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tOSU Ticket Prices (merged)

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"Yes it's gay they are not selling the ooc games to the students in advance"

The only thing that's gay is being a whiny little baby. They will sell you tickets, you just have to wait a little while. Boo-hoo. There are lots of OSU fans out there, who are not students, who have a very difficult time getting tickets. Cry me a friggin river. And yes, I am a student myself. Grow up.
 
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When I went to OSU, my first year (1987) I bought a student ticket for $40. That was for 5 games.
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I paid $14 and got an athletic card that they punched for each of the home football games. With that same card you could go to BBall games for 25 cents each and get into all other events free.

To put this in the context of athletic department expenses, I would estimate that the football coach at the time (a Mr. Hayes) would have been making roughly 3-4% of what our current coach is making. (This was 10 years before Woody retired with a salary of $43,000).
 
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What did tickets end up going for closer to game time? I bought a couple of tickets early to get the haggling over with and I am hoping that as it got closer to game time, ticket prices went down. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
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My brother was wasted and sold two tickets right before kickoff for $100 each... they were in the endzone, in C-Deck about as high as C-deck goes... basically the worst seats in the house for $100 each...
 
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that's a pretty drastic price increase from last year... No student tickets and the $10 price hike definately caused a drastic increase in scalper's prices....

Damn Holbrook and Gieger.
 
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daddyphatsacs said:
That sucks, I guess that I will have to hand pick the games that I'll attend anymore. I guess if you are not a donor to OSU they don't want you in the stadium anymore.
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I'm not sure what prices scalpers are getting for tickets has to do with anything you just said. I'm an alumnus who donates to the school every year. I get one game offered to me - 2 tickets at face value. The school graduates about 5,000 people every quarter, so with that many alums - and a top tier program - what the hell do you expect? Walk-up tickets at $20 a pop?

There are a lot more alums than seats in the stadium, and the team is 26-2 its last 28 games, so scalpers are raising their prices. Apparently, someone is buying them - if they weren't the price would come down.

Ripping the university over the above phenomena may make you feel better, but it makes no sense. The only thing they're guilty of in this regard is graduating too many students, having too small a stadium and winning too many games.
 
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DA-Bucks said:
that's a pretty drastic price increase from last year... No student tickets and the $10 price hike definately caused a drastic increase in scalper's prices....

Damn Holbrook and Gieger.
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So Holbrook and Geiger are responsible for what scalpers charge now? :roll2:

I pray to God none of you graduated from our Economics department, but I'll sum it up one more time. OSU graduates thousands of students a year - the official alumni association has more members than the stadium has seats, and that's not all of us.

The team is 26-2 and hasn't lost a home game in over 2 years, and the bottom line is, people are paying the scalpers' prices - otherwise, they would come down.

You may not like any of that, but Holbrook and Geiger have little to do with it. It's called supply-and-demand, and it existed long before either of them were born.
 
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Buckeyehead said:
So Holbrook and Geiger are responsible for what scalpers charge now? :roll2:

I pray to God none of you graduated from our Economics department, but I'll sum it up one more time. OSU graduates thousands of students a year - the official alumni association has more members than the stadium has seats, and that's not all of us.

The team is 26-2 and hasn't lost a home game in over 2 years, and the bottom line is, people are paying the scalpers' prices - otherwise, they would come down.

You may not like any of that, but Holbrook and Geiger have little to do with it. It's called supply-and-demand, and it existed long before either of them were born.
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Yes, but supply was reduced when student ticket rules started being enforced. If you take 5000 tickets off of the market to the general public, demand goes up. Therefore, so does price.
 
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Ripping the university over the above phenomena may make you feel better, but it makes no sense.
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Yeah, I guess they have nothing to do with filtering in large donations and then handing out tickets appropriately. My brother-in-law has 12 tickets for every home game, explain that one to me. Did I happen to mention that he donates an ass load to the university. I guess that someone must really like him in the ticket office..... :biggrin:

Yes, but supply was reduced when student ticket rules started being enforced. If you take 5000 tickets off of the market to the general public, demand goes up. Therefore, so does price
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Scooter, just explain to him that it is general supply and demand, something that Geiger has a lot to do with when they are heavily enforcing student tickets. :biggrin:
 
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"Yes, but supply was reduced when student ticket rules started being enforced. If you take 5000 tickets off of the market to the general public, demand goes up. Therefore, so does price."

Scooter,

you're on the correct track... I think you are getting supply and demand confused. If tickets are removed from the general public, supply is reduced (demand does not change) and prices can increase.

However one can argue that supply is actually shifted to the large population, thus filling a portion of demand. If 5,000 student no longer have tickets, those tickets can be sold to those who want them. In effect supply didn't change (there's still 105k tickets with fanies in each seat), it shifted from the students (or who ever is using their tickets) to other fans who purchased the tickets from the university.

The ID rule has been around for a long time. IMO it's about time they start to check for ID's... If a student isn't going to use his/her ticket, let an alumni use it (paying a higher price to the school)...
 
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