I'm glad I gave you a laugh. There has been a waiting list the past several years, and if this year didn't sell out it looks like all those people got a chance this year. $780+ for those tickets might have also been a factor to a retired guy on a fixed budget when I didn't get all of them used a few times last year. I used to have people fighting over my extras, but not so much lately, which is odd because they've been a little harder to come by. I figured I just don't know the right people anymore, because there has been an obvious demand.
First I'm a Penn State grad and fan, but one disturbing thing I've noticed is the massive increase in price prices for tickets to about anything the last few years.
Penn State tickets are going to skyrocket after the football renovations are done. My cousin has 40 yard line seat seats and he will need to pay approximately $700 a game per ticket including his seat license fee and the cost of the tickets. There will also be an initial $10,000 buy in.
I've seen this increase in other entertainment options such as concerts, sign price for Whiskey Myers tickets go up approximately double in a year or two. I saw a massive increase in certain hotel rooms, such as the Annapolis waterfront Marriott. This Marriott is close to the naval Academy by the way and they have 16 balcony rooms.
The price for a certain weekends could be $1000 a night now. We stayed in those rooms plenty of times and honestly over the years we were paying 3 to 500 and it just seemed to increase the last few years.
Entertainment options which would include college wrestling have gone up substantially in the last few years and at some point it's gonna squeeze out the average fan.
Luckily it is a cheaper option than many other entertainment choices but I doubt I'm gonna see $50 for a ticket for the Big Ten championships like I did at Maryland two years ago. My friend and I are planning to attend them at Penn State and we are prepared to pay through the nose.
