[NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

[Clark Zahn]

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>
>Sent: May 10, 2007 6:31 AM
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?
>
>Every one of you who has written in support of seating fees, hidden or 
>overt, is using the same logic:  Two wrongs make a right, i.e., if Johnny 
>threw a baseball through Mrs. Smith's window, then I should be allowed to 
>bust another.  Heaven forbid a publically-funded university actually make 
>some decent seats available to the general public.  Does Penn State think 
>they won't be able to sell them?  Universities allegedly support fairness 
>and diversity but never on Saturdays. 
>

The law of supply and demand will always prevail.  If the tickets for a particular team are already selling out then prices for the general public simply can't be reduced.  If the team or school were to lower the prices resellers would snap them up and resell at the going rate.  Lowering the price would just transfer the profits from the team to a third party.  A university could make tickets available to students or alums at reduced prices, but even then many of the tickets would be resold.  My wife and I attended the 2005 homecoming game against Michigan.   Michigan fans were seated in many of the season ticket holders seats.