BleedGopher
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per Reusse:
The idea that the Gophers would be moving to a Big Ten with one true rival, Wisconsin, and losing North Dakota, UMD, Denver and Colorado College as conference opponents not played well with the Mariucci faithful. There's another irritant among these fans in the run-up to the new schedule: cost.
I received this e-mail from a hockey season-ticket holder, after a previous piece on athletic director Norwood Teague's fuzzy math in suggesting the Gophers had recouped the 800 grand paid to North Carolina to cancel a football series. The e-mail read:
"Some more interesting math. I am a Gopher hockey season ticket holder and last year my renewal went to $1,920 for two tickets. That worked out to $76.80 per game for 25 games -- an increase of $15.20 per game over the previous year.
"This year the renewal was the same price but the number of games dropped to 20 games. That is $96 per game or another increase of $9.40. This amounts to a 56% increase over two years. Even if you take off the preferred seating cost of $200 per ticket, it is an increase of 23% over two years.
"I am not sure that most of the season ticket holders know because they don’t show the cost per game on the renewal, just a total renewal price.''
http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/207231731.html
Go Gophers!!
The idea that the Gophers would be moving to a Big Ten with one true rival, Wisconsin, and losing North Dakota, UMD, Denver and Colorado College as conference opponents not played well with the Mariucci faithful. There's another irritant among these fans in the run-up to the new schedule: cost.
I received this e-mail from a hockey season-ticket holder, after a previous piece on athletic director Norwood Teague's fuzzy math in suggesting the Gophers had recouped the 800 grand paid to North Carolina to cancel a football series. The e-mail read:
"Some more interesting math. I am a Gopher hockey season ticket holder and last year my renewal went to $1,920 for two tickets. That worked out to $76.80 per game for 25 games -- an increase of $15.20 per game over the previous year.
"This year the renewal was the same price but the number of games dropped to 20 games. That is $96 per game or another increase of $9.40. This amounts to a 56% increase over two years. Even if you take off the preferred seating cost of $200 per ticket, it is an increase of 23% over two years.
"I am not sure that most of the season ticket holders know because they don’t show the cost per game on the renewal, just a total renewal price.''
http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/207231731.html
Go Gophers!!