Jags report strong sales

[Keith-N-Jax]

I'm looking forward to this season win or lose.

[urbanlibertarian]

http://www.jaguars.com/news/article.aspx?id=8815

Jags shooting for 85 percent
Prescott talks renewals


Monday, March 22, 2010
By Vic Ketchman, jaguars.com senior editor

The Jaguars need to renew at least 85 percent of their season ticket base to have a realistic chance of selling out the general bowl for games at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium next season. That is an opinion offered by team chief financial officer Bill Prescott following last Friday’s first renewal deadline.

“We’re shooting for at least 85 percent renewal rate. The due date was Friday and we’ve got about 71 percent renewed. We’ve got three percent that told us they’re not renewing their tickets and 26 percent we haven’t heard from yet. Of that 26 percent, we need at least 14 percent, more than half of those people, to renew their seats,” Prescott said from Orlando, site of this week’s NFL owners meetings.

“We’ll be reaching out to all of those people,” Prescott said of the still-undecided season ticket holders. “On March 31, we’ll release the seats if we haven’t heard from them.”

The numbers continue to be daunting, the result of a season ticket base that reached a low last season and could force the Jaguars to have to sell a record amount of season tickets this year to have any chance of televising the team’s home games.

Prescott said the season ticket base is about 27,000, of which about 3,000 of those are the result of sponsorship and trade deals, leaving 24,000 paying customers.

“Outside of the inception of the franchise, the most new season tickets we sold in a year were 8,000. Looking to sell 15,000, 20,000 season tickets would be a tall undertaking,” Prescott said.

Is he encouraged by the current 71 percent renewal rate?

“I think it’s OK. We’re definitely running ahead of last year and that’s encouraging, but we need to get more than half of those people we haven’t heard from to renew. If we get at least 85 percent renewal, that’s still a long way to go to fill the general bowl. That’s why that minimum number is so critical,” Prescott said.

“I’m still hopeful we’re going to get that 85 percent renewal. The fact that the 30/30 plan is going to end at the end of March, we should have a strong push,” he added.

[tufsu1]

and then there's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers...

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/mar/24/bucs-tv-blackouts-reali-possibility-2010-glazer-sa/news-breaking/

[fsujax]

wouldnt that be something if Tampa had blackouts and the Jacksonville didn't.

[Shwaz]

Just confirmed my parking pass in Lot H! Any MetJax people tailgating there?

[aaapolito]

It would be so great to stop hearing about blackouts at Jags games because the Jag sell out.  Then all the press can be on just football and not selling tickets, blackouts, AND THEN football.

[Tripoli1711]

Shwaz-

How do you get a parking pass?  I am a new season ticket holder and I want to buy one but I have no clue where one goes to get a parking pass.

[Shwaz]

I bought mine through the ticket office. All lots are the same price of $250... so of course the only lot currently available is Lot Z located west of the arena.

However, now is the time to call them so when someone doesn't renew you can scoop theirs up.

You can get on a list for a decent lot immediately and if a spot comes available you can add it to your monthly installments or buy it out right.

[Tripoli1711]

Thanks.  We have some friends in the lot under the Hart Bridge Expy.  I think that's lot J, but Im not 100% sure.  I think that's probably hard to come by, but I guess I'll get on the list and hope for the best.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Is that 250 for a whole season?I will probably just park and walk like I normally do, but I would love to chip in food or money for tailgating

[urbanlibertarian]

Jags are now 49% of the way to the blackout avoidance number.

http://www.jaguars.com/fuel/

[Shwaz]

Jags are now 49% of the way to the blackout avoidance number.

http://www.jaguars.com/fuel/

Big jump since yesterday... still a long way to go.

[Wacca Pilatka]

Another 700 new ticket sales this week just in the general bowl...this is fantastic.

For perspective, the Lions are bragging about having sold 1,000 new season tickets, total.

[kells904]

"Let's not start sucking each other's d--ks just yet"...so said Winston Wolf. 

While it is really good news that we're making such steady progress--and so soon--the possibility still exists that we hit a wall at some point.  I remain cautiously optimistic until we actually cross the finish line.

[urbanlibertarian]

Buzzkill.