Blue White Scrimmage Tickets
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Cheapest is $100 (if you’re a club blue subscriber). List of all the different tiers on the club blue website
Used to be my favorite pre-season event to go to. But, if $100 is the cheapest seat I guess that will be a thing of the past for me.
I was shocked to see the prices online. I get the NIL aspect but I’m going to be fascinated to track the amount of tickets in these sections actually selling. Here are the tiers of pricing for non Club Blue folks like myself:
$125
$185
$310
$525
$1550
Not surprised that in all of the promotion on KSR today that this wasn’t mentioned.
I’d love to know if anyone is planning to buy one of the tickets $310 or above.
For the blue white game. A meaningless scrimmage. They’ll REALLY need to promote the features of the event and even then I just don’t know.
$125
$185
$310
$525
$1550
Not surprised that in all of the promotion on KSR today that this wasn’t mentioned.
I’d love to know if anyone is planning to buy one of the tickets $310 or above.
For the blue white game. A meaningless scrimmage. They’ll REALLY need to promote the features of the event and even then I just don’t know.
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This is, sadly, a sign of things to come.
I grew up going to the blue white scrimmage every year in the old Memorial. Tickets were $5. Later in life I was fortunate enough to have access to some great seats in Rupp for a game or two every year, and later still, to hold season tickets for a while. But going to those scrimmages as a kid helped foster my love of UK basketball. Seeing them on TV was one thing… but seeing your heroes in person was magical. Nowadays a kid from a working class family like I was wouldn’t be able to afford to go. That’s a shame, IMO, and I think it’s a bit tone-deaf on the part of the UK athletics department. Not everything has to be an NIL money grab.
I grew up going to the blue white scrimmage every year in the old Memorial. Tickets were $5. Later in life I was fortunate enough to have access to some great seats in Rupp for a game or two every year, and later still, to hold season tickets for a while. But going to those scrimmages as a kid helped foster my love of UK basketball. Seeing them on TV was one thing… but seeing your heroes in person was magical. Nowadays a kid from a working class family like I was wouldn’t be able to afford to go. That’s a shame, IMO, and I think it’s a bit tone-deaf on the part of the UK athletics department. Not everything has to be an NIL money grab.
I know NIL has changed everything but somehow the University has to come up with an alternative answer to gain funding.
Moonshine cooked and served in house. The Ole KY way to economic gains...
Didn’t it used to be like $10-$15 to go? Hell nah to $100.
These ticket prices are insane up to $1500. GTFOH. If that is the way tickets are heading I’ll never see another game again. I’m all for club blue being a side thing. No way a scrimmage to see the team should cost go from $10-$25 a seat to $125-$1500 now with a measly. 20% discount for club blue members. No thank you. I can barely afford gas, utilities, rent, and food right now and I make pretty damn good money and don’t live a frivolous lifestyle.
If there's ever a serious economic downturn, people attending live sporting events at exorbitant prices will be the first luxury item to go.
I could see paying $1,500 for a Final Four seat, but for a practice that is the equivalent of a layup line?
Nope.
Not if but when. It’s gonna hit hard soon.
I was raised in a middle class family....
Now that is funny
Good One
For all of you that said, "just pay these kids!" Thank you for prices like these for a practice.
That price is crazy high. Why not just add 300 bucks to each season ticket holder thats 6 million dollars why ask the fans who can least afford it pay. Wonder how many kids show up .This NIL **** sounds like a scam
It'll be the death of college athletics.
Yep, it's been $10 every year I've gone and I've gone to quite a few over the last decade or so. $100, I'll stay home and miss it as no scrimmage is worth that kind of money. I loved watching it and getting to know the players but it is still just a scrimmage.
Those prices, if real, are unbelievable for what is just a scrimmage outing for the fans to get to know the team better. That's just crazy and I'll not be in the stands this year. Even at $10 a ticket, in the past, they never came close to filling the stands for this scrimmage game.
I know me too but I can’t pay that, ridiculous and that’s for the worst seats. I can’t imagine paying $500 a seat to watch a scrimmage that I can actually see. $1500 is ludicrous .
I have a feeling the turnout won’t be large. I’d rather than create a t-shirt or some special gear where they can fund NIL at least you get something for it other than just a scrimmage. Make it affordable for people to watch I mean wow.
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I feel like this year with all of the excitement, $10.00 a ticket would have had a wonderful turnout. But $100? I don't see that doing well at all.
People will pay it. It's a social event for enough folks. They wouldn't price themselves out of butts in seats and generating money.
I’m thinking about going. Lots of worse ways I’ve spent 300 bucks . Will be interested to hear the “miked up” coaches. Also will be a good way for me to contribute to the nil , which I have yet to do .
Asinine pricing....this is the one time that many rural and financially strapped families could afford to see UK in person.....not this year.
You may be right but they had very limited crowds for Blue/White games in the past when the price was just $10 and folks like us could afford to go. The new excitement of the coaches and team plus a newly renovated and beautiful Memorial Coliseum may prove you right but I'm not one of those who can afford to go with such prices and was one of the few who always went in the past. Seems like they are playing to the big bucks people and NIL with this one.
A lot of poor people in this thread. It's an NIL event and true practice, with a real scrimmage (not the typical blue/white dunk fest) with the coaches mic'd up, teaching you what they do and why. If someone said they could get you in a real UK practice for $100-300, a lot of folks would bite.
Again, this is the near era and if UK is going to compete, they have to put on events like this.
Again, this is the near era and if UK is going to compete, they have to put on events like this.
Used to be the play for those that got frozen out of madness tickets ... but welcome to the "other" impacts of the NIL era w/ these prices. Shew. That said, worth the price of admission at $100, honestly.
Thanks for the explanation, Mitch.
But it’s still a practice.. correct?
Kinda wanted to take my family.
Any chance you get it on local tv for the poor but true fans? You can get nil paid for the telecast as well!
if this was at Rupp I'd agree that for the blue white game this would be crazy pricing but at Memorial , I am good with it. If I lived close enough I'd definitely pay it.
I think there are many of us who like that we the normal people can pitch in and help
I think there are many of us who like that we the normal people can pitch in and help
Bingo. $1200 for a family of 4. Crums thinks he's cool, but everybody's rich on the internet. And good looking...
These kids are doing future kids a disservice. If they think this gravy NIL train will go on forever they will be sadly mistaken.
Boosters/fans aren't going to continue to fund programs that aren't winning championships.
Count me out... I can just go to a normal game for that type of cash.
Boosters/fans aren't going to continue to fund programs that aren't winning championships.
Count me out... I can just go to a normal game for that type of cash.