as of right now on Stub Hub. I think what this means is that season ticket holders are selling out their teams for the $$$. I have to assume it also means that the cost of going to a college football game and being a season ticket holder his gone up to the point that is how fans cope with this increase in cost, sell off part of the season ticket to help pay for the cost. More and more places now have PSL's on top of the actual cost of the season ticket. Prices that are listed indicate the least expensive ticket available today on StubHub. Clearly, Alabama and Notre Dame raise the stakes. $419 Michigan at Notre Dame $322 Alabama at LSU $314 Auburn at Alabama $307 Michigan at Ohio State $260 Texas vs. Oklahoma $219 Texas A&M at Alabama $219 Stanford at Notre Dame $216 Clemson at Georgia $205 Auburn at Georgia $201 Florida at Alabama $195 LSU at Texas A&M $185 Florida vs. Georgia $184 South Carolina at Clemson $174 Georgia at South Carolina $173 Virginia Tech at Ohio State $170 UNC at Notre Dame $169 Ohio State at Penn State $168 West Virginia vs. Alabama $166 Tennessee at Oklahoma $165 Louisville at Notre Dame $164 Notre Dame at Florida State $161 Michigan at Michigan State $158 Oklahoma State at Oklahoma $133 LSU at Auburn $119 USC at UCLA $117 Michigan State at Oregon
Exactly what I have been doing the past few years. When Bama came rolling in to the Swamp a couple of years ago I knew it was pretty well hopeless for UF..... so I gained a nice return for two tickets to a game in which UF was pummeled anyway. This season only three games offer any interest...... SC, LSU and Mo. and I'll bet I can buy two tickets to each of those at face value outside the stadium on game day. The line-up this season is why I decided to finally give up the season tix.
George, when my son played on the ND team, 1991-94, I went to every game but one, most by myself, and I never paid more than face value. The only game I did not attend was the'93 FSU game. We were on campus, and I walked around the stadium looking for 1-2 tickets, but the cheapest available were $250 (in '93, equivalent to about $$500 today). I went back to my son's dorm rec room and watched it on big screen TV.
Interesting article regarding the decline in season ticket sales at Michigan. http://johnubacon.com/2014/06/the-real-reasons-why-students-and-others-are-bailing-on-michigan-football-tickets/
I see that Wisconsin is putting in a 6 million dollar wi-fi network. No doubt that will at least allow students to text, tweet, facebook, snapchat, instagram, etc their friends who maybe aren't sitting with them! Selfies!! That's what student sections need!
Well we are back from Kansas City and hosting a 55th Anniversary party for the wives sister and her husband who also live here in Franklin. But this article sure points out what is going on around the country. The Gators have a 90,000 capacity stadium and our string of sellouts ended last year. The season tickets are also easier to get. There was a long waiting list just a few years ago, now some go unsold. A lot of the reasons are the same as what is in this article. On the flip side though there are several SEC teams in the process of upgrading and increasing the size of their stadiums. Texas A & M, LSU and a couple of others. The day is not far around the corner that the SWAMP could be in the lower half of the SEC in stadium size. And even if we wanted to increase the capacity there is not much of a way to do it with the stadium where it is now. As I said in another topic we are giving serious consideration to dropping our season tickets next season. Our age is part of the reason, but by no means all of it.
Read the article posted by Bobda and these two paragraphs say a ton: "If that’s true, maybe they shouldn’t have increased seat prices by an average of $100 each since Brandon took over. Perhaps they should stop charging six bucks for a hot dog, five bucks for popcorn, and four dollars for water. Maybe they should stop showing ads between plays on the big screens for corporate receptions at Michigan stadium, which start at $9,000. Fans can get all those things at home for less, including the ads. They can only get the marching band at the big house. Survey after survey points the finger for lower attendance not at cell phone service or high definition TV, but squarely at the athletic department and college football itself. Fans are fed up paying steakhouse prices for junk food opponents — and junk food itself — while enduring endless promotions. The more college football caters to the TV audience at home, the more fans paying to sit in those seats feel like suckers." When they feed you mediocre opponents..... make you attend a made for TV 12 noon game in Florida..... and then start charging you booster contributions per seat you start to wonder why in hell you're sitting there paying for all of it. The UF atheletic dept. crossed the line with me when they started charging me "booster contributions" per seat after many years of grandfathering in my endzone seats as a no extra charge over face value bargain. Now I'll just have to take my chances at the stadium when the game time and opponent suit my schedule and particular interests. Plus.... lookout Jacksonville I just may make an early November appearance there now to see if Muschump can recall how much fun it is to whip up on his alma mater.
I thought his point about Brandon claiming that Mich football was all about flyovers, Beyonce, etc ...and the authors counterpoint that no it's not it's about that. You could take out Michigan and insert any team and that would be a true statement.
Michigan football is about hatin on Ohio State, Michigan State and ND ... in that order.... It's about players jumping up and hitting that banner during their entrance and it's about the smug crowd singing "Hail to the Victors" and being in complete shock when they don't beat Average U by 40 points.... which seems increasingly hard to do for the Maize and Blue these days. Lastly..... it's about Bo and or disciples of Bo.... and not about that loudmouth hick from West Virginia. :wink:
This topic is being discussed on the Texas forums as well. I've got two posts from Texas grads/fans one a grad student at Michigan and the other a midwest kid who came down to Texas for college.
I thought the second kid had a good point, right up until he said: That brought his entire post into question for me.