Stadium expansion ideas
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now some have lotteries and things to get them, but I've always heard of discounted tickets for students
..unlike your native Mongolia.
Still, and I am trying to avoid sounding like a GP'er, what's the point? We can all sit around here and be apathetic and gripe about the state of things, but isn't there some minimum level of commitment that needs to be made on the spectator's part? I don't really blame the alumni who spend any amount of money on fuel, food, season or individual game tickets, lodging, etc. that got disillusioned between 2001 and 2006 and said "Screw it, the product is not worth it." However, in my opinion, it's reasonable to expect the students to show up instead of abandoning ship. It costs them nothing. They are already in town. I understand that they don't <span style="font-style: italic;">have</span> to, but I think they should feel obligated. It should be the thing to do, and not just dismissed when the "mob" decides they are too good to go support their university.
Still, and I am trying to avoid sounding like a GP'er, what's the point? We can all sit around here and be apathetic and gripe about the state of things, but isn't there some minimum level of commitment that needs to be made on the spectator's part? I don't really blame the alumni who spend any amount of money on fuel, food, season or individual game tickets, lodging, etc. that got disillusioned between 2001 and 2006 and said "Screw it, the product is not worth it." However, in my opinion, it's reasonable to expect the students to show up instead of abandoning ship. It costs them nothing. They are already in town. I understand that they don't <span style="font-style: italic;">have</span> to, but I think they should feel obligated. It should be the thing to do, and not just dismissed when the "mob" decides they are too good to go support their university.
Optimus Prime 4 said:
Nebraska for one gives no special status to students. The Nebraska student is just as likely as I am to be able to purchase a home or away football ticket to a Nebraska game.
</p>And I've got a call in to a buddy to ask what UF does.
And let's not ask what Ole Miss does. I loathe that we constantly compare ourselves to one of the bottom rungs.
I am with OP4. I never knew of a school that sold student tickets for the same price as regular tickets.
They charge $21 per game for students per their athletic dept website.
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Edited to add that regular tickets sell for $52 per game (not including the donation you have to make to even be able to buy tickets in the first place). So they're discounting their student tickets by at least 60%.
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Edited to add that regular tickets sell for $52 per game (not including the donation you have to make to even be able to buy tickets in the first place). So they're discounting their student tickets by at least 60%.
I was in school from 01-06 and i went to every home game and most of the time the student section was not full but during our time of suckiness we played every game at either 11:30 or 1:30 it sucks to get up with a hangover sit in the heat and watch us lose to UAb, Maine, Troy, etc....
I do remember the Florida game about a 1/4 of the student section was there including me and as the game progressed more and more students started to show up. All students want to go and cheer but it is hard wehn there is nothing to cheer for
And yes if we ever expand the band needs to move at least to the corner up high where everyone can hear them, but our band is run by retards
Sorry I lied because I missed the Maine game my cousin got married and someone called and told me that we lost to Maine and I wept
I do remember the Florida game about a 1/4 of the student section was there including me and as the game progressed more and more students started to show up. All students want to go and cheer but it is hard wehn there is nothing to cheer for
And yes if we ever expand the band needs to move at least to the corner up high where everyone can hear them, but our band is run by retards
Sorry I lied because I missed the Maine game my cousin got married and someone called and told me that we lost to Maine and I wept
2 seats for every 3 people....cokes reigning down on the rare score.....fights....I quit sitting in the student section after a while as well.</p>
Why have we been playing some many early games lately? I don't think it's because of the TV schedule because alot of our early games weren't even televised. It kind of sucks to have to tailgate so damn early in the morning. It's like instead of BBQ you gotta cook breakfast at the tailgate. I prefer evening games myself. The general atmosphere just seems better.
and if it isn't already done this way, they should include it in the activities fee -- thus, forcing all students to pay for tickets.
another school on the pile that discounts for students and we don't seem to be able to put one single school on the pile of charging full price for student tickets?
there was an activites fee added in the general tuition line many years ago, while speaking to the great Pat Wallace several weeks back trying to get some info for a report I'm trying to work together in my spare time on this very subject, she wouldn't provide the specific amount, or any other items I requested such as number of student tickets allocated and specific sections.
I'll piece together some things I have found via websites and post it concerning other SEC schools and student ticket prices
LSU
Tickets rose from $84 and $126 due to adding 8th home game)
Reserved Seats (8 games) $144 (group seating only)
General Admission (8 games) $96
Alabama $35 - Student season ticket price
Auburn Student Season Ticket (Includes all home games). Price: $95.00
Ole Miss - No Info
Arkansas -</p>
Tennessee -</p>
Kentucky -</p>
Florida -</p>
South Carolina -</p>
Vanderbilt -</p>
Georgia
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Mississippi State - $18 for season tickets</p>
I'll piece together some things I have found via websites and post it concerning other SEC schools and student ticket prices
LSU
Tickets rose from $84 and $126 due to adding 8th home game)Reserved Seats (8 games) $144 (group seating only)
General Admission (8 games) $96
Alabama $35 - Student season ticket price
Auburn Student Season Ticket (Includes all home games). Price: $95.00
Ole Miss - No Info
Arkansas -</p>
Tennessee -</p>
Kentucky -</p>
Florida -</p>
South Carolina -</p>
Vanderbilt -</p>
Georgia
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Mississippi State - $18 for season tickets</p>
Bama = $5
Ark = $5 fayetteville $2 Little Rock
Auburn = $95 for the season
LSU = ?? no idea/ did not find
Ole Miss = $49 for season
MSU = $3
Georgia = $48 for the season
Florida = $10
UK - $35 for season
South Carolina = part of activites fee.. students do not pay extra.. no idea what fee is
Vandy = no idea/ did not find
Tenn = $90 for the season
Ark = $5 fayetteville $2 Little Rock
Auburn = $95 for the season
LSU = ?? no idea/ did not find
Ole Miss = $49 for season
MSU = $3
Georgia = $48 for the season
Florida = $10
UK - $35 for season
South Carolina = part of activites fee.. students do not pay extra.. no idea what fee is
Vandy = no idea/ did not find
Tenn = $90 for the season
Other people are saying it costs $3 per game ticket for students. You are saying the ticket fee is included, but that they won't tell you what the amount is.
So, you don't have to fork over $3 per ticket in addtion to activities fees? Or you do?
So, you don't have to fork over $3 per ticket in addtion to activities fees? Or you do?
Fees are fees included for all students.
the $3 is neligiable anyways, as the one piece of info i did get from that trip was whether you bought a single ticket for any game or season tickets you are charged the $18 season ticket rate.
Yes, the ticket price is in addition.
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the $3 is neligiable anyways, as the one piece of info i did get from that trip was whether you bought a single ticket for any game or season tickets you are charged the $18 season ticket rate.
Yes, the ticket price is in addition.
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The tickets come in a pack. You can't buy one ticket at $3. You buy the pack for $18 and you get season tickets, end of story. I remember one year around '04-'05 a friend of mine got the student season ticket pack around game 5 of the season because the athletic dept. still were not sold out. Now I don't think this is true for this year, but if State were charging people more than $3 to watch the fiasco that was called football before last year, nobody would go. I think some of you are far removed to what $18 compared $60-$70 is to a college student. It's a difference of 700 packs of ramen noodles, 25 packages of hot Pockets, or 4 cases of beer if you are drinking the cheap stuff. You know why other school can charge more for tickets? Because people will pay for them AND they will go to the games.
MSU Moral Victory said:
isn't significantly different than $18-$21 was to a college student 25 years ago. I don't think our college students would have any problem coming up with at least the $42-$49 that UM college students pay for their season tickets.</p>
asking students to pay $18, and then have part of their activities fees subsidize the rest. Why not just put the entire fee in with the activities fees. And then you go pick a season packet up for free if you want tickets.
redbird4state said:
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I'm just saying that you would have a drop off in student attendance to the games if season ticket prices were raised and we were losing. Students would just rather spend their money on other stuff. Sure, the frat crowd and former high school jocks would go, but the rest of the kids would rather be in the dorms playing Halo than paying that much money for tickets regardless of what the kids at Ole Miss are paying (I don't see why that is relevant).
Raising the tickets to $5 a game would be reasonable, but telling somebody that over the course of a year their ticket prices have gone up 250% would probably piss some people off. Think gas prices.
Raising the tickets to $5 a game would be reasonable, but telling somebody that over the course of a year their ticket prices have gone up 250% would probably piss some people off. Think gas prices.
and that's iffy at best, the SGA voted to contribute to the 1985 stadium expansion by agreeing to the extra $3 per game. I think the reasoning was that the students wanted more and better home games than the two that were the norm in the 70s and early 80s.
when I asked when I was in school (97-2001), was that to get the $3 tickets you had to be a full time student, which included the activities fee, or pay for the activites fee as a non-fulltime student to get the $3 tickets. The fee was more like a pre-rec to get the tickets, it did not go towards the cost of football tickets. But, if you paid it you got tickets for $3. I was under the understanding that the money went to basketball and baseball tickets, as well as intramurals.
Could be wrong.. but it made sense.. so I stopped asking.
Could be wrong.. but it made sense.. so I stopped asking.
vh dawg said:
Bama students aren't guaranteed tickets. There is a sale in the spring for season tickets for current students. Then there is an allotment of the "half-season" tickets which I think that only freshman and transfers are eligible. The half-season tickets are either for three games (including Auburn) or four games. I wouldn't be surprised if they go to the half-season tickets for all students, with the possible exception of seniors, in the future. </p>
Nebraska has also sold out every season since the 1960s. The freshman are not allowed to buy tickets, only sop- seniors are allowed to buy tickets. Va Tech you have to pay $60 a year flat. Raising tickets to $5 or $10 is not that much considering the fact that mom and dad are ones paying for it most of the time. I too was a student during the losing years and still went but at the same time it hard to watch your team get the **** kicked out of them every week. Thats why you went back to frat house and drank to forget about it.
Let me preface by saying as a State fan from birth, I haven't missed a home football game since I was a freshman. I think the main two factors when it comes to student attendance are success on the field and game time, with the latter being a much bigger factor. The last two home openers against USC and LSU, you literally could not move in the student section. We were all packed in the bleachers standing at an angle because there wasn't enough room to stand shoulder-width. Until last year, when our record started plummeting, so did student attendance. When you couple a bad team with an 11: 30 JP/Lincoln/Raycom start time, not many want to nurse themselves out of an intense Friday night hangover only to sweat out their body weight in alcohol and watch the Auburns of the world hang 40 on us (especially our lovely co-eds). However, when we have a 6 p.m. kickoff, the students usually make it out to the game, regardless of the opponent. Last year, when we started winning some, you saw a big difference in the 11:30 crowds, most notably the Alabama game.
Fairweather fandom, definitely, but the students who did not grow up being State fans just don't have the same loyalty to our football team as those of us who grew up on loving the Dogs. A winning team will always bring the students out. Without a winning team (2004-2006), it's going to take a favorable kickoff time to convince most fence-riding students to put their asses in the stadium. It sucks, but that seems to be the way things are.
And I agree with our ticket package being probably too cheap. I think a jump in the price to $5 or $6 per game would prove to be really inelastic, and roughly the same amount of students would still purchase them.
Fairweather fandom, definitely, but the students who did not grow up being State fans just don't have the same loyalty to our football team as those of us who grew up on loving the Dogs. A winning team will always bring the students out. Without a winning team (2004-2006), it's going to take a favorable kickoff time to convince most fence-riding students to put their asses in the stadium. It sucks, but that seems to be the way things are.
And I agree with our ticket package being probably too cheap. I think a jump in the price to $5 or $6 per game would prove to be really inelastic, and roughly the same amount of students would still purchase them.
These college students could absolutely afford to pay more for tickets. Today's average college student is not like your average college student from the 60's or 70's. They have no problem paying inflated cover charges every weekend to go to bars/clubs, they have no problem buying thier girlfriends expensive mixed drinks, they get the fancier cell phone rather than the baseline model, they still manage to get the DVDs, CDs, and video games they want, etc. Some are frugal, but your average student isn't exactly pinching pennies. Ever heard of student loans and daddy? Most students live pretty well off of these two sources nowadays.
An increase to $10 would still work. We should at least double the price to $6.
An increase to $10 would still work. We should at least double the price to $6.
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