My experience has been that ND has little regard for the standard alums who don't line their pockets. I could cite many examples, but ND's greed now drives the institution. One example, I used to be able to go to the Monogram Room on game days with up to 4 other guests. Food was served which, while I certainly appreciated free food, the quality was such that I wouldn't have paid $5 for it. The principal perk of the room was meeting up with your former teammates, and their families and reminisce, not partake in some free food. In fact, many folks didn't even eat the food. It was a nice perk and well earned as well as, to a degree, paid for via our dues.
Now apparently, we are seen as a revenue opportunity. That perk was changed in 2019 to the member+1 free and anyone additional guest costs $15. The food is essentially the same. So my daughter, also a monogram winner, would have to pay $30 to go to the monogram room with her husband and 2 kids. If I go to the game with my two sons, I would have to pay $15 for one of my sons to just sit in the room. The perk was changed without announcement prior to 2019 (in other words, prior to members paying dues ) and was only buried in a 20 page brochure we received in March after we had paid our dues. The crux of this to me is that if ND (and the monogram club for that matter) saw the cost of this perk as getting out of hand, they should have communicated their concerns to is, presented alternatives and asked the members for their feedback. After all, it is our club! Instead ND treated us as if "in loco parentis" still ruled and couldn't be bothered to ask for feedback and turned a key constituency into just another revenue source.
It is pretty apparent over time that ND has become less and less interested in engaging with the hoi polloi alums who don't line their pockets and more and more interested in how to maximize their inbound cash flow.
Re: my original post, I expect that to happen with the game in Lambeau. I grew up in Wisconsin and going to a game at Lambeau has long been on my bucket list. Doing any type of simple math in terms of ticket availability, I ought to be assured of getting good seats as if it were any normal ND home game. In fact, more tickets ought to be available since by any measure, there will be fewer student tickets, fewer season ticket holders, fewer staff tickets, etc., than any normal ND home game thus more tickets available to us "little people. " I even asked a ND representative who was visiting the area recently in a one-on-one in-person meeting about this question and her response, tactfully put, was to give more money as opposed even trying to be transparent about ND's plans for ticket distribution.
Sorry for the rant, but anyone who has dealt with ND over the past 10 years has seen a massive movement toward caring more about the money than in overall fairness to it's full alumni base. If you have $$$, you are important; if you don't, eh.