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Posted: 9/10/2015 5:32 PM
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A question about perception-

- Cost of ticket to a game on Tuesday in November = X
- Cost of ticket to a game on Saturday in September = 2X

Do you see this and think
A. They've jacked up the price to the September game, or
B. They've discounted the price to the November game?

and, would it be better if both tickets were the same price?
Jacked it up. The Parents weekend game with a 1 AA team is the perfect example.
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Posted: 9/10/2015 7:53 PM
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perimeterpost wrote:expand_more
A question about perception-

- Cost of ticket to a game on Tuesday in November = X
- Cost of ticket to a game on Saturday in September = 2X

Do you see this and think
A. They've jacked up the price to the September game, or
B. They've discounted the price to the November game?

and, would it be better if both tickets were the same price?
Jacked up is unfairly leading/anchoring verbiage. They are pricing the tickets to demand to maximize revenue, as any smart company should.
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Posted: 9/10/2015 8:02 PM
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D.A. wrote:expand_more
A question about perception-

- Cost of ticket to a game on Tuesday in November = X
- Cost of ticket to a game on Saturday in September = 2X

Do you see this and think
A. They've jacked up the price to the September game, or
B. They've discounted the price to the November game?

and, would it be better if both tickets were the same price?
Jacked up is unfairly leading/anchoring verbiage. They are pricing the tickets to demand to maximize revenue, as any smart company should.
No, the D1 AA game is priced to take advantage of a captive emotional audience - of course I need to take my kid to the game before we head uptown or back to their apartment.
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
A question about perception-

- Cost of ticket to a game on Tuesday in November = X
- Cost of ticket to a game on Saturday in September = 2X

Do you see this and think
A. They've jacked up the price to the September game, or
B. They've discounted the price to the November game?

and, would it be better if both tickets were the same price?
Jacked up is unfairly leading/anchoring verbiage. They are pricing the tickets to demand to maximize revenue, as any smart company should.
No, the D1 AA game is priced to take advantage of a captive emotional audience - of course I need to take my kid to the game before we head uptown or back to their apartment.
Employees of the state who will reap cushy retirements using Putin-like capitalist tactics...God Bless Amerika!
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Jacked up is unfairly leading/anchoring verbiage. They are pricing the tickets to demand to maximize revenue, as any smart company should.

Correct. That is the goal, and it should be. The value of a game depends only in small part as to who Ohio is playing, and much more on WHEN they are playing. The early dates, with nice weather, and the Saturday dates, are worth much more than the mid-week games.

Thus, playing Miami on a Saturday for homecoming would be at a high price, while playing Miami on a Tuesday before Thanksgiving would be at a low price, and that makes perfect sense. Yes, the foe can play a part in pricing. Thus Marshall for the first home game is $40. If the first home game was Idaho, it might only be $30, or $35, but it certainly wouldn't be $15.

I think that in general Ohio is executing well in this area. I do think they goofed, though, having a family pack of 4 tickets for less than the 4 tickets to Marshall were worth. Now, even that would be fine, and would work fine, if they did monitor the "Family" aspect of the "Family Pack", and made sure that there were two Adult tickets, and two children's tickets.
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Posted: 9/10/2015 9:29 PM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
A question about perception-

- Cost of ticket to a game on Tuesday in November = X
- Cost of ticket to a game on Saturday in September = 2X

Do you see this and think
A. They've jacked up the price to the September game, or
B. They've discounted the price to the November game?

and, would it be better if both tickets were the same price?
Jacked up is unfairly leading/anchoring verbiage. They are pricing the tickets to demand to maximize revenue, as any smart company should.
No, the D1 AA game is priced to take advantage of a captive emotional audience - of course I need to take my kid to the game before we head uptown or back to their apartment.
I have to agree with DA on this one. No one's forcing anyone to buy tickets to any of these games. If one feels the ticket prices are too high for an inferior opponent, the answer is simple and obvious-don't buy them. Unfortunately for me I'm HUGE fan of the Browns (insert masochist joke here) but I'm not paying those prices the Browns charge, no way. I just won't. However, others will and that's their prerogative and is not my concern nor any of my business.

And you think Ohio's ticket prices are high? HAHA! You don't want to know what I've just paid to buy 2 Parents Weekend football tickets for Michigan for their Nov. 6th game PLUS a two night stay at a Fairfield Inn in Ann Arbor!!!!!
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In the meantime, we have a thread making fun of BG's package deal that's two for $28 bucks.
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Made up number wes. The biggest crowd of actual people in the house in Peden since 1979 was Pitt in 2005.
Yes, and way back in the dark ages in the 1960s there were plus 20,000 crowds for games against Miami and Southern Illinois, the latter for the college division national championship. I'm not sure why these games are not shown in the current list of top 20 games. Maybe they were just barely over the 20,000 mark so that they've slipped to 21st and 22nd place or something, or maybe our records aren't all that accurate. That would be big surprise! ;-)
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. . . You don't want to know what I've just paid to buy 2 Parents Weekend football tickets for Michigan for their Nov. 6th game PLUS a two night stay at a Fairfield Inn in Ann Arbor!!!!!
I know. Been there, done that! Except we always stayed at the Hampton Inn in Ann Arbor. My wife got hooked on the Hampton when the first time we stayed there the pool was not open and they gave us our weekend stay free. My wife is an avid swimmer and likes to swim a mile every day.
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It's a clever marketing scheme to not price yourself out of the local market. The logic for single game pricing is alumni that travel from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, etc are used to paying $30-$50 for sporting events. Joe and Becky from Pomeroy are not. The family pack gives Joe and Becky an affordable option to bring their 2 kids to a game while at the same time selling out some of the less desirable seats in the stadium. It also satisfied a mandate from the university President at the time to not price ourselves out of the local southeastern Ohio market.

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.
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.
DelBobcat--You are a great fan to come from 400 miles away!

Team keeps improving, then the family pack tickets should increase for sure. People will squawk about the increase as a percentage, but in absolute dollars the tix will still be a heckuva bargain.

Yeah, consider what you'd pay for a single game ticket for a good opponent in columbus. Good ball costs fair money.
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Posted: 9/11/2015 7:24 AM
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D.A. wrote:expand_more
A question about perception-

- Cost of ticket to a game on Tuesday in November = X
- Cost of ticket to a game on Saturday in September = 2X

Do you see this and think
A. They've jacked up the price to the September game, or
B. They've discounted the price to the November game?

and, would it be better if both tickets were the same price?
Jacked up is unfairly leading/anchoring verbiage. They are pricing the tickets to demand to maximize revenue, as any smart company should.

The wording is intentional, I agree that its smart marketing but I'm talking about the perception. I mentioned it because I've heard several comments about the price difference and wanted to see if others think it is fair or not.
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OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
. . . You don't want to know what I've just paid to buy 2 Parents Weekend football tickets for Michigan for their Nov. 6th game PLUS a two night stay at a Fairfield Inn in Ann Arbor!!!!!
I know. Been there, done that! Except we always stayed at the Hampton Inn in Ann Arbor. My wife got hooked on the Hampton when the first time we stayed there the pool was not open and they gave us our weekend stay free. My wife is an avid swimmer and likes to swim a mile every day.
OhioCatFan. So great to be married to an athlete. My wife of 39 years ran track in college, swims now, a mile three days a week. She is still such a great partner. Though, doing a mile in a hotel pool would be a lot of laps, no?
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Using my best Jeff McKinney inspired forecasting skills, it looks like the rain should be gone by game time but it will be damp and cold with a northerly wind. Perfect late October game weather. Interesting observation - I got on the ticket site and saw lots of tickets in sections 104 and 105 which straddle the 50 on the home side. The two wings of the north endzone are completely sold out.
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OhioCatFan. So great to be married to an athlete. My wife of 39 years ran track in college, swims now, a mile three days a week. She is still such a great partner. Though, doing a mile in a hotel pool would be a lot of laps, no?
My wife now gets solicitation letters from the Athletic Department addressed to her as "former Bobcat athlete." She's also was inducted into Varsity OHIO. While an undergraduate she was part of a synchronized swimming club called the Dolphins. A decade or so ago, the university retroactively decided it was varsity level competition. I suppose it is some sort of Title IX make-do! ;-)

Yes, it is difficult to swim a mile in the typical hotel pool, but she often manages it. She has a disease called Wide-Awake-Morning-Person Syndrome (which I do not suffer from), and she often is the first person at the pool and, therefore, will have the pool to herself. At home she swims every morning during the school year at the Aquatic Center.
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Monroe Slavin wrote:expand_more
It's a clever marketing scheme to not price yourself out of the local market. The logic for single game pricing is alumni that travel from Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, etc are used to paying $30-$50 for sporting events. Joe and Becky from Pomeroy are not. The family pack gives Joe and Becky an affordable option to bring their 2 kids to a game while at the same time selling out some of the less desirable seats in the stadium. It also satisfied a mandate from the university President at the time to not price ourselves out of the local southeastern Ohio market.

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.
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.
DelBobcat--You are a great fan to come from 400 miles away!

Team keeps improving, then the family pack tickets should increase for sure. People will squawk about the increase as a percentage, but in absolute dollars the tix will still be a heckuva bargain.

Yeah, consider what you'd pay for a single game ticket for a good opponent in columbus. Good ball costs fair money.
You deserve some credit for cultivating my fandom Monroe. When I was a broke college grad that couldn't afford to buy homecoming tickets you let me use yours. Since then I have made it my mission to not ever miss a homecoming weekend. So far I've been successful.
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Posted: 9/11/2015 3:37 PM
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OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
. . . You don't want to know what I've just paid to buy 2 Parents Weekend football tickets for Michigan for their Nov. 6th game PLUS a two night stay at a Fairfield Inn in Ann Arbor!!!!!
I know. Been there, done that! Except we always stayed at the Hampton Inn in Ann Arbor. My wife got hooked on the Hampton when the first time we stayed there the pool was not open and they gave us our weekend stay free. My wife is an avid swimmer and likes to swim a mile every day.
Were the game day shuttles nice?

Now come on OCF, you can't get too angry with me here. You set yourself up for that.
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Using my best Jeff McKinney inspired forecasting skills, it looks like the rain should be gone by game time but it will be damp and cold with a northerly wind. Perfect late October game weather. Interesting observation - I got on the ticket site and saw lots of tickets in sections 104 and 105 which straddle the 50 on the home side. The two wings of the north endzone are completely sold out.
Yeah. Hopefully the rain will be gone about mid afternoon when tailgating is really fired up.
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Made up number wes. The biggest crowd of actual people in the house in Peden since 1979 was Pitt in 2005.
Yes, and way back in the dark ages in the 1960s there were plus 20,000 crowds for games against Miami and Southern Illinois, the latter for the college division national championship. I'm not sure why these games are not shown in the current list of top 20 games. Maybe they were just barely over the 20,000 mark so that they've slipped to 21st and 22nd place or something, or maybe our records aren't all that accurate. That would be big surprise! ;-)
You sure about that? The stadium only held 14,000 at that time.
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He's counting the extra seating they used to set up on top of Grover Center.
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He's counting the extra seating they used to set up on top of Grover Center.
Plus people were a great deal thinner back then so they could get more folks in a row.
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You sure about that? The stadium only held 14,000 at that time.
Yes, sir! They put up temporary bleachers in both end zones and people were literally hanging off the sides of the press box (which was much smaller at that time), sitting in the aisles, and standing all over the place. The fire marshal probably had a heart attack. No one left at halftime either. I will try to find an old box score, but it may take awhile.
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There are still some seats left on Ohio's ticket site.
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25,212

Should be a heck of a game.
Good thing this isn't The Price is Right. 25,210.
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25,212

Should be a heck of a game.

Official attendance was 25,210.
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25,212

Should be a heck of a game.

Official attendance was 25,210.
last year's home opener was 25,211. I though the crowd looked just a little bit smaller. ;)
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