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BuckeyeTillIDie
The North Remembers
They raise ticket prices every year, it is becoming a joke.
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Andy Geiger really created somewhat of a monster with consistently heightened ticket prices in the late 90's when the economy was booming, and it was exacerbated by the years when demand was high (like 1998) when he funneled more tickets away from students and towards alumni to maximize the profit. Unfortunately, this was bound to happen, where they want to keep jacking the prices when the economy isn't so good anyore and they haven't exactly saved any of the money they generated in years past. It is becoming a joke, and all it does is price alumni who have "regular" jobs and careful budgets out of seeing a football game every year. The NBA is taking and has taken a lot of shit for the amount it costs to take a family of 4 to an NBA game anymore, and much is the same as the football tickets at OSU get more and more expensive. And that doesn't even begin to address the basketball arena, which is starting to look like a half empty gym you would see at a Horizon league game anymore.
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CHU
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Oh8ch;1654202; said:
What? You don't want to pay more money to watch Ohio State beat Samford or Presbyterian by 40?
I was concerned about football ticket prices before I noticed that the University of Texas charges a similar amount (however UT is tiered for games).
Hope OSU keeps the majority of Olympic sports free admission.
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BigJim;1654332; said:
Therein lies the big question. I am not bashing the man here, but I was and am a vocal opponent of a lot of things Andy Geiger did and decisions that he made, because he decided to run the whole thing like a corporation. I don't have any problem with things like luxury boxes paying for stadium renovations or buildings being built, but events like freshman only getting one game in 1998 instead of season tickets because too many rich alumni wanted tickets really frosted me then (I was there in grad school at the time, though it didn't cost me tickets) and still does. You are only a student for 4 or 5 years (for the most part), and you are paying a boatload in tuition if you are an undergrad as it is, so I think one answer to that question is that I believe the university has an obligation to keep tickets available and affordable for students. After all, if you get a "regular" job, you probably can't afford to donate enough to get season tickets later, and you may not even be able to travel back for games at all, so that 4 year period might be the only time you can go. So that really bothered me. I know that the OSU AD was consistently ranked #1 or close to it while Geiger was there, and that was seemingly his main (and in my opinion, sometimes his only) criteria to measure success. But when dealing with students I think it is more complicated than that, and I was always sorry to see he really didn't take that into consideration many times.
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BigJim
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I agree with the student ticket carve out if you're going to support the business model approach. Even so, cheap affordable student tickets might be the better business decision long term anyway. That is an AWESOME opportunity to strengthen the future alumni base, which has all kinds of positive financial impacts.
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BuckeyeJon2006
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I believe we have the most student tickets for anyone in the country for football correct? If not we're at least close to the top. I'm not happy about football tickets going up but its not like it will affect demand at all.
Basketball is a diff monstert though. If they ever want games to consistently sell out, and for the students to actually all show up, they need to get students free tickets. This isn't North Carolina, we're a football school, and most students don't care enough about the basketball team to drop $100+ a year. The non conference schedule being a joke doesn't help either, but unless we get another #1 ranked team like 3 years ago the student tickets simply are not going to sell out. This all coming from a senior who hasn't gone to a game since freshman year.
Basketball is a diff monstert though. If they ever want games to consistently sell out, and for the students to actually all show up, they need to get students free tickets. This isn't North Carolina, we're a football school, and most students don't care enough about the basketball team to drop $100+ a year. The non conference schedule being a joke doesn't help either, but unless we get another #1 ranked team like 3 years ago the student tickets simply are not going to sell out. This all coming from a senior who hasn't gone to a game since freshman year.
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Mac
That's a pain in the buns
BuckeyeJon2006;1654545; said:
Not to mention the bad seating for the students...give us the lower bowl on one side of the court, and put the boosters, donators, high ups on the other side. Until then as well, we aren't going to have that good of a basketball layout for students. IMO.
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strohs
Go Bucks!
BuckeyeMac;1655775; said:
I have been saying that for years.
People say the students dont show up and dont care, but its my opinion that they dont because the seats suck.
I cant remember for sure, but I dont think I attended a single bball game in my 5 years as a student because of that reason.
The lowest bowl of the Schott is all temporary / removable scaffolding, which could easily be reconfigured to get the students some real seats...
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It's worth every fuckin' penny.
I can't really afford a ticket, but I'd pay twice that if I could.
I can't really afford a ticket, but I'd pay twice that if I could.
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strohs;1655783; said:
offering the students tickets in the prime spots would be very risky for the athletic director because:
1. the students have proven to be very fickle. If they were offered those prime seats there is at least a risk that the students would simply find another excuse for not showing up...like not enough free shuttles to the Schott.
2. the PSLs helped pay for the Schott.....move the seats for the PSL folks and you're likely to get legal action.
3. very rarely is the Schott intimidating...even when the students fill up their section behind the baskets.
by the way, when I attended in the 1980s the students got a higher % of the prime seats at SJA than today but it's not like we got the level of seats that UNC students and Michigan students get today.
the crux of the matter is that our athletic department is paying the price for being so large and full of so many revenue neutral or even negative sports.
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