|
|
Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 23, 2022 22:00:24 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by longsuffering on Apr 23, 2022 22:42:53 GMT -5
You should get a jumbo shrimp with your mandatory donation. They are both oxymorons.
Holy Cross never even hinted at this type of gouging even when we were good under RW. An aspect of HC sports that seldom gets applauded.
Use your development team to attain donations and use your ticket policy to support the athletic department but also to serve the community by making the games accessable (affordable) for the public.
|
|
|
|
Post by bison137 on Apr 23, 2022 22:51:36 GMT -5
You should get a jumbo shrimp with your mandatory donation. They are both oxymorons. Holy Cross never even hinted at this type of gouging even when we were good under RW. An aspect of HC sports that seldom gets applauded. Use your development team to attain donations and use your ticket policy to support the athletic department but also to serve the community by making the games accessable (affordable) for the public. Uconn’s new ticket prices generally are in line with their peers. Their problem is that they let their tickets get way too cheap and then tried to make it up all at once. Poor marketing strategy. |
|
|
|
Post by longsuffering on Apr 23, 2022 23:15:49 GMT -5
The mandatory donation also violates the K.I.S.S. principle. They are keeping it needlessly complicated. Instead of charging $80 and $25 for the value section for WBB, why not charge $105 for the season ticket.
They must feel they are getting an advantage over other schools who play it straight by making paying for tickets mandatory and donations voluntary.
I can think of two. Becoming more attractive for Grants that reward schools for high percentage of alumni giving. They might add a thousand or more alumni donors by requiring mandatory donations to buy season tickets. And secondly, if games have to be cancelled they only have to refund the ticket price, not the donation.
But maybe I just have a suspicious mind. What would be a legitimate reason for mandatory donations?
|
|
|
|
Post by HC92 on Apr 23, 2022 23:40:59 GMT -5
The market will allow them to get whatever the market will allow them to get. They may be pricing themselves out of the market with everything else in the world costing a lot more than it used to. There’s no real reason for a UConn fan to get season tickets given the number of crap games you have to endure, particularly on the women’s side. Pay for three good games a year on Stubhub and be done with it.
|
|
|
|
Post by bfoley82 on Apr 24, 2022 6:10:18 GMT -5
The mandatory donation also violates the K.I.S.S. principle. They are keeping it needlessly complicated. Instead of charging $80 and $25 for the value section for WBB, why not charge $105 for the season ticket. They must feel they are getting an advantage over other schools who play it straight by making paying for tickets mandatory and donations voluntary. I can think of two. Becoming more attractive for Grants that reward schools for high percentage of alumni giving. They might add a thousand or more alumni donors by requiring mandatory donations to buy season tickets. And secondly, if games have to be cancelled they only have to refund the ticket price, not the donation. But maybe I just have a suspicious mind. What would be a legitimate reason for mandatory donations? Providence College has mandatory donations for hockey season tickets of $50 per....not sure what it is on the hoops side but we had this discussion on here about them charging a ton for the Nova game. |
|
|
|
Post by purplehaze on Apr 24, 2022 8:09:47 GMT -5
UConn Athletic Assoc under pressure to do something about a $47 million deficit last year - they also charge for their baseball games but the hill they’re trying to climb is very steep
|
|
|
|
Post by HC92 on Apr 24, 2022 8:17:18 GMT -5
UConn Athletic Assoc under pressure to do something about a $47 million deficit last year - they also charge for their baseball games but the hill they’re trying to climb is very steep Easiest way to start to climb it would be to admit that spending a ton of money on being one of the worst FBS teams in the country while trying to play as an independent in CT is not prudent. |
|
|
|
Post by bfoley82 on Apr 24, 2022 8:34:47 GMT -5
UConn Athletic Assoc under pressure to do something about a $47 million deficit last year - they also charge for their baseball games but the hill they’re trying to climb is very steep But they really don't charge a ton for baseball. Tickets are $5-11. I am always for charging a small admission fee for your normal free sports. I think Harvard charges at least 15 for mens lax. |
|
|
|
Post by Tom on Apr 24, 2022 13:45:15 GMT -5
The mandatory donation also violates the K.I.S.S. principle. They are keeping it needlessly complicated. Instead of charging $80 and $25 for the value section for WBB, why not charge $105 for the season ticket. They must feel they are getting an advantage over other schools who play it straight by making paying for tickets mandatory and donations voluntary. I can think of two. Becoming more attractive for Grants that reward schools for high percentage of alumni giving. They might add a thousand or more alumni donors by requiring mandatory donations to buy season tickets. And secondly, if games have to be cancelled they only have to refund the ticket price, not the donation. But maybe I just have a suspicious mind. What would be a legitimate reason for mandatory donations? I assume the mandatory donation is tax deductible. |
|
|
|
Post by HC92 on Apr 24, 2022 18:25:19 GMT -5
The mandatory donation also violates the K.I.S.S. principle. They are keeping it needlessly complicated. Instead of charging $80 and $25 for the value section for WBB, why not charge $105 for the season ticket. They must feel they are getting an advantage over other schools who play it straight by making paying for tickets mandatory and donations voluntary. I can think of two. Becoming more attractive for Grants that reward schools for high percentage of alumni giving. They might add a thousand or more alumni donors by requiring mandatory donations to buy season tickets. And secondly, if games have to be cancelled they only have to refund the ticket price, not the donation. But maybe I just have a suspicious mind. What would be a legitimate reason for mandatory donations? I assume the mandatory donation is tax deductible. It is but most people are using the standard deduction these days so it doesn’t make any practical difference. |
|
|
|
Post by DiMarz on Apr 24, 2022 18:34:13 GMT -5
When my daughter was in grad school at Baylor, the ticket package was higher than UConn's...football ticket packages were much higher, but they included a reserved parking spot in the first row next to the stadium. AND your name was on the concrete parking bumper!
|
|
