Smallvol#1
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Just purchased our season tickets. Cost us $1,155 (I think...UT has put up the new site but it is basically nonfunctional..and we want respect for our university...oh gosh:cray. Anyway, I think that is about a $100 increase - plus paying $145 for parking. The increase got me to thinking; why a price increase when the product is basically deteriorating? Then I wondered about attendance, we all know our attendance is dropping. So I looked at Cockytalk. Another thing we know is they have been crowing about beating us in attendance. It looked like a family of four could attend the whole season for less than one UT season ticket. Apples to apples, I checked for center court seating, donation required. Looked like just about any amount, but that $650/year total would easily get anything you wanted. Center court required donation for new tickets for WBB at UT is now $1,000/seat.
So how much does this high cost affect attendance? Or is the drop in attendance because the "product" is not as good? Or both? It seems to me that a lot of young families would now find attending games to be cost prohibitive. When I remember how hard Pat worked to get people in the seats and interested in the game!, this is worrisome.
Maybe one of the Gamecocks on site could verify how much it costs, donation required, area of seats, etc. Hopefully I'm wrong and their tickets aren't really that cheap:ermm:.
Either way, we might just be shooting ourselves in the foot, unless we just don't care if fans attend the game or not.
So how much does this high cost affect attendance? Or is the drop in attendance because the "product" is not as good? Or both? It seems to me that a lot of young families would now find attending games to be cost prohibitive. When I remember how hard Pat worked to get people in the seats and interested in the game!, this is worrisome.
Maybe one of the Gamecocks on site could verify how much it costs, donation required, area of seats, etc. Hopefully I'm wrong and their tickets aren't really that cheap:ermm:.
Either way, we might just be shooting ourselves in the foot, unless we just don't care if fans attend the game or not.