[NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

I don't get a chance to go see NU play more than once a year, but I see the logic of  jacking up the price of tickets for Big Ten games especially against PSU, Michigan, OSU and Wisconsin.  But you're right Big Ten championships draw the crowd the next year.  
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From: "mlinhardt at netzero.net" <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:
> <snip>
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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