Students Return 3000 tickets

#276
#276
I was just on stubhub and the cheapest they had were for $70. I bought 3 so i did my part. I can't wait till saturday:dance2::dance2::rock::rock:
 
#279
#279
yeah, the students not paying for tickets is more of a UT tradition judging from other SEC schools.. still, that's about $1.25-1.5 million a year...

regular ticket sales are probably a significant part of the athletic budget - I don't know how much... you have to assume that ticket prices are only going to go up... if attendance problems are more that just fulmer fatigue, then what will happen if fans stop coming in the number that they did in the 90's?
 
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Daddy Gee said:
yeah, the students not paying for tickets is more of a UT tradition judging from other SEC schools.. still, that's about $1.25-1.5 million a year...

regular ticket sales are probably a significant part of the athletic budget - I don't know how much... you have to assume that ticket prices are only going to go up... if attendance problems are more that just fulmer fatigue, then what will happen if fans stop coming in the number that they did in the 90's?
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As long as they are selling the premium seats and the season ticket base stays relatively stable, single game ticket sales are essentially irrelevant.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Judging from the post I was responding to, it's people who consider paying $70 for a ticket to be a big deal.
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Not trying to start anything at all here. So, an "above average fan" would be someone who pays for season tickets which includes some sort of donation and the folks/companies that purchase skyboxes as well as the "patio fans"(I plead ignorance on this), that also donate on some level?
 
#283
#283
vol66 said:
So, an "above average fan" would be someone who pays for season tickets which includes some sort of donation and the folks/companies that purchase skyboxes as well as the "patio fans"(I plead ignorance on this), that also donate on some level?
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In terms of their financial investment in the team, yes. In terms of their support and emotional investment in the team, no.
 
#284
#284
Anybody know what % of the fans are season-ticket holders? I take it to be pretty high..
 
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#285
hatvol96 said:
In terms of their financial investment in the team, yes. In terms of their support and emotional investment in the team, no.
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Thanks Hat, I appreciate, better, where you come down on some of these issues because of your responses.
 
#286
#286
wish i could go to a vol game. i dont have anyone to go with bc none of my friends r vol fans.and goin by myself is a bit of a drag
 
#287
#287
Hat, I'd add, after some thought about your words, I think it is interesting you chose the word investment. That word implies that there is a return. I think people who can afford the donations get really good seats at the least. I can't speak intelligently on what it costs to sit on the fifty for eight games or the "patio", definitely not the skyboxes. Is it hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions? I don't think we're talking about upperdeck seats in the endzone here. My point being this, if someone can afford those above average prices and the seats that go along with them, they are probably having a different experience than that of the "average fan".
 
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vol66 said:
Hat, I'd add, after some thought about your words, I think it is interesting you chose the word investment. That word implies that there is a return. I think people who can afford the donations get really good seats at the least. I can't speak intelligently on what it costs to sit on the fifty for eight games or the "patio", definitely not the skyboxes. Is it hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions? I don't think we're talking about upperdeck seats in the endzone here. My point being this, if someone can afford those above average prices and the seats that go along with them, they are probably having a different experience than that of the "average fan".
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Does that mean they can't cheer as loud or care as much because they are wealthy?
 
#291
#291
They need to give students the tickets for free so they will show up. Returning thousands of tickets for a big SEC home game is embarrassing!
 
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#293
hatvol96 said:
As long as they are selling the premium seats and the season ticket base stays relatively stable, single game ticket sales are essentially irrelevant.
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Then why make the students pay for the tickets? I paid an activity fee but had to wait in line for games and tickets when I was a student. If it is irrelevant then I can't understand the need to charge them in addition to the tuition.
 
#296
#296
I blame it on the fact that it is becoming more of an academic school and more nerds that don't give a crap about athletics are coming here.
 
#299
#299
If not for the Greeks Neyland would be like a Sunday morning church.

Anyone who thinks Greeks are better fans is a moron. Does showing up in greater percentages mean anything when a good percentage of them are there to be seen?
 
#300
#300
The process of distributing student tickets has become too sanitized, IMHO. When I attended in the early 90's we had to stand in line and if it was a home SEC game (or I think once when we played Notre Dame?) we usually camped out the night before the tickets were available.

The process of getting your game tickets was an event and an experience that you shared with your friends over a nasty, cheap "KILLER" pizza shared on the sidewalk in front of the UC while you froze to death at 4:00 AM. If you were brave (or stupid enough) you'd take a small bottle of liquor to help keep you warm (just hide it from the campus cops).

Have you ever seen a line out the door of a bar or restaurant and then gotten inside only to find out there are twenty people inside? The bar is building anticipation and creating demand. You're inside and pi**ed off that you had to stand in line, but people driving or walking by think "This must be the place to be", so they wait in line like everyone else just to be a part of something great.

UT needs to make the ticket issuance process an event again instead of just a mouse click, regardless of whether or not a student has to pay $20 for a ticket.
 
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