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UMass02
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 Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject: MAC Season Tickets - 2011 |
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With the move to the MAC in 2012, I decided to check the 2011 season ticket prices of the MAC schools. Prices are for one adult ticket offered to the general public. Only Western Michigan required a donation to purchase certain tickets (denoted w/ *).
Bowling Green $80/$70
Toledo $59
Temple $310/$200/$170/$140
Buffalo $168/$108/$72/$42
Ball State $110/$75
EMU $60/$48
CMU $90
WMU $450*/$198*/$120/$66
Ohio $88
Miami $108/$89/$70
Kent State $65/$40/$30
Akron $120/$60
Northern Ill. $99/$88
Just for reference, UMass is $70/$65. |
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UMass87
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, that's about a dozen reasons many MAC teams face big uphill challenges competing in the 1-A arms race and operate in the red. |
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InnervisionsUMASS
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We'll end up falling in the middle to higher end. As I said, I fully expect to be paying $150 per season ticket after this season.
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UMass02
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| InnervisionsUMASS wrote: | | We'll end up falling in the middle to higher end. As I said, I fully expect to be paying $150 per season ticket after this season. |
Agreed. $150 sounds like a good ballpark number, considering that average ticket price stipulated in the Kraft/UMass contract.
I'd assume there will be tiered pricing much like Temple - club seats, sideline seats, corner seats, and endzone seats... as long as UMass doesn't charge Temple prices. |
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jjmc85
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Just for other reference:
UConn has a season ticket package for $140/ticket, though they get as high as $245/ticket.
BC has tickets from $150-$270/ticket.
I think UMass could justify having a comparable range.
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First reaction is $270 is too high and then thinking we'd have to pay a little more than the Colonial Clash. Here is an educated guess, given the contract states a minimum average of $24.50.
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Location Season APG* individual game
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Club $198 $33 $37.50
Sideline $162 $27 $30
Endzone $108 $18 $19
Upper n/a n/a $18
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http://library.kraftsportsgroup.com/GS_SeatingMap.pdf
*APG - Season ticket per game |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| UMass02 wrote: | | InnervisionsUMASS wrote: | | We'll end up falling in the middle to higher end. As I said, I fully expect to be paying $150 per season ticket after this season. |
Agreed. $150 sounds like a good ballpark number, considering that average ticket price stipulated in the Kraft/UMass contract.
I'd assume there will be tiered pricing much like Temple - club seats, sideline seats, corner seats, and endzone seats... as long as UMass doesn't charge Temple prices. |
Probably a good number. Last year when they started charging $ 20 to park in the yellow lot I approached the AD and told him that I would rather they raised the season ticket price by $ 5 per game to raise the extra money they were trying to raise. I also told him that I would not pay for parking in the yellow lot and parked on the road behind the west side of the stadium where I parked for many years after the stadium was built and opened in 1965. I have felt that the price of a season ticket was one of the best bargains for any sport at UMass and I told him so. He said that they would rather have a parking fee for the yellow lot. |
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DoctorJ
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'd gladly drop $200 for a pair of endzone season tickets - as long as I can hop on one of those busses.
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UMass02
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| Berkman wrote: |
Probably a good number. Last year when they started charging $ 20 to park in the yellow lot I approached the AD and told him that I would rather they raised the season ticket price by $ 5 per game to raise the extra money they were trying to raise. I also told him that I would not pay for parking in the yellow lot and parked on the road behind the west side of the stadium where I parked for many years after the stadium was built and opened in 1965. I have felt that the price of a season ticket was one of the best bargains for any sport at UMass and I told him so. He said that they would rather have a parking fee for the yellow lot. |
You said the magic word - parking. 
Over the past two years, parking fees at UMass events have been a growing issue. I used to enjoy the "free" yellow lot pass to park at football games. It was a nice perk of buying a season ticket; a "thank you" of sorts. When the school began charging $20 for a pass, I was a bit upset but soon calmed down when I realized they were trying desperately to raise revenue. People voted with their wallets as well; yellow lot became significantly emptier after UMass started charging fees to park there, crowding other parking areas. At least a copious amount of free and convenient parking was still available for football...
Goign off the football topic, but parking is going to be a MAJOR issue starting this year at events in Mullins. Site work has begun on the Honors College, taking that parking lot south of the new Rec Center and north of Boyden. That's a large chunk of parking near Mullins now gone! This past season, UMass began charging $10 park in the paved green lot next to the practice rink for hockey games (that's almost the cost of one hockey ticket!). Not surprisingly, issues with illegal parking began on the road leading to the Campus Center's Bat Cave. Complaints have also increased from people having to bring their kids after games to cars located in the nether regions of the dirt Yellow Lot on icy February evenings (after every game, I've heard at least one person complain about the parking situation as (s)he walking out of Mullins). For years, basketball has blocked off that lot for donors (gee, hasn't anyone noticed that most of that lot is empty, maybe it's time to start changing that policy...).
I understand that UMass needs revenue, but it shouldn't try to nickel-and-dime their ardent fans; fans still willing to buy tickets after watching sub-500 football, six-win hockey seasons or basketball's disastrous late-season collapses. Convenient parking for UMass games should always be included in the cost of the ticket, especially if the school wants to make the games family-friendly. |
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02 - Well said. Send your parking comments to McCutcheon.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| He don't care about what we think about the parking situation. |
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You would be surprised what he does care about. I too have heard the complaints at hockey games, and they did make a slight change last year reducing the amount of the lot used for paid parking towards the end of the season.
But with a large lot being taken for construction the issue will get worse before it gets better. |
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| UMass02 wrote: |
For years, basketball has blocked off that lot for donors (gee, hasn't anyone noticed that most of that lot is empty, maybe it's time to start changing that policy...) |
Walking up from an icy unpaved lot past the empty lot 25 can be annoying.
It's also bad PR for the program. I would think they would want to fill the lot and make the place look like it is jumping rather than have it empty and look like nothing is going on. A little pyschology wouldn't hurt.
As to parking in general - if the idea is to get people to come to the games -Football, hockey, basketball - on a regular basis, there needs to be adequate free (or nearly free) parking. Casual fans aren't going to fight their way in and out very often unless it is a "big" game. |
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UMass02
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In case anybody was curious, I looked up some attendance statistics from 2010 football season for MAC teams. The number in parentheses is the school's ranking in that category out of 120 FBS teams. Neutral-site games were not counted.
Akron
Avg Att: 10,185 (119)
Stadium Cap: 30,000
Avg % Cap: 33.95% (117)
Ball State
Avg Att: 8,947 (120)
Stadium Cap: 22,500
Avg % Cap: 39.77% (115)
Bowling Green
Avg Att: 13,306 (116)
Stadium Cap: 24,000
Avg % Cap: 55.44% (107)
Buffalo
Avg Att: 12,981 (117)
Stadium Cap: 29.013
Avg % Cap: 44.74% (114)
Central Michigan
Avg Att: 20,448 (93)
Stadium Cap: 30,255
Avg % Cap: 67.58% (87)
Eastern Michigan
Avg Att: 15,885 (111)
Stadium Cap: 30,200
Avg % Cap: 52.60% (110)
Kent State
Avg Att: 16,152 (109)
Stadium Cap: 25,000
Avg % Cap: 64.61% (94)
Miami (OH)
Avg Att: 15,519 (112)
Stadium Cap: 24,286
Avg % Cap: 63.90% (95)
Northern Illinois
Avg Att: 17,760 (104)
Stadium Cap: 31,000
Avg % Cap: 57.29% (102)
Ohio
Avg Att: 19,046 (98 )
Stadium Cap: 24,000
Avg % Cap: 79.36% (71)
Temple
Avg Att: 20,515 (92)
Stadium Cap: 68,532
Avg % Cap: 29.93% (119)
Toledo
Avg Att: 19,333 (97)
Stadium Cap: 26,248
Avg % Cap: 73.66% (79)
Western Michigan
Avg Att: 14,255 (115)
Stadium Cap: 30,200
Avg % Cap: 47.20% (113)
For the MAC conference, the average attendance of all home games was 15,658.
For reference, UMass' average attendance was 13,005, placing UMass in front of Buffalo, Ball State, and Akron and slightly behind Bowling Green. |
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