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Empty Seats An Issue Just About Everywhere
Topic Started: Sep 9 2012, 09:57 AM (60 Views)
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Empty Seats An Issue Just About Everywhere
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1. With the global economy stagnant, many people do not have as much disposable income to throw at football tickets as they once did. That’s a fact. But at schools where teams are winning and competing for championships, tickets sales are still mostly solid, if not robust. That suggests that plenty of fans do have cash to spend… if they want to spend it.

2. Prices continue to rise inside college venues. For years, schools have tried to build bigger and bigger stadiums. That’s meant ticket buyers have had to fight more traffic for fewer parking spots. Now, for the privilege of slogging a country mile to a stadium and then being packed like a sardine into a tiny seat, the fan is rewarded with higher ticket prices, higher parking prices, and higher concession prices. Why bother?

3. Television is both a help and a hindrance to schools. With the economy sluggish, the huge explosion in television revenue paid out to schools via network contracts couldn’t have come at a better time. But there are also more games on television in a single weekend now than there were in entire seasons just 25 years ago. Fans can choose to watch every game their favorite team plays on HDTV from the comfort of their living rooms and they can see dozens of other games, too.

4. Schools scheduling patsies are paying a price for doing so. There once was a time when the only way to see School X play Elon or Georgia State or Southeastern Louisiana was by purchasing a ticket. Now those games are on pay-per-view or the internet, if not on some cable channel. Why pay good money, fight traffic, and squeeze yourself between two other folks when you can stay home and watch your team demolish a tomato can of an opponent? Mississippi State had the only SEC home opener that listed a capacity crowd last weeked and they played against tiny Jackson State. But MSU’s Davis Wade Stadium seats just 55,082 fans. Which brings us to the main point of this post…
Bigger is not always better.
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