re: How hard was it to get tickets at Omaha?

Not many reserved flying around outside the stadium but easily avail on stubhub. We rode out GA for last ark game and all 3 champ games. GA tix were everywhere for $10 ea...prob is we had to get out there at 1pm each day to get close in left field...and let me tell u it was friggin HOT. With that said, GA is easily avail and we drove to Omaha ticketless and easily got tix. U have to stand in line forever though bec in theory they can sell unlimited GA tix...they just let in 5500 then they close it off.

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they can sell unlimited GA tix...they just let in 5500 then they close it off.

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so they actually sell more tickets than can fit in the ballpark?...

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so they actually sell more tickets than can fit in the ballpark?...

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indeed. The GENADM tix are good for ANY game throughout the college world series. There are thousands and thousands of those things printed up. Apparently that UT/Ari St. game was the only game where people got turned away though...from what I was told at least.

There are some tickets available at the box office each day for that day's games. Office opens at 10 for days with afternoon games, noon for days with only evening games. You need to get there early and stand in line. And then there aren't many tickets available. Supposedly, they have tickets "turned back in" (by other teams, or season ticket holders, I don't know...) I've never managed to get any that way, they go fast.
For the first 12 games, Ticketmaster sold 1000 reserved seats back in about March or April. At that point, you have no clue who will be playing much less the match-ups. Just dates and times. Those were gone within an hour or so of the time they went on sale. That's how I got tickets to 3 games. Two sets were in Section A, right in the sun, breeze blocked by the Stadium club, and sun reflecting off that glass. Holy Mother Of God, it was hot, and I'm FROM this area, I know what hot is! The other set was in section X, spitting distance from lf GA. Not so miserably hot, but too far away to have a prayer of seeing the ball.

I look at it this way it all depends on how you want to spend your money. If your on a tight budget you can buy a book of 10 GA tickets from local supermarkets for $70 that saves you $20. The down side to GA tickets is waiting in line and there is the chance you might not get in. This year was odd on the GA side. The opening weekend games where packed. There was a lot of people left out side not getting in. The reset of the games there where no issues that I could see. If you get a GA ticket you can sit in empty rev. seats.
Buying tickets from a scalper is a art of negotiation. You start way low and most the time you can get tickets from $10 to $20 over face value. This year was again odd they where selling championship tickets face value or just a little over.
Non the less there are tickets out there for every game just depends on what you want to spend and where you want to sit.

A friend of mine came up, and got a seat for $5 behind home plate for the championship game. Said he had no problem for last 4 games.

People couldn't give away general admission tickets. If you wanted a good seat, they were available if you waited it out at the gate. I got my excellent seats from the NCAA for face value $33. Texas fans who sat next to me paid scalper $100!!! For anybody considering going when LSU makes it next year, all I can say is GEAUX!!!!!

Work the crowd, go early and later, we averaged 35/dollars a ticket for the final three games, three tickets/game. Sat under the grandstand, behind the LSU bench all three games. 2/3'rds way up, but great seats, just gotta work the crowd and don't buy from scalpers. They mostly sell crap seats.