New Pricing

[Mustangsabu]

The old blue seats, now the red seats have really been the ones to take it hard. A seat three years ago was $360, now it is $1000 with a $2500 donation. So my three seats were $1080 and are now going to be $5500. That is 500% of where they started. It's ballsy for a team that still qualifies as Cinderella.

Which is where the ** new ticket holders will pay MC fee per seat comes into play. By being a grandpa, you can feel better about what you're paying.

Now that is very true. I was just pointing out the math involved which in the case of the red seats has been in successive big hiked

[couch 'em]

I can swing the new coast in 214 and agree it isn't outrageous but looking around the section there will be a number that likely can't, at least for the same family-sized ticket quantity. It is a painful jump.

[couch 'em]

I can and will swing the new cost in 214 and agree it isn't outrageous but looking around the section there will be a number that likely can't, at least for the same family-sized ticket quantity. It is a painful jump.

[PonySnob]

I'll be paying 300% of what I was. $250 to $750 for my 2 seats is steep. It's not the price that bugs me, it's the massive jump.

Looks like your sitting baseline - how much were they for the 2013-14 season? If you itemize, the tickets will cost you less than $750.............

[OhioBrownFan]

Gonna be quite funny to see how many people are fine with prices when UConn/Cinci head for a better conference and LB retires. I'm sure the same people won't have complaints about renewing. Gym will look like Garland.

[Oliver]

Invest in the long term here, grow the fan base, make these experiences inclusive until you can build a legitimate fan base loyal enough to follow the team on TV all year.

Guys like East Coast that are calling people cheapies don't get it. We know most SMU alumns can afford the tickets, many of us have them and would pay a little more, we get that, but finally, after 25 years, we have a chance to get the casual fans, young alumni, local high schoolers, inner city players and kids, and Dallas residents with no connection to SMU interested in our team and our players, and we're going to start pricing people out of their season tickets after one decent season? That just doesn't seem like the message we should be sending right now.

[Big12Mustang]

If you are an existing season ticket holder, you only pay the donation amount once...not per seat. It's not bad at all. And we get top 15 basketball, possibly with the best recruits in Mudiay and Turner...I will Pony Up the money!

[CoxMustangFan]

Gonna be quite funny to see how many people are fine with prices when UConn/Cinci head for a better conference and LB retires. I'm sure the same people won't have complaints about renewing. Gym will look like Garland.

You seem like a good guy, but I'm not sure why you care so much. I had to be out of town for Cincy and sold my tickets for that one game for more than I paid for my season tickets. That tells you the pricing is F'd up.

Maybe SMU is a two - three year wonder, maybe we're the next Duke. Only time will tell. Unless we as a school and an alumni base invest in the programS and the school, we're heading for permanent small time.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

I'll be paying 300% of what I was. $250 to $750 for my 2 seats is steep. It's not the price that bugs me, it's the massive jump.

Yeah - those tickets got (allegedly) screwed hard I agree.

but they were ridiculously underpriced. $250/2=$125 per ticket /16 games = less than $8 per ticket. Hell I bet most of this board spent three times as much on beer. Remember SMU charged $95 per ticket for SMU v A&M and what $80 for SMU v. TCU a couple of years ago at Ford INCLUDING the end zone.

True. Those tickets were an absolute steal last season.

[NY Pony]

I'll be paying 300% of what I was. $250 to $750 for my 2 seats is steep. It's not the price that bugs me, it's the massive jump.

Looks like your sitting baseline - how much were they for the 2013-14 season? If you itemize, the tickets will cost you less than $750.............

I went to the games in Garland so it feels like the same number of games to me. Like I said, they were $125 ea. for 2013-2014 so $250 total. Again, it's not the new $750 price tag that I'll be paying that bothers me, it's that athletics thinks that a trip to the NIT warrants tripling the cost of my tickets.

And yes, they were a steal last season. I'm in 206 on the aisle. I can reach out and touch people in 205 who we're paying significantly more for their tickets.

[mrydel]

You need to quit touching those people.

[Treadway21]

Maybe the ticket department intentionally put this out there to gauge the community's reaction. Judging by the cheapwads on here, they may need to adjust prices downward

Cheapwads? Just because I can pay for something doesn't mean I should pay for it. If a bottle of coke suddenly became $5 at 7/11 after I'm used to paying $1.29 for it and when I can go get it elsewhere for cheaper, I'm not going to buy it there. Do I have $5? Sure. Am I going to let myself get price gouged just because I love coke? Nope. F that S

Where are you going to watch an SMU basketball game in person in Moody for cheaper? You analogy does not hold. No problem with you [deleted] about the prices though.

On TV for free. That's the point.

[Grant Carter]

[quote="East Coast Mustang"]Maybe the ticket department intentionally put this out there to gauge the community's reaction. Judging by the cheapwads on here, they may need to adjust prices downward

Cheapwads? Just because I can pay for something doesn't mean I should pay for it. If a bottle of coke suddenly became $5 at 7/11 after I'm used to paying $1.29 for it and when I can go get it elsewhere for cheaper, I'm not going to buy it there. Do I have $5? Sure. Am I going to let myself get price gouged just because I love coke? Nope. F that S

Where are you going to watch an SMU basketball game in person in Moody for cheaper? You analogy does not hold. No problem with you [deleted] about the prices though.

On TV for free. That's the point.[/quote]
He was saying he could get the exact same product at a different convenience store. TV is not the exact same product, that is the point. He already said it was a poor analogy.

[Big12Mustang]

Gonna be quite funny to see how many people are fine with prices when UConn/Cinci head for a better conference and LB retires. I'm sure the same people won't have complaints about renewing. Gym will look like Garland.

UConn and Cincinnati may head to a new conference...and so could we. We need to invest in our program and Pony up the money. I wonder how fans will react if we move to Big 12 conference and our Football/Basketball tickets quadruple in price...

[PonyKai]

UCONN isn't going anywhere.