2019 Ticket Prices

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SKULL SESSION: EDITORS' TALK BRETT MCMURPHY'S STORY, OHIO STATE TICKET PRICES GOING UP, AND TERRELLE PRYOR RELEASED

TICKET PRICES COMING UP. Ohio State's attendance is the worst it's been in memory, and the team has an absolutely brilliants plan to help make up the lost revenue: charge even more money to the few people who actually want to go!

From Emily Bench of Columbus Business First:

The Ohio State University Athletic Department is asking the Board of Trustees to hike the cost of reserved seats for the 2019 football season to $702, up from $639 this year. Box and club season ticket prices for mext year would cost $851, up from $789 this season
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The current student ticket price of $34 per game will not change, and will be maintained through at least through the 2020 season. Student season tickets also will stay the same at $238.

The game against Florida Atlantic would be the cheapest for fans, with single game reserved seats costing $60 and box seats costing $85. Penn State would be the most expensive game – $198 for reserved seats and $223 for box seats.

Also, you have to love the timing of the announcement. Ohio State released this news literally minutes after Bretty McMurphy ran his story, which is the absolute perfect way to dump this news to ensure minimal outrage. The made online people were already using all of their mad online at the moment.

I don't know if it was intentional, but if it was, tip the cap.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...t-prices-going-up-and-terrelle-pryor-released

 

[Newlander]

Totally misinterpreted the release of Pryor....I thought it was prison or arrest.

 

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OHIO STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VOTES TO INCREASE TICKET PRICES FOR 2019 SEASON

The schedule for the 2019 season offers Florida Atlantic and Miami (Ohio) games in the lowest pricing tier, for $60 and $65, respectively; and Penn State and Wisconsin in the highest pricing tier, at $198 and $170, respectively, per ticket.

Overall, season tickets for members of the public will cost $63 more than they did for the current season, and $58 more in total season ticket prices. The current student ticket price of $34 per game will continue at least through the 2020 season.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...tes-to-increase-ticket-prices-for-2019-season

 

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Ohio State football season ticket renewals down nearly five percent for post-Urban era

If you’ve wanted to make it out to one of college football’s cathedrals, the 2019 season might just be a good time to take in a game at the Horseshoe.

While there is of course rabid interest in Ohio State’s upcoming campaign to see how new head coach Ryan Day will fare, it seems some of the Buckeyes faithful are not quite as faithful as expected as the program enters a new era without Urban Meyer helming things.

“We were down by about four or five percent,” OSU athletic director Gene Smith said on his new school-produced podcast about the program’s season ticket renewals. “So we usually renew at about 97 or 98 percent. This time, we renewed at 94 to 95 percent. So we had some extra inventory.”

Add in fewer tickets distributed to visiting teams at the historic venue and there were a surprising number of seats still available that the school had to hustle to move for the upcoming campaign. This resulted in a few new “flexible” packages available to purchase that weren’t there before.

AD’s across the country are dealing with attendance issues in college football and it seems that is even a factor with the Buckeyes as they navigate a coaching change in 2019. In a perhaps related note, Ohio State’s remarkable 16-year streak of 100,000+ fans at Ohio Stadium ended last season in a Big Ten matchup against lowly Rutgers in early September.

That said, it’s not like the OSU ticket sales office is hurting for bad matchups to build excitement around. Day will make his debut against Lane Kiffin of all people when FAU opens the season at the ‘Shoe and in-state rival Cincinnati visits during Week 2. The Buckeyes also play Michigan State, Wisconsin and Penn State among others in Columbus too.

Entire article:https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...-down-nearly-five-percent-for-post-urban-era/

 

[gmen6981]

"in-state rival Cincinnati"

Not a rival.

 

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STUDENT FOOTBALL SEASON TICKET SALES DOWN BY MORE THAN 6,500

Ohio State is getting sacked in student football ticket sales this season.

Whether due to financial reasons, a preferred game day experience or a move from paper to digital tickets, a Lantern analysis of Ohio State football season ticket sales data shows that more than 6,500 fewer season student ticket packages were sold for the 2019 season than in 2018.

The drop reflects a broader trend within the program, with a 4.3-percent decline in nonstudent season ticket packages for Ohio Stadium. Fewer fans are attending sporting events in general in the United States, with the NFL at its lowest attendance in 2018 since 2010, and the MLB at its lowest since 2003, according to attendance data from both leagues.

Diana Sabau, deputy director of Ohio State Athletics, attributes the decrease to the tickets’ change in medium and the lack of a certain game on the schedule.

“[Students] have asked us for probably a year to two years that, ‘How can we not wait in line to pick up our tickets when we get back to school?” Sabau said. “I think having a mobile ticket achieved that. I think that, for whatever reason, that combination and not having Michigan at home give us a little bit larger decline.”

After selling 28,392 total student ticket packages in 2018, sales have dropped to 21,716 for the 2019 campaign. That’s a decline of nearly 24 percent.

It’s the fewest the athletic department’s ticket office has sold in at least a decade, and the only time since 2011 fewer than 25,000 packages have been sold.

In 2011, sales likely dropped due to the team’s quality. Multiple key Ohio State players were suspended due to NCAA violations, an interim head coach took over after the resignation of former head coach Jim Tressel, and the team responded by going 6-7 with a Gator Bowl loss.

Even then, the ticket office sold 22,804 packages.

While the athletics department feels that the switch to mobile tickets may cause a temporary dip in sales, Nick Signore, a third-year in accounting, said he actually finds the new mobile method more convenient.

Signore purchased a package in 2018, but said he didn’t in 2019 because most of the games during 2018 were blowouts that weren’t worth the cost of a season package. He said buying single-game tickets is cost-effective, and easier now since the release of the Ohio State student ticket exchange app TicketBay in January.

Many of his friends didn’t purchase season tickets either.

“[My friends] said that they’d rather tailgate before the game than actually go to the game and I’m kind of with them,” Signore said. “I have more fun tailgating before the game, and I can just watch it on TV, than actually going to the football game.”

Students have the option of purchasing one of four season ticket packages prior to the season.

North and South Block “O” packages, which place the rowdiest students together directly behind the north or south end zones, cost $272 in 2019. A full season in the student reserve section, which places students just outside the Block “O” sections on either end, cost $252. Purchasing a season ticket package in the Student Reserve section exclusively for conference games costs $144.

The athletics department collects feedback from students in Block “O” on how to improve the stadium environment following every season, Sabau said. Block “O” members were given a special entrance to improve “ease of access.”

“[We’ve] tried to plus up that experience for that group,” Sabau said. “Now we need to look at it collectively.”

The Lantern made several attempts to contact Block “O,” but did not receive a response.

University renovations removed 2,164 seats from Ohio Stadium ahead of 2019. However, this did not affect the number of tickets available to students.

Student population on the Columbus campus has risen every year from 2009 to 2018, with the exception of a dip from 56,867 in 2011 to 56,387 in 2012. It hit 61,170 in 2018. Data from 2019 is not yet available.

There’s likely more students to buy tickets, and the same amount available, but despite that and the fact that Ohio State plays three nationally ranked Big Ten opponents at home, student ticket sales are at their lowest since at least the mid-2000s.

“Historically, football has always been a printed ticket, and if they still want a printed ticket, they can certainly have one,” Sabau said. “We were just trying to make a mobile ticketing concept easier for our students.”

Despite the decrease in season ticket sales, Ohio Stadium announced an attendance of 104,089 fans at its Week 2 game against Cincinnati Saturday.

Perhaps more students and fans alike are switching to single-game ticket options.

Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2019/09/ohio-state-student-football-ticket-sales-down-by-more-than-6500/

This has been a trend for the last 4 years in the alumni seat selection process. They tell you where you stand in the "pecking order". Significant numbers of alumni are deciding to not buy tickets or just dying off. I've moved up several hundred spots each of the last 4 years.