re: Anybody Else Feel Football Tickets Are Overpriced?

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lsu2006

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Lol you poor

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Another great post.

You're the most negative poster on here.

Just my opinion but you should have never given up your parking pass, you could have sold it every year for more than you paid. The same goes for your tickets.

I got 4 from somebody that has 12 tickets. Parking pass from the TE.

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Absolutely not. I do appreciate my tax deductions.

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So you can write off the The associated fees? Not the ticket purchase correct?

If a troll falls on the Rant and everyone is around to hear it, what does it sound like?

Anger.

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You can't have a successful program these days without money. High ticket prices, tv contracts that don't favor night games, etc., are all part of the necessary evil to keep up with other schools. These issues are not unique to LSU.

For me, it's pretty simple. I'm an alum and love all things LSU. I pay the outrageous prices, donate to TAF and the Alumni Assoc because I feel like it is my responsibility as an alum to help make LSU the best it can be.

Unfortunately, LSU doesn't have a large pool of wealthy donors. Raising ticket prices is one of the few options we have to compete at a high level. Money has to come from somewhere.

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Yes you can, These prices are outta control. What's next Gold plated Helmets ? Or Hot tubs in the dorms ?

FSU is playing for a BSC Title.



Below explains there Donation and ticket pricing:

-FSU Football-

Football Ticket Priority

Collegiate athletics programs like Florida State depend upon private donations to help balance their athletics budget. Like many collegiate athletics programs, who use tickets and parking as an incentive for membership contributions, FSU has established a ticket priority policy to allocate football and basketball tickets as fairly as possible.

Doak Campbell Stadium and the Tucker Center are divided into priority and non-priority areas. Tickets in the priority areas are reserved for those fans who help fund more than $14 million in scholarships and operational costs of the Athletics budget by making tax-deductible contributions to Seminole Boosters, the fundraising arm of Florida State Athletics.

Our football stadium is sectioned into four seating zones: Priority 1, 2, 3 and 4. While the ticket priority policy does require a membership contribution for seats in Priority 1, 2 and 3, it does not require a membership contribution in the Priority 4 sections.

A minimum contribution of Iron Arrow ($60 per year) is required in Priority 3 with no ticket limits. A minimum contribution is required in the Priority 1 and 2 areas of the stadium based on the number of seats purchased. Those contribution levels are:

Doak Campbell Stadium Priority Seating

Booster Level Donation Priority Limits

Iron Arrow/Brave
$60/$135 Unlimited in Priority 3

Renegade $300
2 seats in Priority 2

Warrior $600
4 Priority seats, up to 2 in P1

Tomahawk $1,200
6 Priority seats, up to 4 in P1

Silver Chief $3,000
10 Priority seats, up to 6 in P1

Golden Chief $6,000
16 Priority seats, up to 10 in P1

Platinum Golden Chief $12,000
24 Priority seats, up to 16 in P1

Legacy Golden Chief $25,000
24 Priority seats, up to 16 in P1

Seem to me a lot more fair then what LSU is doing to us. Everyone who donates atleast $600 a year can get 4 seats and 2 of those can be in Priority 1 (between the 30's)


at LSU, 1 ticket in those seats are between $975 - $1025 Tradition Fee PLUS the cost of the ticket.

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Ticket prices will never go down, unless you want the quality of the program to suffer dramatically.

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Yep, wouldn't like the quality of the program to slip down to that SEC West #4 position from the current SECW3 and degrade from Chicken/Steak Bowls to the Independence in S'Port. Just give up your season tickets and go to the games you're really interested in because there are always tickets available outside the stadium for face or less regardless of how big the game is. Don't let LSU continue to force you into paying megabucks for games with Idaho, Towson, UAB, Kent.State, North Texas and the various other out of state, out of conference football Sisters of the Poor. (While the prime OOC games are moved to the frickin state of TEXAS)