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2016 Ticket Prices

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ScriptOhio

ScriptOhio

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Looking ahead to 2016:

Ohio State Tickets Prices Likely on the Rise in 2016
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It's getting more expensive to witness the magic of college football live

The debate is growing. Is it worth traveling out to a stadium to watch a sporting event live with the quality of HD television, broadcasts that provide many camera angles and replays, the comfort of your own seating, and cheap food and drink?
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According to the Dayton Business Journal, the university’s athletic council has made its recommendations for ticket pricing for the 2016 season and prices will increase.

The cheapest face value price in 2015 was $65 – dropped from $79 – for Hawaii and Western Michigan. Next year, the cheapest tickets, for the first two home games of the season, are $70.

Want to see Big Ten heavyweights such as Rutgers or Indiana come to town? Expect to shell out $80 minimum for either of those contests.

The biggest piece of news is if you plan to attend next year’s rivalry game between the Buckeyes and TTUN. Tickets for The Game will set Ohio State price records with a likely face value of $195.

To put that in perspective, the most expensive game this season is OSU’s Nov. 21 date against a likely Top-10 team in Michigan State. That ticket price: $150.

The Buckeyes’ second-highest ticket in 2015 was for Penn State’s trip to Ohio Stadium, which featured new all-black jerseys and a black out of the Horseshoe. Fans paid $125 for seats at that game. Next year, if you want to see Ohio State take on Nebraska – a team that is 3-6 at this point in 2015 – you will likely pay $135.

The good news for season ticket holders is the price of the entire home slate is expected to drop from $642 in 2015 to $614 next season, excluding fees. Student tickets will remain at $34 per game.
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2016 Ohio State home schedule with expected ticket prices:

Sept. 3 – Bowling Green $70

Sept. 10 – Tulsa $70

Oct. 1 – Rutgers $80

Oct. 8 – Indiana $80

Oct. 29 – Northwestern $90

Nov. 5 – Nebraska $135

Nov. 26 – Michigan $195

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...ate-Tickets-Prices-Likely-on-the-Rise-in-2016
 
Well, if OSU is going to rake in $20 million for one game in ticket revenue alone I sure hope the players appreciate the value of those scholarships and quit whining about not being able to sell their own signature or image.
 
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New Seat Selection Process Will Allow Buckeye Fans to Pick Where They Sit

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Season ticket holders will now get to decide from where they watch the Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium

As an Ohio State football season ticket holder, have you ever been dissatisfied with your seat? Have you ever requested an upgrade, but felt that the new seat wasn’t much of an improvement?

No longer will this have to be a concern.

Ohio State announced a new seat selection process for the 2016 season that will allow season ticket holders to select their specific seat based on what’s available.

“In the past, all of our season ticket holders have requested upgrades and they send it in and our ticket office has to determine what a better seat is,” executive associate athletic director Martin Jarmond said on Thursday at a presentation of the new product. “Whether it’s closer to the 50, or whether it’s up or down. This is the first time where we’re going to actually have it where they can go in and select their seats and select exactly where they want to be and we have the technology to do that now so we wanted to demonstrate that to you.”

The timeline for order football season tickets will not change much from previous years. Applications will be sent out beginning in mid-March letting ticket holders know when their selection window will occur. The deadline to pay for tickets will remain at the end of March, but the selection process will begin in early April and run through the end of June.

Season ticket holders should have already received a brochure with information on the seat selection process. There will be a follow up communication e-mail out next week.

“In that communication, it will have their updated point total as of October 20th,” director of the Buckeye Club Jordan Birkemeier said. “It will have their ranks so they can see where that point total sort of puts them in the rankings process. We will also have a video that will be included in that e-mail that will have a step-by-step process of how the seat selection will work for them next Spring and then we will also have a link to the website. There will also be a test site for them to go on and tryout IOMEDIA website as well.”

When entering the virtual rendering, fans will find Ohio Stadium as they know it. The seats that are available will be displayed in green and ticket holders will be able to click through sections for a specific seat. From there, they will be given a three-dimensional view of the stadium from that seat, allowing fans to get a very real look at what they will see if they select this seat.

Priority for ticket ordering windows will remain based on the same criteria as in the past and are based on donations to the university and to the athletic department.

Partnering with IOMEDIA and making this available to season ticket holders will help Ohio State advance to where many other football programs already have. Schools such as Oklahoma State, Syracuse, and Penn State all use this product to help give fans the best experience possible.

Entire article: http://theozone.net/Ohio-State/Foot...ill-Allow-Buckeye-Fans-to-Pick-Where-They-Sit

Oh marvelous (and good looking) gypsy fortune teller, tell me: Is this yet another thing that Gene Smith totally screws up?

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God that process was so bad. Got in right away made my selection on the map for Nebraska 13C row 5 28-29. Oh that's taken forces me to search tries to give me 4C boonies after 10 mins try again no in C here's 5B row 7. Whatever take it. The main issue is that choosing your seats by hand was only open like the first 5 mins and it doesn't reserve them like the search does. It just said waiting 2 mins due to heavy traffic then said they are gone. Then the search is by decks but you can't do any sections refining to avoid places like 4C. So it takes longer and potentially gives you sections you don't even want.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Great job on the ticket selection process Gene....



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I do like that you got to pick your game and theoretically your seat but making it a free for all at 10am with everyone going at once with a terribly slow system that disallows most of that choice when busy was awful. Especially the arcane select deck and we will choose the best seat for you promise method....
 
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dragurd said:
God that process was so bad. Got in right away made my selection on the map for Nebraska 13C row 5 28-29. Oh that's taken forces me to search tries to give me 4C boonies after 10 mins try again no in C here's 5B row 7. Whatever take it. The main issue is that choosing your seats by hand was only open like the first 5 mins and it doesn't reserve them like the search does. It just said waiting 2 mins due to heavy traffic then said they are gone. Then the search is by decks but you can't do any sections refining to avoid places like 4C. So it takes longer and potentially gives you sections you don't even want.
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I bought Nebraska tickets for my son-in-law's birthday present and the exact same thing happened to me (i.e. the better c-deck seats vaporized after a lengthy processing time wait). Then using the "best available tickets" search, I did end up with 12C row 28 seats though.

JCOSU86 said:
Got B-Deck Nebraska tix. At the bargain-basement price of $289!

Next year, you have to donate $75 to the university to get an alumni ticket
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dragurd said:
Even for the people like my aunt that are forever non fee paying members of the alumni club?

And so did I 5B for Nebraska
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In my email: "A gift of $75 or more today will make Sustaining Members eligible for the 2017 football ticket process. Life Members are eligible every year. Whether you're a Life or Sustaining Member, we rely on your support."
 
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