[NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

We should keep raising prices as given the fact students are free and 
the dedicated fans buy season tickets the single game purchasers are 
by majority opposing fans.  If you want to make sure no NU fans have 
to pay more offer more multi-game packs where the overall game price 
is highly discounted.

I would say Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, and Iowa 
should command the super-premium prices -- maybe not $60, but next 
year at least $55 while the rest should be the average of the away 
tickets at the other schools somewhere around $44 based on the 3 non-
tOSU big ten away games.

If you keep single game prices artificially low it only benefits 
opposing fans and there is clearly no reciprocity offered either by 
price or equivalent seats.  I have yet to have any NU-bought away 
ticket in the equivalent sections we offer the visitors at Dyche.

-- John Labbe <johnl at mac.com> wrote:
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Regarding whether the "average fan" is getting priced out of the game, 
I don't really buy it.  Clearly, Ohio State and others are continuing 
to sell out their stadiums.  I've been to a lot of college football 
games at a lot of different venues, and so far as I can tell, most 
people in attendance are alumni and their families.  It seems to me 
that's the average fan and somehow they're coming up with the money to 
buy the tickets.

Having said all that, I do wish we could pack a few more people into 
Ryan Field for our early season games.  But I just don't see that 
lowering the ticket prices is the way it's going to happen.  The 
non-conference tickets are already only $30 or $20 for the endzone.  
There are plenty of people who aren't attending who could afford that 
price point, but just don't have the interest.  Notably, some of our 
early season games back in the mid to late 90s were pretty well 
attended.  That shows what back to back Big Ten titles can do for 
attendance.