2019 Michigan Football single game ticket prices announced, increased
From MGoBlue
There are new tiers but the prices have still been increased.
For example, compare these prices to the last time we had both rivalry games at home in 2017.
Endzone- $125
Maize/Blue- $140
Victors/Valiant- $155
Even the prices of the Rutgers game have been increased. Again, 2017-
End Zone- $75, Maize/Blue- $90, Victors/Valiant- $105
Here is the new Michigan Stadium price map with the new tiers-
As a father of six kids, I try to get to one game every year with my eldest son who thankfully has taken on my passion for all things Michigan.
Not trying to play the "woe is me" card, but it continues to be more and more difficult to justify this expense when weighed against all the other necessities of running a large household.
Virtue signal alert: People who can't afford these prices who love Michigan football as much as the rest of us, how will they ever get into the stadium? I can grumble about these, but I can pay them. It's just a matter of do I want to pull this out of my bank account / transactional pain. Some people don't have this or much more than this in their bank account. Sure they can get in with a scalped ticket if the season goes south, yipee. The dad/mom who watch every game with their kid and both love it and they want to take them once a year shouldn't be out $400 for an afternoon.
These are old arguments. We keep paying, they'll keep taking our money.
I know it's not the same, but the "spring game" is free to get in. There's also a movie in the summer that has happened the past few years that is free to the public. I understand it's different watching a scrimmage/game or just a movie on the big screen, but there still is some limited access to the stadium for a reasonable cost.
And they neutered the spring game too. Really fuckin with the college football experience. Given the profit margins I don't see why this is necessary.
April 11th, 2019 at 12:29 AM ^
Wow.
That's rich... dude is rationalizing between family and finances and you attack him for virtual signaling.
Way to go SJW; hope you're proud of yourself.
April 11th, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
I was saying I was virtue signaling, talking about how it sucks that people who weren't as well off can't get into games.
I can see how my comment can be read the way you did though, reading it again. This was not at all my intent. I piggybacked on his comment because I agree with him.
boliver, i sympathize with the cost and large household. nevertheless i have held on to my two endzone seats since '80. i get the kids to one game each by trading some buddies for their tix for the games i can't make. it works out, and all of ours are over the top michigan fans with cotton-pickin' maize and blue hearts, every single one of them. i hope you and eldest son hang in there.
I know several people that can't afford the money or time needed to attend all the games. Instead, they pool their money with a friend or 2 and then divvy up the seats, by lot if they can't work it out among themselves as to who will go to what game. I know some people who do the same with Tigers tickets and Red Wing tickets.
6 kids? Stop having so much sex.
Or, try the tush...
User name checks out?
HAHAHAHAH!
Thanks for the tip Chalky!
We have 6 kids between myself and my 2nd wife. 3 from my first marriage, 2 from her first marriage, and 1 together.
Still lots of sex, but I didn't get to have all of it! LOL
April 11th, 2019 at 10:14 AM ^
chalky, Isn't telling boliver that like telling steph curry to pass the ball?
Looks to me like Rutgers went down? Prices ranged from $75-$105 in 2017 and now they're $65-$105. Still a lot of money for Rutgers...
Ah shit you're right. Is it Friday yet?
April 11th, 2019 at 11:04 AM ^
Rutger fans travel well, better buy these asap before secondary market gets a hold of these...
If they have a special year and those prices hold I’ll be watching from home. I usually try to make it to one game a year. If they drop one along the way I’ll pick up a ticket for a fraction of these prices on the secondary market.
April 10th, 2019 at 10:00 PM ^
I thought last season was going to be that special season and was upset my work situation would not allow me to catch one home game last season. I thought the spirit of murder wolf on the D was going to propel us over OSU on the road, boy was I wrong. I hope to catch at least one game this season because you never know if things break the right way we could have one of those magic seasons.
I think we will soon see the tipping point on ticket prices...where total revenue actually declines because fewer tickets sold at these high prices. Maybe this year?
ABSOLUTELY.
It keeps getting harder and harder to justify keeping season tickets.
At some point (REALLY SOON) I'm going to feel like it's a slap in the face to my fandom that they continue to raise prices . As such I can only conclude that they lack any appreciation for my continued support and rather that they care more about squeezing every last penny of us die hards.
It make me appreciate Michigan football just a little less...
People assume they can keep inflating prices. Until there is a collapse in the market.
I wish this could be true, but what's the incentive for the AD (assuming the goal is to maximize revenue streams - I'd love it if that were not the case, but all the evidence clearly points toward that)?
They can sell tickets at inflated prices because they know fans will buy them at this price. Then, if there are unsold tickets later, they can run "promotions" (not the buy-a-Coke kind) that incrementally discount the tickets because, at the end of the day, they know there are more than enough fans to fill the stadium. It's simply a function of ratcheting down prices over time until you've satisfied the demand for that price point.
I think next year. No msu, osu, nd will really make people think twice. This year 4 big time games, next year Wiscy and Ped State, don't really care.
next year they will crow about not raising prices. then bump them up again the year after for the "good" schedule.
Maybe. I gave up my season tickets this year. It just became harder and harder to justify the increasing prices when I could buy tickets on stubhub for a couple games and fare much better.
That and the fact that every game is televised. Park yourself in front of the giant HD TV, sit in your comfy chair, drink your favorite beverage, eat your favorite food, and you can see everything way better, in minute detail, as opposed to sitting in Section 6, row 85 in a cold drizzle, waiting for the guy in the red hat to get off the field and for play to resume after aTV timeout.
No, it's not the same experience as being in the stadium. But I only live an hour away and yet there's at least a 7-8 hour time investment to attend in person, regardless of who they're playing, and I'm not even tailgating. And I'm not even addressing the cost of tickets nor of the pricey concessions and/or meals that I buy in Ann Arbor.
I used to attend almost every game but between the cost and the time investments, as contrasted with the cheap, comfortable, available alternatives, I can only justify a few games a year.
I'm sure it happens soon. If they roll these same prices out there next year for the "premium games" with Wisconsin and Penn State....
I’d rather see army than Rutgers.
I'd rather see the Spring Game than Rutgers.
Too soon?
Good point. I bet the loser of the spring game could beat Rutgers.
That’s fine. Until season ticket sales take a nose dive, it will keep increasing. Other than the big games, we all know you can get in for much less on the secondary market. I had season tickets once and unless you want to tailgate every home game with all your friends, it’s more flexible to pick up tickets on game day for much less.
When does the Tailgating Fee begin?
darn inflation
There's so many things you can do with that large amount of money. They eventually, kind of like a lot of other things, are going to price themselves out of existence.
I think that if Michigan suffers another disappointing end to the season, ticket sales will crater next year with the lowered expectations and lousy schedule. This season your home slate is as good as it has ever been--this is the year to raise prices--but the bottom could drop out of the fanbase if we lose to OSU, miss the B1G championship game, and lose a bowl game again.
I have some hope of taking my vacation over labor day and making it to MTSU with a couple of kids this year; none of them have ever been to a home game or even seen the commemorative brick my late father and I got in 1999 in the northwest plaza. If it happens I will pay for the experience once. But I can't imagine that the school isn't running out of people to pay these prices for every game every year. 110,000 is a lot of seats to fill.
This will happen every two years. Michigan plays MSU, OSU and Washington at home in 2021 so there will be an increase there too.
At least in 2022, 2024 and 2026 we get marquee OOC teams at home in years we play MSU and OSU on the road.
It's more than just the schedule. The schedule is an issue, but the fans themselves have been pretty resilient. Declining attendance has been a story all over college football, even in places like Alabama, and Michigan has weathered this trend better than most other schools.
But hope plays a big part in that--we want the team to succeed, and even after the ND loss Michigan spent most of the football season on a high crushing old nemeses like Wisconsin and Penn State. The fans have stuck by the team, believing we'll see things get better, wanting to be there when they do.
But if you eliminate that hope, people stop wanting to pay so much to attend every game. Remember the Coke controversy? Michigan was in despair in the late Hoke era, and the attendances at the games reflected that. MGrowold, for one, dropped his long-time season ticket subscription and has not returned.
If this season trends badly, a lot of other people will look at a program that appears to be stuck in the second tier and look at a schedule that offers little in the way of compelling games and look at prices that could purchase a complete remodel in a room of their house and say, "nah, not this year."
And when you lose a customer base like that it's not easy to get it back. Mgrowold hasn't gone back and he'll tell you how happy he is with the choice. Other Michigan fans are likely to watch on their 70" tvs (you can get one for the price of four tickets to a rivalry game now) and decide the same thing.
Fanbases are not guaranteed to remain. Sure, there will always be a fanbase, but it can change in permanent ways. The Indianapolis 500 remains a great spectacle, but the split between CART and the IRL in 1996 devastated the sport and the event never recovered its former glory. Boxing is now a niche sport and has never recovered from its fall from public consciousness.
Michigan football is not guaranteed to have 100,000 fans willing to pay those prices 7 times a year forever. It just isn't.
This sums up my situation perfectly. I gritted my teeth and renewed this year because of the good home schedule, and the belief that if I gave up my seats then this would finally be the year they won big and I would kick myself for missing it.
If I'm walking out of the stadium on Thanksgiving weekend after yet another OSU loss and a trip to another consolation bowl, I believe I'll finally have the conviction to take a pass on getting season tickets again for 2020.
I still remember standing on the field after the 2011 OSU game, listening to "Good Life" by One Republic playing on the PA system, and deep down a part of me wants to experience that again.
April 10th, 2019 at 10:44 PM ^
Pices are reaching the point where one season's worth of my family not attending is about the same price as a 77 inch OLED. I made the decision to not renew our four seats last year after the bowl game.
I know some of you travel for work. I spend a fair amount of time away from home and it's not just Michigan tickets. Restaurant prices are up significantly over a few years ago as are hotel prices in many cities.
that’s a bold move not renewing for this year’s home slate, one I heavily considering but ended up renewing. I’m 99% certain this will be my last year after these price hikes.
Harbaugh is trying but I'm not sure this is the year. I think we still lose 2 or 3 games and OSU may beat us again at home. I think the offense will be more fun to watch, so overall it will be a good season. I think we beat MSU at home. We'll probably lose on the road to PSU, it will probably be a whiteout night game. WI will be a toss up and am bit worried about IA at home. But 10-2 or 9-3 would still be a good season and prices will probably go up a bit in 2020. One of these season Harbaugh will get us into the playoffs and once he does we will start competing with OSU for the high level recruits, though NE may start dominating in the west by then.
Ugh, GTF out of here with that Rutgers price.
The big games should be cheaper. The team hasn't shown up to those in years.
I'm all for the athletic dept charging as much as they can so they make the money rather than the scalpers. I can't imagine it's profitable to pay the donation required to purchase tix and then these prices and be able to make a profit reselling. That's really what the goal should be.
Just like previous years, if you want to get to a game at a decent price you can always go to one of the early season games and get tickets below face value if you wait long enough.
I know it was a long time ago, but when my buddies and I got season tickets for the first time back in the year of our Lord 1985 the price was $16 per ticket...no matter who Michigan was playing. Tickets were located in Section 16: Row 27.
If just adjusting for inflation, the price of those tickets would roughly be about $38 each...for any home game on the schedule.
My, how times have changed.
I've used my father's season tickets for years, but this is my first year of having them in my name and actually paying for them. Paid for my two earlier this week, and ouch. But, of course I'll keep shelling out the $1k+ every season.
August 31st can't come soon enough.
Welp, it looks like Endzone prices for the Rutgers game are $10 lower than 2017! Sweet! 
1999 Michigan-osu ticket price in Section 18: $35
2019: $145
$35 adjusted for inflation is $53.40
