2026 Football Renewals are live
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There is ZERO ability to read the room and/or Situational Awareness in our Athletic Department.
Don't claim to be holding prices when you add a new BC requirement for Parking Passes especially for CUSTOMERS already paying a BC Contribution for Football Season Tickets, Basketball Season Tickets, Baseball Season Tickets, & contributing to NIL.
We have sat thru 3 years of 5-6, 2-10, & 5-8. You may see attendance of 30K regularly this fall.
I clearly understand that MSU Athletics needs maximize revenue at every available opportunity Football Parking Passes especially those in premium lots are a hot commodity.
You guys better start plans to refinance the double wides when the original deal expires on the Baseball Seats in 2-3 years.
Don't claim to be holding prices when you add a new BC requirement for Parking Passes especially for CUSTOMERS already paying a BC Contribution for Football Season Tickets, Basketball Season Tickets, Baseball Season Tickets, & contributing to NIL.
We have sat thru 3 years of 5-6, 2-10, & 5-8. You may see attendance of 30K regularly this fall.
I clearly understand that MSU Athletics needs maximize revenue at every available opportunity Football Parking Passes especially those in premium lots are a hot commodity.
You guys better start plans to refinance the double wides when the original deal expires on the Baseball Seats in 2-3 years.
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I’m out of state and haven’t really looked at things lately. What’s a typical yearly spend/commitment for season football tickets in reasonably good seats including weekend travel, parking passes, etc if you plan to go to every game? What’s that increase to if you also want baseball season tickets and go to most of the SEC series?
See the linked stadium seating chart with Season Ticket Price & required Bulldog Club donation per seat in each section. For example seats in Section 3 are $450 season ticket plus $450 BC donation per seat, so $900 total. It looks like parking passes will be $225 plus $75 BC donation each.
2025 FB Seating Chart (PDF) - Mississippi State Bulldog Club
2025 FB Seating Chart (PDF)
msubulldogclub.com
You can buy now at full price or wait till tickets are discounted to $20 a week or so a fire game day because nobody is paying full price for this garbage.
I keep a record of my season ticket costs from year to year. They raise ticket prices every other year. Last year they were raised, thus this year they weren't. They'll raise prices again next year, you can bank on it.
Here's something I don't think a lot of non-baseball ticket holders understand: Season tickets for baseball are already nearly as expensive as football. It seems most have a perception that they are cheap. They are not. Currently, baseball is $500 per season ticket and football is $450 per ticket.
My BDC donation for football is $250 per season, compared to the $150 per seat for baseball which I had to pay 10 years in advance.
I have 4 tickets to each:
Football totals $2,800 (tickets + BDC) yearly.
Baseball totals $2,600 (tickets + BDC) if you break down my initial donation by year. The difference is I had to pay the BDC donation for baseball 10 years in advance: 150x4x10=$6,000 I would much rather pay $250 per year for baseball than a $6000k lump sum up front every 10 years.
BTW, because of the season cancelled due to COVID, the 10 year prepaid BDC agreement runs thru the 2029 season.
Let me add that during the last ten years, parking passes have gone from $75 to $225. They were definitely under priced for a long time, so I’m not upset about the increase, but throwing a $75 contribution fee on top of it this year is definitely a bush league move
Question: are you getting 3 parking passes? I ask because I only get 1 pass and my required BDC donation is just $25
This is several years ago but I had two Scoreboard club seats , a car parking pass and a RV parking pass. Just what I paid the University was around $4500 per year. I had a baseball RV pass which came with a car parking pass that I sublet through someone else, I think it was $400-$450 per year. I never had reserved seats and would always buy a GA ticket or more often than not someone in the lot always had an extra.
Prompted me to go look at my bill, looks like 75 each for me, guessing it's lot # related. Looking at it more closely, I got a chuckle out of something called the "Per Item Fee" adding another $7.85 to each. You get that as well?
Okay, a couple things: 1) Yes, I see the "per item" processing fee. I'm okay with that because it used to be a flat fee and I always thought it was dumb to charge the same fee to someone that buys 2 tickets as you do to someone that buys 10 tickets. A per ticket fee makes sense.
2) If some parking lots require more of a BDC donation than others, then it only makes sense that the lots at some point are going to be reallocated based on BDC rank. When they re-seated the stadium in 2014 based on BDC rank, I thought it was odd that they didn't also do the same for parking. I bet that'll be coming in the new few years.
Just 2, so I'm honestly not sure what math they're using.
Either way, it was a surprise when I got my renewal e-mail, and it just seems like a silly way to try to add another $100k or so to State's $130M athletic budget
Strange, I just went and triple checked. Mine is just $25 and I think it's a desirable lot.
33 games vs 7 games, one way to look at that.
The "South Loge" is $1750 per seat? You can't see a darn thing from that location, if that's the field level seats in the end zone.See the linked stadium seating chart with Season Ticket Price & required Bulldog Club donation per seat in each section. For example seats in Section 3 are $450 season ticket plus $450 BC donation per seat, so $900 total. It looks like parking passes will be $225 plus $75 BC donation each.
2025 FB Seating Chart (PDF) - Mississippi State Bulldog Club
2025 FB Seating Chart (PDF)
I get that, but the bulk of chairback ticket holders don't live in town and thus don't go to mid-week games. You're basically paying for the ability to come on the weekends: 5 SEC weekends and 3 non-conference weekends. Thus, I typically come to 7 football weekends and 7, maybe 8, baseball weekends.
Likely will opt out of MSU sports and call it a wonderful life.
Yeah and look at how much people make for baseball tickets per game and compare that to what football tickets are per game. You can triple your cost selling baseball tickets. Football you can't even give lower 50 yards line tickets away most games.
I don’t know about that, but I know folks who love the gridiron club and it’s the same level, right?
South Loge is the covered wagon looking trailer things in front of the M Club building in the South Endzone. There is a private area inside the Seal Bldg for their refreshments, cooling off, etc. though I believe.
I've sat in the Gridiron Club twice and I think it sux. The inside seating and tv viewing area are good, the view from outside though is horrible. You are looking into the sun for morning/afternoon games. Shortly after the beginning of the 2nd Q people start moving around getting ready for halftime. About halfway through the 2nd Q the band starts passing in front of you. The whole game there are photographers in your way, cheerleaders leading cheers for the students in your way, highway patrolmen watching the game in your way, etc etc etc. After halftime performance the band then moves back in front of you again going back to their seats. If the game is happening at the other end of the stadium you can forget about seeing anything about it. But, the inside is good. I also went to a wedding reception in there after a wedding at the Chapel of Memories and it was great for that.
We tossed our scoreboard club seats last year and boy am I glad we did. What a relief not spending that money. We got a sick new golf cart that makes playing golf and riding over to the pond MUCH better.
What i was meaning is that for some folks, just being at the game is more important than the view.
We’ve sat in the SBC for many years, it’s a terrible view, but great atmosphere and place to hang out.
I’ve always said, a stadium is the absolute worst place to watch a football game.
No kidding? Opinions vary/different strokes but I've been in the NEZ since it opened and think the view is terrific. Watch every play open up (unfortunately can also include late game punt returns, watched the guy run straight at me for 70 yards
) and a lot of action right in front of you. Certainly hard to see where exactly they are on the other end but there's a big screen TV mounted in the SEZ to help with that.Took a little getting used to in 2014 but have really liked it since.
I'll guess it's more the amenities offered by the Gridiron Club rather than the ability to see the game.
By KO, I’m usually a half bottle of crown in, so that likely impares my viewNo kidding? Opinions vary/different strokes but I've been in the NEZ since it opened and think the view is terrific. Watch every play open up (unfortunately can also include late game punt returns, watched the guy run straight at me for 70 yards
Took a little getting used to in 2014 but have really liked it since.
Exactly. Around 20% of the cost, on a per game basis. For a much better product.
Baseball has still shot way up over the years, though. I remember being able to get a GA season ticket for $50 in the early 2000’s.
That doesn’t make the cost to put on a game any cheaper for those dates that are less attended. You still have to run concessions, security, utilities, groundskeeping crew, and of course pay the most expensive employees - the coaches and players.
They kinda do this now. You can change lots during renewal just like you can seats. Normally in May. I’ve been able to move lots last couple of years to where now I’ve got the perfect lot for me.
Guess it just depends on if anyone gives theirs up.
ill pay the 75 to keep the lot that I'm in... but the "per item fee" is pretty lame why not just raise the price ...it's that kind of. Nickel and dime crap that leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's minds