Haha see my last post. Youre reaching harder than ever and thats saying something for you cali brah. This thread is about supply and demand which couldnt be further from being any kind of equivalence to taxes.
No one would take a flat tax of 20% seriously. It's a massive tax hike on the poor. In a time where we haven't seen this level of wealth inequality since right before the great depression, your solution is to lower taxes on the rich and raise them on the poor. Just a wild thought process. You want to tax someone making 30 grand 6k. How do you expect them to pay for food and shelter? It would drive more people into poverty.
I'm smarter than you. You can refer to me as Dr. Scangg if that helps remind you
There is already a mandatory donation per seat donation of $550 in the 100 sections. You want $1,200 on top of that?!
Gigantic L by you here. Whoooof
You do realize that theres about 17K tix available for sale to the public for football, right? Every single season tix holder could attend + every single student section seat taken and thered still be 17K seats available for sale to the public
I think this concept is what leads to so much of the board disagreement. We have great seats that are in the high demand you’re talking about, but for years and years prior to Pikiell you couldn’t give them away. The 100s section during those days were still mostly filled with the same people who stuck by the program and own them today. the 200s and up were lucky to have 100 fans in them during the Eddie years. Only time it filled up we’re away fans taking over our gym.
I just view it as a business and just simple supply and demand. Those same people can still go to games if they wouldnt want to pay it, theyd just sit a tad further away. Which, I’m sure if youre a diehard RU fan and you were given the choice of watch a legitimate final 4 contender from the 200’s where the starting 5 is making $250K+/yr or watch a perpetual bubble team from the 100’s most would gladly choose the 200’s
So let me counter with this point. Okay so the NCAA somehow allows schools to organize an NIL fund to get it's mens basketball team compensated in your proposal.
I don’t mean to be long winded but there are several things there that I feel are wrong. First, your plan is to isolate your most loyal fans who are also your largest donors. Many are connected and know each other. It’s very different to donate on your terms than to be told cough up this amount or we’re downgrading your seats. Most would say FU, not sure let’s move up. The school has many seats reserved for family members and guests. If there was a person willing to cut a big enough check I promise they’d have the seats they want in the 100s. You’re not going to isolate your best fans for $1400/yr.
This guy gets it ^^. Yea if you told me that we could land Kyrie Kat MKG Kyle Anderson or Cliff/Ron every year then ok. But what happens when we get stuck with the guys who do nothing as mentioned above.
Agreed was a very weird response be @ColonelRutgers and @Scangg .
College sports is big business. Colleges that dont treat it like a business are left in the dust. Facts
Businesses are in a competitive marketplace, and customers are price-sensitive. Raise prices too high and alternate forms of entertainment come into play, including staying home and watching on TV or losing interest entirely. Remember when the US government decided to impose a 10% luxury tax on boats over $100k, under the assumption that rich people have the money and will pay it? It singlehandedly killed the boating industry and had such a deleterious effect that they repealed the tax. Here's an excerpt from this linked article:
We’ll have to disagree. Just look at the prices on the secondary markets for 100 level tickets. Its the hottest ticket in the new york tristate. More expensive thank knicks, nets, sixers, rangers, isles, devils, flyers
I thought you said Pike’s upside was sweet 16? I have never seen anyone straddle both sides as much as Kyk
^This is one of the absolute worst takes I’ve seen on these boards in a long time. You’re saying the reason the RAC is one of the loudest and most difficult places to play in the country is the fans in the 200-300 level are making all the noise, while the people in the 100’s sedately watch the games? As for the money, you clearly have no clue who sits in those seats and the tens of millions they’ve donated to facilities and other projects for athletics.
But I thought this team was worse than when he got here. Never saw a person talk out both sides of mouth as bad as you
Those ticket prices are for one-off games, not committed fans, and reflects the nature of a given game in the moment. Those prices were only achievable the last year after we went on our four-game win streak against ranked teams. During the Mike Rice and Eddie Jordan years, as well as the first five years of Pike’s tenure (Covid impacted two of those years), the prices on the secondary market were non-existent because nobody wanted to go to the games other than opposing fans.
