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01-26-2006, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Golferdow01
How does being a football school have anything to do with basketball ticket prices?
The issue is that our AD is in the red big time because of the stadium renovations and construction of the Schott. They are trying to make $ any way possible. This comes at a price to the students.
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I'm just saying that if we were a basketball school, the current prices would be acceptable. But we arent a basketball school. |
01-26-2006, 12:18 PM
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There are a lot more bball games than football in a season, so if the students want to attend all the games they are going to have to spend a pretty penny, just to do that. They need to have half price games, or even a say two dollars to get into a game like say FAMU b/c the crowd is going to be dead on a nite like that, b/c not many people are going to care about a game like that.
Also weeknight games should not have the same prices as weekend games. The demand for a weeknights is not the same for weekend.
Also IMO the Schott is really big, and while it is great when it is full, but the thing is that it doesnt fill up all that often.
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01-26-2006, 12:37 PM
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if I don't take us down the field, bench me
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Originally Posted by jlb1705
lso, out of all those "intimidating environments" - how many of them belong to [censored]ty teams?
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Maryland, Duke, NC, IU, MSU, Illinois, Kansas, etc all have great atmospheres. This is not a little school trend.
With the way Matta has this program on the rise, aren't we going to be generating a lot more money from TV contracts and such? I realize it's probably not an overwhelming amount, but with a likely increase in overall revenue from bball, couldn't we afford to cater a little bit less to the rich, silent fans?
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01-26-2006, 12:48 PM
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ONE REALISTIC CHANGE CAN BE EASILY MADE
move the press from down on the court up into the press box. then add a student section there.
the reality is now though that the "student section" behind the basket is only full half the time. why double the area if you cant get kids to go?
the one thing about the schott, is when it rocks, it ROCKS. when it doesn't rock it has the feeling you are at church. other things can be done to greater increase the atmosphere. you see that theyve used the t shirt cannons of the jackets once the had a show in town to compete with. maybe they should look into how other arenas do it. the reality is 19,500 at the schott are louder than 9,314 at cameron indoor, when the crowd at the schott shows up.
the reality is wait til next year things will change, but dont forget the impact each and every person had in the last 5 mins of the illinois game last year next time you have the oppurtunity to go watch your buckeyes...
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01-26-2006, 01:35 PM
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Maryland, Duke, NC, IU, MSU, Illinois, Kansas, etc all have great atmospheres. This is not a little school trend.
With the way Matta has this program on the rise, aren't we going to be generating a lot more money from TV contracts and such? I realize it's probably not an overwhelming amount, but with a likely increase in overall revenue from bball, couldn't we afford to cater a little bit less to the rich, silent fans?
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Who do you think this is, Notre Dame? All the big TV money is negotiated at the NCAA and Big Ten level. Getting better will increase demand for tickets, demand for signage at the games, and increase sales of officially licensed merchandise, but it will not affect TV money because the largest chunk of that is negotiated collectively.
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01-26-2006, 01:37 PM
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Who do you think this is, Notre Dame? All the big TV money is negotiated at the NCAA and Big Ten level. Getting better will increase demand for tickets, demand for signage at the games, and increase sales of officially licensed merchandise, but it will not affect TV money because the largest chunk of that is negotiated collectively.
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when OSU starts appearing on national TV more often, does the money go to the big ten, and then get dispersed? I would expect to see OSU on national TV more often in the next few years, however I am not familiar with the system enough to know if those games would merely replace other big ten national broadcasts.
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01-26-2006, 03:20 PM
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