[NU Sports] thanksgiving weekend games

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

In reality the only people who should pay $50 are the visiting fans.  Every Northwestern fan has the opportunity to buy much discounted season tickets or a ticket pack.  They even haven young alumni packages for those just graduated.

If Ohio State or Michigan tickets have a face value of $50 we should charge exactly that when they come a visiting.  Don't make it cheaper to go to an away game than a home game.  Now when the Ill-whine-I or a non-con foe come a calling and draws 7 visiting fans by all means discount the tickets as it is more important to fill the stadium.

This is not an uncommon thing as I have seen both the Cubs and Cardinals do it and I am sure one can easily find other examples.

It is sad to say that alumni are often not the best die-hard/fanatical fans.  I know many of the most diehard Mee-chigan fans have no connection to the school other than being born in the state.  We don't have too many of those "born Northwestern fans".

I can't wait for us to hire an AD.  First I am going to warmly welcome him/her to Northwestern and then I am going to immediately ask them to do something about football traffic control ;-)

-- "Jonathan Hodges" <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Anyways we can talk this to death, but the
$50 single game price tag was a huge obstacle for all of them to go to
games.

Jonathan

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