I'm sitting here thinking I'm glad I like to watch from home.

This is why I'm giving up my football tickets if I can get baseball tickets.

themissinglink said:

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Seems to be somewhat in line with UT

https://www.tennesseefund.org/seat-cat/baseball/

We're going to need to pay for the new stadium somehow

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Ticket prices aren't going to cover a stadium. Donations will cover that, this is to offset a little, the increased scholarship numbers and the base salary for lack of better term that will be paid to all athletes. The rest comes outta football revenue

We wanted more. The result is significant demand for tickets and significant new expenditure.

Usually some of the buildout is covered with the equivalent of a construction loan bond and the revenue backing both the bond and operational expenses is from seat and concessions I believe.

I think it is challenging to run a profit due to the relatively short season for college baseball and the school is taking on significant risk if they can't keep revenue flowing until the bonds are discharged.

Also: the preferred seats always have more value and more demand. So the newer seats likely will produce less revenue than the existing core of the ballpark,

Not suggesting it isn't painful by the way. But those of you who are current season ticket holders have seen one of the most exciting periods of Aggie Baseball and you are part of the fan culture that makes Aggie Baseball a great and unique experience.

BQ_90 said:

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themissinglink said:

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Seems to be somewhat in line with UT

https://www.tennesseefund.org/seat-cat/baseball/

We're going to need to pay for the new stadium somehow

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Ticket prices aren't going to cover a stadium. Donations will cover that, this is to offset a little, the increased scholarship numbers and the base salary for lack of better term that will be paid to all athletes. The rest comes outta football revenue

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I just hope the donation I make specifically for baseball tickets at least stays in the baseball program and doesn't get distributed to other sports.

But that might be too much to hope.

ensign_beedrill said:

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BQ_90 said:

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themissinglink said:

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Seems to be somewhat in line with UT

https://www.tennesseefund.org/seat-cat/baseball/

We're going to need to pay for the new stadium somehow

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Ticket prices aren't going to cover a stadium. Donations will cover that, this is to offset a little, the increased scholarship numbers and the base salary for lack of better term that will be paid to all athletes. The rest comes outta football revenue

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I just hope the donation I make specifically for baseball tickets at least stays in the baseball program and doesn't get distributed to other sports.

But that might be too much to hope.

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The only sport that we have the makes any profit currently is football.

The goal is to eventually get men's basketball to profitability and baseball to break even.

dabo man said:

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I read many years ago that Big 12 MBB TV money made that sport profitable. Is the same not true for the SEC MBB TV money?

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That was when coaches were making like $1-2M per year and support staffs were way smaller and scholarships were cheaper. Costs are up 100's of % since then.

dabo man said:

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I read many years ago that Big 12 MBB TV money made that sport profitable. Is the same not true for the SEC MBB TV money?

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We broke even for a few years but I don't think we actually turned a profit. That's better than baseball at most schools though.

I'll take your tickets and donation gladly

Ag1188 said:

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So about $50 per game for the "Lower Prime Reserved seats".

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35 home games last year. So $33.43 per game for full season for those seats?

If you're buying the 18 game season rubber you should expect to pay a premium since you are not paying for the full season.

In the MLB the full season ticket per game ticket is roughly 50% of single ticket usually.

12th Man Ag said:

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31% increase in 206! Do they go up another 50% when the renovations start?

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This is a good question. When they did the survey a few months ago they asked what we would be willing to pay in various parts of the stadium. For my seats they asked if we'd pay $1200/seat. The implication was that was the price after renovations but since that's the price now what are they thinking when is finished?

2021 cost $350. 2025 is going to be 3.4x that. Both trips to Omaha were followed by massive increases. I get it but…

Just wait until the renovation is done. Ticket prices are going to skyrocket.

dermdoc said:

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Just wait until the renovation is done. Ticket prices are going to skyrocket.

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IMO they've already skyrocketed. Looks as if season tickets where I had mine my final season (2015) have nearly tripled.