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Post by aztec619 on Sept 7, 2024 11:58:29 GMT -8
Speaking as a late 30’s alumni that is relatively well off, I still have yet to attend a game at Snapdragon. It is because none of my friends will attend with me – due to these prices. They are all SD natives like me, but I’m the only SDSU alumnus. These prices irk me, but I’m willing to pay. Those with no ties to the school are excited for an invite but pull the Homer Simpson into the hedges when they see the prices. So I don’t attend either since I have no one to go with. These friends all have 6 figure incomes but most have young children, student loans, high interest mortages or otherwise tight budgets. We are all football starved too, so many have been turning to Friday Night Lights. Tonight I drove down the block to watch my RB Broncos trounce Point Loma 37-17 on their homecoming. $12 for a ticket, $7.50 for a Chick-fil-A spicy chicken sandwich, free parking, BYOB if you’re discreet. Great evening of entertainment for under $20. Packed house. Engaged, rowdy crowd. The people we should be trying to attract to build for the future. We can only milk our aging, hardcore fans for so long. I bet there is a good amount of people in this boat in SD. People want to go but prices are just too high. I know plenty myself that once they see the prices they back off. Sucks cause we know they probably will buy concessions, parking, and add to a more fuller game day environment. I hope the powers that be see this. |
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Post by aztech on Sept 7, 2024 12:48:11 GMT -8
It really doesn’t matter what other schools are doing. Each market is unique. Would you like to have people in the seats or empty seats? That’s what this comes down to. If you want people in the seats lower the prices. If you want empty seats keep doing the same thing. It’s a pretty simple issue to solve. Do you remember when we had tickets as cheap as $6 at Qualcomm? Never a sellout. |
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Post by jp92grad on Sept 7, 2024 12:57:31 GMT -8
It really doesn’t matter what other schools are doing. Each market is unique. Would you like to have people in the seats or empty seats? That’s what this comes down to. If you want people in the seats lower the prices. If you want empty seats keep doing the same thing. It’s a pretty simple issue to solve. Do you remember when we had tickets as cheap as $6 at Qualcomm? Never a sellout. Do you remember how big and ugly that place was? That place was a hard sell for a mid-sized college football program. |
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Post by laaztec on Sept 7, 2024 12:58:48 GMT -8
It really doesn’t matter what other schools are doing. Each market is unique. Would you like to have people in the seats or empty seats? That’s what this comes down to. If you want people in the seats lower the prices. If you want empty seats keep doing the same thing. It’s a pretty simple issue to solve. Do you remember when we had tickets as cheap as $6 at Qualcomm? Never a sellout. SDSU was never going to sell out a 75,000+ seat stadium. Terrible analogy. If SDSU had $6 tickets for today’s game there would be a ton of people there today. I would probably be there. I could list my House for 2 million but nobody would buy it. You have to put it up for market price or it will just sit there. Same thing goes for event tickets. The free market is efficient. Your product is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. For some reason SDSU doesn’t understand that yet |
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Post by aztecnails on Sept 7, 2024 15:07:38 GMT -8
Aztecs football history with home attendance figures shows that over 53,000 crammed into the stadium against Arizona in 1975 when the capacity was 51,549. For many years, that was the No. 1 attended Aztecs home football game. That was topped by the crowd of over 56,000 that saw the Aztecs defeat byu to win the WAC title in 1986. That Arizona game in 1975 was a sellout and over-capacity and when San Diego City had just under 700,000 people.
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Post by myownwords on Sept 7, 2024 15:13:40 GMT -8
So the prices are over our heads, INSTEAD of canopies?
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Post by aztech on Sept 7, 2024 15:32:50 GMT -8
Do you remember when we had tickets as cheap as $6 at Qualcomm? Never a sellout. SDSU was never going to sell out a 75,000+ seat stadium. Terrible analogy. If SDSU had $6 tickets for today’s game there would be a ton of people there today. I would probably be there. I could list my House for 2 million but nobody would buy it. You have to put it up for market price or it will just sit there. Same thing goes for event tickets. The free market is efficient. Your product is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. For some reason SDSU doesn’t understand that yet The point being selling cheap tickets doesn't pay the bills. |
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Post by laaztec on Sept 7, 2024 15:41:55 GMT -8
SDSU was never going to sell out a 75,000+ seat stadium. Terrible analogy. If SDSU had $6 tickets for today’s game there would be a ton of people there today. I would probably be there. I could list my House for 2 million but nobody would buy it. You have to put it up for market price or it will just sit there. Same thing goes for event tickets. The free market is efficient. Your product is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. For some reason SDSU doesn’t understand that yet The point being selling cheap tickets doesn't pay the bills. But having the seats empty does? |
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Post by laaztec on Sept 7, 2024 15:43:48 GMT -8
Aztecs football history with home attendance figures shows that over 53,000 crammed into the stadium against Arizona in 1975 when the capacity was 51,549. For many years, that was the No. 1 attended Aztecs home football game. That was topped by the crowd of over 56,000 that saw the Aztecs defeat byu to win the WAC title in 1986. That Arizona game in 1975 was a sellout and over-capacity and when San Diego City had just under 700,000 people. The market is different now. You couldn’t stay at home and watch SDSU football on your 65” 4K HDTV in the 1970’s. |
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Post by myownwords on Sept 7, 2024 15:47:44 GMT -8
Aztecs football history with home attendance figures shows that over 53,000 crammed into the stadium against Arizona in 1975 when the capacity was 51,549. For many years, that was the No. 1 attended Aztecs home football game. That was topped by the crowd of over 56,000 that saw the Aztecs defeat byu to win the WAC title in 1986. That Arizona game in 1975 was a sellout and over-capacity and when San Diego City had just under 700,000 people. So population has doubled, and support has been halved...at best. |
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Post by Den60 on Sept 7, 2024 15:56:30 GMT -8
Do you remember when we had tickets as cheap as $6 at Qualcomm? Never a sellout. SDSU was never going to sell out a 75,000+ seat stadium. Terrible analogy. If SDSU had $6 tickets for today’s game there would be a ton of people there today. I would probably be there. I could list my House for 2 million but nobody would buy it. You have to put it up for market price or it will just sit there. Same thing goes for event tickets. The free market is efficient. Your product is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. For some reason SDSU doesn’t understand that yet The smaller stadium has all to do with selling season tickets. At the Q, why buy them when you could should up on gameday and buy good seats and not be committed to games that you don't want, of if the team is having a bad year? |
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Post by sdsudevil on Sept 7, 2024 16:00:21 GMT -8
Do you remember when we had tickets as cheap as $6 at Qualcomm? Never a sellout. SDSU was never going to sell out a 75,000+ seat stadium. Terrible analogy. If SDSU had $6 tickets for today’s game there would be a ton of people there today. I would probably be there. I could list my House for 2 million but nobody would buy it. You have to put it up for market price or it will just sit there. Same thing goes for event tickets. The free market is efficient. Your product is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. For some reason SDSU doesn’t understand that yet I don't think we could pay folks to show up unless a basketball game ticket were tied to it. Even if they were a proven good FB squad. |
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Post by pbnative on Sept 7, 2024 18:21:04 GMT -8
SDSU was never going to sell out a 75,000+ seat stadium. Terrible analogy. If SDSU had $6 tickets for today’s game there would be a ton of people there today. I would probably be there. I could list my House for 2 million but nobody would buy it. You have to put it up for market price or it will just sit there. Same thing goes for event tickets. The free market is efficient. Your product is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. For some reason SDSU doesn’t understand that yet The point being selling cheap tickets doesn't pay the bills. Seems to work well for the Wave. Not saying SDSU games should be the same price as the Wave tickets, but SDSU tickets should be somewhere in the middle of the cheap wave prices and the ridiculous prices SDSU is trying to charge. It will be interesting to see what the MLS ticket prices are. If the tickets are reasonable could see people drop SDSU tickets and buy tickets for the MLS. |
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Post by Old School on Sept 7, 2024 21:42:28 GMT -8
Put a good product on the field and the people will pay to watch. Otherwise, you're asking for champagne level priced tickets for a beer budget level performing football program.
You can only market and hype up this football team so much.
Oldie Out
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Post by csaztec on Sept 7, 2024 21:45:15 GMT -8
Put a good product on the field and the people will pay to watch. Otherwise, you're asking for champagne level priced tickets for a beer budget level performing football program. You can only market and hype up this football team so much. Oldie Out Product on the field was a dumpster fire today. Not even beer budget. |
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Post by laaztec on Sept 7, 2024 22:19:26 GMT -8
Ticket prices should be commensurate with the product on the field.
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Post by fowl on Sept 7, 2024 22:36:50 GMT -8
Ticket prices should be commensurate with the product on the field. So if one brings a bag of $h!+ to the ticket office they should be given tickets, no? |
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Post by FULL_MONTY on Sept 8, 2024 8:47:11 GMT -8
I think we will see reduced ticket prices next season, why?
1. the facility donation will be lowered as the 3-year ticket contracts will expire.
2. MLS stars paying rent next year. State should see $4.0M per year (20 matches $200K rent) plus 20% of net concessions figure $600K (20 matches $300K in gross concessions less $150K in cost x 20%).
the wave fans are not happy being 3rd at the stadium but they make a whole lot more at snapdragon than torero stadium. their lease is up in 2025.
the contract MLS was too good, rent will be as follows:
Years 1-4 - $200K $4.00M per year
Years 5-6 - $206K $4.12M
Years 7-8 - $212K $4.240
Years 9-10 - $219K $4.380M
At least the bonds are fixed in today's dollars.
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