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No. As I understand it the Family packs are about $149 this year. That would include 4 Marshall tickets, along with 4 tickets to all the other games. If they bought four tickets to just Marshall, it would $160, so they save $11. Then they also have tickets to all the other games that they can sell.

Say that they sell the other tickets at an average of $5 each. they have 5 other games, and four tickets to each, or 20 total tickets. If they get $100 for the 20 tickets they don't want, their four Marshall tickets end up costing them $49, or $12 each.

If they sell them for the prices advertised in a thread here on BA, they get $10 each for SE Louisiana, $15 for Miami, and $5 each for the others. That nets them 4*10+4*15+12*5=40+60+60=$160. That means they get their four Marshall tickets for free, and make $11 profit for their trouble.


Thus, the Marshall fans can:
1. Pay $40 each, or $160 for four tickets
2. Pay $149 for four tickets, and discard the other tickets
3. Sell the other tickets, and end up paying $49 for the 4 Marshall tickets, or maybe even get in free and make a profit.

Will the result be more people in Peden because of tickets dumped into places like Stubhub cheaply? Will the result be more empty seats because they just throw the tickets away, and don't bother with them? I don't know, but I do think it's a strange way to price tickets.

What you are saying by this statement Alan is aside from a few games at 20,000 in the late 60's none of the other crowds have eclipsed the 20,000 mark in actual fans? This includes the New Mexico State game in 2012 when fans were turned away from the gate? Alan I think you're the one making things up here.

A lot of em will end up back on the secondary market. We have a few other games where there will be sellout numbers.

I'm not buying the argument that the 2012 NMSU game had a smaller crowd than the 2005 Pitt game. Similar subject... I'll bet the 2015 Marshall game has a larger crowd than the 2005 Pitt game.
I'm simply amazed more people do not understand how much this program has grown since then. Thanks Coach Solich.

There is a select crowd here who get upset about the paying attendance vs the butts in the seats number like every other major school in this country isn't giving the exact same statistics. YAWN.
If you care about that, you really need to start discussing only atmosphere and forget attendance all-together.
If you are talking atmosphere, for the Solich-era I think it goes Pitt and then the Temple Blackout game on 2011. Weak Tower attendance there, but the students showed up big-time. It looked and felt like something special. Lets start a thread about best crowd shots of Peden from ESPN and see how it looks.

The family packs cost us 30 each. So a group of 8 of us got 8 family packs for 250 bucks basically wth the fee. 8 regular tickets would have cost 330 bucks. We saved 10 bucks per ticket to get the family pack. And I will trade the other 5 tickets for a coke when i am at peden with some random lucky fan.

ATTENDANCE FOR SATURDAY.

Read the thread title. This calls for a prediction of the announced figure (and I've no idea if it's paid or actual attending).

My prediction: 57,848

When you break down the actual ticket cost vs family plan option of 4 or more, we are getting the entire season including the Marshall game for $29.75 under the family plan. The single ticket option for the Marshall game is $44 in itself. Like I said, its a clever marketing scheme aimed at getting Marshall folks to buy up season tickets for OU in an attempt to increase their numbers. Problem is that all of those other tickets for the remaining games will likely be thrown away but some will hit the secondary market for $5 and $10 a piece by Marshall fans just trying to get rid of them. If they are successful in selling those additional tickets on the secondary market, it just means most Marshall fans got into the Marshall/Ohio game for free.

Exactly. I'll be honest, for me it was initially a way to get homecoming tickets without hassle. I decided it was easy for me to come to at least two games a year (coming from the west side of Cbus) the first year I bought them. Now I'm coming to at least every Saturday home game, and I've been able to give away the Wednesday night games to people who will use them.

Honestly I didn't know that group pricing was available or I would have!

But with the family pack, I've already unloaded a few Miami tickets and Western Michigan tickets for a total of $80.

That makes my 8 season tickets I bought come in at $22 each. $22 off each ticket.

22 x 8 = $176 for us to spend on whatever else we want.

Plus I get a free blanket out of it!

This. I always go to Homecoming, but that's usually all I can swing since I live over 400 miles away. Seeing the family pack option motivated me to go to the Marshall game as well. So now they have me going to an extra game and my family members in Southern Ohio going to the rest. That's 20 more butts in seats than there would've been.

This. This is my second season as a family pack season ticket holder. Both seasons a family pack has been cheaper than the most expensive single game tickets (Homecoming last season and Marshall and Homecoming this season). They really need to update the pricing so a family pack is cheaper than two games, not just one.