Season Tickets Good Deal?

Creampuff/non-descript conference games were $50/$55
Standard conference games were $59
Rivalry games were $65

Then you also have to add on the personal seat license, but I'm not sure what how much $$ that is.

I'd bargain him down.

Getting season tickets is kind of a rip. I have 4 around the 30. The psl is 375 per ticket. So you have to pony up 1500 each year just to pay face to get the tickets. The only reason to have them is to have them. Plus you get parking and away ticket priority and that junk.

But I have no doubt I could scalp 4 for every single game for way less than it cost to have season tickets.

As for you situation. The psl for those seats, depending on exactly where they are at, could be either 250 per seat or 125 per seat. So 1000 is probably about right for him to dump them. But you don't get any of the perks of having season tickets in your name. Also last year Michigan offered the "all-in" ticket pack for the first time ever. This basically was a 1 time season ticket for 450$. I have no idea if they will offer that this year or where those tickets were at.

Last year, similar seats cost 800 for the tickets and 250 for the required "donation."

Much like your friend, I'm going to have to sell my seats at cost this year as well, so if anyone is interested for buying at cost (not more, not less), let me know.

A grand is about right for 2. I think they froze prices at $400 for each ticket last year (even though the individual games were higher when totaled up), and my PSD is $125 per ticket. The "all-in" pack for last year was most likely a one-time thing because most of those seats were near aisles. During the next few years, as renovations continue, they will be trimming those seats off the ends of aisles in order to install hand-railings. So, they wanted those seats filled for 2009, but they will literally disapper in coming years.

My season tickets are $800 and I am in the non-seat license area of the stadium. Sounds like he's just asking you for face value. Are there really people out there that think they can ask for a premium for a pair of season tickets after the last two years? Especially with such a poor schedule of home games coming up.

Part of the perks are having them when the team is really good again and it will be hard to buy them on the street at face value. Every two years, when the schedule is ND, Penn State and Ohio State at home, those will be hard to get tickets for. The off-year isn't bad either, with MSU and Wisconsin coming in. It all depends on how bad you want to be there and season tickets allow you to sit in the same seats for every game.

My view is you should say you will pay the face value on just the tickets which should be anywhere from $750-$800 and he will have to pay the seat license fee. It only seems fair because he will benefit from you taking the tickets because in a 2 years when he can start using them again he will still have season tickets to buy.

So face value will be about $700 (last year was 8). I'm not sure that it's fair that he's making you pay for his preferred seat donation since part (or all?) of that is tax deductible. How many games are you going to attend? If all of them, then there is some value in having the tickets in hand for every game. However, next season is a pretty weak home schedule. With some time and energy, you could do better on prices, especially if you aren't going to all of the games.

If it was me, it would probably come down to whether or not you are certain to get offered the 2011 tickets. If no, I'd pass. If yes, I'd take them since you will get ND and OSU (and maybe another big OOC?) for that season.

The price that your friend is charging you is fair in that it is around what he is paying for the seats + PLS. He is not going to make anything on this. But, from your perspective, you could pick up tickets for next year's schedule for less money. Remember that we don't play ND or OSU at home next year - both of these are road games. I think that the only real draw game will be MSU. And, our schedule is filled with a few crappy games that you could either pick up for next to nothing or that you might not end up wanting to go to.

anyone who wants to get rid of any can email me at bradmorrison@bex.net

thanks

its an expense - i'll write it off...must play the "tax game" in business...

That section and row is 250 a year donation to renew the tickets and 50 a ticket with 7 home games works out to 950.

He should pay the PSD. You pay the ticket cost. $700.

My seasons are in the $50 per seat section (end zone) but right on the corner, so it's more of a side view of the field than behind the goal posts. I pay $100 per game for two seats (which is LESS than face value on non-cupcake games) and then $50 per seat for the yearly "donation." So my season for 2010 will be $800 plus the perks.

Seasons are great, only problem I have encountered is that you have a real hard time trying to give away the MAC games much less sell them. UMass tickets you could leave outside the stadium, someone might use them. But all that said, there is nothing better than having the rivalry games. Notre Dame, Ohio State and MSU, Penn State and Iowa, in my mind are worth the price of the seasons alone.

Your only really getting 1 or 2 home games against good opponents. MSU and maybe UConn the opening game. No OSU, PSU, or ND so I wouldint even offer him 750 I might say 500 dollars or so because with only 1 rivalry game its kinda a raw deal.

I bought 2 sets of season tickets 2 years ago through craigslist because my girlfriend and I had just graduated and still wanted to go to all the games. We got pretty good seats in section 40, row 3 or so for face value. You should only be paying for the tickets because you'd be able to find better seats for the face value of the tickets elsewhere.

I prefer the student section. A couple of our grad student friends knew people who didn't want their season tickets this past year, so we got those for a much cheaper price. I'm also not ready to leave the student section yet - other sections just aren't as much fun and don't have the same atmosphere.

I've been to every home game since '95 and all the home and away games since '97. For the first few years I scalped all my tickets home and away. Since then I have had season tickets. Over the course of the whole year it was WAY cheaper to scalp tickets even when I had to pay 100+ for big games. Those only happen once or twice per year.

The only reason to have season tickets is if you have great seats that you want to permanently keep and to get to know those people you sit with every week. In this situation, since you will only have them for a year or two you won't get that benefit. If it just comes down to the money, you can save more by scalping.

Alot of people say that it is not worth paying for tha mac tickets, however it is the atmoshere not the opponent that makes going to the games in the big house great. I have been a season ticket holder for 3 years and was on the waiting list for 7 years every game is worth the money!