Football Ticket Prices Increase Again

Two years ago they gave away tickets to the Event Staff so that they could invite family to see UMass.  That game was no a sellout.  The only streak alive is that of games with over 100,000 in attandence.  I don't think there is any danger in that ending any time soon.

There's no donation for the ends. Yet.

I was under the impression that PSDs could only be claimed on your state return.

Noboby said it's supposed to be easy

I don't know how hard it is to get secondary market seats. I didn't know when walking became a crime against human rights. You can find parking for free on the other side of the Stadium bridge if you come early enough. Or anytime you want if you can manage a 20 minute walk. I live that far away, walk to games, and the only time parking even gets to my house are the huge games. It's not a right to park right next to the Stadium for $5. But say you ARE paying through the nose for parking...you have to be pretty dumb to then be buying concessions. You should be tailgating and making your own food. If it's to have a day with your son....I have numerous tailgating memories and stories...my concession stories I'd really have to strain to come up with.

Now if you're really on a budget, you could park for free and make you own food. Or eat at someplace you parked by before or after the game. I've never starved in 4 hours before. Particularly if I ate right before it. There's certainly concern about escalating prices. But being overly dramatic or entitled rather than being smart about game day doesn't help matters.

Haha. I didn't realize that a 20 minute walk and 4 hours without food was such a difficult thing. So, let's say you take your kid to a game against the MAC. You get tickets from a friend for free or scalp them on your way in for $20 a piece. You pay $30 for parking to be right next to the stadium. You get a hot dog for your son and a pop for your son and two hot dogs for yourself and a bottle of water. That's about $20. So now, you are just under $100. That's not exactly unreasonable.

Now, let's say you got the tickets from a friend for free, you park on Industrial for $10, walk 20 minutes, and eat before you go in and after you leave. You are only spending $10 on the game event. Basically, everyone can afford that, and if they can't, they aren't worried about how much the initial retail value is.

It sucks that ticket prices are going up, but it's what has to happen if we want an elite-level athletic department.

It used to get put in some kind of rainy-day fund, but right now I think it goes toward retiring the $226M debt for the stadium renovation.  I think they've got it down to around $150M right now.

One other cost that people forget about is tuition/room and board for scholarship athletes.  When tuition costs go up, it hits the AD in the wallet, too.

I'd say that it's probably lower than the salary of RR's combined staff, but probably lower than LC, although I don't know real numbers for any of them. All I remember off the top of my head is that Hoke came in at a salary less than RR's. So, you have a point. However, Hoke will probably be earning bonuses that RR never earned, so that will bump up the money that the AD has to pay out. Not to mention the increase of salary going forward as contracts get renegotiated.