Ticket Prices for The Game

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Ticket Prices for The Game

Ticket Prices for The Game are currently available for approximately $65 for corner seats and $95 for sideline seats. On Stubhub, ticket volume stands at 5,800 tickets with a majority of those priced towards the lower end.

It appears that resale prices are trending towards approximately 25% of the resale prices that were commanded at the start of the season.

Effectively, there is no price premium anymore and season ticket holders appear to be selling at break-even prices (i.e., season tickets are $65 per seat) without recouping their PSD contributions.

That being said:

If your excuse not to attend The Game was because of finances, then I call BS. This is one of the most affordable (inflation-adjusted) opportunities to attend The Game in the Big House! Let's at least show up and support The Team, The Team, The Team!!!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:03 PM

Raback Omaba

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Bought Mine Yesterday for $95/Each

Plus an extremely exorbitant (hey, they gotta make money) StubHub Fee and 4.95 download fee.

It appears that I may have overpaid, but honestly I dont give a flying $uck - it'll be well worth it when we wipe the field with Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes.

All you chicken little, bandwagon fans can stay home. I'm not letting this stadium be full of scarlet and grey, no matter how dissatisfied I am with the way the season has gone.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:18 PM

(Reply to #2) #3

TheDirtyD

Joined: 07/18/2009

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Man where did you get your

Man where did you get your stuff from? I need to meet your guy.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:25 PM

(Reply to #12) #4

Joined: 02/29/2012

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We can win if we score. Ohio

We can win if we score. Ohio D gives up points... we just have to pray that Borges calls in sick so we can let Fred Jackson call the plays. 3 RB Triple Option!!! Lol

November 26th, 2013 at 1:30 PM

(Reply to #15) #5

gwkrlghl

Joined: 04/13/2012

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"We can win if we score"

The biggest 'if' in the world

November 26th, 2013 at 1:37 PM

(Reply to #21) #6

DH16

Joined: 11/19/2012

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If we score more than they do

I think we might win this game

November 26th, 2013 at 1:31 PM

(Reply to #2) #7

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I got mine yesterday as well...

$90/each + StubHub fees.

Section 21, row 40.

Cheer hard. Yell loud. Go Blue!

...I bought my MBB tickets this morning. So I'll be there as well.

STILL LOOKING FOR HOCKEY TICKETS!!! If anyone is selling (or giving, lol), please let me know!!!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:30 PM

(Reply to #2) #8

FJacksonsintuition

Joined: 06/03/2011

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Honestly

This post made me rethink my feelings about attending. You are absolutely right. At the very least lets not let those bastards in. Go Blue!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:58 PM

(Reply to #2) #9

Swayze Howell Sheen

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you

you sir are a patriot and true american.

or at least a fine football fan. have fun!

November 26th, 2013 at 2:36 PM

(Reply to #52) #10

saveferris

Joined: 07/02/2009

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Don't Kid Yourself

If Ohio was going through the kind of extended doldrums that we've been experiencing the past 6-7 years, they'd be just as apathetic as we've become this season.

November 26th, 2013 at 3:31 PM

(Reply to #2) #11

WichitanWolverine

Joined: 09/30/2009

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Any chance you can guarantee

Any chance you can guarantee a victory Saturday like it's a Demar Dorsey commitment?

November 26th, 2013 at 1:04 PM

#12

DH16

Joined: 11/19/2012

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It's not worth it to buy season tickets anymore

My dad doesn't do seasons anymore, this season made every game paying no more than $35 for a ticket except for the Notre Dame game which was obviously a little more, all of them sidelines, and this was buying tickets in groups of 4 together so if you're just a single or duo, you could StubHub every game and pay even less.

Next year will be CARNAGE. Especially student tickets. Vast majority of students I know will not pay $295 again for seasons. Most won't even pay $200.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:31 PM

(Reply to #3) #13

andrewG

Joined: 10/20/2010

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I plan on going to every game

I plan on going to every game next year and there's no chance in hell I'm buying the student tickets. I figure I should be able to grab App State and Miami (OH) tix for $20, absolute max. Utah, Minnesota, Indiana, and Maryland, maybe $30 each if I'm too lazy to negotiate properly. I'll probably have to shell out at least $50 for Penn State. Darn. All in all, I expect to pay less than $200 for tickets next year. I only wish I had done the same this year.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:36 PM

(Reply to #22) #14

DH16

Joined: 11/19/2012

MGoPoints: 586

Honestly

Never paid more than $20 for a student ticket outside of ND, OSU, and MSU, all of which can be had for $50ish. Pretty much every ticket but those went for free day of game.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:05 PM

#15

denardogasm

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If you're gonna sell your

If you're gonna sell your tickets to a Buckeye at least make them pay for it. They'd still pay big money to see their team go undefeated by beating us at the Big House. At these prices the stadium will be filled with the lowest of the low cooler poopers who couldn't afford tickets normally. Should be fun...

November 26th, 2013 at 1:09 PM

(Reply to #4) #16

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With 5,800 tickets on the

With 5,800 tickets on the market, it's going to be hard to move the needle by picking the price up on a few tickets. You need some sort of collective action and that's going to be difficult to organize with only a few days left.

This reaffirms the need for a better Michigan fan to Michigan fan marketplace, where we can unload the tickets to other Michigan fans (for a few bucks less) than to the overall market (which would likely be OSU fans at this point).

November 26th, 2013 at 1:08 PM

#17

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Now that is some DYNAMIC pricing.

The genius of the marketplace.

Yes, this demonstrates to all season ticket holders that our PSD payments are mostly a waste of money. No, wait. We get the great pleasure of knowing that we helped support women's lacrosse, among many other worthy endeavors. Thanks!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:17 PM

(Reply to #5) #18

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Lol

November 26th, 2013 at 1:21 PM

(Reply to #5) #19

ak47

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I mean you may not like it

I mean you may not like it but yeah thats the point, if you don't like it, dont buy season tickets and stop saying you support michigan because clearly based on this post the only parts of michigan you care about are the big sports. If supporting the existence of another michigan team isn't worth it to you you aren't a michigan fan, you are a football fan who picked michigan for whatever reason.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:26 PM

(Reply to #14) #20

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I think he was just

I think he was just joking....

November 26th, 2013 at 1:30 PM

(Reply to #16) #21

ak47

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I took it as he was upset

I took it as he was upset that he was saying paying slightly inflated prices wasn't worth it because it wasn't going back to the football team and he'd rather pay lower prices and cut lacrosse funding, sorry if i misinterperted.

And I agree ticket prices are too high, but I'm also comfortable of allowing ads in the stadium as a revenue stream rather than having to keep increasing ticket prices so i'm in the minority on that one.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:37 PM

(Reply to #16) #22

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Absolutely not joking.

I'm as serious as a Mark Dantonio heart attack.

Bo Schembechler and Don Canham knew what a bad deal Title IX would be. Bo testified against it in Congress. Canham lobbied President Ford to not sign the bill.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:55 PM

(Reply to #31) #23

Joined: 06/03/2011

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Proof that not everybody is

Proof that not everybody is 100% correct about everything, and even the father of Michigan football can be in the wrong

November 26th, 2013 at 2:00 PM

(Reply to #31) #24

ak47

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Bo didn't like it because it

Bo didn't like it because it took money away from the football team. He couldn't give two shits about the positive value it could have for women both in college and their lives leading up to and past college because he wanted as much money as possible going to football. It happens, doesn't make it right and I still stand by my point that this shows you are a football fan who chose michigan, not a michigan fan.

November 26th, 2013 at 2:19 PM

(Reply to #45) #25

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It's not just Title IX.

Let's be fair. All of the dumb zero-spectator women's sports aren't entirely to blame. We live with a system where we have to keep up with the Joneses. MSU gets a player development center, then we have to get one. Texas, A&M, and Alabama get million-dollar coaches then we do too. Whatever OSU buys, we must do the same. It is a gloriously free-enterprise system but lacking in any cost control, apart from the fans refusing to pay.

A serious question that I have for Dave Brandon is, "what are you doing, in concert with other AD's, to reduce the pressure on football to serve as your cash-cow?" Because I don't expect anybody in a highly competitive league to unilaterally disarm.

November 26th, 2013 at 2:33 PM

(Reply to #54) #26

goblue20111

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Did it ever occur to you that

Did it ever occur to you that posters have family members playing in those 'dumb sports'?

November 26th, 2013 at 3:16 PM

(Reply to #57) #27

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Then they can support little Alexis and Britnie and Caitlin.

They assuredly don't think that they are dumb sports. More power to them. Have fun; play lacrosse, and field hockey and gymnastics.

I don't want to go off too much on non-revenue sports. Some of the very best stories in our Athletic Department are the swimmers and wrestlers and gymnasts. But there were great stories like that before the federal government told collegiate athletic departments how to spend money.

November 26th, 2013 at 3:35 PM

(Reply to #66) #28

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So then why don't we tell

So then why don't we tell every non-revenue sport that they can go support little Johnny and Billy and Bobby?

Why are singling out the female sports?

(besides the obvious answer of course)

November 26th, 2013 at 4:00 PM

(Reply to #69) #29

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Why single out the female sports?

BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT TITLE IX DOES!

I completely trust Michigan Athletics administrators to do what is right, between revenue and non-revenue sports. At least I used to. Personally, I'd like it all to be more like non-revenue sports, with a lot less emphasis on raising revenue and spending money and emulating pro sports franchises.

Someone else a while back wanted to berate me with the point that nowadays, saying that Title IX is not even needed, to mandate a level of spending on women's intercollegiate athletics at Michigan. That the U-M Regents, and a thoroughly pc administration under their superintending control, would see to it on their own. That might be true; I don't know. But it wouldn't be the first time that the Regents as, uh, currently constituted, made things much more expensive at the University of Michigan.

November 26th, 2013 at 4:09 PM

(Reply to #70) #30

ak47

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NO IT DOEN"T (see I can use

NO IT DOEN"T (see I can use all caps too).

Title 9 says you have to have the same number of male and femal scholarships, if you want that number to be zero fine, if you want that number to be 85 fine the whole point is that you can't have 200 male scholarships than female.

And before title 9 schools including michigan were left to their own devices about what to fund, and guess what, they all chose to lose money on male sports (baseball has never been revenue generating, neither has swimming) and not to do the same for femal sports. athletic departments had their chance and they fucked up, and honestly if given the chance would probably do it again, most schools (maybe not michigan but title 9 isn't targeted at us) would cut softball before baseball even if neither had won anything ever.

November 26th, 2013 at 4:37 PM

(Reply to #72) #31

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"athletic departments had their chance and they fucked up..." ?

What makes you think that athletic departments "fucked up" pre-Title IX? Why would anyone think that the interest -- both for participants and spectators -- is the same for male and female athletics? I don't. I'd much rather watch the Detroit PSL Junior Varsity on television, than NCAA women's basketball. There are only a few women's athletic events that interest me. This is not mysogyny; I actually like women's golf, for instance. But don't let me be the final arbiter; I am just one guy. Let's let the market decide. The Big Ten has its own television network. They can decide if they want to replay the Michigan-Ohio State football games from 1976, 1995 or 2006; or if they want to play the latest Michigan-Ohio State women's lacrosse game, live. I think I know how the programmers might vote on that one.

November 27th, 2013 at 12:36 AM

(Reply to #75) #32

ak47

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Nobody watches any non

Nobody watches any non revenue sports what are you not grasping about this. The issue that title 9 sought to correct was when sports that draw no interest or money get funded on the men's side but not the women's. Does men's baseball have higher attendance numbers than softball, what about the two swimming teams, cross country? Pre title 9 the men's versions of those where funded and not the women's despite nobody giving a fuck about them or wanting to watch them on tv.

November 27th, 2013 at 10:50 AM

(Reply to #70) #33

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ak47 pretty much already

ak47 pretty much already summed it up, but I'll add on

The 50-60 years pre Title IX just about proved that we can't "trust Michigan administators to do what is right" to ensure equal participation for both male and female sports.

And yes, you are singling out female sports. Nobody in Michigan is watching the UM Baseball team, why don't we cut their funding? That would probably drive UM football ticket prices down

November 26th, 2013 at 5:30 PM

(Reply to #66) #34

goblue20111

Joined: 10/31/2010

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It's not so much as

It's not so much as supporting them as not belittling others. God you are truly the most insufferable poster on this site.

November 26th, 2013 at 2:33 PM

(Reply to #54) #35

Joined: 06/03/2011

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I can only hope and pray

I can only hope and pray you're not in a high enough position where Dave Brandon is forced to listen to you

November 26th, 2013 at 2:44 PM

(Reply to #54) #36

ak47

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Of course there are a lot of

Of course there are a lot of issues that cause ticket prices to go higher, I'm just saying title 9 isn't one of those issues, if my ticket was going from 40 to 50 soley because of title 9 id be ok with it, the problem is that its starting way higher than it should.

November 26th, 2013 at 3:12 PM

(Reply to #45) #37

Midtown Wolverine

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Why stop there? Why aren't we

Why stop there? Why aren't we funding organized sports for all of Michigan's students if the positive benefits of athletics are such a worthy endeavor to fund?

I'll never understand how your ability to hold a ball in a stick and run around somehow entitles you to money for academics. You've talked about "giving people a chance to attend who normally wouldn't have it," but I still don't see what lacrosse (or whatever sport) has anything to do with that. Football surplus would be better thrown into needs-based financial aid if you want to make a fair impact.

November 26th, 2013 at 4:04 PM

(Reply to #64) #38

ak47

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It probably wouldn't have a

It probably wouldn't have a greater impact if you put it in needs based financial aide. And how the hell is running around with a football qualify you any more for academic aide then running around with a ball in a stick, you just like it more. I don't really give a fuck if a school chooses to only fund sports which make money, I give a fuck, and the federal government gives a fuck because schools were choosing to lose money on sports being played by males and saying it wasn't worth their time for sports being played by females. The entire point of title 9 is to remove gender bias in athletic departments. Beyond that what a school wants to give kids money to do is up to them as long as its not gender limited.

I brought up the positive impacts that funding sports can have because thats the entirety of the argument behind college athletics period. If you want to disregard that fine, then go the way of the ivy schools and stop giving out athletic scholarships. Should the kids on the football team practice squad really be recieving the same amount of money as lets say a denard? If you are only going by how much they bring back to the school say goodbye to 99% of athletic scholarships.

November 26th, 2013 at 4:33 PM

(Reply to #71) #39

Midtown Wolverine

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Wouldn't have a greater impact?

Wouldn't have a greater impact? Kids who play lacrosse and hockey generally come from pretty stable families. I'd really like to hear how many athletes actually have dramatically less means than any other potential enrollee. Take the partials from lacrosse/whatever and get some kids who actually couldn't get in a chance that make it.

How does running around with a football qualify you for academic aid to go to the school? Because people pay to come see you run around with the football. That's where the money comes from in the first place. My point isn't about Title IX, it's about non-revenue sports in general. I could not care less if you want to go to school to play water polo or something else, go for it, but I don't see why the school should be paying you to do so. So yeah, your last sentence is fine with me.

November 27th, 2013 at 12:38 AM

(Reply to #74) #40

ak47

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Ok then and you are entitled

Ok then and you are entitled to that opinion but that's not a title 9 debate that's a debate on the value of college athletics

November 26th, 2013 at 3:15 PM

(Reply to #31) #41

Joined: 02/29/2012

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I have a feeling Section 1 is

I have a feeling Section 1 is an elderly gentleman.

Section 1 even knows the play-by-play legislative dialogue behind the Ten Commandments. Moses said what?!?

November 26th, 2013 at 2:13 PM

(Reply to #30) #42

umchicago

Joined: 02/05/2009

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much respect

but from your post it sounds like UM and the athletic dept gave you back a lot too. congratulations and go blue!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:38 PM

(Reply to #5) #43

Black Socks

Joined: 11/30/2009

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Can you actually get a full

Can you actually get a full ride for this? The same that the football players get? Talk about discrimination against males vs value created...

November 26th, 2013 at 1:55 PM

(Reply to #32) #44

ak47

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Nope all the girls on the

Nope all the girls on the lacrosse team are on partial scholarships. And lol at giving a shit about value created. The reason title 9 was created is because schools were happy to sponsor boys sports that lost money but said it wasn't cost effective for girls. If you cut every sport at michigan that didn't bring in enough money to fund itself you would only have football, basketball (though without tv money thats tied in with football it probably gets cut by the end of the amaker years) and maybe hockey. Say goodbye to swimming, wrestling, softball, soccer, any other sport, and at a lot of schools one of football or basketball could be cut too. The rule should be that schools can either fund mens and womens scholarships equally for sports or can only have sports that pay for themselves. Title 9 exists so that schools cant pour money into baseball programs that amount to nothing but cut softball, and thats what the athletic landscape was before title 9.

November 26th, 2013 at 2:11 PM

(Reply to #40) #45

Black Socks

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Good stuff. I really think

Good stuff. I really think football needs to be taken out of the equation. IMO there are too many sponsored sports as is. If there is demand then athletes/donors will pay for the sport to exist. Cal did it with their golf team last year.

Or, you could have one team per sport that is open to both sexes, and the best players earn scholarships. But some people would not want to do that because men are better athletes, which really makes the whole idea of equal numbers illogical anyways.

November 26th, 2013 at 2:53 PM

(Reply to #50) #46

ak47

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It's not illogical because

It's not illogical because the premise of amateaur sports and especially college sports is that the athlete is recieving not money value in return. In college thats a chance at an education for a lot of people who may not normally be able to access it or afford it. At lower levels like high school it comes in pride and the lessons you learned. You can't measure the impact the title 9 has had if you don't look at how many high school girls teams were started after it was implemented. If you want to just call a spade a spade and pay athletes and rid ourselves of the idea that this exists for anything other than money than fine do that, but you better cut every sport that doesn't make money, even if that includes basketball or football and might as well stop asking the players to go to class.

And the Cal system worked because there were successful alumni of the golf program to pay for it, that wouldn't have been able to work for womens sports prior to title 9 because there were no alums of any sports teams to give back, and thats not really a suistanable model anyway.

November 26th, 2013 at 3:05 PM

(Reply to #62) #47

Black Socks

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Just have one team per sport,

Just have one team per sport, open to both sexes. Best "student athletes" make the team. Can't get anymore merit based than that.

November 26th, 2013 at 4:16 PM

(Reply to #63) #48

ak47

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I mean yeah sure if you want

I mean yeah sure if you want to choose to ignore biology and just let everyone play together that would be technically equal. Though if we are both honest with ourselves a woman would not only have to be at least as good as her counter parts on the team but probably better than them by a lot to ever have a chance of breaking the gender stereotypes of people and getting on the team. (obviously a stupid movie but she's the man had this basic premise, girl was good enough to make team but guys laughed her off the field because she was a girl, once again stupid movie but probably an accurate reaction to what would happen to most women going out for the teams.)

November 26th, 2013 at 1:08 PM

#49

Perkis-Size Me

Joined: 11/30/2011

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Oh great. Just one more

Oh great. Just one more excuse to invite a large OSU infestation into Ann Arbor.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:09 PM

#50

Tuebor

Joined: 03/14/2011

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Sold my extra pair on Stubhub

Sold my extra pair on Stubhub for 189 a piece. Section 24 row 37. Face was $95 so I'm pretty happy that, even after Stubhub takes a cut. Prices really started dropping after the Iowa loss.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:10 PM

#51

jaggs

Joined: 02/03/2009

MGoPoints: 3981

First and

only year I'll have season tickets was this year. I don't mind taking a hit to sell a directional Michigan game, but the 'dynamic pricing' model made those OSU tickets $225 that are now selling for $65. One of the advantages of being a donor was the opportunity to purchase single game tickets before they were released to the world, however the new system makes it a worse investment to donate and purchase tickets through the school then to just buy them on secondary market.

Feeling used and taken advantage of does not sit well with me. I'll go to games next year for <$40 per game and won't take a loss selling my 'premium games' like I did this year with Nebraska.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:15 PM

(Reply to #9) #52

Joined: 02/29/2012

MGoPoints: 6208

If you bought "dynamic

If you bought "dynamic priced" tickets and planned to re-sell them for a profit... well what can I say, that sounds like a bum plan to me. The whole point of dynamic pricing was to rip the profits from the middle-men. Therefore, it makes no sense to buy dynamic priced tickets unless you are going to use them for the game and you're hedging risk by picking them up early directly from the school.

I would say that with basic season tickets, you could have made money this year if you sold your tickets early (i.e., at or around the ND game). Therefore, it's similar to the market in that you need to know when to sell...

November 26th, 2013 at 1:33 PM

(Reply to #9) #53

Joined: 06/29/2009

MGoPoints: 16556

All of this is impossible to argue with.

We have entered an era -- the first in 50 years -- where being a Michigan football season ticket holder is a bad deal.

The rottenness of this state of affairs has little to do with whether the team is 7-5 or 10-2. It has everything to do with problems caused by college football's managers:

They have suqeezed the season into Labor Day weekend and stretched it into Thanksgiving weekend. That's bad, for people with lives to lead outside of college football.
They have raised the cost dramatically; exorbitantly. With Preferred Seating donations that can effectively double the price of tickets.
They have structured the game around television, in terms of start times and weeks in play.
They have denuded the schedule, from nine Big Ten teams plus a Stanford or a Washington or a UCLA, down to directional MAC teams and lesser.

"Michigan football" used to be the best ticket in all of sports in this part of the midwest, stretching from Grand Rapids to Saginaw to Hamilton, Ontario to Toledo, Ohio. You were pretty much guaranteed to see some of the best competition, on the best and most beautiful days of the fall, in the best venue, in the entire region. I think a lot of those qualities still exist. But it has gotten to be VERY expensive for season ticket holders.

And don't any of you for a moment forget two things. Donor support is every bit as big to the Michigan Athletic Department as television revenue. And season ticket holders are the people that make certain that there are 100,000+ in that stadium every Saturday.

November 26th, 2013 at 6:12 PM

(Reply to #25) #54

Rdog

Joined: 07/31/2013

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Overpriced tickets- demand pricing- won't do again

The problem with dynamic pricing is that when the school fields a crappy team it is pretty aggravating to have paid 210 for a ticket to the Nebraska game. So, I'll be only buying aftermarket tickets going forward.

I booed Borges at that game then we were on the 35 before half and didn't try to do anything. I remember thinking- i guarantee he's going to wish he had an extra 25 seconds and an opportunity to score when he gets to the end of the game- And of course I was right (as i would have been in regard to most of our games this year).

So, dynamic pricing is a huge problem when you are fielding a pretty crappy team. I think ticket revenues will decline dramatically in 2014

November 26th, 2013 at 1:21 PM

#55

Shoelaces_Pfft

Joined: 08/01/2010

MGoPoints: 2071

After 3 years with season tickets

Not going to renew. I'm gonna take my chances on stub hub.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:28 PM

#56

gwkrlghl

Joined: 04/13/2012

MGoPoints: 71

Its going to be over half Buckeye fans

Guaranteed. Its going to be painful to see

November 26th, 2013 at 1:31 PM

(Reply to #17) #57

trueblue262

Joined: 07/01/2008

MGoPoints: 8071

Yeah, I heard they were giving away

2 gallons of diesel fuel for each buckeye fan that lands a ticket.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:33 PM

#58

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MGoPoints: -9898289

Anyone selling hockey tickets?

It's crazy that they're selling higher on StubHub than FOOTBALL tickets are. I know it's a big game, but nothing is bigger than Michigan/Ohio football.

That said, I'm looking for 2 HOCKEY tickets for Friday if anyone is selling.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:35 PM

#59

Maize

Joined: 04/01/2009

MGoPoints: 166

Don't complain

Just don't complain about the stadium being a sea of red if you're not fan enough to support your team! Really not much excuse with the prices being this low. I will be driving three hours from Ohio and wearing maize!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:58 PM

(Reply to #26) #60

tzwolverine

Joined: 07/06/2009

MGoPoints: 228

Drive from IL to every home game

I am as upset as everyone else about how things have gone for the last 6 yrs, I still have not missed a game during this time at the Big House. It is going to be painful to watch this weekend and I believe it is going to be an absolute disaster with the recruits on hand for this.

Don't be surprised if DB makes a very bold move durning the month of December related to the future of UM football program. He runs this show like a corporation and thant means everything is based on "results" and the bottom line. Both are in trouble at this time.

He will not let this program flounder and take a back seat to MSU or OSU or any other program. I believe he already has a plan and it will come to be in December

November 26th, 2013 at 2:02 PM

(Reply to #26) #61

tzwolverine

Joined: 07/06/2009

MGoPoints: 228

Drive from IL to every home game

He will not let this program flounder and take a back seat to MSU or OSU or any other program. I believe he already has a plan and it will come to be in December

November 26th, 2013 at 1:36 PM

#62

BuckThaF_ckeyes

Joined: 03/08/2012

MGoPoints: 199

The recruits will enjoy

The recruits will enjoy seeing a 1/2 red big house.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:40 PM

(Reply to #28) #63

Joined: 07/25/2011

MGoPoints: -9898289

We should do maize pom poms

The problem isn't only that it'll be 1/2 OSU, it's that they come wearing red or black coats and jackets.

We were blue or black coats and jackets.

So it's going to look like a bunch of red and black in the stands because you can't tell navy from black.

I hope the students turn out. They bitched and complained about not going to the Akron level games because it's Akron and they've got other shit to do. This is Ohio, the biggest game of the year AND it's over a holiday break. Those sections should be PACKED in maize and blue...no excuses.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:45 PM

(Reply to #34) #64

BuckThaF_ckeyes

Joined: 03/08/2012

MGoPoints: 199

Yeah I didn't even think

Yeah I didn't even think about the blue/black jacket thing. The only chance we have in this game is if the students get loud and so does the Michigan fans there, otherwise it will get uglier than what I fear may happen anyways.

November 26th, 2013 at 2:00 PM

(Reply to #34) #65

Joined: 06/03/2011

MGoPoints: 1962

You realize that since it's

You realize that since it's over break, there's probably going to be less people on campus?

November 26th, 2013 at 2:25 PM

(Reply to #34) #66

goblue20111

Joined: 10/31/2010

MGoPoints: 7208

It's during break and

It's during break and beginning of Hannukah. Chances are a lot of people won't be on campus given UM's large OOS population.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:47 PM

(Reply to #33) #67

JamesBondHerpesMeds

Joined: 04/13/2009

MGoPoints: 8031

Hey now

Ohio State is a good team.

November 26th, 2013 at 1:45 PM

#68

Jonny F-Ball

Joined: 10/29/2013

MGoPoints: 3

The bubble is about to burst

This can't continue much longer... Ticket price increases, PSDs, game day parking cost (remember when Pioneer was $10 to park) & concession stand cost for truly crummy food. There will be empty seats at Michigan Stadium next year, soon they will have to announce less than 100,000 in attendance. The average season ticket holder will refuse to pay the high cost for a mediocre product! You can only put so much air in the bubble before it burst!

November 26th, 2013 at 1:58 PM

(Reply to #36) #69

Joined: 07/25/2011

MGoPoints: -9898289

It indeed is going to collapse

But that is the case for all sports.

Why pay $500 for tickets, parking, etc. when you can spend that money and buy a new 50" LED TV? A TV that is there for years and year, doesn't put you out in the cold, doesn't make you feel like you wasted your money if your team loses, and a TV that gives you a great view of the game.

Michigan Stadium is in Ann Arbor, MI...we're not talking the most populated area in the country. So people have to travel.

We're also talking about a depressed midwest, so money isn't there like it used to be.

Just 20 years ago, going to the game was an AWESOME experience, people made more money (realtively speaking), TVs sucked, and there wasn't an internet in the way there is now...

November 26th, 2013 at 3:28 PM

(Reply to #42) #70