Ticket Prices

[PlanoStang]

Well, I did my part and bought a couple season tickets the week before "The Alamo" aka OK St. game. Just see if they don't show some of the OK St. game in near future movie previews for the new 'The Alamo' do to rreelease in December.

They're almost end-zone tickets, and priced the same. Seems, I had to buy them. If you're just the average alumnus, and like to come to the SMU game on Saturdays most of the time, and sit in section 209 almost end-zone you'll pay +$11 OK St., +$3 UTEP, +3 Boise St., + 7 Fresno St., Rice +$7, and TCU +$11 for not buying a season END ZONE ticket. I paid $90 for all 6 games $15/ticket, and can use the tickets to take DART rail down from Plano to save 35 miles round trip each trip on my Panoz G-Force Indy car. Well, we did have a fast 2 cycle engine go-cart as I was growing up.

Seems we've been Dopelanded again. When we need cheap tickets to put people in the stands to make 15000/game they raise the cheap zone ticket prices. Methinks they'll catch mostly Mustang fans who won't be coming back any time soon. Not the OK St. fans they caught by surprise.

My brother, and I got $12 TCU vs. SMU end-zone tickets last year just minutes after watching Sam Hornish Jr., and Helio Castroneves qualify about 15 miles north of Froggie Stadium for free!!.

Yep, we were back the next day to Sam win the Indy car championship.

TCU fans, you're fore warned if some one on
you're fans board picks up on this, or you're reading this. I worked at GD now
(Lockheed) for a number of years. End Zone tickets will cost $26 at the gate.

[Charleston Pony]

Until we have a worthy product, our end zone tickets in both football and bball should be priced as a bargain that might attract some casual fans. That is a mistake we're making. I assume the thought process is that only the hard core fans are attending, so let's make as much as we can off them. There is probably concern that our hard core fans will buy the cheap seats and then move over to the 40 yd line for a better view. May be some merit to that theory.

[HorseRaider]

Unfortunately, it's been this way for the last several years at SMU, and not only football, but basketball as well. Seems the atttitude is "We need to close the athletic deficit budget, so let's gouge the Pony faithful again this year to try to make up lost revenue from less people coming to our games THIS season." Check the WAC website and each schools' football ticket prices..SMU is only outpriced by Fresno State. This isn't the way to do things, especially when the team isn't winning. Better get a winning team going before you keep increasing ticket prices. To me, this only reinforces that old view of SMU as being "Snob U" to the general public when you don't go after the community to sell your product.

And yes, people do buy the cheap seats and move to better ones every game, that's a surprise? They've been doing it for years...using those buy-one-get-one-free and 2 for 1 coupons and then sitting where they want. As one of them told me..."Until SMU comes up with a WAC contender, why should I pay full price to see lousy football?"

[This message has been edited by HorseRaider (edited 09-24-2003).]

[Corso]

That's like the Texas Rangers raising ticket prices.
Actually, that's like the Rangers charging anything to watch their games. That is a real crime.

[what the???]

$26 for an endzone tickets? did anyone take a microeconomics? how about a little creativity? $5 with a DISD ID? fill the stands with loud people even if they're kids & it's a loss leader?

[abezontar]

If attendance is a concern, why don't they drastically drop ticket prices, so that the stadium is full, or as close to it as we can get it? I don't bring many co-workers or non-affliated friends to the game cause I can't afford to buy them tickets, and they don't want to shell out the money. If seats were 10 bucks or less I would be willing to pay for it, or at least split it with them.

[GURU]

From my understanding, ticket prices have risen because of the contracts that were signed between the two schools and there is so much guaranteed to the visiting school. That is the reason why some games are more expensive. Plus, when Texas Tech, Baylor, and OK State come in, the prices they usually play are doubled the price of the SMU tix, so the SMU athl. dept. is trying to capitalize on the opposing teams fans coming to the game. Plus, why not get money from everyone else when no one at SMU gives a damn about football or basketball anyway!!