re: Why Attendance is Down at Football Games

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I actually think parking is the number one issue- here, at least, you have to pay $20 or something to park a mile away. On campus spaces should be open and free, with a designated handicapped lot

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Handicapped around Bryant Denny is free

It's because the experience at home is often times a lot better with way less time involved and I don't get arrested for getting plastered, yelling obscenities and throwing shite. Usually.

Don't blame the prices. Just free market economy at work.

Get your bank account up.

says the poster who's broke as a joke

Simply put, it would cost me more than a really nice shotgun to take my family to a game.

I'd rather buy the shotgun and watch the game on TV.

It's a combination of gigantic high def flat screen tv's being so cheap everyone has an awesome one and ticket prices going through the roof, far beyond the pace of inflation.

Face value for Alabama tickets was like $40/$50 about a decade ago and are like $75/$85 now. It's almost doubled in a little over 10 years. Other schools have had similiar increases, at least % wise.

And that's just face value which very few people actually end up payign. Season ticket holders pay a premium on top of that and the aftermarket sales are normally at least double face, if not more.

Universities are also charging a pretty penny for parking, tailgating spots, etc. A lot of these things used to be free too.

For a family (or a couple) to go to a major game you're looking at a $300+ investment minimum, more for the big games. There are enough people willing to pay this.

However the number of people willnig to pay that much to watching you beat Podunk State by 45 points is much smaller.

[quote]It's not because of flat screen TV's.

It's because the cheapest endzone upper deck tickets for UGA-LSU and UGA-SC are $190 per ticket on Stub Hub. /quote]

I agree, but people will pay it.

The problem is not the cost of the actual ticket, it's the scalped cost of the actual ticket.

Club fans are trying to recoup their entire seating license cost by prorating their spare ticket allotment to scalpers.

I can buy eight tickets for every game, my four primaries and my four secondaries. Everyone that sits around me does the same.

I've had the same four primary tickets lower level west near the 45 yard line for a few decades.

I invested in South upper mezzanine level when they finished that expansion in the 90s.

I could, if I wanted to, recoup the cost of the south endzone tickets PLUS pay for my four primary seating licenses by scalping my south endzone tickets ... if I wanted.

Unfortunately I have a large family of grown kids who abuse the good-natured tendencies of their Pop.

Got Damn poors

Not down at A&M. We adding seats, 100K plus here we come.

I don't. See LINK

Several schools are down but really within the noise. A&M, for example, was down 169/game, but does that really matter when every game is over capacity? The schools that were significantly down had lousy years: Tennessee, Kentucky, and Auburn were down enough to screw the average for the conference. (I think the Ole Miss number must be a typo for 2011 and they meant 55K rather than 65K.) An outlier is Florida, down over 1400/game compared to 2011. I can't explain that one away.

Most SEC schools sell out their season tickets whether we show up is up to us. I know Alabama has a Tide Pride waiting list of almost 30,000 people waiting to buy tickets.