Per Matt Wyatt--tyler russell stats
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What I am wondering about is if anyone actually has any attendance figures? How did this experiment work out?
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for MSU? I'd say it was a HUGE success! Now, let's here what the folks that actually went to the concert have to say about how damn good Sugarland was! Cause they put on a helluva show!
I just don't see how if we cleared between say 500K and 700K how the school lost money today. Does anybody have any proof that we lost money or just somebody saying we did?
"not quite breaking even" may not be true. Secondly, you're stretching it to say "cutting spring game attendance in half". 22k times 2 is what?
Also, if 22k showed up, the concessions had to have been tremendous. I don't know what the final money numbers were, but it was a successful weekend for our athletics whether we made or lost money.
Also, if 22k showed up, the concessions had to have been tremendous. I don't know what the final money numbers were, but it was a successful weekend for our athletics whether we made or lost money.
There's probably people that hope we lost money so they can beat their chest about saying the concert and 60 yd field was a bad idea. And then when they find out we didn't lose money, they will say "well we would have made double that much if we hadn't had the concert or 60 yd field".
Stricklin probably views it as a great promotional and exposure tool that made our spring event stand out....sometimes you have to pay for advertisement and exposure. Like someone else said....the concert wasn't designed for the 34k that came last year. Those people will be in the stands this fall either way....it was to draw more fans, students, and locals to the games and also to hopefully help some kids to choose MSU in the future. That's the way I viewed it anyway.
Stricklin probably views it as a great promotional and exposure tool that made our spring event stand out....sometimes you have to pay for advertisement and exposure. Like someone else said....the concert wasn't designed for the 34k that came last year. Those people will be in the stands this fall either way....it was to draw more fans, students, and locals to the games and also to hopefully help some kids to choose MSU in the future. That's the way I viewed it anyway.
$ 75,000 - 5000 $15 student tickets
$ 102,000 - 1700 $60 club level seats. SOLD OUT
$ 397,600- 15,904 remaining tickets at just $25 per ticket. Not including the 35.00 or 50.00 field tickets which could easily add another $100K
$ 574,600 - 22,604 Total! And this is low because of the 35 and 50 dollar tickets sold for the field level.
And this is just ticket sales.How much concessions did we sell? I have no clue how to estimate that. Bottom line is, if this concert cost us more than a half million dollars, somebody got RICH today because whileSugarland is a very good band, they don't make that much everytime they stop the bus!
$ 102,000 - 1700 $60 club level seats. SOLD OUT
$ 397,600- 15,904 remaining tickets at just $25 per ticket. Not including the 35.00 or 50.00 field tickets which could easily add another $100K
$ 574,600 - 22,604 Total! And this is low because of the 35 and 50 dollar tickets sold for the field level.
And this is just ticket sales.How much concessions did we sell? I have no clue how to estimate that. Bottom line is, if this concert cost us more than a half million dollars, somebody got RICH today because whileSugarland is a very good band, they don't make that much everytime they stop the bus!
Half of 34k is 17k........we had 22k today. When 5,000 people is 15% of your overall attendance last year, I don't think it's fair to say "almost half" when you're 5,000 away from being "half".
We were nearly as close to cutting attendance by only 1/4 if you're giving a 5k-6k allowance in "almost". But I would never expect anyone on here to "almost" anything into a positive light.
We were nearly as close to cutting attendance by only 1/4 if you're giving a 5k-6k allowance in "almost". But I would never expect anyone on here to "almost" anything into a positive light.
<div>whosyourdawgy said:
</div>I'm not sure of the argument, or why it's even an issue whether we made money. <div>
</div><div>Last year, we charged $0 for the spring game: 36,000 tickets x $0 each = $0 revenue. Where were the posters fussing about how much we profited then? I never once read about that--we were all happy with our big crowd. This year, without Sugarland, we likely would have chosen again to not charge for the spring game, and again would have taken in NOTHING for the tickets.</div><div>
</div><div>So this year with Sugarland we took in $580,000 in ticket revenue--if Sugarland got $200,000, we made a LOT of money. Even if we paid Sugarland $500,000, then we still profited more than any previous spring game where we didn't charge at all. </div><div>
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You were off by 10,000 people. I guess that's constitutes you being right at this point? I don't know, but again you were wrong.