60k+ x 7 x $5 average increase is a $2m
Honestly a $10 ave increase wouldn’t be out of line.
The $56 tickets for TCU a couple years ago were $160+ tickets to see us play Baylor 2 weeks later in TX.
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Honestly a $10 ave increase wouldn’t be out of line.
The $56 tickets for TCU a couple years ago were $160+ tickets to see us play Baylor 2 weeks later in TX.
Experiential Fundraising. The trend now is for people with money to purchase experiences rather than merch.
- Run a lottery to see who gets to kick a goal at halftime (or make a shot from half-court); strictly pay-to-play
- Let people purchase the right to sing the National Anthem at games
- For a price, you get to be the honorary pre-game Step Show director (football)
- Coach For A Day - the highest bidder gets to wear a headset and participate on the sidelines
- Player For A Day - for a price, you get to suit up but sit on the bench (bball)
- Sell messaging on the Jumbo-Tron or at Hilton; run a kiss cam
- Purchase the right to have dinner with the team and/or attend a practice
- Sell a place on the team bus; How about a ride in the team Cessna?
- Raffle off a membership so that you can watch the Kanopy videos on line (Parks has this, but you can't watch the films with an alumni card...)
- Sell seats at the post-game pressers
- Private meet-and-greet with the players, like lunch or dinner at the Iowa Stater with them and/or the coach
i make under 150k/year. i dont give 1 f about how iowa state is going to pay millions for players, millions for coaches, and millions on bloated AD staff salaries.
Glad you guys aren't running the AD, those are great ways to cut our season ticket sales in half. Not sure you realize how cheap, or 'frugal' ISU fans are in general. We're already considering dropping our 4 tickets to 2 or none at all, increase in ticket prices or donation amounts will make that decision pretty easy.
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Totally your prerogative, and the prerogative of every fan. It's one of those "You get what you pay for" situations. If fans aren't willing to do what it takes to compete at the power level, then Iowa State won't. Pretty simple. You can't get a t-bone for eye of round prices.
Yep, I and many others are perfectly fine with that. People have been saying 'donate donate donate now or ISU will be irrelevant' for the past 5-10 years, still pretty relevant IMO.
Some of these ideas are ones that Blum had available when the collective was around, and I, and a couple of other donors/auction participants at the signing day party preferred to purchase those experiences. The AD would be wise to bring those ideas back.
Be careful. Last year I brought up every fan giving 1 dollar a day to be competitive in NIL and got my head ripped off on this board.
JTS holds 61500 people. I bet 99% of them have 2 kidneys. Has anyone seen what kidneys are going for? You don’t need 2.
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Well, it's a good thing costs don't go up over time, huh? Or that the landscape of college sports didn't change dramatically in the last few years, resulting in $20 million of additional expenses per year?
Yeah, it's just unconscionable that football ticket prices would increase when the price of everything else stays the same.
Just curious...what advantage might there be if ISU went back to selling tix directly instead of handing over a cut to Ticketmaster? Could get 25% more in sales if the school went without their "taste"?
Is there an ISU credit card, like the ones you get from Marriott or the airlines? Some people might go for that.
Google sez: Marriott makes significant revenue from its credit card programs through upfront cash from banks (like Chase/Amex), ongoing fees for selling points, increased customer loyalty/spend (6X points on hotel spend), and driving high-value redemptions where they profit from hotels paying higher rates for point redemptions at high occupancy. These deals provide cash flow, brand loyalty, and higher hotel revenue capture, making them highly lucrative, potentially hundreds of millions annually.
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Listen, I'm glad there are people willing to donate. But I'd have to be absolutely stupid rich to contribute any money to this trainwreck of a system. I can't imagine being one of the people who ponied up to keep Rocco here last year, only to go a very uninspiring 8-4, skip a bowl game and watch him jet for PSU the next year. Think of all the actual good you could have done with that money...
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I am absolutely also fine with this. This whole NIL BS is making me lose interest in college sports very quickly. Whether I give anything or not(which I never will), it is all but inevitable that the ISU's of the world are going to be demoted to nothing more than farm teams developing players for the teams that matter. I will not take money away from my family to give to some kid that has zero loyalty to anything if he can get a dollar more somewhere else. F that
Ticket prices and donation levels HAVE ALSO increased along with everything else in existence. To raise them yet again during a year when we do not have our in-state rival, replaced the best coach in school history & literally half (or more) of the players would be pretty ******* stupid IMO. I'd almost guarantee the loss of season ticket holders would be more than the increased revenue from those who stay, but I'm sure they know better than I.
