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Season ticket sales

sackman said:
Something is funny with these numbers. Do you mean to tell me that Nebraska only has 5,000 student tickets, no game day tickets, and no visiting team allotment?

Something doesn't add up here. I suspect that there's some massaging of numbers going on.
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Maybe Nebraska classifies their student tickets as season tixs...

also, when I was a freshman in 1991, I wanted to stand in line for season tixs before I stood in line to change a class... that is how excited I was for football..... My RA insisted that we get a bloc of tixs together so I gave him my ID and he was allowed to purchase tixs for me... he came back later that day and said that the tixs were sold out (he gave me my $10 back)... I had to BEG someone at the ticket office to find me tixs and I used some sob story that I was an out of state student and one of the big reasons I was here was football.... they "found" an extra set but my impression was that in the early 90's, this team WAS selling out.. is that not correct?
 
DBT said:
Another factor in revenue are the luxury and club level seats. Where does CU stand as far as units purchased and income for them compared to other Big XII schools? I mean, one luxary box is equivalent to a **** load of season tix.

I also am almost sure I've seen something to the effect that CU caps its number of season tickets at somewhere in the 20K to 25K range. Does anyone know the facts on that?
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Wasn't our season ticket base over 30K in the late 90's?
 
PhillyBuff said:
... but my impression was that in the early 90's, this team WAS selling out.. is that not correct?
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Pretty much Philly. The yearly average attendance at Folsom Field since 1985:
1985 (7-5) - 36,789
1986 (6-6) - 44,925
1987 (7-4) - 44,785
1988 (8-4) - 39,191
1989 (11-1) - 48,954
1990 (11-1-1) - 51,729
1991 (8-3-1) - 51,909
1992 (9-2-1) - 51,650
1993 (8-3-1) - 51,893
1994 (11-1) - 50,816
1995 (10-2) - 52,160
1996 (10-2) - 52,098
1997 (5-6) - 51,658
1998 (8-4) - 47,419
1999 (7-5) - 47,863
2000 (3-8) - 49,990
2001 (10-3) - 47,475
2002 (9-5) - 49,219
2003 (5-7) - 50,431
2004 (8-5) - 48,365
2005 (7-6) - 50,350
2006 (2-10) - 46,048
2007 (6-7) - 50,509
2008 (5-7) - 49,476
2009 (3-9) - 50,088

So, we were basically sold out (+/- 52,000) from 1990 thru 1997. Average attendance during the Hawk years - 49,030. Not too shabby considering the W-L record ...
 
Not that this excuses anything, but I would love to see average season ticket prices (including mandatory donations) for each of those. I know some will be quite a bit higher than CU, but I wonder about ISU, KjSU, KU, etc.
 
40,000 tickets were sold for a high school game in Austin this weekend - Over 30,000 actually showed up the 100 degree heat. Come on Denver, step it up and go to the damn games!
 
valdezj said:
The credit should go to Bohn imo. He's done a great job getting butts in the seats.
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:yeahthat:

I would add that a lot of those earlier games probably had a lot higher % of tickets sold at full face value, but I like Bohn's idea that it's better to get people in the seats, spending at least SOME money and enjoying the game day experience than to just let the tix go unsold.
 
Junction said:
:yeahthat:

I would add that a lot of those earlier games probably had a lot higher % of tickets sold at full face value, but I like Bohn's idea that it's better to get people in the seats, spending at least SOME money and enjoying the game day experience than to just let the tix go unsold.
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Not only that, but it might get them more interested in CU football and they could end up purchasing tix to future games.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
Not only that, but it might get them more interested in CU football and they could end up purchasing tix to future games.
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I tried to cover that under the "enjoying the game day experience" part of my comment. :smile2:

But yeah, that's a huge part of the reason you want to get their butts in the seats, even if you only get $10 for the ticket.
 
I am with Sacky I think the numbers for some of these schools are off, and i imagine the culprit is classification of student ticket sales.
 
This topic came up over at goat****ernation, so I wanted to revisit this thread. Some of those teams have to be including student tickets. Either that, or they get very little in terms of student, visitor and walk-up/single-game participation.

Okie light averaged 53k fans per game last year. That would only leave 8k for students and visitors/single game tickets? No way. There are a couple others like that in there, too.

Attendance by game for the B12 last year:

UT - 101,175
NU - 85,888
OU - 84,778
aTm - 76,800
MU - 64,120
OSU - 53,719
KU - 50,581
Tech - 50,249
CU - 50,088
KjSU - 46,763
ISU - 46,242
Baylor - 36,306
 
Bohn recently said we are at 8% drop. Getting better. Win this weekend and I bet it cuts in half.
 
I think a lot of people are waiting this year to see how we do in the first game (as has been said before many many times probably)
 
GregInAustin said:
40,000 tickets were sold for a high school game in Austin this weekend - Over 30,000 actually showed up the 100 degree heat. Come on Denver, step it up and go to the damn games!
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The difference is, of course, in Texas foot ball is religion.

In Colorado, football is just one of many entertainment options, with decisions based on factors of choice, price and weather.
 
Skidmark said:
The difference is, of course, in Texas foot ball is religion.

In Colorado, football is just one of many entertainment options, with decisions based on factors of choice, price and weather.
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sports in general are a religion in Texas
 
Skidmark said:
Not having an NFL, MLB, NHL or NBA team in a metro area almost the population of Denver doesn't hurt either.
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Care to explain why you take the population of the Austin metro area but only the population of the City of Denver?
 
Jens1893 said:
Care to explain why you take the population of the Austin metro area but only the population of the City of Denver?
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I think what he's saying is that Austin is a city about the size of Denver, but without the professional sports options that Denver offers. All they have is UT. In a city of a million people, that's a captive audience.
 
Austin has a population of around 800k. The greater Austin Metro has a population of around 1.9 million.

Denver has a population of around 600k. The greater Denver Metro has a population of around 2.8 million.
 
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