if this statement is a hint that the design tug-of-war being waged between new ownership/HNTB and Nationwide Reality Investors has been either successfully won by the architects, or settled in some fashion that retains the uniqueness of the design that Inside Man referred to a couple of weeks ago. Plus, we just have to get an announcement over the final sale of the land soon; the deadline is in two weeks.
Actually, it makes me cringe. Yes, I know his job is play nice and ignore the egg on his and the league's face but every time he opens his mouth, it irritates me. The stadium plans could be a reproduction of Dragon Stadium and he would gush about it.
My thoughts exactly on a possible tug-of-war tea leaf. But I also agree with hungariansteven on his views on Garber, now & forever.
What did I miss? Was out of country for a couple of week. What tug of war. Design related? What did inside man say?
In a nutshell: He reported that the stadium design that the club wants would be pretty remarkable, and different from anything else in the league, but that Nationwide wasn't a fan. We then did research on our own which made it pretty clear that the Arena District has a master plan and design guidelines for new buildings that imply that NRI would want a structure that fits in with other buildings in the area (example, there's a lot of very purposeful use of red brick in the District). No news since that's provided any hints about the outcome. Not until Garber's gushing comments about the stadium. What does that really tell us? Probably nothing, but I'm a fan of speculation. Plus the deadline to transfer the land from NRI to club ownership is almost here (Aug. 15), so maybe they've come to an agreement on the design, and the good guys won???
Something about the words "porn," "leak and "little nugget" makes me kinda squirm. Um, anyway, I want me some big-ass nuggets. It's been months since we've seen anything. And, you know, with the club reaching out to fans about season ticket renewals, now would be a pretty damned logical time to knock us back on our heels with some amazing stadium renderings/video.
A modest update from Arace: https://www.dispatch.com/sports/201...eal-for-crews-new-stadium-site-may-be-at-hand Nothing shocking, mostly because it aligns with what we've been presuming: NRI does want some input on design aspects of the new stadium. The club, on the other hand, wants an iconic structure. The good news is that all sides seem to be behaving professionally, and that we may get an announcement on the transfer of the land this week. Maybe. Soon, though. It's basically a done - but very complicated - deal.