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bonedaddy401

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they could have gotten it to 7 bucks if they wanted to and got $150,000 more to use for a student Bulldog Club.</p>
 
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futaba.79

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and asked that very question. He told me that the headlines in the Reflector "Ticket Prices to Double" would look so bad that nobody would vote for it. Good political move on his part. Plus, there is a line in the bill allowing an annual review of prices. State will stay equal to the other school with the lowest prices - if UK raises their's then State will do the same.
 
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UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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Then the 2003 season happened and I felt ripped off.

Overall, good move. I haven't joined the bulldog club mainly because I rarely get a chance to make it back to campus. I also had nothing invested from when I was a student so I will wait until I start attending more games before I join. If I had points accumulated when I graduated, I probably would not have wanted to lose them so I would have joined the Bulldog Club.
 
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Requiem For A Dawg

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$10 a ticket I think that is still reasonable... I know last year it was hard to find a 17'in seat in the student section
 
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Croomp

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bonedaddy401 said:
I hope they increase it next year also.
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is pushing for a freeze on price increases for a specified timespan. So it may be a few years before we see another dollar getting tacked onto the ticket prices. I'm all for increasing the ticket prices to help out the athletic budget and at the same time create a student Bulldog Club. Making hte ticket prices between $5-$10 is fine with me and many otheres, but does that satisfy everyone else?
 
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msudawg12

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This is fine by me. You could basically walk in with a $20 bill and get entertainment for 6 games x 3 hrs = 18 hrs of entertainment. a buck and hour!!. cheapo deapo stuff. I wouldve paid way more than that and obviously so would the students. No one was turning away and the student section was getting VERY crowded even while we were bad. Imagine if we begin winning.

It obviously doesnt need to be UT levels but 8 bucks a game is reasonable. 7 home games this year = 56 bucks for 21 hours of entertainment!?!?! It's still robbery
 
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ScoobaDawg

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Im very glad to see this being done...
I tried to look into this very topic a couple years ago with the ticket office but the stupid ticket office manager who is now gone
was resistant to give out any info at all, even for a simple query of how many student tickets had been sold over the past couple years and
how many seats are allotted for students. No No No, I have to run everything upstairs and ask Larry T.

Especially excited about the Student Bulldog Club...
This is very essential in getting the students "invested" into athletics.
As someone mentioned above, the students have more motivation to become a part of the bulldog club if they are
already have a investment into it. Its too important to keep the graduates involved instead of letting them get away and hope they come back to join the bulldog club.
Plus its win win for school, the students get points of some sort for going to sports..especially olympic sports which arent normally such popular, and there
will prizes and giveaways im certain of kinds..all the while the school gets something they can market, get sponsors, and creates more publicity and interest into the school, sports, and the bulldog club.
 
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UnconstitutionalCowbell

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Okay, hypothetical equation assuming the student section is sold out:

12,000 (students) x $7 (increase from $3 to $10) = $84,000 per home game

$84,000 x 7 (home games) = $588,000 (per year)

588,000 x 10 (years) = $5,880,000 ($10 tickets keeps us in the bottom six of the SEC price wise, I'm fairly sure)

Stadium Horseshoe = $25,000,000 range (Five and a half million dollars is a big chunk of that)
 
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HammerOfTheDogs

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The first started selling student tickets in 1981 (before that, student tickets were free) for $3, and they haven't raised prices since then.
 
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