Tickets for Alabama vs West Virginia

The only lower bowl tickets available from the Alabama ticket office for Tide Pride members are $140. An over 50% increase from last year's $90.

Don't get me wrong...I think that overall Battle has done a decent job up to now, and I'm certainly not ready to kick him to the curb over this, but this gives him a huge black eye as far as I'm concerned. Someone should remind him (as Mountaineer fans should remind Oliver Luck) that they work for us...not Chik-Fil-A. This isn't a freaking bowl game. And I'm not buying the whole explanation of the new playoff system, etc. Battle and Luck agreed to this nonsense. An increase from $60/$90 to $80/$140 is absurd. And the reason our tickets are higher than WVA's is that Battle decided to allocate the lesser expensive $120 and $130 tickets to others within the university...i.e., not Tide Pride. So says the ticket office, anyway.

Don't be surprised if WVA sends tickets back. The fact that we can go on their website and buy them is indication that they can't sell them to their season ticket holders. It would be very interesting to see what happens if Alabama can't sell out of the $140 seats. $140 to see a team that wasn't bowl eligible last year and probably won't be this year...yet they want to price it like a bowl game.

Failure to correct the basketball situation is strike one.
This is strike two.
I realize that at his age Battle is probably just keeping the seat warm for someone else, but one more strike and I'll be ready to see him be given his gold watch and sent on his way.

I want to go because I enjoy seeing Bama play, but with those ticket prices I'll probably just add another away game instead. If I am going to spend that much money I'd rather go to TSIO or Oxford than see some meaningless game against a worthless opponent.

My family is in a bit of a bind because its the easiest time for us to go. Tough call.

Don't buy them. I guarantee you there will be tickets for less than face the week of the game. They were for last year's Va Tech game and that one had a little more appeal and a lower face value.

I may have mentioned this in another thread, but here's another little trick. If your Tide Pride point level gets you the $140 ticket offer, they don't tell you that you can still buy $80 tickets. But if you call them, they will tell you that all you have to do is cross out the $140 on your order form and write in $80. But they don't want to advertise that. They want Tide Pride members of a certain point level (and mine is only 150) to think the $140 is their only option. So that's what I did. And even though that's a 33% increase from last year, I was still willing to pay it. But they are rapidly pricing this game out of my budget,