re: These prices are ridiculous

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There are 80,000 tickets. In an open, free market all 80,000 of those tickets would be for sale. In the last 7 or 8 years, the ticket brokers have made these deals in which they take 30-40,000 of these tickets off the market before they even go up for sale.

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I agree that ticket brokers have become a huge business, but if you really think that HALF of the tickets go directly to brokers, you are out of your mind. Not every ticket on StubHub & TicketMaster ticket exchange are from brokers. Most of those are individuals looking for a market to sell their pair...not 200 tickets.

Let's break it down.

Dome holds 80,000
LSU gets 25,000
Bama gets 25,000
Sugar Bowl gets 30,000

So for ticket brokers to get 30-40,000, they would need to get every ticket that the Sugar Bowl has and then tap into the tickets the universities give to season ticket holders & staff. Highly unlikely.

I say brokers account for 15% of the total, tops. That's 12,000 tickets. The rest that are for sale are from people like you & me.