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SMUer wrote:Worth a try? We hired a professional firm to take over our ticket sales, they aren't supposed to blow calls like that...and when they do, we shouldn't be "E for effort". A) Sell it out or B) Don't make us purchase the stands.

This. Market research was way off whoever was responsible. Lots and lots of open seats through the stadium.

They just tried to charge to much for the tickets. It probably would have worked if they would have lowered the prices a couple of days before the game and announced it.

1) firm was stupid to think 85 was correct price 2) can't blame low attendance on them too much because we sucked then and before

I understand June complained that the temp stands caused unusual wind patterns for his run-and-shoot offense. He tried to get them removed at halftime.

westexSMU wrote:They just tried to charge to much for the tickets. It probably would have worked if they would have lowered the prices a couple of days before the game and announced it.

well, you can't lower ticket prices after the entire stadium (except for seaaon ticket holders) paid $95 a ticket.

GiddyUp wrote:

westexSMU wrote:They just tried to charge to much for the tickets. It probably would have worked if they would have lowered the prices a couple of days before the game and announced it.

well, you can't lower ticket prices after the entire stadium (except for seaaon ticket holders) paid $95 a ticket.

Lol I paid technically 17 bucks via season tickets and I still the tickets were over priced for this seasons current performance

From a pure sales perspective, if the stadium is completely full you haven't charged enough for your tickets.

I think they were hurt more by rumors of a sellout than ticket prices. I know several people that didn't even bother with getting a ticket because they thought ; I did not hear anything about people balking at the price.

Besides, looking at the stadium, the expensive seats were snapped up. Cheap seats were remaining. that tells me it was maybe not a price issue.

Incorrect, there were no "cheap seats" and everyone was balking at the prices. (mostly Aggies who said they would rather watch on TV).

Bleachers were same price as 50 yd line visitors.

Regardless, it was fail and lesson learned. Glad they took them down. The grassy knoll GA is a better option for most anyway.

Obviously, there was a market-clearing price that SMU missed, but if you take the 15k season tickets out of the equation, we sold around 17016 tickets at $95 - a gross of $1,616,520 in ticket sales for SMU.

If we would have priced them at an average of $65 and sold all of them, the 25k tickets sold would have made SMU $1,625,000 - so it is pretty much a wash, not a failure.

Of course, if the extra 8k bought a ton of pizzas and cokes, etc.

Seriously probably would have just been 8,000 more Aggies-there is no viable excuse for SMU fans that had opportunity to purchase season tickets for $15 a game. Generally I think SMU needed a huge standing room only crowd more than more money but I keep forgetting that SMU alumni family and friends just don't give a [deleted]. 18,000 max SMU fans against the Aggies. Whew!

DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:Obviously, there was a market-clearing price that SMU missed, but if you take the 15k season tickets out of the equation, we sold around 17016 tickets at $95 - a gross of $1,616,520 in ticket sales for SMU.

If we would have priced them at an average of $65 and sold all of them, the 25k tickets sold would have made SMU $1,625,000 - so it is pretty much a wash, not a failure.

Of course, if the extra 8k bought a ton of pizzas and cokes, etc.

Fair enough but a full stadium looks a lot better if you are talking a minimal amount of difference right??

Stallion wrote:Seriously probably would have just been 8,000 more Aggies-there is no viable excuse for SMU fans that had opportunity to purchase season tickets for $15 a game. Generally I think SMU needed a huge standing room only crowd more than more money but I keep forgetting that SMU alumni family and friends just don't give a [deleted]. 18,000 max SMU fans against the Aggies. Whew!

How many times do we have to go over this? SMU fans don't care, it's obvious by now and I don't see anything changing that. If we beat Baylor I guarantee there would have been a lot more people. Many went down to Baylor and saw us get our @ss whopped up and down the field after having high hopes. The vast majority of fans are fair weather and only care about W's.

GiddyUp wrote:Fair enough but a full stadium looks a lot better if you are talking a minimal amount of difference right??

I agree.

Plus, you have to factor in the added cost of erecting totally unnecessary bleachers (which were also a bit on the embarrassing side once all was said and done...)

Unfortunately, SMU tends to think "small picture" on a lot of stuff, and I imagine they are just happy with the $$$ made Saturday.

The obvious and fair answer was to offer the bleacher seats at a much lower price. Some SMU fans (and potential SMU fans) might have bought some of them as well!

DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:

GiddyUp wrote:Fair enough but a full stadium looks a lot better if you are talking a minimal amount of difference right??

I agree.

Plus, you have to factor in the added cost of erecting totally unnecessary bleachers (which were also a bit on the embarrassing side once all was said and done...)

Unfortunately, SMU tends to think "small picture" on a lot of stuff, and I imagine they are just happy with the $$$ made Saturday.

The obvious and fair answer was to offer the bleacher seats at a much lower price. Some SMU fans (and potential SMU fans) might have bought some of them as well!

Agreed, $30 bleacher seat or something like that. Oh well.

How was SMU supposed to know that the Aggies would have such poor fan support? I mean to have 50,000 students every year or is it 150,000 if you include BlinnAGS going back a few decades you should have millions of former ag students with several hundred thousand in the north Texas area alone. If you look at it based on undergraduate students in the North Texas area I think SMU did good. Maybe we need to start schedulling teams with better fan support than ones like SFA and Texas A & M.