We are going for much more dramatic increases
Hold on a minute. You think $45 will get you anything but a complete nosebleed at Camp Randall?
http://www.uwbadgers.com/tickets/fb-general-information.html
According to their website, $45 is for their crappy non-conference games (Western Illinois and Bowling Green). Season tickets for them start at $315 plus a $100-400 donation.
So either your colleague is an idiot, or you completely misunderstood what he was saying.
Since he's a Badger fan, my bet is on the former.
You want the best seats you should pay more as you have more room on DQ club level and club access.
What the Gophers athletic department is doing is somewhat unfair, but who said life is fair, they want football season ticket holders to pay for all the scholarships in the athletic department. What I fear happening to football has already happened in Mens Hockey, a very dull arena with a lot of expensive empty seats. Doesn't mean there not sold but there are a lot of empty's in men's Hockey right now.
They better hope that the upcoming seasons are rousing success story's with say a few conference championships in play for the Football program or this money grab by Norwood Teague is going to be a miserable failure. They decided if you want a chairback in the stadium you have luxury and are worthy of paying higher levels of donations. I don't so much dislike the donations as I don't think the levels are equitably spread out based on the sections in the stadium. Upper levels of the stadium should not be priced as lower bowl seats, even the pro sports teams in town rarely do this. They charge more for more premium games but not the same levels for somewhat lower valuable seats.
For instance if your in the second deck your a lot further away from the action than someone downstairs yet your donation levels are priced at the same level as someone a lot closer to the action that gets to see and hear the best parts of what happens on game day. To me they really undervalued the premium seats between the 30 to 50 yards line, and overvalued the costs, of the some of the not so great site line areas like home sideline by the end zones, visitors side by the end zones, or even the end zone seats in the lower bowl with the bench's. That's a matter of opinion I guess, so I agree to disagree with the U on how they tiered the seating charts with donation levels. If the team stays at the level they have seemed to stick around at for the last 10 years, this donation things is going to already empty out a stadium that should be more full on game days.
I'm kind of stuck because I can afford the donations, but my buddy with kids, and brother with three young and two young kids respectively cannot afford them so doesn't look like I have much choice but to move to a donation area unless I want to sit by myself(an option I guess).
I already told them on the last call I got from a ticket office person that even with the installments looks like our group will have to move to bench seats. It's the hand your dealt that you have to play some times.
