Scholarship Donation Question

[MNGoldenGophers1]

The donation (not "donation") is part of the cost of renewing tickets in certain areas. If you don't want to donate, don't renew the tickets. No one is being forced to do anything. The donation and ticket purchase are both 100% voluntary. Simple.

So it is a "donation." Good to know.

 

[NoNmae]

Donating meaning you can deduct it during tax time.

 

[Oregon Gopher]

The donations aren't forced. You've just said that you aren't renewing, so how can you make the argument that you're being forced to do anything? Also, ticket and scholarship seating revenue aren't shared with other schools. Please continue your baseless rants, though.

Hey Dpo- I think you're part right/part incorrect. While scholarship seating/luxury box etc revenue isn't shared, unless things have changed since 2011, 35% of the gate (min 300k, max 1 mil per game) is put into a pool for all teams to share.


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[DoubleB]

if you want tickets it is forced upon you. dpodoll68 I will just agree to disagree with you since you seem to be hell bent on not seeing the reality of the situation. But hey that is what makes America great everyone has an opinion even if it is wrong!


adding a 5.00 donation for the march of dimes for every Big Mac you buy is the same thing. its a forced donation but you have the choice to go down the road and get a Whopper. in this case I don't have a choice to keep buying my Big Mac without donating to the March of Dimes so it is my choice to pay the added cost to get my Big Mac. But it is done without my voluntarily choosing to donate to the March of Dimes even if I would prefer that donations to go to cancer research or any other great cause

but since the Athletic department cannot secure their own donations other than forcing it upon loyal season ticket holders (in all sports) it is a very sad spot light on how poorly this athletic department is being ran. Yes i like to bring it up as it is the first step in really showing how crappy this university is running things. and if it continues down this path the only fans in the stands will be those who choose to wait and buy single tickets meaning the desire to make more money will be shorted since the donation is not added to single tickets.

that is why i origninally stated that in year 4 the U will raise the ticket prices. Why not they hadn't raised the tickets in 3+ years. by then maybe the NCAA will have put in place the stipend for the players already getting a 30,000- 40,000/year scholarship they want more! just like the university.

I can tell you i gave a proposal to the U for a about a $100,000.00/year reduction in a service they are obviously over paying for and they didn't give it a thought to resign the contract. this is just one spending blunder can you imagine if a full audit was done?

maybe they would not need to raise the donations if they watched how they spent the tax payers money

sorry for my rant but the love i have for the U is being destroyed with a continuation of how poor they are running the athletic department.

 

[DLguy]

Except for the fact that you can still buy a number of burgers without the March of Dimes donation in that same McDonalds. If you really want the special sauce so bad, you have to pay for it

 

[wait!what?]

In year 4 ticket prices will increase and the reason will be they have held the same ticket prices for over 3 years

Mark me down as one of the long time loyal fans that will be watching from the couch from now on!

Spent many days tailgating and screaming in the stands and now I just cant justify the donation and would rather watch it on TV than move to other seating and give up my nice lower level seat back spot i earned by purchasing the tickets when this squad never competed on the field

almost feel better going to an away game than spending money on forced donations, giving other Big Ten schools the revenue

non donation season tickets are available.

 

[GophersInIowa]

but since the Athletic department cannot secure their own donations other than forcing it upon loyal season ticket holders (in all sports) it is a very sad spot light on how poorly this athletic department is being ran. Yes i like to bring it up as it is the first step in really showing how crappy this university is running things. and if it continues down this path the only fans in the stands will be those who choose to wait and buy single tickets meaning the desire to make more money will be shorted since the donation is not added to single tickets.

Isn't the seat donation concept used by most other major universities? I don't think this way of doing things is unique to Minnesota.

 

[homermn]

Isn't the seat donation concept used by most other major universities? I don't think this way of doing things is unique to Minnesota.

umm... just EVERY single Big Ten University has a donation program that awards preferred seats to higher donations with compulsory donations to get into certain areas of the stadium.
I don't think the University cares if it gets it's money in a donation or from a fixed ticket price. The Government provides a means to subsidize these donations if certain language is used. The university uses that language, so you're beef is probably more with representatives in Congress then it is with the lawyer at the University who makes sure it's a tax qualified donation.
here isn't some Magic you get to punish us when you disagree with us, but we'll still award you the same seat. As long as there are enough people to write the checks and collect the revenue, they probably aren't all that interested in someone who doesn't to pay. Judging that they moved forward with Year 2, i think they are satisfied with a season ticket holder base that hasn't grown, but one that is providing more money.

 

[CWCWCW]

Any predictions on the renewal rate percentage? I thought it would be higher abandonment last year, but I was cleary wrong.
I'll take a stab at this and say 92%. If that's true, I'm sure the administration would be happy with that.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Any predictions on the renewal rate percentage? I thought it would be higher abandonment last year, but I was cleary wrong.
I'll take a stab at this and say 92%. If that's true, I'm sure the administration would be happy with that.

Did they ever actually announce the renewal rate? What I seem to recall is that they announced total season tickets sold but did not distinguish between the number that renewed and new season ticket holders. It would be interesting to know the breakout between renewals and new season ticket holders from last year and again this year?