From the U of M athletics site, ticket prices are going to stay at $65 for this season, but they are going to increase all season ticket holders PSD, Endzones are now $75 per seat, Blue $200 per seat, Maize $350 per seat, and valiant $475 per seat, and victors $600 per seat.
They say the PSD forms will start to arrive this week.
Nothing like asking your season ticket holders to shell out more money during the holidays.
http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/121012aaa.html
I'm a season ticket holder and every game was $75
That's face value.
Season tix were $390 each for 6 games. That's $65 per game.
You're right just looked at my bill and I paid 1590 for my four.
I'm pissy that Brandon wants another hundy for each of my maize seats. Ugh...
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-Bob Ufer
MOAR money!
MOAR money!
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how many games in 2013-14?
how many games in 2013-14?
Prices for everyhting keep going up
Ticket prices, and even water. It cost me $5 to buy a small water bottle at a basketball game... thats insane.
Hail! to the Victors Valiant Hail!
you can get a cup of water
you can get a cup of water for free.
Couldn't resist:
Couldn't resist:
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
Thanks for posting that!
I still love that clip!
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well
RUTGERS! TERPS!
Question about the "stay at
Question about the "stay at $65" comment....I take this to mean the minimum ticket price will be $65 with premium games being higher?
Those PSD's are starting to get pretty hefty. At the high end, the Victors level, the PSD increase was 20 percent.
I'm maize and it's a 40% adder.
Not pleased.
"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer
Same here
From $250 to $350.
Ick.
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- Jack Handey
Endzone went up 50%
Yes, I know only 25 dollars in total, but 50% nonetheless.
Season tickets cost $65 per
Season tickets cost $65 per game last year (every game costs the same), while the face value of the tickets was $75-$95.
As for the increase in PSD, I am in the endzone, and it is a 50% increase.
Season ticket package per ticket price: $65
Does not include PSD (obvsly), and is not face price of tickets (which is higher).
Last year season tickets were $390 for 6 games ($390/6 = $65/game).
This year, it'll still be $65/game, but that extra home game means each season ticket package will cost $455, rather than $390.
As with past PSD increases...
As with past PSD increases, the athletic department is allowing (the rare) ability to transfer season ticket subscriptions to others at your direction. I think a lot more people will think about splitting and sharing these costs.
The Athletic Department won't care about whether people complain or not; but I just wonder when they will reach the breaking point on PSD's in terms of ticket demand. At some point, what with typical resale prices on StubHub, the PSD's no longer make any financial sense.
As for sending them out during the holiday season, it is customary, so people can make their donations in either calendar year for tax reasons. Even with the deductability, I seriously question the financial sense of the rising PSD amounts.
Your second paragraph is dead on Section 1
I live in Chicago and have a young family, so I can't make it back much as I'd like and feel that a breaking point could come as early as 2014 with the poor home schedule.
"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer
On the bright side
if they do move Illinois to our division (was that ever made official?) and get the scheduling right, Michigan will play either at Northwestern or at Illinois every year (as opposed to both on the road in the same season), so they come to the state every single season. I've always found it to be significantly easier and cheaper to catch Michigan when they play in IL than when they play in MI, plus I'm usually able to score way better seats, never been higher than the 10th row at either stadium.
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I'm in the blue section,
I'm in the blue section, thats a $75 increase per ticket. I know people will pay this and I am one of them . However at the rate these keep going up, people will eventually stop going and watch at home.
You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
IMHE
StubHub will be the primary beneficiary. Look at Mens Basketball. There are TONS of empty seats, and no tickets available via the Athletic Ticket Office. The grand experiment from the Michigan blogs on the comparative purchase costs for 2012 football tickets showed that supply will truly start to outstrip demand (with Premium Game exceptions applicable here and there).
Slippery slope zone has been entered...and we seem to be hitting the steeper portion...
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
Yep
Want to take my kids to see new Crisler and Sunday Noon vs Penn State in Februrary seemed like a perfect game. No tickets available through MgoBlue (maybe single seats). Stubhub is available, but poor seats and overpriced at the moment. I will wait.
Section 10, Row 45
Does anyone really pay face
Does anyone really pay face value for tickets to non premiere games???? I got 2 tickets to Iowa for $50 each on stub hub... 40 yard line 20 rows up. Why wouldn't everyone do this???
I never plan on buying tickets from the Ticket office again...
Go Blue. That it all.
My MGoYard
Saw this coming a mile away
Saw this coming a mile away when they sent out that glossy mailer a couple weeks ago about giving, changes in the Victors points system, etc.
Yeesh.... squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.
But
You now get more Victors Club points!
/s
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
Saw the increase coming
as soon as they started the PSD program. I'm surprised it took them this long to raise the donation.
META: Old man rant.
I have a
META: Old man rant.
I have a hard time digesting "$65 per ticket" when, at the end of the day, I shell out $150 per ticket per game. Call it a PSD or a License or Ransom....whatever. What I pay out is $1800 for two tickets to 6 games. Frankly, I think that's too high.
Agreed.
One benefit though
Agreed.
One benefit though is I will now be able to acquire the two seats next to my pair in the stadium from an old family friend. He has been selling them to me every year, but he's now over 85..
It's OK guys. When the extra
It's OK guys. When the extra money starts rolling in from the new BTN contract because people in New Jersey can now watch it, I'm sure these PSDs will disappear entirely or drop to a reasonable level, since the athletic department won't need the money. I will definitely hold my breath for that.
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I really wonder how people
I really wonder how people have this much disposable income. For an average Michigan family, this is a huge hike... (and if their income isn't high, then they'll probably take the standard deduction and don't even get any deductibility from this).
We have our winner.
This is me. So DB gets another $400 of my hard earned after tax $$ for the same benefit I had before. Hooray!
"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer
You can't even get the 50
You can't even get the 50 percent state credit anymore either
This from mgoblue.com has me
This from mgoblue.com has me somewhat concerned:
Michigan Athletics will continue its tradition of no paid display advertising in the Big House on football Saturdays
Does this mean that unpaid advertising (such as some company does something for us, we provide advertising for them in the stadium) will be present?
I would guess they mean they
I would guess they mean they can't help but advertise things like "buy a Coke here" and they don't want people to think that counts as advertising.
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And there are the StubHub banners on the support pillars
And there are the StubHub banners on the support pillars beneath the concourses. I am guessing that they are not paid advertising by StubHub but are instead intended and regarded as informational; for the benefit of potential ticket sellers and buyers. That's the way that I look at them. They don't bother me very much.
The thing is now, I just look at StubHub advertising as totally ironic; there is no demand that justifies the PSD's. It is an increasingly senseless gesture to support the team with season ticket subscriptions and current-rate PSD's. Better, and now smarter, to shell out @$300 a ticket for MSU or OSU on StubHub (along with perhaps @$30 a ticket for other games) and skip the PSD.
Marathon Oil and PNC Bank
also have advertising on the pillars. To me, the Marathon Oil is a head scratcher, and the PNC Bank should just be presented on the ATM's (which they already are). No need for those to be on the pillars, too.
We're still not the gaudy mess so many other stadiums/HD scoreboards are (though Crisler and Yost are rapidly approaching NBA/NHL advertising densities), so we have that going for us.
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
It finally hit Section 17.
I had been "exempt" from any PSD...no longer. Dave has commanded it as such.
Fellow Section 17...
Love that spot because it was so close to the PSDs without needing one.
All told, this is a $50 extra cost since we lost the mandatory $100 to activate priority points but now have a $150 PSD every year.
Factor in the $75 per seat at 7 home games and the per game price is $75.71. Not bad, especially with 2 premium games this year.
Honestly, the 2014 and 2015 schedules aren't looking too shabby for the home slate.
What rows? I am in 69, and it
What rows? I am in 69, and it is perfect.
71...
We are right by each other. :)
I've had my seats in Section
I've had my seats in Section 39 for over 15 years and I grandfathered in at no PSD when they instituted the plan. Now they're hitting me up for $75 bucks for my two seats this season. I'll probably pay it this year because the home slate is pretty good, but I am going to have to seroiusly consider whether it's worth it to me to keep them for 2014 and beyond.
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"Fix the cigarette lighter."
I have to be honest.
I love Michigan football and going to the games so much, they could probably get me for a whole helluva lot more (and they likely will) before I finally said "uncle."
If I was still single and not
If I was still single and not a parent, I'd probably be right there with you. But you get married and have kids and suddenly your weekends get filled up with activities not related to Michigan football. Who would've thunk it?
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
I hear ya.
Did the marriage part, not the kids part (at least not yet). Yup, life does tend to get in the way of Michigan football at times!
My guess is the face value of
My guess is the face value of tickets may increase. Season ticket holders, we know that the price of each ticket was less than that on the face, but I think that was to augment our PSDs, not 100% in all cases of course, but at least a bit. So I wouldn't e surprised if the stated value on the ticket is higher than last year.
In years where the home
In years where the home schedule is good, I don' t mind a whole lot. So that pretty much means every other year I'm going to be pissed. Even more so now that ND is off, and a long term solution for a quality replacement doesn't exist. The home and home with Arkansas, while nice, does not cut the mustard.
Any chance conference expansion/realignment/musical mass chaos chairs will shuffle our home schedule a bit?
I will fight 'til I am dead, a winged helmet on my head.
It's a shame!
It's a shame that season ticket holders have to absorb such a price increase. Maybe if they take seats away from the student section that never shows up and sell more tickets at normal price with a PSD this wouldn't happen like this.
I agree 100%. Its almost
I agree 100%. Its almost better to just use stub hub or scalpers anymore. I will bitch and moan about this, but when it comes time, I will pay it becasue I dont want to lose my seats. I like knowing that i have tickets to every game rather than wondering from week to week where my tickets will come from.
Well, here we go.
Brandon is trying to vatch up to O$U and Nebraska.
This past year was breaking point for us for football
Now that the kids are playing travel soccer and hockey saw the writing on the wall that would miss too many games and probably not be able to sell the tickets.
So far we have kept our season hockey tickets because it took us forever to get 4 seats together. With no NHL it has been easier to get rid of the tickets we can't use this year.
Michigandadof4
While Sparty was $95 face value in 2012.
"... never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word."
-Bob Ufer