For you baseball haters, the University is not spending money on baseball and regretting the loss. Baseball puts the University in the national picture in a very positive light. That value is a bit costly, but they consider it money well spent or they wouldn’t do it. I do get tired of hearing ‘this topic’ from a small number of small minded fans.
On the budget/cutting sports at MSU
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It’s a public university. Don’t take my word for it. Multiple newspapers have looked filed FOIA, looked at the numbers provided by the school, and reported it. It would be against the law for a public university to report inaccurate numbers, and if anything they’d have incentive to fudge them up, now down.
Accounting practices can be strange. Maybe all those premium area sales are not attributed to baseball? I don’t honestly don’t know, but the sales of the sky boxes and lofts alone should be over $1.2 million. (I think the lofts are $60k+ per year x 12). That revenue number simply doesn’t hold up to the math of known prices and seating quantities.
Imagine if we'd have waited with the interest rates today. That said I have no clue what rate we got
I get this is the talking point but I would happily pay more than what they pay to get seats.
The rate is actually very, very good. Much better than you would think. Because unlike let’s say someone building a home based off their personal income, this was backed by a big institution with a passionate fanbase and pretty much guaranteed people in seats for years. It was way less risky than if we tried to get financing for let’s say, expanding or refurbishing Davis Wade. Still expensive though.
It’s not an elitist point of view to say we need to increase ticket prices. It’s just simple math. We have a cathedral of a stadium, probably the best in the country. But also one of the most expensive.
If we’re constantly selling out and smashing attendance records with people even having trouble getting tickets, we need to raise prices. I know people hate to hear that. But it’s the truth
Agree. And we’re not talking about a 10% increase. With this stadium size & demand we probably need to double ticket prices.
Or even add bleachers for sec season. Cheap and it would sell out. Lsu outfield is bleachers and guess what, people still say it's one of the best venues in the country. That's a lot of extra money to offset some cost and if we continue to fill them, make something permanent later like the long term plans had in mind.
This is the student pass for 2025-2026. $250 for all baseball, football, and basketball. For reference Alabama does not even include football in their student package, they are purchased separately through a lottery, and the “all other sports” package is $550.
The students, while not necessarily the majority, are the biggest group of fans we can count on to show up. Thousands of them show up. My nephew is a sophomore. He goes to dang near every weekend game and some midweek games.
We could raise the pricing on the student passes to triple this, $750, and still sell them out. $750 for 7 home football games, 20 home basketball games, and 25+ home baseball games is a bargain. People might b*tch, yes, but they’d still sell out.
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I agree. But dang, I remember when I paid something like $21 for 7 football tickets (4 in Starkville & 3 in Jackson) & everything else was free. But that was a very different world.