Well, they can't be that bad. I am still waiting, two weeks later, for a callback re my tickets.

Got the same email:

Thank you for your support of Ohio Bobcats football by being a season ticket holder. The past decade has been the most successful in school history with eight bowl games in the past nine years and a 2017 Bahamas Bowl Championship! With OHIO returning most of the MAC’s #1 rated offense, the Bobcats will certainly be entertaining and they are the pre-season media pick to win the conference! There is nothing better than Gameday in Athens with friends and family and we promise to make your experience at Peden Stadium even better with expanded hospitality and concessions!

We need you back as a season ticket holder! When season ticket sales and revenues are strong, it provides more resources for our football program and overall athletic department. We have recently used football season ticket revenues for: Walter Fieldhouse, football locker room renovations, Sook Academic Center, the new Peden strength and conditioning center renovation plus the new scoreboard and speakers at Peden Stadium. By renewing your tickets this year, you help provide the resources for OHIO athletics to be successful now and in the future.

We were all surprised and frustrated when our schedule came out with only three home Saturdays. While we do not control the conference portion of our schedule, we do feel confident that this is a rare occurrence and don’t expect it to happen again in the future. We apologize for the missing Saturday home game and want to do what we can to incentivize you even more to renew this year!

First, by renewing in 2018, we guarantee that your season ticket price will not increase in 2019. That means significant savings as you will avoid next year’s planned increase. You will also receive a BOBCAT BONUS PACK that includes an exclusive Frank Solich bobblehead, four (4) complimentary tickets to your choice of either one 2018 OHIO football game or one 2018-19 OHIO men’s basketball game and a season ticket pass to OHIO volleyball! Great added value to go along with your season tickets!

We ask that you join us as a Bobcats Football season ticket holder again in 2018 for what is sure to be one of our best seasons ever!

Go Bobcats!


Jim Schaus
Director of Athletics

Three Saturday games. Two against FBS opponents. My current package is $390 a seat. I can only make one of two home games against FBS teams, and as a Clevelander, mid-week games are out of the question. So I'm looking at an average cost of $195 per seat to watch Howard and Bowling Green. My affection for the program and university runs deep, but it has its limits.

I'm either going single game seats or a serious downgrade in season tickets. I understand why the schedule is the way it is and I'm not angry at the school, I've simply reached my breaking point.

$390 a seat is a lot of money for an OU season ticket. I pay $1,300 per ticket for 2nd row "dog pound" tickets (8 regular season and 2 pre-season home games) in Cleveland. How many home games do you get for that $390? Yes, I know the Browns are terrible, but the other teams that come in aren't. My son (OU grad 2018) uses the Browns tickets with fellow OU allums. They enjoy going. Sadly, I think my son only went to 10 games in four years at OU and half of those he only went to pacify me. I'd like to buy OU season tickets with him. Even though the weekday games are problematic, I'd like to see them make the fan experience worthwhile. I'm old so I'd go just to go, but why would the recent graduate millennials go? I don't think OU officials have figured that out. But in any event, I'm rooting for OU!

FYI, UVa is a 3pm kickoff.

https://twitter.com/OhioFootball/status/997481302088658944

I'd pay $390 a seat to not be forced to go to Browns games.

There are reasons given for them being down, but do we know that to be the case? This started with a post about the possibility of them being lower, but there's been no reported proof of the numbers suffering, right?

Here's a silly question from somebody who drives from Cleveland to 1 home game a year, usually near the end of the season.

If you have season tickets and got rid of them, could you still get good seats to any home game you wanted just by buying them the week of the game? How big is demand on homecoming, parents weekend, etc.? Is there a secondary market for Ohio football tickets?

Because if you can get into any game you wanted, and the schedule prevents you from attending all 6 home games, why wouldn't you stop your season ticket purchase? (other than your loyalty to the school, add-on benefits to being a season ticket holder). You could save money in the long term, yet still get into the game of your choice. Are the extra things that come with being a season ticket holder worth it, even if you can't make a few games?

I may be sitting next to you.

That is only the last couple of seasons where they've restructured the entire student section as GA. It makes it more flexible when bringing in groups like band day so they aren't forced into one section. Also allows for the sale of promotional GA tickets which I will get to in another post.

Plus, profanity is less frowned upon among the students.

Depends what you consider "good" seats. At one time I was able to buy tickets in the Tower without having season tickets there. They eliminated that and they had a new section available, premium family tickets. The first year if I remember correctly they were $180. Homecoming tickets were $40 dollars for the service charge so I could pay $160 for 4 ticket for one game or by one family premium pack for the same cost. With the pack I could guarantee my seats for any home game and pick the ones that I wanted. I liked sitting higher up so it fit perfectly. With the games I didn't make I put on the resale market and made $235 on resale of 2 home Saturday games and 1 midweek game unloading at a discount. But I started hearing a lot of complaints from guests that the seats were too high. Seats were hurting their backs. Given the resale market it encouraged me to consider an upgrade. Tickets will move at face value because Ohiobobcats.com has service charges.