Michigan Football ticket secondary market is gonna be a melee
Single game tickets went on sale to all of us sub-75 point donors today.
- OSU and MSU are completely sold out
- Cincinnati, Rutgers(!) are down to single seats stranded
- Air Force has seats together but they're in not ideal sections so basically throw that one onto the single seats list
- Minnesota is the game with the highest number of seats left
Demand is crazy. Last year I was buying multiple seats for Penn State, Wisconsin, Indiana on MGoBlue week of.
Single game tickets go on sale to those who don't have any priority points tomorrow. Good luck.
Brace yourselves. Stubhub melees are coming. Get ready to get bent over in "service fees".
think that is part of it as well. We actually have like a game-day routine at home that we all really enjoy. It actually helps a lot now if a lot of the games are at noon given our circumstances so this year should be good for that.
The west side of the state is absolutely beautiful. We live in Sioux Falls which can be described as flat, windy, and colder than shit in the winter (no offense to anyone who grew up here, I just prefer Ann Arbor). Although, no state income tax is nice, so we've got that going for us...
Here is my method for a quick game with the kids, with changes bolded. I expect you live in Metro Detroit too.
4 tickets for the family - $340.00, Gas $20.00 (ts probably less than that ... plus, i would probably be using some gas that day for other things I am not going to do while at the game), Parking $10.00 (many better options and kids like to walk through campus or downtown), Concessions $15.00 (maybe water and popcorn, the food in stadium kinda sucks and its just for kids) Dinner $00.00 (might be home for lunch or stop on the road... regardless, have to get a meal that day anyway) , Misc. $00.00 (this inclusion confuses me).
So, a total of about $400, mostly ticket cost.... which we can probably get much cheaper. You can probably fnd free tickets on here the week before or pay 50 dollars per ticket. That takes you down pretty far.
Anyway, that means a kids and his dad could get in and out for $200. Its a whole family event for $400. Still expensive, but the whole family would rarely go to a game together.
You xan do it anyway you want. Find a tailgate and have no food costs for the day nor concessions. Or, you could hit a bar and eat and drink lots before the game and include a trip to the MDen.
When we were kids, most of only rarely went to major sporting events with the whole family I cant remember my mom ever going to a game with us. Anyway, it is still a somewhat rare event, but it is a pretty cool experience for a kid.
on. $0.00 for Misc? Impossible. There is always Misc.
Concur. When was the last time kids did not incur miscellaneous expenses?
Answer: never.
Typically only buy the kids a snack, but that is part of the food budget. I dont get down for buying souveniers, apparel, etc. on game day. The experience is where it is at.
With respect to ijohnb, stadium concessions are the last place I'd spend money on a UM football outing. Overpriced, mediocre, etc. Bring some Clif bars and be done with it.
I'm sorry, but after pounding beer for a couple hours I have to have a chicken strip basket at halftime. Even if it is $9.00. Throw in the souvenir coffee mug on a cold fall day and we're up to $18. I'm sure I could just man up, but self control has always been a problem of mine.
I just chuckled outload thinking of someone trying to save money by pounding cliff bars all gameday
The lesson here: don't have kids ;)
As someone who flies in for 2-3 games a year, it's just a planned annual expense. Going to the big games is a priority for me, and ultimately if it's a priority you can find a way.
Aside from the game tickets, everything can be done at a reasonable price if you plan far enough in advance, and you can usually include the tickets in that when buying on the secondary at the right time and searching hard enough for the best deal. Good to work local contacts too for parking, spare beds, etc.
Sounds like you have experience. When do you recommend trying to buy them exactly in terms of minutes/hours before/after kickoff?
- PM me a week before the game, you can come with for free. The majority of my friends are state fans, so I am always scrambling to find someone to join during november games.
100% interested in this if it is real
I hear what you're saying. There are some cheaper ways, but with young kids, it is very difficult. I have brought my son (wife and daughter don't care so much) and we pack a lot of our own food, skip concessions, bring bicycles, so we park on campus for free, and lock the bikes next to the stadium. That lets us do a game for around $150 or so (two tickets, gas, and maybe buy a couple sandwiches.)
This is just what stuff costs anymore. Especially if you have a product that many people want to use. I just got back from vacation and valet parking was $50 a day...and there were no other options. A pretty standard Manhattan was $18. A cheeseburger $35. 20 years ago I would have never dreamed of paying those prices.
are quickly pricing themselves out of a families range to attend. Your breakout is right on the money and you have to ask yourself is it worth going to see a game at that cost. Last year we spent $200 a ticket for a game. Loved it, but in the back of my head I was thinking my gawd $200 to watch a football game..... crazy.....
- 9/8 WMU
- 9/15 SMU
- 9/22 Nebraska
- 10/6 Maryland
- 10/13 Wisconsin
- 11/3 Penn State
- 11/17 Indiana
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God willing in 2019 I'll be off the waiting list because that schedule is insane.
but given we are very likely to be preseason top 5, I bet it'll be just as crazy next year too. Spartan Stadium might be 50% maize and blue if the wheels continue to fall off
You were talking about 2019, not this year. Disregard.
Is actually a pretty good home slate. It would be really awesome if that was an every other year counter to OSU, MSU, ND.
If the team does well this year, beats OSU and heads into the offseason with a lot of momentum, yeah, the prices will skyrocket for 2018. May not have OSU or MSU at home, but you have Wisconsin, Nebraska and Penn State all coming to Ann Arbor. At least one of those will be at night.
Then dear god, in 2019. ND, MSU and OSU all at home. The team will be fully Harbaugh-nized by that point.
All 3 of those games at home IN A ROW
Plus we play Iowa at home for the first time in 7 years.
I already know that Iowa game will be an f-ing massacre.
Eh. This is one of the worst times to buy. There's still a ton of excitement about the season quickly approaching and no one has lost yet. The price of the MSU tickets, for example, will be lower when Sparty is 2-2 the week of the game than they are right now. That will be the case for probably every home game this year except OSU, which is going to cost a fortune no matter when you buy.
is expecting State to be good. The reason those tickets are so hot is because most fans are anticipating an epic beatdown. I don't expect those to drop much even if State is 0-4.
There is no way even that dumpster fire drops one to bowling green but I agree. Everyone I know is hoping for Rutgers2016 2.0
still have too much lingering talent for that. I think we will handle them with relatively little difficulty but I am not expecting to stomp them Rutgers style. They will always get up for Michigan. They SUCKED last year and that game was even a little dicey early and late. (I know it wasn't "close" but it also was not a cake walk).
You are right that they will show up for the game, and by no means will it be a Rutgersesque blow out. Im not sure what you mean by too much lingering talent though... whos left? LJ Scott will get his but I question his effectiveness with that offensive line, and with huge question marks in their pass game, wont we be expecting the run? Their defense has been depleted even if Cooper is allowed to play. They might end up with a better record than last year (maybe 4?) but I see this team as being worse than last years.
ND under the lights in 2011. There was basically nothing available and people were asking crazy amounts of money for them.
The prices will seriously drop by game time. Like they always do.
I paid $175 for UTL in 2011.....and had so much fun that I came back to pay $140 for the OSU game. I think both of those prices were pretty reasonable by today's standards.
Other than that, I doubt that I've ever paid more than $30 for a ticket in A2 (there was the time that I paid $100 at Penn State in 2006....but that was a road game). The stadium holds 110K, there's ALWAYS somebody selling tickets at a reasonable price outside the stadium. You just have to know how to play the game (don't get tickets early, be willing to walk away, only show limited cash....but stash more away in case you need it).
The only time that I thought it was impossible (or at least really cost prohibitive) to get a ticket was the OSU game in 2003. There was nothing for less than $200 and most were asking $300 or more.
Most of the time below face value. Just have to know when to get them. Right around face is what I've paid for OSU tickets. I like being able to get sideline or corner seats, if I'm driving up from Columbus I'm not doing endzone.
Section 38-40 is my spot, nothing above row 49.
Stay away from 40 for big games because that seems to be a spot where road fans populate. I had a bunch of Wisconsin drunks in front of me last year in 40.
I was aaproved to move to section 37 this year with my season tickets. I was in the opposite corner in section 18, But Im very glad to be in 37 now. The north side of the stadium is the best, two years ago I had to listen to the sparty band play more than I could hear ours! That day was hell on earth
The problem with StubHub is even if you get tickets for around face value, you end up paying well above that after fees. I miss the days where you could get a ticket for the price of two Coke products.
Pretty soon tickets for sparty games will be worth less than Coke wrappers.
Bought 2 tickets last year for the Mayrland game for $10 each from a drunk student before the game. 6th row, 45 yard line.
Tickets in the student section require a student ID or a validation sticker. Anything between 27-33 should be avoided at all costs