Glad to hear we fixed that. I know basketball isn't a popular sport with our student population, but I always figured it could be more popular if we'd just let students in for free. Glad to see we're doing that now, and I'm also glad we gave up on the idea of ruining the baseball atmosphere by charging students.
ETA: I'm going to give Michael Thompson credit for this, because it seems like a lot of the common sense things that needed to be done have been done since he arrived. I'm going to deduce that most of that is due to his arrival on campus.
When I was in school, Pete Boone went from charging $2 per basketball ticket for students ($32 per season package/16 games) to $5 per basketball ticket ($80 for 16 games). I believe we sold something like less than 200 packages in the first couple weeks, forcing Boone to come off the price and cut it to $3 per game. When Boone sees anything become remotely popular, and Ole Miss basketball was coming off a few NCAA bids and consistent sell outs, he thinks jacking up the price is the way to go, even for the students. I don't get it, and even if you want to jack up the price, include it in the activity fee, so that the parents see the increase, not the students, and the students still show up.
ETA: I'm going to give Michael Thompson credit for this, because it seems like a lot of the common sense things that needed to be done have been done since he arrived. I'm going to deduce that most of that is due to his arrival on campus.
When I was in school, Pete Boone went from charging $2 per basketball ticket for students ($32 per season package/16 games) to $5 per basketball ticket ($80 for 16 games). I believe we sold something like less than 200 packages in the first couple weeks, forcing Boone to come off the price and cut it to $3 per game. When Boone sees anything become remotely popular, and Ole Miss basketball was coming off a few NCAA bids and consistent sell outs, he thinks jacking up the price is the way to go, even for the students. I don't get it, and even if you want to jack up the price, include it in the activity fee, so that the parents see the increase, not the students, and the students still show up.
