newest "deal" on Michigan football tickets

[hungry]

Just got an email. What a sweet deal!!

4 tickets to the Western Michigan game

you get 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs (WOW! everyone loves hot dogs!!,) and 4 drinks (wow! Pop!)

all for the low price of...$260

Is this supposed to be a deal? Are the UofM marketers really this dense?

$65 bucks a piece? the hot dogs and pops are worthless.

Yeah..no

 

[tinselwolverine]

Just got an email. What a sweet deal!!

4 tickets to the Western Michigan game

you get 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs (WOW! everyone loves hot dogs!!,) and 4 drinks (wow! Pop!)

all for the low price of...$260

Is this supposed to be a deal? Are the UofM marketers really this dense?

$65 bucks a piece? the hot dogs and pops are worthless.

Yeah..no

I think that's right around what I paid for tickets to the Akron or whoever it was about five years ago.

People want those tickets.

 

[SpartyNash]

I have no idea how people have season tickets to anything nowadays especially college football. As much as I love college football saturdays, with the amount of money tickets are, then parking, food, gas, entire day time commitment etc. I can’t justify ever going to more than a couple games scalped off stubhub a year. About a year ago I was going through my old ticket stubs I hang on to and a nonconference game against Air Force in 2015 face value was over 3 times the face value of a Missouri game in 2001 for comparable seats. These teams/schools have damn near priced me out for any average to good seat. For damn near nothing I can post up on the couch all day and have a front row seat to any game I want with food drinks and a bathroom mere steps away, the TV experience is almost unbeatable.

 

[Gulo Blue]

the TV experience is almost unbeatable.

It's such a different experience. Especially if you get seat in the endzones. You go to the stadium for the atmosphere and the crowd. If you want the best look at the football being played, stay home.

 

[tomdalton22]

It's such a different experience. Especially if you get seat in the endzones. You go to the stadium for the atmosphere and the crowd. If you want the best look at the football being played, stay home.

I agree. If you really want to pay attention to what is going on in the game...watch on TV. If you want the experience, go to the game.

I will never go to another NFL game and won't go to a meaningless college game (Big vs MAC). But an evenly matched game between two really good college teams...can't be beaten.

 

[tsume99]

I've already bought 2 tickets to a UM game and will be buying tickets for a couple of Toledo games soon. I can get 4 UT tickets for less than half of what I paid for the 2 UM tickets. Granted, I get a staff discount for the former, but still. And 2 of those UT tickets are for a rivalry game.

 

[Mitchrapp]

It's such a different experience. Especially if you get seat in the endzones. You go to the stadium for the atmosphere and the crowd. If you want the best look at the football being played, stay home.

100,000 plus all on top of you -- no thanks. Maybe if I was a student there at 18-19 years old.

 

[michdad1]

It's such a different experience. Especially if you get seat in the endzones. You go to the stadium for the atmosphere and the crowd. If you want the best look at the football being played, stay home.

For me it?s all about the game day atmosphere. Tailgating, BBQ, even the people plus the football and stadium.

 

[SpartyNash]

I agree. If you really want to pay attention to what is going on in the game...watch on TV. If you want the experience, go to the game.

I will never go to another NFL game and won't go to a meaningless college game (Big vs MAC). But an evenly matched game between two really good college teams...can't be beaten.

Never understood how people like the NFL more than college, especially going to games, the gameday experience is so stale and boring. I?ve been to more college basketball games at Ford Field than lions games and don?t plan on that changing.

 

[Michchamp]

my grandpa always said it's better to go to college games, than pro games; pro games are better on the TV.

college is fun because of the atmosphere, plus tailgating and connecting with old friends you wouldn't otherwise travel to see. it brings people together.

I think too that Michigan football ticket prices are inflated by a number of factors that other programs - even Big Ten programs - don't have.

- one of the largest - if not the largest - active alumni fanbases
- a large metro area roughly an hour away (it's easy to drive, and also pretty easy and relatively cheap to fly into Detroit Metro for a week and stay in the burbs for a game)
- long history of success

 

[Michchamp]

Never understood how people like the NFL more than college, especially going to games, the gameday experience is so stale and boring. I?ve been to more college basketball games at Ford Field than lions games and don?t plan on that changing.

I feel a bit ridiculous cheering for a pro team. I identify pro teams more with their owner than their city. maybe if more teams were publicly owned like the Packers, I'd feel different.