Price increase coming!!

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Voltopia said:
You don't have to go back to the 1900s, that's an exaggeration.

A Tennessee football ticket cost, what, about 20-50 dollars in the early 1990s, at least regular folks seats? I think? That's 50-100 dollars in today's money, give or take. I don't want to work it out exactly, but it's around that. I don't remember what the donation costs were back then. Someone can chime in if they know. But I'm definitely willing to bet it wasn't anywhere on the scale of prices now.

And I may be wrong on the pricing particulars, I grant. I don't have a clear recollection of pricing past a certain year. But the trend is still glaring. Are they free to monetize in this way? Sure. But the acceleration of aggressive pricing and pricing out folks to suit their new model of college athletics is still noticeable and worth commenting on.
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That $50 cost from 1990 would be almost $125 today.

If you invested that $50 in the S&P500, that $50 would be almost $2,000 today.

Food for thought
 
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Perhaps if they weren't dropping what is likely a million or more on weird drone shows for football games they coulda transferred that savings to the cost of tickets.

I'm all for supporting the building of better facilities/stadium upgrades/retaining coaches/talent/etc, but some of the things they spend money on confuse me to no end.
 
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Titans4Vols said:
Perhaps if they weren't dropping what is likely a million or more on weird drone shows for football games they coulda transferred that savings to the cost of tickets.

I'm all for supporting the building of better facilities/stadium upgrades/retaining coaches/talent/etc, but some of the things they spend money on confuse me to no end.
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Buddy, TN ain't the only one doing it. Gotta keep up with the Joneses in modern college football.
 
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37620VOL said:
That $50 cost from 1990 would be almost $125 today.

If you invested that $50 in the S&P500, that $50 would be almost $2,000 today.

Food for thought
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LOL very true. I think about that quite a bit. Every NCAA football video game, every Vol-branded piece of merch, every hotel stay, every ticket, every licensed souvenir cup, every airplane flight.

I can still sleep at night, mercifully, but it isn't lost on me that the costs, after a fashion, can be exponential. True of every hobby, of course, but this one didn't use to be so damned expensive.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
It's not "their model of college athletics" but the state of college athletics if you want to win on a level that UT wins on. We are not unique.

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So we will be 4% better?
 
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I don’t like it, but I get it. This is the current state of college football.

When so many buy season tickets and resells them for double to make money, Danny White sees this and has so concern raising prices
 
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Volbrando said:
I don’t like it, but I get it. This is the current state of college football.

When so many buy season tickets and resale them for double to make money, Danny White sees this and has so concern raising prices
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What is double though? My tickets don't have a price on them anymore (and haven't since moving to TM)
 
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YankeeVol said:
Buddy, TN ain't the only one doing it. Gotta keep up with the Joneses in modern college football.
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I don't pay towards anything from any other school so I don't care who else is doing it lol.

That being said, I have no idea how/why keeping up with drone shows is important none the less.
 
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Titans4Vols said:
I don't pay towards anything from any other school so I don't care who else is doing it lol.

That being said, I have no idea how/why keeping up with drone shows is important none the less.
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Because 17-18 years kids (recruits) find it cool. They say it's for "fan experience." It's for recruit (and family) experience.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
When gas prices go up because of market conditions or business costs is the gas better?
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Gas is needed. Attending games is not. And yes, when things are labeled as talent fees, keeping up with the market, etc, etc yes I expect it to be better. Coming off of an embarrassing loss to OSU is just not the place I would expect another price gouge to be announced. Not really a fair comparison. The fair comparison would be saying gas is going up X because we are putting research into this gas and expect it to go further or be better on your engine. Then yes, maybe it’s worth it.
 
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EastTNVol6240 said:
Gas is needed. Attending games is not. And yes, when things are labeled as talent fees, keeping up with the market, etc, etc yes I expect it to be better. Coming off of an embarrassing loss to OSU is just not the place I would expect another price gouge to be announced. Not really a fair comparison. The fair comparison would be saying gas is going up X because we are putting research into this gas and expect it to go further or be better on your engine. Then yes, maybe it’s worth it.
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This isn't a talent fee increase. That was last year and is related to the House Settlement which increased the school's cost by $20.6M per year.

This is simply a price increase. I'm glad nothing else in your life ever increases in price. Please tell me where you live because the costs of my essentials AND my entertainment increase.

Carriage rates so we can watch games at home continue to rise and providers like Hulu, You Tube TV, etc continue to raise prices also without much, if any, change in game broadcast quality.
 
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goldvol said:
nice, almost $30,000 per year investment. what other benefits do you get at that level?
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Tailgates, tickets for the family. Field level seats to watch us loss to Arkansas and Ohio st.. it was a intresting year. OU game was fun but my uncle is a huge OU booster so we was in his box and sideline tickets.

Alabama game was a great time handing out cigars to the field staff and ushers.

I love my university and the people that make it up, but the bleeding dry of the less fortunate makes me mad.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
And we're winning in several sports. The price of winning a lot in this pro era of college athletics isn't cheap.

We could be a school that doesn't pay well for elite talent in various sports and continuously has middle of the pack results in football, basketball, baseball, etc.

Would you be happier?
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There are schools that win more and charge less.
 
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Voltopia said:
You don't have to go back to the 1900s, that's an exaggeration.

A Tennessee football ticket cost, what, about 20-50 dollars in the early 1990s, at least regular folks seats? I think? That's 50-100 dollars in today's money, give or take a bit. And I don't remember what the donation costs were back then. Someone can chime in if they know. But I'm definitely willing to bet it wasn't anywhere on the scale of prices now.

I may be wrong on the pricing particulars, I concede, as I don't have a clear recollection of pricing past a certain year. But the trend is still glaring. Are they free to monetize in this way? Sure. But the acceleration of aggressive pricing and pricing out folks to suit their new model of college athletics is still noticeable and worth commenting on.
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In 1990, south end zone seats were the cheapest tickets requiring a $250 annual donation plus the cost of the tickets, roughly $300. So $550 all in for 6 games. Adjusted for inflation, that's $1350 in 2025.

There are sections in the upper available for 2026 for $390 a seat or $780 for the pair. That's a reduction of $570 for a pair plus typically we have 7 home games a season now instead of 6.
 
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