This slob wasn’t prepared for the metal detectors at BYU last season so I had to resort to dumping my flask in a large shrub/cement pot outside of the stadium. After the game an older BYU fan saw me digging around to find it. When I pulled it out he laughed at me, said he had his own stash at home, and thanked us for coming out.
You can’t do that with ticket sales. Season tickets are the same price no matter. Can only use single game sales for the math. Similar with parking.Here's the financial report from 2024.
Based on 2024 numbers and some assumptions I made (i.e. ALL games are the 'same'):
$2,447,010 - per game home ticket revenue ($17.129M/7 home games)
$309,256 - per game Concession, Program, Novelty, Parking revenue ($2.165M/7 home games)
$296,952 - per game Event Staffing expenses ($2.078M/7 home games)
$282,229 - per game Travel expenses ($1.411M/ 5 away games)
Pay G5 team $1.5M to come to Ames -> approximate 'net' = $960k ($2.447M + $0.309M - $0.297M - $1.5M)**
Home/Home with G5 team -> approximate 'net' = $1.088M (($2.447M + $0.309M - $0.297M - $0.282M)/2)**
**I'm not an accountant; I just hate uninformed arguments with people pulling numbers out of the sky, so I will readily admit my methodology may be off.
Season tickets are the same price no matter how many games we have. You can’t take all ticket sales, divide by games and say you will make that much in ticket sales with another game.
I know. I don't have access to specific details of how the money ends up in the bucket, only the size of the bucket so I made an assumption to 'average'.
I think his point is that ST revenue is the same for 6 or 7 home games. So, if we go to 7 home games a year, what is the added revenue minus expenses for the single game tickets (and perhaps mini packs) for the additional home game every other year.
Just spit-balling here, but once you factor in all the costs of hosting a game is it even profitable to have a 7th game if there isn't a significant increase in ticket sales? I could absolutely see all of the expenses surpassing concessions & merch sales for 1 game against an opponent that typically* doesn't draw a huge crowd.
I am sure if we had 7 games consistently every year.... they would increase ticket prices. They dont now because its every other year I mean they dont use the 7th game as the excuse to raise them now, they just raise them.
Then there is the humidity. You will think the sun is right next to you. But you will like our waterfalls.
