The game that never ends

[lonny23]

Here is an article about ticket prices to Texas games in 2009. This game never ends in the Big 12. Every school in the South except Baylor is trying to bend over visiting fans with ticket prices. As much as I gripe about the SEC and Big 10, the last time I checked they didn't have a bunch of schools charging $85-$100 for tickets like the Big 12 does.

LONGHORNS FOOTBALL

Texas sets single-game ticket prices for football
By John Maher

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Friday, February 06, 2009

When Texas and Texas Tech meet in football this fall in Austin, it could be payback time on the field and at the ticket booth.

The ticket price for the game between the Longhorns and Red Raiders will be $95. That's the most UT has ever charged for a home football game, and it's $15 more than the ticket price for 2009 home games against two other Big 12 teams, Colorado and Kansas.

Tech, the only team to defeat UT this past season, charged $95 for that matchup last year in Lubbock.

Ed Goble, UT's associate athletic director for business, said Texas is trying to keep its pricing in line with what other schools are charging for home games against the Longhorns. Most of the fans looking at a $95 ticket for this year's Texas-Texas Tech game, Goble added, will be Tech fans, as that school has an allotment of 4,000 tickets for the game. Most of UT's sales to its fans are for season tickets, which are discounted.

The ticket for the neutral-site game in Dallas between Texas and Oklahoma also will be $95, as it has been for the past several years. In the 2008 season, the highest-priced single-game ticket at Royal-Memorial Stadium was $90 for Texas A&M. This coming season, that game, which will be played in College Station, will cost $100.

Other prices for UT home games in 2009 are: Louisiana-Monroe, $65; Central Florida and Texas-El Paso, $70.

A season ticket for the six home games will cost $375. If purchased individually, the tickets would cost a combined $460.

In 2008, a Texas season ticket cost $385, but that was for seven home games, not six.

[Firebird]

Here is an article about ticket prices to Texas games in 2009. This game never ends in the Big 12. Every school in the South except Baylor is trying to bend over visiting fans with ticket prices. As much as I gripe about the SEC and Big 10, the last time I checked they didn't have a bunch of schools charging $85-$100 for tickets like the Big 12 does.

LONGHORNS FOOTBALL

Texas sets single-game ticket prices for football
By John Maher

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Friday, February 06, 2009

When Texas and Texas Tech meet in football this fall in Austin, it could be payback time on the field and at the ticket booth.

The ticket price for the game between the Longhorns and Red Raiders will be $95. That's the most UT has ever charged for a home football game, and it's $15 more than the ticket price for 2009 home games against two other Big 12 teams, Colorado and Kansas.

Tech, the only team to defeat UT this past season, charged $95 for that matchup last year in Lubbock.

Ed Goble, UT's associate athletic director for business, said Texas is trying to keep its pricing in line with what other schools are charging for home games against the Longhorns. Most of the fans looking at a $95 ticket for this year's Texas-Texas Tech game, Goble added, will be Tech fans, as that school has an allotment of 4,000 tickets for the game. Most of UT's sales to its fans are for season tickets, which are discounted.

The ticket for the neutral-site game in Dallas between Texas and Oklahoma also will be $95, as it has been for the past several years. In the 2008 season, the highest-priced single-game ticket at Royal-Memorial Stadium was $90 for Texas A&M. This coming season, that game, which will be played in College Station, will cost $100.

Other prices for UT home games in 2009 are: Louisiana-Monroe, $65; Central Florida and Texas-El Paso, $70.

A season ticket for the six home games will cost $375. If purchased individually, the tickets would cost a combined $460.

In 2008, a Texas season ticket cost $385, but that was for seven home games, not six.


Don't pay for them, then. Simple as that. Schools charge what the market will bear. Texas has plenty of fans that will shell out over $100 dollars to watch their 'Horns play. They can pack the stadium charging those prices. They have no obligation to accept less money for a seat simply because you wear different colors. Fans of opposing schools who want to watch a game in Austin can either pay what the Longhorn AD thinks his tickets are worth or they can refuse to.

[RocklandDragon]

$95!!!

:mad:

WTF? This is still college football right? These are NFL prices!

But alas...I will pay and see this game in person.

4 tickets please.

:D

[jtk1519]

The Commie is right. When you average 98,000 a game in a 94,000 seat stadium, you can sorta charge what you want. So long as people will pay it, these prices wont change.

[SLC]

$95!!!

:mad:

WTF? This is still college football right? These are NFL prices!

But alas...I will pay and see this game in person.

4 tickets please.

:D



What the hell are you pissed about...read the article...Tech charged the same $95 this past season when it was in Lubbuck..but now since you have to pay that in Austin you are mad????...Where was your concern about NFL prices for that game?

[cajun]

What the hell are you pissed about...read the article...Tech charged the same $95 this past season when it was in Lubbuck..but now since you have to pay that in Austin you are mad????...Where was your concern about NFL prices for that game?

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[cajun]

Louisiana-Monroe, $65 = smart shopping

[jtk1519]

Funny thing is that Ohio State fans are whining because their ticket prices for 2009 are being raised to $63.

[RocklandDragon]

What the hell are you pissed about...read the article...Tech charged the same $95 this past season when it was in Lubbuck..but now since you have to pay that in Austin you are mad????...Where was your concern about NFL prices for that game?

I read the damn thing. Don't assume that I was shooting off at the mouth. I know what it said...and I still can be legitimately pissed about the price of these games.

I was upset when Tech was charging $75+ for crappy seats when they played Texas a few years back (I wasn't a student at the time so I couldn't get in like I did this year). It cost me less to go get tickets to see the Cowboys and Giants. Just because I didn't post it on a message board doesn't mean I was happy about the charging of the games.

Yeah...I know...I know...supply and demand. It's still a lot of fu:Censor::Censor:ing money, though. So, while I shed some tears as my wallet gets lighter, I know I have to because other people will be more than willing to pay that price as well.

I said I was going to pay, right?

[RocklandDragon]

Funny thing is that Ohio State fans are whining because their ticket prices for 2009 are being raised to $63.

Texas Tech raised their prices as well. A mixed bag of reactions from the community up here.

[lonny23]

Don't pay for them, then. Simple as that. Schools charge what the market will bear. Texas has plenty of fans that will shell out over $100 dollars to watch their 'Horns play. They can pack the stadium charging those prices. They have no obligation to accept less money for a seat simply because you wear different colors. Fans of opposing schools who want to watch a game in Austin can either pay what the Longhorn AD thinks his tickets are worth or they can refuse to.
1. Sure we'll pay the prices to go. That's not even in the discussion.
2. This isn't just about Texas. It's about all of them. I was at the OU game vs. Tech in 06 and they were steamed that OSU was going to charge them $100 the next week. Sure enough, OU got $100 out of OSU in 07. It's just a big tit for tat game and nobody ever says STOP. We have a bunch of schools that act like little kids and say "You raised the prices on me, so I'm going to raise the prices on you!"
3. There is somewhat of a "6 of one and half a dozen of another effect" on season ticket holders. While Big 12 teams have graduated prices based upon the opponent, the Big 10 and SEC schools are usually pretty level across the board for all games. You don't have the high-end games in those conferences, but you also don't get games like SMU where it only costs about $17 in your season ticket package (It was something like that last year, but my Texas ticket was like $59 in the package).
4. I don't make any bones about the fact that Okie Lite rapes their fans. Each year that goes by, they find newer ways to extort money to the point that last year they required people to buy season tickets to get the Oklahoma game. I was shocked at the prices that some people told me they had to pay for tickets to the Okie Lite-Tech game in 07. It's not like most teams where games cost a flat rate based upon the opponent. For that Tech game, it was like the NFL where the better seats had higher costs. Some of those seats were up to $400.
5. My whole gripe is teams are trying to get back at each other and us fans have to pay for the childishness. If you're a Tech fan and want to go to their home games, you pay what they ask or you don't go. You'll let Okie Lite **** you if you want to go bad enough (Ol' Clayton Williams should've been a Cowboy because he could sit back and enjoy the ****!:D). My gripe is I'm a visiting fan and that means I have to go to Texas and Okie Lite in odd years and A&M and OU in even years and all of them have pulled a stunt or two to get back at another team in recent years, but OU does have the cheapest road tickets of the 4 teams. As far as Tech goes, they charge the same amount for UT and A&M games, but OU and OSU game to this point have been the same price as the other Big 12 games. I don't know if that's going to change or not.

[lonny23]

Texas Tech raised their prices as well. A mixed bag of reactions from the community up here.
I never did buy season tickets when I lived in Converse, but I moved to Wichita Falls in 2005 and couldn't go that year because I was deployed. Here is approximately what I've paid so far for season tickets:

2006 Around $170 for 6 games ($28.33 a game)
2007 Around $190 for 6 games ($31.67 a game)
2008 $230 for 7 games ($32.86 a game)
2009 $330 for 7 games, plus $100 to the Red Raider Club ($61.43 a game with the donation)

Tech has always had some of the cheapest tickets in the Big 12 and the value factor for what you pay for is great. I can't gripe about ticket prices going up an average of $3 a game from year to year and some fans were stupid to gripe about the 07 and 08 increases. The 09 jump is a big bite, but what can they do? I heard that Tech had to pay like $3M of the scholarship dollars for athletes this last year because they didn't have enough Red Raider Club donations to foot the bill. When you play with the big boys, you also have to pay like the big boys.

Texas and Texas A&M fans aren't going to have sympathy on Tech because their fans pay more. OSU has always charged more and so has OU.

[slorch]

I would pay $100 for the Tech/ UT game or even the Tech/ Aggie game before I would ever pay $85 for a Texans or Cowboys game.

That choice is one of the easiest I will ever face in life. I would much rather watch a pro game on TV, and would much rather experience a college game in person. By a freaking country mile. That's not to say I wouldn't go to an NFL game, but I much prefer the college pageantry and emotion of the "amateurs."

When you look at concert tickets and other high end entertainment, while it's still not cheap, college football prices are reasonable when you consider the quality of the entertainment and the memories you get from just one game in a college stadium.

All that being said, high school football has got to be the best entertainment value for my dollar that I have found. $28 bucks for the four of us to spend three hours watching an energized competition, passion, and heart? What's there not to like about that deal??????

[lonny23]

I would pay $100 for the Tech/ UT game or even the Tech/ Aggie game before I would ever pay $85 for a Texans or Cowboys game.

That choice is one of the easiest I will ever face in life. I would much rather watch a pro game on TV, and would much rather experience a college game in person. By a freaking country mile. That's not to say I wouldn't go to an NFL game, but I much prefer the college pageantry and emotion of the "amateurs."

When you look at concert tickets and other high end entertainment, while it's still not cheap, college football prices are reasonable when you consider the quality of the entertainment and the memories you get from just one game in a college stadium.

All that being said, high school football has got to be the best entertainment value for my dollar that I have found. $28 bucks for the four of us to spend three hours watching an energized competition, passion, and heart? What's there not to like about that deal??????
I agree with you and that's why in 2008 (Not counting that sorry playoff game against the Giants and the NFC Title Game ticket I couldn't use):

I bought a ticket to 1 Cowboys game and that was the Ravens game to close down Texas Stadium.

10 Tech games (Didn't go to Kansas, K-State, or Nevada because I had to see the kids and parents/relatives on the weekends some during football season!).

As much as I love going to Tech games, I just as much enjoyed seeing my grandmother's Alma Mater (Canadian) win a state title in Wichita Falls! It didn't hurt that they pounded a Waco-area team for the title (Mart). It's always nice to have defending state champs playing each other for another title.

[SLC]

I read the damn thing. Don't assume that I was shooting off at the mouth. I know what it said...and I still can be legitimately pissed about the price of these games.

I was upset when Tech was charging $75+ for crappy seats when they played Texas a few years back (I wasn't a student at the time so I couldn't get in like I did this year). It cost me less to go get tickets to see the Cowboys and Giants. Just because I didn't post it on a message board doesn't mean I was happy about the charging of the games.

Yeah...I know...I know...supply and demand. It's still a lot of fu:Censor::Censor:ing money, though. So, while I shed some tears as my wallet gets lighter, I know I have to because other people will be more than willing to pay that price as well.

I said I was going to pay, right?


I got you...Just seemed like you were madder at the fact that UT was charging this, than you were at the price itself.

My thing is, I will pay a higher price to watch a college game than I will to watch an NFL game. It may be a different thought process for other people, but I'm way more into college football than pro football...far better atmosphere and overall experience. If you have to choose one to watch in person and one to watch on tv....then there is no doubt the better in person game is college and the better on tv game is pro.

[lonny23]

I got you...Just seemed like you were madder at the fact that UT was charging this, than you were at the price itself.

My thing is, I will pay a higher price to watch a college game than I will to watch an NFL game. It may be a different thought process for other people, but I'm way more into college football than pro football...far better atmosphere and overall experience. If you have to choose one to watch in person and one to watch on tv....then there is no doubt the better in person game is college and the better on tv game is pro.
I agree and that's because college fans have more passion and hatred for the opponents than pro fans do. I mean we're always talking about hating other college teams, but how many people around here besides me talk very often about hating Philly/New York/Phoenix, etc. teams?

Pro fans by and large want their team to win, but they don't hate Baltimore, Seattle, or Kansas City (I know Denver and Oakland, and maybe St. Louis does, but work with me here!) for example. At college games, not only do you LOVE your team more than pro fans (The fans watching on TV that LOVE pro teams far outweigh the number of fans at the game that LOVE the team) for the most part love their team, but you HATE some of the teams you play. I was more intense at the Texas game last year than the UMass game. That's just how it goes.

[SLC]

I agree and that's because college fans have more passion and hatred for the opponents than pro fans do. I mean we're always talking about hating other college teams, but how many people around here besides me talk very often about hating Philly/New York/Phoenix, etc. teams?

Pro fans by and large want their team to win, but they don't hate Baltimore, Seattle, or Kansas City (I know Denver and Oakland, and maybe St. Louis does, but work with me here!) for example. At college games, not only do you LOVE your team more than pro fans (The fans watching on TV that LOVE pro teams far outweigh the number of fans at the game that LOVE the team) for the most part love their team, but you HATE some of the teams you play. I was more intense at the Texas game last year than the UMass game. That's just how it goes.


I agree. I cant list more than the NFC East teams that I truly hate( Washington, New York, and Philly)...But I hate 10-15 college teams around the country.

[lonny23]

I agree. I cant list more than the NFC East teams that I truly hate( Washington, New York, and Philly)...But I hate 10-15 college teams around the country.
You can't get around the hometown factor, either. NFL teams are just a mix of players from around the globe and with various team loyalties. Fans of Texas teams are rooting for TEXAS kids and even the out-of-staters become TEXANS when they sign up. That's the same reason I like high school so much. I might gripe about Waco, Houston, and East Texas because I like West Texas teams, but let those other guys play Ohio and I'm rooting for TEXAS!:D

[SLC]

You can't get around the hometown factor, either. NFL teams are just a mix of players from around the globe and with various team loyalties. Fans of Texas teams are rooting for TEXAS kids and even the out-of-staters become TEXANS when they sign up. That's the same reason I like high school so much. I might gripe about Waco, Houston, and East Texas because I like West Texas teams, but let those other guys play Ohio and I'm rooting for TEXAS!:D



Yea we had that sense when we played MNW and ECA...Their was a large contingent that wanted Carroll to beat those teams...but there was a fairly big cheer when we lost to MNW. Myself, I always root for Texas schools against OOS teams..I may not like that Texas team, but I always want them to win just so I can say we (Texas) beat that other state.