I’m sure you can but they also play 81 home games and it all depends on who they are playing. Supply and demand. If people want to charge that much they can because someone will buy it otherwise they’d lower it down.
$290 a ticket for 1 baseball game.
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and the stadiums are generally at least 3 times larger than The Dude, if you count only chairbacks, probably 5 times larger
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I hope no one ever makes you feel like you should feel bad for having season tickets. The season ticket holders certainly did step up financially when asked and that’s awesome. You guys deserve to have the seats. My issue is certainly not with you guys. My issue is the way the stadium was built. Unless you were in a position to purchase tickets in 2016, you’re kinda out in the cold. Can you imagine the amount of 21 year olds that weren’t able to make that commitment that probably could now (10 years later).
I’ll never understand why the stadium was not built larger. It has never made sense to me. I’m not saying we should have built a 20k seat stadium but the chairbacks should have been around 10k seats. I really do believe we could nearly sell that out in season tickets each year.
I literally never miss a weekend series and seldom a week game. I know a large number of season ticket holders and none of them fit your description. Takes more than a sample of 2 to make your stance true. I can introduce you to literally hundreds of ticket holders to counter.
I don't think i'm hot $h1t. I took a chance on season tickets back when they first started talking about the expansion.
Fun fact: the last 2 years i have sold my 2 tickets to a friend for about what they cost me yearly (probably a little more) for the entire season.
A.) b/c i can't always go B.) bc i stand up behind my groups left field lounge when i do go. I pay for that left field lounge too. I offer food to people who come by when i'm around. Even beers depending on how many i have.
I could easily sell my tickets for considerably more game by game but i don't.
Good for you
I’ve said it before but I was a longtime season ticket holder at the previous stadium but gave them up when I decided I wasn’t using the tickets enough to justify renewing for another year.
I never have regretted that decision
Don’t turn this political with all your free market propaganda
And that’s fair. But the person in this thread complaining is complaining about a decision he made.Good for you
I’ve said it before but I was a longtime season ticket holder at the previous stadium but gave them up when I decided I wasn’t using the tickets enough to justify renewing for another year.
I never have regretted that decision
you aren’t complaining about a decision you made. You are owning it!!
I mean I get your point but we can’t just build stuff bc some people might decide to want tickets later. That’s not how the real world works.
they took preorders. They built based on that plus a growth factor. Growth just happened to be a lot steeper bc we got really good really quick.
The same approach is taken everywhere in the world by smart people.
Uncle Ben’s 90 second rice has xyz demand. They built a line to handle that demand plus abc percent growth. They either hit it perfect, under build or over build based on every day life factors.
we under built but we still have a stadium that is setting every attendance record possible.
This is really my only complaint too. I don't know whether it should've been built with more seats from the beginning or if there just needed to be a section set aside for non-season ticket holders, but it is a little frustrating that the only three options for getting a seat at a State baseball game are:
1) Making a 10-year season ticket commitment
2) Paying a scalped ticket price
3) Getting lucky by finding a friendly fan that's not going and also not looking to make a profit
I don't feel like there was any vision for this brand new baseball stadium beyond what Cohen wanted it to be at the time that it was built. I also don't understand why our ticket office can't come up with a system that allows season ticket holders to mark the games that they won't be attending so that non-season ticket holding BC members can somehow have occasional access to them for whatever price that makes sense.
There has never been an available chairback seat for me to step up and buy during my lifetime, because every administration at this school has made it clear that they are willing to let someone else pay the bills in order for you to “step up” and pay for tickets that are a quarter of the market value. I don’t want season tickets. I go to 4-5 series a year. I want you that do purchase them to step up and pay market value so the football team doesn’t have to financially support baseball. I don’t care if I have to pay 300 dollars a ticket when I decide to go as long as the season ticket holders had to pay that to get those tickets.
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I know more than 2 like this. It’s just an example of one weekend. One! If you look at the threads on here there are many who want to pour even more money into this sport at the expense of the one who pays the bills and throw a fit when you talk about raising prices. You can gaslight everyone else but it’s not true. There is a major issue with the baseball fanbase
I know who I’m dealing with now. I'm glad you found something to bítch about so your day would be complete.
My kids and I have a ballgame to get ready for.
Cool. You’ll probably pay more to get in their game than you do for the state ones.
What is the season ticket price for chairbacks? I was googling and can't find it, but I am seeing stuff that says a $1,500 license fee per ticket guaranteed the right to buy tickets for 10 years? That's not correct, is it?
If it's $1,500 a year per ticket to buy season tickets, and they made a ten year commitment, that seems crazy to ***** about them having the tickets. Yes, it sucks for the younger fans that couldn't make that commitment, but that's somewhat unavoidable and that's a hell of a commitment to make when you don't know that we won't suck for a good portion of those ten years (I mean historically, that's a pretty good bet, but we do have the ability to 17 up a wet dream).
If it was really $1,500 for the entire ten years, then it really depends on what those season tickets cost. I get that getting the $1,500 up front locked in some revenue for the school and there is the time value of money, but that seems grossly underpricing it, unless the tickets themselves are pretty pricey.
If it's $1,500 a year per ticket to buy season tickets, and they made a ten year commitment, that seems crazy to ***** about them having the tickets. Yes, it sucks for the younger fans that couldn't make that commitment, but that's somewhat unavoidable and that's a hell of a commitment to make when you don't know that we won't suck for a good portion of those ten years (I mean historically, that's a pretty good bet, but we do have the ability to 17 up a wet dream).
If it was really $1,500 for the entire ten years, then it really depends on what those season tickets cost. I get that getting the $1,500 up front locked in some revenue for the school and there is the time value of money, but that seems grossly underpricing it, unless the tickets themselves are pretty pricey.
You are way off.
You could have bought season tickets. They were super cheap right? Then you could have went to your 4 or 5 series for the same price you are saying you are willing to pay now.
Let that sink in.
You are saying its ok to pay $300 x 2 tickets x 8 ish games. $4800 would have bought you a season ticket. Maybe 2.
I’m not buying season tickets to a sport that has 30 home games when I go to 8 games a year max. I’m not dealing with the hassle of trying to make sure someone gets in the seats when I’m not there and all that comes with it. My personal situation has nothing to do with the overall point, which is the demand is way higher than the price and it’s ridiculous that people are able to buy tickets from the university that cheap when the sport is losing money. It makes no walking around sense.
So are they supposed to change the ticket price if they think the team is good? What about the last two years when they sucked? Those grapes are extra sour.
You could have bought one when they announced plans for the stadium.
They are supposed to charge what they can for tickets to make the most money. They have the data on waiting lists and they know they can make more money. They are and have been willingly not doing so. The waiting list for tickets has been very long for a very long time. Arguing against this is asinine. The original point made in this thread is correct and you looney toons are playing mental gymnastics trying to justify it because you don’t want to pay what the market value of the tickets are, even though it directly hurts the sport that has to subsidize it every year.
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“I don’t have any logical counterpoint because I know the person I’m talking about is right so I will just post a gif to distract from the point.”
My guess is that those folks charging $100+ for tickets are people that fully plan on attending the game, but if someone wants to pay out the asś for their tickets, they’ll let em go.
And if you travel. The hotel cost over a Spring Weekend vs a Fall weekend is $200 cheaper. And that’s not counting the option of only getting one night in the Spring vs the Fall 2 night minimum.
The original point was that tickets are too high on secondary markets because tickets are too low for season ticket holders. That makes absolutely no sense. And that’s coming from someone who does think ticket prices should meet demand and go up.
Not really sure what the big gripe is. The university and season ticket holders entered into a long term contract for baseball season tickets. Both parties offer various considerations in long term contracts that are different than they would be for short-term contracts. You can argue whether the university make the correct decision offering a long-term contract back then, but you really can’t/shouldn’t argue the university should break the contract based on current circumstances.
Somebody who made the decision to offer the agreement decided that was the best/safest option for the stadium project so it is what it is for now.
Somebody who made the decision to offer the agreement decided that was the best/safest option for the stadium project so it is what it is for now.
You can’t explain basic logic to some of these people.
Ticket prices will definitely go up when the contract expires. Someone in the admin will do an analysis on what the right price is. Tickets will still be sold after market. Some weekends will be crazy high. SAME DAMN THING FOR ANY SPORT AND ANY TEAM ON ANY GIVEN WEEKEND.
Do you find it strange at all that @bulldoghair seems to have completely stopped posting on April 19?
I wonder what he/they are doing with their time these days??
That first sentence is just not true unless you are 12 or under. I was blessed with an opportunity to move back to the Golden Triangle area in Spring of 2015, and one of the first things I did once the job offer was signed was check on the possibility of baseball tickets. They were raising funds for the new Dude, and were even offering a special deal for six weeks because donations were not coming in as fast as MSU wanted. I would have bought them without the deal, but the timing was fortunate. What I’m saying is that there was a great opportunity in 2015.
Not posting here because he was put on a vacation
That’s like saying we only need a 35,000 seat football stadium, or 6,000 seat basketball arena.
We literally reduced number of seats in the stadium by around 35-40% with the new build. Seating went from 7,200 to around 5,000 (which includes roughly 800 “seats” in LFL, 10 per lounge area for 80 spots).
A compromise opportunity existed, somewhere between building a 10,000 seat stadium like the new Alex Box, and something literally half that size with more creature comforts and TV appeal. We didn’t do it, and we should have. Doesn’t mean new Dude isn’t great, but we left a lot of meat on the bone.
The good news is that what we didn’t do still CAN be done, but its going to be a lot more expensive to do it now than it would have been then, and we’ve suppressed revenue for almost a decade now from not doing it which makes it doubly expensive.
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The GIF wasn’t about the topic. It was about the insufferable whining and arguing
