DWS just ain't big enough ..

[BiscuitEater]

Scott just tweeted ..

Recent @HailState FB season ticket sales:

'08: 37,620
'09: 40,901
...
'13: 42,894
'14: 45,575
'15: 50,311

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That's a 33.7% increase in season tickets since Dan was hired.

 

[Shamoan]

wow...hey, if you build it, they will come.

 

[121Josey]

Or tickets just ain't expensive enough.**

ETA:
[h=2]SEC Average Ticket Price Per Home Game[/h]1) Georgia: $238.70
2) Tennessee: $214.15
3) Auburn: $192.50
4) Texas A&M: $184.11
5) Alabama: $170.52
6) LSU: $147.47
7) South Carolina: $138.99
8) Missouri: $120.52
9) Arkansas: $119.82
10) Ole Miss: $111.63
11) Florida: $107.43
12) Kentucky: $106.81
13) Mississippi State: $97.89
14) Vanderbilt: $78.74

 

[patdog]

Or, if you win, they will come.

 

[Drewbowski]

Remember when the east deck was built ~2002?

 

[Sandman.sixpack]

I like how it's increased four years in a row!

 

[johnson86-1]

Or tickets just ain't expensive enough.**

ETA:
SEC Average Ticket Price Per Home Game

1) Georgia: $238.70
2) Tennessee: $214.15
3) Auburn: $192.50
4) Texas A&M: $184.11
5) Alabama: $170.52
6) LSU: $147.47
7) South Carolina: $138.99
8) Missouri: $120.52
9) Arkansas: $119.82
10) Ole Miss: $111.63
11) Florida: $107.43
12) Kentucky: $106.81
13) Mississippi State: $97.89
14) Vanderbilt: $78.74

I wonder if that takes into account student tickets?

And insane that it would cost a family of four $5,000 per year to have season tickets at the four most expensive schools. Hell, $2800 is expensive when that's before you talk about hotel rooms, gas, tailgating, etc.

 

[was21]

Worth every red million that he's being paid

 

[QuadrupleOption]

Or tickets just ain't expensive enough.**

ETA:
SEC Average Ticket Price Per Home Game

1) Georgia: $238.70
2) Tennessee: $214.15
3) Auburn: $192.50
4) Texas A&M: $184.11
5) Alabama: $170.52
6) LSU: $147.47
7) South Carolina: $138.99
8) Missouri: $120.52
9) Arkansas: $119.82
10) Ole Miss: $111.63
11) Florida: $107.43
12) Kentucky: $106.81
13) Mississippi State: $97.89
14) Vanderbilt: $78.74

Honestly, I'm okay with that. I'd hate to price out middle-class families from being able to enjoy games at MSU. If we're the People's University I feel like we should have a pricing structure that supports that.

We can always expand and add more premium seating to cater to folks that can afford the more expensive packages.

 

[Xenomorph]

Remember when the west deck was built in ~1986?

Dadgum I'm old.

 

[GloryDawg]

Honestly, I'm okay with that. I'd hate to price out middle-class families from being able to enjoy games at MSU. If we're the People's University I feel like we should have a pricing structure that supports that.

We can always expand and add more premium seating to cater to folks that can afford the more expensive packages.

Use to those three game packages was 99.00 but this year I saw them advertised at 75.00. I wonder if those tickets are figured in?

 

[Dogariffic]

Check my math on this but at $100 a ticket for 7 games that is over $9 mil increase on season ticket sales alone. Add in coke a hot dog etc and it is probablyclose to $15 in new money. Yeah i would say mullen is worth every penny plus some.....#hailstate

 

[archdog]

I have plan that includes rebuilding the M club into a building that is worthy of that position on our gameday. New locker rooms that would make Oregon be like damnnnnnn. Additional seats for regular fans at the field level. Additional premium seating similar to the scoreboarf club above new state of the art indoor tailgating experience. Exterior deck overlooking the field and the Junction for people that would like to party Mardi Gras style pregame. Seating would increase approx 8500k regular seats, 1000 premium, another 3000 for party deck.

Structure would allow for full upper deck to connect around.

All I need is to be hired to do it.

 

[Dawg1976]

Pretty amazing.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Not really!

I sat out there for years, and years with the faithful 30/35,000.

You have got to show some promise.

 

[coachnorm]

There is a sad reality and it is accommodation of premium seating. Seattle Seahawks new stadium isn't that much larger attendance wise than Davis Wade Stadium. Same thing for the new SF 49ers stadium. Even the new future London stadium in Tottenham built for NFL specifications and a franchise has about the same seating capacity as Davis Wade. About Six years ago, the NFL was preparing to meddle with the Los Angles Coliseum which started with 106,000 capacity which reconfigured down to 94,000. The NFL wanted to make the Coliseum into sky box central and relegate seating capacity to about 68,000?

 

[PhredPhantom]

Or tickets just ain't expensive enough.**

ETA:
SEC Average Ticket Price Per Home Game

1) Georgia: $238.70
2) Tennessee: $214.15
3) Auburn: $192.50
4) Texas A&M: $184.11
5) Alabama: $170.52
6) LSU: $147.47
7) South Carolina: $138.99
8) Missouri: $120.52
9) Arkansas: $119.82
10) Ole Miss: $111.63
11) Florida: $107.43
12) Kentucky: $106.81
13) Mississippi State: $97.89
14) Vanderbilt: $78.74

By the time you add $100 per seat per game ($700 per seat per season this year) for the Bulldog Club donation that's added to my tickets, that gets pretty close to the approximately $200 per game ticket price per home game at some of the other schools ahead of us in the list. That doesn't include parking passes and the other expenses associated with attending. Florida, who has a history including several National Championships and where Dan Mullen came from before here, averages only about $10 per ticket per game over us according to your list. I don't know how much the other SEC schools near the top of the list add to their basic ticket prices per home game - maybe they have similar, or even higher, add-ons to ours - but buying tickets to MSU Football games is not cheap. I just really don't feel like the school is losing money on the football games.

 

[57stratdawg]

Make it happen.

 

[dotcomdawg]

I would like to see us install chair backs throughout the entire stadium except in the student and visitors section (this would lower our capacity a little). Then I would like to see the south end zone bowled in on the bottom and condos built above on the second level (similar to what we are doing at Dudy Noble) that would have balconies over the field and over the junction.

 

[Seinfeld]

Amen brother. The only thing I can think of that must be preventing this is that they've done the research and found that it would result in losing a few thousand spaces from our overall capacity. If that's the case, then I wish they would at least add some back support to the bench seating.

 

[Seinfeld]

Love the indoor tailgating/party deck ideas. Those are things that are starting

to become more and more common in pro stadiums, but you rarely see anything like it on a college campus.

Speaking of DWS expansion, does anyone know when the next phase is expected to kick off? The place looks awesome, but we've still got a long way to go to get to this...

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[dawgstudent]

Someone made a great point on twitter that our student allotment has been ~ 10K for many years.

So in 2008, we sold 27K non-student season tickets. In 2015 - we sold 40K non-student season tickets. That's an increase of 48%.

 

[Shamoan]

lets throw down with diet cokes and fantas for everyone. now THAT is a party. the alcohol in stadiums rule needs to change before something like that would be feasible, so maybe build something like that with an eye to the future.

 

[archdog]

to become more and more common in pro stadiums, but you rarely see anything like it on a college campus.

Speaking of DWS expansion, does anyone know when the next phase is expected to kick off? The place looks awesome, but we've still got a long way to go to get to this...

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Well my idea would be that the tailgating deck overlooked both the Junction and the stadium. The trick would be to have the junction overlook low enough that it feels like bourbon street. I will draw up a quick section at lunch and show you guys.

 

[archdog]

Also you could add a endzone club with glass looking into the tunnel, so you can sit there and watch the team come out.

 

[Seinfeld]

Yeah, because most people are stocking their lockers with cases of grape fanta and putting mini-bottles of diet coke in wives' purses.

I get what you're saying, but just because we'll most likely never have bar tenders at Davis Wade, it doesn't mean that alcohol isn't flowing throughout the stadium and campus on game days. Not to mention that a part deck doesn't have to necessarily be a drunken rave. I've been to a few awesome ones in NFL and MLB stadiums that are known more for the food and atmosphere than the $12 cups of beer.