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Originally Posted by
Jarius
I’m fine with spending the money we do on women’s basketball if the school would charge extra for tickets, as you say. But they are not going to do that and people aren’t going to pay for it if they did. We wouldn’t lose revenue if we cut women’s basketball funding because we don’t make any money on it to start with because we charge almost nothing to go to the games. As far as baseball goes, we are on the same page. The LFL spots should cost triple what they currently cost. It’s the most coveted spot on campus and gets to be purchased for peanuts.
Women's Basketball is a great example. We have General Admission seating. Season Tickets are $99 a seat. I believe single games are $10. We had 18 home games last year. That's $5.50 a game for a season ticket holder. That is pathetically low. I pay $85 for my local high school football season tickets - for 6 games. Now, I don't feel like women's basketball should be a high dollar ticket - but our prices should not be on par with local high schools. That's terrible when you are losing $5m a year.
And it doesn't take much. UGA requires a minimum $50 WBB donation per seat just to get on the season ticket sales list.
Then you they break their cost down by location, Reserved seating: $65 per seat and Courtside: $150 per seat. Then they have "Club" access buffet concessions for $1000 a seat.
So, they don't make a whole lot more on most seats, but the best seats are bumped and access to concessions are the premiums. And the concessions aren't fancy - it's typical, dogs, burgers, sodas, ice cream and popcorn that you would be hard pressed to eat $200 of over 18 games - but it's fast and easy and worth the added cost especially during a big game.
So say MSU has 2,000 women' season ticket holders. Average attendance was 5,109 over 18 games. Right now that's a $198k in season tickets and $559,620 in GA game sales for a total of $757,620
In the UGA Model, lets project 300 courtside seats and 1,700 reserved seats, and 300 "Club" passes", and bump single game tickets to $15.
That takes you to $555,500 in season ticket revenue, $839,430 in GA game sales, for a total of $1,394,930.
There are a lot of assumptions in the above - but it shows how small changes can make impacts without having to gouge people.
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