re: How many of you regularly attend your teams games? Home or away

Thank you was a rough for a couple years I drunk a lot but eventually stopped drinking then last year I was hit with a double whammy lol both my daughter and my son’s girlfriend were pregnant
Turned my life around

Only when I was a student. I go to like one game every three years, and a lot of times it’s an away/bowl game.

I go to my NFL teams games every year. One home and one away. NFL is a lot easier because it’s in cities that have easy access international airports, and a lot more hotels/places to stay. College is tough because it’s mostly small rural towns with limited accommodations to stay, which makes it more expensive and logistically tougher, though I like CFB atmosphere wayyy more than NFL.

Wow…these posts don’t bode well for the future of college football. Most everyone is saying the same thing. It is getting very difficult to go.

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Wow…these posts don’t bode well for the future of college football. Most everyone is saying the same thing. It is getting very difficult to go.

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You can install a home theater for what it costs to go to all the games for a couple of years. Watch it on the really big screen.

At some point, no matter how much money they have, people will start questioning the cost. When you start hitting $400-500 per person for a football game, and we are damn close, people will balk.

The sport isn't dying, it's killing itself. They are gonna have to get these player payments, coaches salaries, and Taj Mahal stadiums under control.

In most states the highest paid state employee, is the football coach.

I’ve been to three:

LSU Miami 2018 WIN
LSU - Bama 2023 Loss
Vegas this yr. Loss

I’m a jinx and OUT.

Parking at Ole Miss is insane…a parking pass is much more valuable than a game ticket.

I had season tickets for several years.

I got older. Prices went up. It seemed like “work” to go to a game. Sort out the start time. Figure out hotel. Food.

I guess I got to see 2010 so that was worth the hassle.

Last home game I went to was 2019. Metal detectors were started that year. Just another layer of nonsense.

September is just hot and uncomfortable for an old guy like me. Night games seem to never quite start on time and often it ends up closer to 4 hours than 3.

So 3 hour plus drive, get there early, 4 hour game, spend the night in hotel.
Even sort of scrimping it burns $500 with tickets, hotel, food, gas, etc.

Just not worth it for me anymore.

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If you stay overnight I don’t know how you do it for $500….I live 4 hours away from Oxford, and of course the local hotels gauge us on game weekends, so again, not sure how you do it for $500

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The guy I replaced at Ole Miss had a really nice home and pool in Oxford. He'd get 1500-2000 a weekend for football games and around 1000 a weekend for big weekend series in baseball.

Paid off a nice RV in his 4 years there and got a nice enough return on the homesale to buy an Orange Theory franchise when he left and retired.

Oxford is shockingly expensive compared to its surrounding areas.

We try to go to 1 or 2 games a year. I try to hit an early non-conference game that’s cheap and 1 SEC game. 4 tickets and a hotel room on game day isn’t cheap.