Price of Tickets

them being amateurs has nothing to do with the ticket price.

High prices help us fancy lads avoid mingling with the poors.

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Fresh take

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It's a pretty simple take, and it has nothing to do with the amateurism pointed out in the OP.

Not saying I cannot afford tickets but it get to a point where paying so much for them makes you shift pay for them down your priority list.
And it's not separating the more wealthy from trash. It's about trying to be frugal with hard earned money.
For my family of 5 that's $350 just for tickets, not to mention parking, food, gas and hotel. All that combined for me that's almost 1k.

Which brings me to drill down further....
@ $70 a ticket with 100,000 seat stadium that's $7,000,000 a game.
With most schools having 7 home games that's $49,000,000. I mean how much money do these schools really need to support the Athletic department?
I know I'll get a bunch of crap from most of you but for the average person 1k to see one football game is not possible.

Lack of understanding of supply and demand?

No I fully understand.
You show me a person that pays $7k for watch football games in person a season and I'll show you a fool.

I totally agree. I love taking my kids to a love game and letting them have that experience but there comes a point where I cannot justify paying that much for one game.
We just would rather have a bunch of friends over and watch it on our HD TV.

But the players get a 4 year degree that is not worth shite. Still can't get a job with "general studies."

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1. The argument you made is about demand reducing not supply increasing. You're not adding seats to your stadium yearly.

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No. You define supply as number of seats in stadium. I define supply as number of seats plus suitable alternatives. There are way more suitable alternative today than just several years ago.

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2. Premium seating at Kyle is in limited supply (about 1/2 the size of MSU's stadium) and there is a waitlist. Our alumni base is growing so demand should continue to increase for us.

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Everyone that I know of has a waiting list for premium seating. That doesn't really play into this conversation because Mr and Mrs Got Rocks are going to pay for premium seating because it is important to them to be seen with all of their wealth. Almost an inelastic demand curve.

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Ticket prices are ridiculous because demand is ridiculous.

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Is it though? Sure, demand for the big games is there, but walk around Bryant Denny an hour before the Chattanooga game and you'll be given tickets for free. Even the lesser SEC games you can find tickets for well below face value. I paid $15 for a 40 yard line seat for the Ole Miss game a few years ago. Granted, it was an 8 o'clock kickoff which many people don't like, but I've also gotten Arkansas, Kentucky, and Miss St tickets for well below face value.

It's artificial demand that guarantees the universities get their money.