Looking ahead towards funding Mullen and Staff's raises and wanting to add on to DWS, should MSU raise ticket prices? We are still pretty low on ticket prices when compared with other teams as far as I can tell. Increasing tickets by $5 would bring in just below $2 Million dollars (55,000 tickets X 7 games X $5 = $1,925,000). $10 a ticket would be $3.8 million. That would go a long ways towards giving some raises. I say buy. I'd pay $5-10 more per ticket.
Buy/Sell - MSU should raise ticket prices
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no problem. Going up $10 in one year would make me consider lowering my BC donation to compensate and I would worry about limiting what we could go up in future years. We don't want to price it out of the reach of a normal family (if we haven't already).
This is a rough economy. Raising prices shakes things up right when they're getting where we want them. After two or three years, raise them a little, or have gradual increases from season to season.
If you think a sellout is assured from here on out, you are living in fantasy land. We are a hot ticket right now, but every season is a new challenge. It's a lot of fun to wear maroon and go to games now, but a lot of fans don't even really care about football, and they could easily think of other ways to spend their money and have fun.
If you think a sellout is assured from here on out, you are living in fantasy land. We are a hot ticket right now, but every season is a new challenge. It's a lot of fun to wear maroon and go to games now, but a lot of fans don't even really care about football, and they could easily think of other ways to spend their money and have fun.
I think we'll see the price of the full-season package go up from $240 to $275-280 next year. This will also be for fewer games as I think I remember Byrne saying we would only have 6 home games in 2011 (maybe it was 2012), unless that has been fixed. Additionally, I think you'll see us start to limit the number of reduced packages we've been selling by replacing them with full packages, which makes sense if we're selling out the full-season packages. To me the issue isn't the increase per/game, it's the increase for the whole package as we don't want to cause sticker shock from one year to the next.
Better MSU make money than the scalpers. We had the el-cheapo's last year - I think $110/season ticket for 5 of us. The row in front of us had different people every game. At some point, I asked the people in the seats about their tickets. They were Bama fans and paid something like $75 dollars a ticket on stubhub. This happened at all of the games and other fans paid similar amounts on Stubhub. The original ticket buyers made some hefty profit which I guess will always happen. I'm all for helping families get to games and the el-cheapo's are a great deal but maybe too good of a deal.
If' the ticket increase was to pay for thedistince purpose ofrenovation and slight expansion of ~5k seats I think it would be a good idea. But, to raise it in this economy just because...not so much a good idea.
Much easier to add incremental revenue with increased ticket prices than it is on a stadium expansion gamble. If there are, in theory, extra fans out there that could fill up an expansion, then the demand is there to play with ticket prices. Let supply and demand forces battle it out. If we still have excess demand, then expand. We are at the low end of ticket prices. That doesn't really tell a "we need to expand asap" story. I'd like to see a capacity crowd in a 70k+ stadium just as much as the next guy. But as long as we are on the low end of the pricing spectrum, there things that need to happen before we begin building a very expensive addition. Increasing prices is one of those things. If we can't sell out next year with a moderate price increase, then expansion may not be the greatest idea.
All of this assumes we aren't leaving loads of money on the table by not having more luxury suites and club level seating. If that's the case, toss out what I just said.
All of this assumes we aren't leaving loads of money on the table by not having more luxury suites and club level seating. If that's the case, toss out what I just said.
Just because? What does that even mean? When you are as far behind your competition in terms of budget size as we are, you don't do anything that raises revenue "just because." How about to give the coaches a raise? Or increase the recruiting budget? Are those "just because" reasons since they aren't specifically earmarked for expansion?TheMAROONandWHITE said:
I'm not sure if you meant to reply to me or not, as it looks like you're countering the post that actually mentioned the fact that we're on the low end of ticket prices, but that is exactly why I said I think we'll see a package increase of $35-40. I can't see that breaking many budgets, even if you have a family of 4 or 5 that you buy for.shsdawg said:
I don't know that a $5 per ticket increase hurts the majority of those who come to games. I see lots of people who at least appear to be able to afford our tickets. Pay parking lots are full (there is free parking available in Starkville), tailgating tents are full with lots of food, Barnes and Noble is packed with people spending cash, lots of nice cars/SUV's (not to mention gas to travel), lots of cash being spent at food stands inside DWS, etc. I think the demographic group that comes to the games is generally better off than the average Mississippi demographic.
I bought tickets for friendsto 3 games last year. Actually got 1 pair free and bought two other pair at equal to or slightly less than face value. Is it much harder to get tickets this year? I haven't talked to anyone that wanted tickets but couldn't find them. Evenknew someone trying to give away decent Kentucky tickets at the game Saturday.
I'm not a fan of raising ticket prices. Of course I'm a fairly recent grad (2004), just starting a family, and wife not currently working so every penny counts for me.
I'm not a fan of raising ticket prices. Of course I'm a fairly recent grad (2004), just starting a family, and wife not currently working so every penny counts for me.
Looked at all the posts and a couple of comments. There is not 55,000 fans x 7 x $5. How many tickets go to students?? At many schools students can't get tickets until Junior / Senior year or lottery. At the Kentucky game a friend gave me two tickets and I couldn't even find someone to give the tickets to little loan sell them. Guess I was in the wrong place. I saw many scalpers but wasn't going to give them / sell them to them.
When we have sellouts its not like there isn't plenty of tickets floating around. $50 face value plus BC fee is a pretty good price for tickets. We need to tell AD that our away tickets can't be bought unless you are a BC member. Keep the Alabama & LSU fans from buying our tickets. I understand that their are still Ole Miss tickets available. Before you start jumping prices get the demand up like other post said.....
When we have sellouts its not like there isn't plenty of tickets floating around. $50 face value plus BC fee is a pretty good price for tickets. We need to tell AD that our away tickets can't be bought unless you are a BC member. Keep the Alabama & LSU fans from buying our tickets. I understand that their are still Ole Miss tickets available. Before you start jumping prices get the demand up like other post said.....