I do have to say, you seem to be one of the entitled ones that was mentioned earlier in the thread.
Lets stretch your ideas a little and see where we get.
Students get 17,000 seats at $10 a pop and do not fill them up. That totals to $1.19 million per season in ticket sales. Now I do not know if the seats the band occupies is part of the alloted 17,0000 seats, if they do, this number will shrink quite a bit.
Taking away the student seating, that leaves say 84,0000 seats to Tide Pride/alumni/faculty/visitors etc. Lets use a round number of $50/ticket (closer to the lower end of the ticket price scale for the year, and I'm not sure if Faculty/Alumni get any discounts for their seats) and doing the math that comes up to $29.4 million in ticket sales. Add in the Tide Pride donations that folks have to "donate" in order to get to pay for those tickets, and you are adding in many millions more every year.
With these funds, we have a nice shiny stadium with upper decks all the way around, flashing advertising boards, 4 HD Tv's in each corner to watch replays and more advertisements on, a PA system that at times is too loud, and many other amenities that others schools are quite envious of.
Now my question to you is this, were the aformentioned amenities paid for with $1.19 million in student ticket sales each year and apparently tuition, or was it paid for by the 84,000 other seats that pay full price for tickets sometimes at $80 per seat and their donations? And of those two groups, who do you really think the amenities were intended for? (hint: I'm going with the people that have the money to buy the other seats seeing as how there is so much advertising on them.)
The University wants its student population to enjoy their time there while getting a good education. This includes supplying a cut rate ticket to attend athletics events. But please, you need to get out of your head the idea that it's all about the students and not for the 84,000 others. Were it not for "the others" you could enjoy Denny Stadium at it's size back in the 30's, but then again, you couldn't fill that up either, at 24,000 seats.
Lets stretch your ideas a little and see where we get.
Students get 17,000 seats at $10 a pop and do not fill them up. That totals to $1.19 million per season in ticket sales. Now I do not know if the seats the band occupies is part of the alloted 17,0000 seats, if they do, this number will shrink quite a bit.
Taking away the student seating, that leaves say 84,0000 seats to Tide Pride/alumni/faculty/visitors etc. Lets use a round number of $50/ticket (closer to the lower end of the ticket price scale for the year, and I'm not sure if Faculty/Alumni get any discounts for their seats) and doing the math that comes up to $29.4 million in ticket sales. Add in the Tide Pride donations that folks have to "donate" in order to get to pay for those tickets, and you are adding in many millions more every year.
With these funds, we have a nice shiny stadium with upper decks all the way around, flashing advertising boards, 4 HD Tv's in each corner to watch replays and more advertisements on, a PA system that at times is too loud, and many other amenities that others schools are quite envious of.
Now my question to you is this, were the aformentioned amenities paid for with $1.19 million in student ticket sales each year and apparently tuition, or was it paid for by the 84,000 other seats that pay full price for tickets sometimes at $80 per seat and their donations? And of those two groups, who do you really think the amenities were intended for? (hint: I'm going with the people that have the money to buy the other seats seeing as how there is so much advertising on them.)
The University wants its student population to enjoy their time there while getting a good education. This includes supplying a cut rate ticket to attend athletics events. But please, you need to get out of your head the idea that it's all about the students and not for the 84,000 others. Were it not for "the others" you could enjoy Denny Stadium at it's size back in the 30's, but then again, you couldn't fill that up either, at 24,000 seats.
I pay tuition. Which means I am paying around a 1000 for a ticket. Do you pay that? I go to school at the University and keep it running do you do that? I have more right to do anything or not at the University than you by far.
When y'all can fill the rest of the stadium then complain. Plus again it is a school for students and it is student athletes therefor it is for students not you.