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What are the Benefits of Being Season Ticket Holder?

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Naturally feeling down about the last two weeks and now it has me wondering, what are the benefits of being a season ticket holder?

Tickets are available for any game, seemingly. Even OSU didn't sell out until right before and MSU didn't sellout. With games like PSU last year, I might have paid a premium but wouldn't that be made up with cheaper prices for Hampton and Tulane?

I don't care much about parking as it's usually just my wife and myself nor do I have any relationships with anyones sitting around me.

Is there a reason to continue? Before anyone asks, Section 122 so not like anyone here would want my seats.
 
The easy answers are:
  1. Priority seating - which you have to pay extra for. My seats in 106 are an extra $500 each, on top of the face value of the tickets.
  2. Priority parking - which you have to pay extra for.
If you don't care about either of those things, there's no value.
 
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its true unless you are heavily involved in the tailgating and parking scene, its pretty easy to find and cherry pick even cheap tix. I said in another thread that Michigan state tix went for face value basically game time. I think the school is playing with fire with dynamic pricing especially next year with some less sexy names coming in (albeit Mich and PSU still on the schedule). I think with all the stuff to do in NJ which is 100x more than what you have in bumblefudge Nebraska or Iowa and with the diversity of the population of this state, NJ seems unique in that there really isn't that drive to go to a game every week or 7 times a year...

On a tangent...I think that someone going on line and seeing $120 as a minimum price for tix is a turnoff...perhaps these people don't bother to come back and attempt to buy tix. Its not going to give them incentive to buy season tix like peope claim. We have so many casual fans. Look at Temple, granted its in Philly but they sold that place out. Does RU even try to market to the average college football fan in NJ?
 
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bac2therac said:
its true unless you are heavily involved in the tailgating and parking scene, its pretty easy to find and cherry pick even cheap tix. I said in another thread that Michigan state tix went for face value basically game time. I think the school is playing with fire with dynamic pricing especially next year with some less sexy names coming in (albeit Mich and PSU still on the schedule). I think with all the stuff to do in NJ which is 100x more than what you have in bumblefudge Nebraska or Iowa and with the diversity of the population of this state, NJ seems unique in that there really isn't that drive to go to a game every week or 7 times a year...

On a tangent...I think that someone going on line and seeing $120 as a minimum price for tix is a turnoff...perhaps these people don't bother to come back and attempt to buy tix. Its not going to give them incentive to buy season tix like peope claim. We have so many casual fans. Look at Temple, granted its in Philly but they sold that place out. Does RU even try to market to the average college football fan in NJ?
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Totally agree. Every casual RU fan I know saw those dynamic prices and laughed. They won't bother checking next time. RU got really ballsy on the backs of us being in the B1G without any requisite investment. People aren't stupid
 
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and the school might make its money that's fine, but is it cultivating a fanbase...whats more important. I don't know the answer. I do believe we have turned fans off. They look at those prices and its not like they are coming back for Nebraska tix. I worry that we are playing a legendary program in Nebraska albeit down and I really think attendance is going to be about 40K
 
Dynamic pricing is based of course on expectation. I really doubt you'll see it to the extent next year that we've seen the last 2. PSU is the only 1 I'd say is for sure and even that I'm guessing will be at a lower price.
 
I think we are making a mistake, with dynamic prices. We need to create demand first than we can raise prices. But with a crappy product on the field and these high prices for tickets, we are cooling off demand. It's making it more and more difficult for season ticket holders to justify buying them every year. By the way, this is my eleventh season ticket year.
 
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All i know, after last season I was willing to spend for 2, $235 season tickets in the end of the upper decks. I was told in a chat that they were available but then told that they were not available during a couple of calls to ticket reps. But yet they left me messages saying that season tickets on the 50 yard line in the upper decks were available. I love the view from up there but couldn't afford it.

Anyway, long story short, I was able to go to some of the OOC games this year for $10 and will be going to the Nebraska and Maryland games: $30, $10. I know Rutgers has one hell of a home schedule this year and in many years to come with OSU, Michigan St, Nebraska, etc. But Rutgers may have priced themselves out of some fans this year.

And for those of you who says I'm not a real fan for putting out the extra money that I don't have, maybe you should go after the fans who sold those Ohio St, Michigan, Nebraska tickets for extra money instead of supporting the team the way you think it should.
 
I am asking myself similar questions as the OP. Of course a lot of the questioning comes from the product on the field. I certainly don't find myself looking forward to going to games. Actually heading to Ann Arbor this weekend and trying to emphasize the non in game features of the trip.
 
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if the dynamic pricing model is really a flexible number set on market demand then seats should be going (or soon will) for a discount vs. season tix pricing.
I've already made the call to buy my parking on the spot market and I am on the fence about 4 of the 6 season tix I own.

And as the other poster above said. I can't remember the last time I felt like going to a Rutgers Football game was such a chore. My now 24yo son and I have been going together since he was like 5. It is our father-son thing. But last couple of games we both said.."I really don't feel like being here"
 
RoadCrewPT said:
I think we are making a mistake, with dynamic prices. We need to create demand first than we can raise prices.
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The dynamic pricing is based on, among other things, the resale market (StubHub, TixCity, etc.) for comparable tickets. So, by going for what others are asking, Rutgers isn't missing out on revenue. Think back to the movie Wall Street: why sell a ticket for $50 when the buyer is willing to pay $150?
 
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and the school might make its money that's fine, but is it cultivating a fanbase...whats more important. I don't know the answer. I do believe we have turned fans off. They look at those prices and its not like they are coming back for Nebraska tix. I worry that we are playing a legendary program in Nebraska albeit down and I really think attendance is going to be about 40K
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Dynamic pricing works & is simply Rutgers charging the same as the online ticket brokers like StubHub & also trying to encourage people to buy season tickets which cost almost as much as or even less than the 1 or 2 games people try to buy. Those fans that laugh now wouldn't be interested in anything more than big games anyway & they will be back when we have big games. Just look at the attendance at Citi Field once the Mets started winning. The problem in NJ is that there are too many fairweather fans & just plain miserable people that have no problem spending big $ on the pro sports teams in NJ, NY & Philly, but want Rutgers to just give away tickets for next to nothing or free & think Rutgers should feel privileged that these folks want to attend a game here or there. Season tickets are relatively cheap. I would almost never give them up (well maybe I'd consider it if we hired Golden & his lackey, but even then I'd likely not since I support the school).
 
Trekology said:
The dynamic pricing is based on, among other things, the resale market (StubHub, TixCity, etc.) for comparable tickets. So, by going for what others are asking, Rutgers isn't missing out on revenue. Think back to the movie Wall Street: why sell a ticket for $50 when the buyer is willing to pay $150?
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I have 5 tickets and parking. Already made decision to drop to 2 tickets and no pre paid parking. If flood is back, I will buy 0.
 
which comes first? (real question) Rutgers announcing its Single Game pricing or folks listing prices on the services? I'm not so sure that the SH prices don't more reflect what Rutgers is charging.
 
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Why should I care about dynamic pricing?
I have my season tickets.
They should charge more for those people who want to cherry pick games.
If someone can purchase a ticket near face value for the prime games then there truly would be no reason to buy season tickets
and have to pay face for the Morgan State type games where the school is basically giving away thousands of tickets
Where I think they are overcharging is for parking.
$30 for Tan lot? ...and many of us smaller donors don't know what lot we will be in until they send them to us.
I dropped three levels this year even though my rep told me I would keep Black
If I had received the correct info I would not have bought parking from Rutgers
There are similarly priced parking spots much closer to the stadium and Rutgers would get no money
I know they can't exactly predict the demand but three levels off??????
I asked the rep if he was told to lie to me.... a question he didn't answer
Our eight tickets from two tears ago became five last year and four this year.
It is hardly worth all the work to put together a tailgate with only four and two of the four missed two games
So we may not renew and I might become a cherry picker myself
 
We have been in Sec 127 for almost 40 years. We have dropped pre paid parking the season after we got moved from Yellow to Blue (previously Green). We hated the exiting time in Blue. Now we park on Riverview Ave and make the easy 5-10 walk to our friends tailgating in Green and Scarlet. We love our seat location being about 15 rows behind the RU bench (offense), and want to keep them. Over the years we have gone down from 8-4 to now only 2 (due to friends moving).
 
I started as a season ticket holder 25 years ago, with 11 seats for football and 4 for basketball.

Over the years my football tix have dwindled down to 2 seats, and this year, after losing my job 6 months ago, I did not renew for football.

I still have my 4 seats for basketball, and the benefit there is that I get to keep my excellent seats. Also, with basketball, as much as the product on the court has sucked, once or twice per year I get to see the team overachieve and knock off a powerhouse, as we did last season against Wisconsin.

Otherwise the benefit is that I support the school and our athletic programs.
 
If some miracle takes place where Rutgers wins against Army, Maryland and Nebraska to make it to a bowl, who's going?
 
RoadCrewPT said:
I think we are making a mistake, with dynamic prices. We need to create demand first than we can raise prices.
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I think so. I'm a fence sitter on live games. I like them but with 6 hours round trip in the car, plus loitering around for game to start, then the game and parking tie-ups my whole Saturday from early morning to evening becomes about a football game. For stinker/blowout games that becomes brutal. I thought about season ticket this year just because of OSU. Then I realized I don't really want to go to Norfolk or Maryland. Then I figured I would just get the OSU ticket for 165. But I expected RU would be bad in 2015 and OSU would be a cheaper game. Sure enough, the week before OSU Stubhub had OSU tickets for $60. By that time I didn't even want to go. Right now Nebraska v RU on Stub is $25 without the tack-on fee. Stil - Norfolk was 6, WSU was 11, Kansas was 10, MSU was 40, OSU was 60, Nebby is 25 and Maryland is 14 now but was 10 for weeks. As a regular Stubhub viewer I could have gone to all RU games for around 165 plus fees. I wouldn't go to all games off Stub like that but picking and choosing is the way to go if you don't care about seat. (and the best seat to follow a game well is still at home). Next year people will be even more savy about buying tickets. RU needs better product more than better system to sell tickets because no matter what arrangement there is people have lost interest
 
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