Gotcha Igotz. That makes sense.

Yes, the prices are high. I do love the comparisons to other games though. How much money did that tu grad pay for his season tickets to get the opportunity to buy a $150 seat that was probably like one of the $85/Student tickets for our game?

It's apples and oranges. I figure it's worth a shot to go once. For $300 I get to check out the club seats at the new stadium. I probably couldn't get a Cowboys ticket in that part of the stadium for $300, so I'll take it at least for year 1.

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How much money did that tu grad pay for his season tickets to get the opportunity to buy a $150 seat that was probably like one of the $85/Student tickets for our game?

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It's all priority points. So their ticket allocation was based off of their original donation to their association when they bought their season tickets. It's not another ridiculous donation for a single game.

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Yet we got 2 ****ty programs playing and Bill and Jerry are standing there holding each others dicks and trying to figure out who is going to **** who for more money. Unbelievable!

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Pretty much sums it up. I could afford to go to this game regardless of the cost, but I grew up knowning the value of a dollar, so I'll watch it in the golf clubhouse grille.


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It's all priority points. So their ticket allocation was based off of their original donation to their association when they bought their season tickets. It's not another ridiculous donation for a single game.

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At Texas you have to be a Foundation Member and have donations at a certain level. Currently it's at $1,000 "donation" above the cost of the actual tickets themselves....so it adds up.

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So their ticket allocation was based off of their original donation to their association when they bought their season tickets. It's not another ridiculous donation for a single game.

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So the issue is the per seat donation for the club seats? I'm more upset about the ticket price than the seat donation.

It's the same reasoning we have to go through every year when people ***** about the season ticket prices when you factor in donation -

We have some crazy-low donation levels and seat endowments that are still in effect.

We have student seats that require no donation.

Those two things are a detriment to our current donations so we have to get at it other ways. I don't have a problem with the extra donation for club seats.

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Pretty much sums it up. I could afford to go to this game regardless of the cost, but I grew up knowning the value of a dollar, so I'll watch it in the golf clubhouse grille.

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BINGO!!! Have 10 buddies/chicks over to the house for burgers, beers, wings and watch the game on a 52" HD tv for about $500 total cost. Or everyone could go to the game and get a decent seat, which happends to run $300, and it would cost over $3,300 after you pay for tax and parking. Pathetic!!

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So the issue is the per seat donation for the club seats?

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Correct!! $175 is ridiculous after you have already paid your donations on your season tickets. What is this one game donation crap? And the bottom line is that if you don't pay it, then you are stuck in some crappy seat in the corner. I think the ticket prices are in line. The donation sets it over. $300+ to watch 3 hours of crappy football is a joke!!

is the 10% arlington tax already built into the $85 ticket or is the tax an additional 10%?

I went on to the cowboys website and there is an interactive seating map that will give you the sightline from the general area that you might be sitting in...

[urlhttp://www.dallascowboys.com/tickets/newstadiumInteractiveMaps.cfm[/url]

Pretty intersting

that didn't go so good.

http://www.dallascowboys.com/tickets/newstadiumInteractiveMaps.cfm

http://www.dallascowboys.com/tickets/newstadiumClubInteractiveMap.cfm

Most expensive seats are going to be $300 for this game. Especially ridiculous considering this is more than they set the high for the Cotton Bowl at ($250).

Tax is added to the ticket price, but only calculated on the price of the ticket so either $8.50 per ticket or $12.50 per ticket.

Ags appear to be the only ones with the highest prices on this one. $125 for seat, $175 donation to 12th Man Foundation.

Byrne is asking too much. Watch a LOT of Ags sitting the the Hogs area on this one.

Bill Backfire Byrne. This one is likely to turn on him with the current economic situation.

Torbush WOW.

If the Hogs section is cheaper than our, you can expect to see atleast one Aggie shirt on that side.

I am an old guy that made in excess of 7 figures last year and averages missing 1 home game per decade, but I have got to draw the line somewhere. I wont be going. It is ridiculus what they are doing to the average fan. Neutral site games suck anyway.

Last of the Old Army

I'm not looking forward to this.

Not even the NFL Playoffs cost as much as this regular season neutral site game between two teams that are not at their best.

Don't you have to be a season-ticket holder to get a shot at NFL Playoff tickets? That's a hidden cost.

The costs to attend this game are all up front. The only place where current donations figure is your seat location.

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Don't you have to be a season-ticket holder to get a shot at NFL Playoff tickets? That's a hidden cost.

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And thats the way it should be. If you are already donating to buy season tickets, you shouldn't have to be donating again for this game. If you don't have season tickets, then you should have to donate. Donating twice is retarded.

If the game sells out, more power to the athletic department for setting a correct price point. There may be plenty of Ags and coporations willing to pay these prices, but I for one wont. Perhaps they are not looking for people in my position to go to the game.

My position is middle class with a mortgage, 2 car payments and other activites to spend my disposable income on.

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That is what I am talking about. A large majority of recent grads, ages 22-28, are going to have these types of fixed cost in their lives and a majority won't be making $100k+. Our athletic department is basically telling those people to go screw themselves. Sad part is that these are usually the fans that tailgate, are loud at the games, and really get into the sports. It's not the multi-millionare, 90-year old that has to be wheeled up the ramp in his wheelchair to the game. I hope Bill pulls his head out of his ass one of these days. Otherwise, we are going to have a stadium full of corporate tickets.

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If the game sells out, more power to the athletic department for setting a correct price point. There may be plenty of Ags and coporations willing to pay these prices, but I for one wont. Perhaps they are not looking for people in my position to go to the game.

My position is middle class with a mortgage, 2 car payments and other activites to spend my disposable income on.

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I think you've touched on a point that a lot of folks are missing. Byrne isn't counting on just anyone to buy those $300 tickets. He's counting on (1) the Zone Club season ticket holders, (2) the folks who sit at the top of the first deck and bewteen the 30s on second deck (and aren't endowed), and (3) some DFW folks who want to play big shot by sitting in the club seats for this game. Did he set the price point right for that group? We shall see.

As to the $125 and $85 tickets, I don't understand what folks were expecting in the way of prices if they think those are exorbitant. It may well be more than folks want to pay or can pay, but only time will tell on that.

well so far according to this site and the arkansas site there will be about 100 razorback fans and about 15 aggie fans (not including students)! But really, this is not much different than the texas ou game has always been. Usually it requires a donation of around $1000 plus cost of ticket. I don't donate that much (because it really doesn't move you to a much better seat at DKR) so i have had to buy scalped since 2001. I have yet to pay less than $250 a ticket since then. So, to get four ou(spit) tickets i can pay $1400 with the donation route..or i can buy 4 scalped for $1000. You all should wait and buy them from ticketcity.com!

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I agree. I don't know why everyone is so surprised by the prices. What did yall think they were going to be? $20?

I can't speak for everyone, but from the people I have spoken to and myself, we all thought somewhere between $80-125. Like I said before, the donation and the parking are the ridiculous parts of the equation. The ticket prices themselves are not out of line. There are going to way more people willing to pay $85 and $125 for tickets than Byrne has allocated seats for.

i figured $200 for club seats

For those of you expecting to buy up Arkansas tickets, you might want to check into how theirs are distributed. For Texas/OU each school gets their 50% allotment and distributes them through whatever priority systems they have for season ticket holders and students. There are no "general public sale" tickets. If this game is being handled the same way, the only way you're getting your hands on an Arkansas ticket is if an Arkansas fan is selling them on eBay, in which case they will probably cost more than you would pay for an A&M ticket.

I don't think the ticket price itself is that bad. It's not that much more than a Texas/OU ticket at the Cotton Bowl, and you have to consider that you're paying a premium for the stadium you're in because it's still a novelty and because there is no standard for demand yet for this game.

I do agree that the extra donation is ridiculous. If you're a season ticket holder, you're already paying more money for this game (which, every other year, can be looked at as a home game that's not included in your season ticket price), so it doesn't seem to right to ask for another donation on top of it.

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And thats the way it should be. If you are already donating to buy season tickets, you shouldn't have to be donating again for this game. If you don't have season tickets, then you should have to donate. Donating twice is retarded.

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So an extra donation for a neutral site game is stupid? Why should your donation level for 7 games at Kyle factor into getting club seats at this game?

Yes, it's a lot of money. It's supposed to be an experience and it's being priced accordingly. Grow up.

p.s. I'm not a 90 year-old millionaire.

Because you're not always going to have 7 home games. The only reason you do this year is because all of your other non-conference games are at Kyle Field, and I doubt that will always be the case.

Every other year, this game will take the place of a game that would have been on your home field and, thus, included in the price you are already paying for season tickets. That's why it isn't reasonable to force you to pay a second donation on top of the extra ticket cost.

Can't wait. This game is going to be awesome.

Everyone claiming they can't go b/c of a $300 ticket is acting like a drama queen. There are $85 tickets available but you don't want those seats b/c they aren't dead center at the 50 yard line. You want great seats and you want them cheaply.

Allow me to be the first person to introduce you to the idea of capitalism. We live in a meritocracy, the world does not revolve around you!

I always find it funny how people complain how much stuff costs.

You can't afford everything in life. If you can't afford a new car, that life. This is no different.

No one, including alumnis are gauranteed reasonable tickets. Its a Luxury.

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So an extra donation for a neutral site game is stupid? Why should your donation level for 7 games at Kyle factor into getting club seats at this game?

Yes, it's a lot of money. It's supposed to be an experience and it's being priced accordingly. Grow up.

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Yup, I figured the "grow up" comments would start sometime soon. That's what it always results back to when there is nothing else to say. Look, just like bass stated, BB is already getting the donation on most other years since we are paying for it through our season tickets donation. That ****er is just doubling up. It might work this first year, but I can promise you that those prices will not work when next year's football season rolls around. Especially when this year's team goes 4-8 again (I don't see us doing any better than that).

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Allow me to be the first person to introduce you to the idea of capitalism. We live in a meritocracy

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Actually, at A&M, we live in a world of mediocrity. You probably just mispelled that though. Like I said before, I have no problem paying donations for season tickets, but to pay $175 on top of what we are already donating and paying is ridiculous.

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Every other year, this game will take the place of a game that would have been on your home field and, thus, included in the price you are already paying for season tickets. That's why it isn't reasonable to force you to pay a second donation on top of the extra ticket cost.

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byrne said in the WW that this game was intended to replace, whenever possible, a road non-conference game. it isn't intended to take a game away from kyle. he's said that repeatedly.

If you believe everything BB says, you my friend, are an idiot.

We have very spoiled fans who thinks that tickets should be reasonable and affordable to everyone. Well, this is not realistic and not practical. Being able to watch our football team is not a right, its a luxury. Not everyone can afford or want to pay for it. That is your right not to show up.

I dislike JJ and BB for many reasons, but I can not blame them for this. Both are in it to make money.

If I had a restaurant that I know would be filled up at $200 a plate, why would I make it $50 a plate so everyone can afford it? Heck, I would jack it up until I start to lose people. Actually, I would be better off with a 75% filled restaurant at $300 a plate.