Ohio State to raise ticket prices?

[Bucknut24]

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2013/...ce-hikes-introduction-of-premium-game-pricing

And if you?re interested in attending the Michigan game in 2014, you might want to consider taking out a second mortgage. That?s because the Athletic Council has set forth a plan that would allow Ohio State to designate up to two home games per season as ?premium? games.

The Board of Trustees will meet next week.

If approved, the rate hike, the first in three years, would start for the upcoming 2013-14 academic year. Ohio State will raise public ticket prices $9, from $70 to $79. Faculty and staff prices will increase from $56 to $64. Student tickets will go up $2 in 2013 and another $2 in 2014. Students paid $32 per game in 2012.

At the Dec. 6 Faculty Council meeting, Charlie Wilson, chairman of Ohio State?s Athletic Council and a professor at the Moritz College of Law, revealed a plan that would set prices for premium games during the 2013 and 2014 seasons between $110 and $125. That increases to the $125 and $150 range in 2015 and $175 in 2016 before returning to $125 and $150 in 2017. Faculty and staff tickets will cost 80 percent of the public?s price. Students will not pay a premium rate.


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This is very arrogant

?Frankly, there are going to be people who are not going to be able to afford it; that?s too bad. But there also aren?t people that can afford the $79. The demand for tickets far exceeds the number available.?

Looks like I've seen one of my last games in Ohio Stadium, this is absurd, especially in this economy? wtf are these guys thinking

 

[Mike80]

and yet they'll still sell out every single game....it's not arrogance to tell the truth about the demand for tickets.

 

[OHSportsFan]

I am definitely one of those people who feels I am getting priced out of attending games at this point. :(

But, there will always be 100,000+ in Ohio Stadium to take my place...

 

[buckeyebri]

That 60-70" screen is looking like it may come to fruition in the near future....

I can't wait to hear the ESPiN announcers talking about how quiet the stadium is when it has just the folks who can pay the cash and sit on their arse the whole game.....

 

[Bucknut24]

I dunno, with the way the economy is going, I don't think it's a forgone conclusion they'll sell out if they raise it

 

[Mike80]

I dunno, with the way the economy is going, I don't think it's a forgone conclusion they'll sell out if they raise it

That's why the scalpers are able to get $400 for single seats at some games.

It'll still sell out.

 

[Tonyank]

wtf are these guys thinking

All about money. someone will pay it.

 

[Bucknut24]

That's why the scalpers are able to get $400 for single seats at some games.

It'll still sell out.

for the big games, yes, but against Buffalo? no

OSU really struggled to sell out against Miami, UCF, and UAB this year

 

[Mike80]

for the big games, yes, but against Buffalo? no

Bet you're wrong.

OSU really struggled to sell out against Miami, UCF, and UAB this year

Yet there were no tickets available when I went to buy them. Just because people didn't show up or buy them from the scalpers doesn't mean the tickets weren't sold.

 

[Bucknut24]

Bet you're wrong.



Yet there were no tickets available when I went to buy them. Just because people didn't show up or buy them from the scalpers doesn't mean the tickets weren't sold.

I saw them for sale on ticketmaster (single seats) the day before the game

 

[matcar]

for the big games, yes, but against Buffalo? no

OSU really struggled to sell out against Miami, UCF, and UAB this year

Wasn't there some mention of tiered ticket pricing depending upon the quality of the opponent? I thought that had also been talked about.

 

[buckeyesin07]

and yet they'll still sell out every single game....it's not arrogance to tell the truth about the demand for tickets.

Bingo. If people don't like it, then they can send a message and not go. If enough people don't go, prices will come back down.

 

[Bucknut24]

Wasn't there some mention of tiered ticket pricing depending upon the quality of the opponent? I thought that had also been talked about.

that's what the article mentioned, possibly upward to $125 for Michigan

 

[Mariotwins]

I'll still go to games whenever I can.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2013/...ce-hikes-introduction-of-premium-game-pricing




This is very arrogant




Looks like I've seen one of my last games in Ohio Stadium, this is absurd, especially in this economy? wtf are these guys thinking

and yet they'll still sell out every single game....it's not arrogance to tell the truth about the demand for tickets.

Exactly right

That's why the scalpers are able to get $400 for single seats at some games.

It'll still sell out.

... and this is why. When the after-market makes it quite clear that the demand for tickets supports higher prices; who should make the money: the university or the scalpers? That's really the only valid question here.

for the big games, yes, but against Buffalo? no


OSU really struggled to sell out against Miami, UCF, and UAB this year

The proposed increase in prices includes highly increased prices for "premium" games and more modest increases for other games. This is a change that is long overdue and will put a great deal of money in the University's pocket rather than in the scalpers' pockets.