The Birmingham News put together a feature story on the rising cost of ticket prices. The article looks at face value of tickets plus minimum donor contributions required for tickets across the conference.
It's very hard to draw a direct comparison between what one school is doing versus another because each school has so many different pricing tiers for seating and giving. One thing I did was look at what my seats on the 25-30 yard line (lower level) would cost at other "peer" schools. My contribution minimum of $400 / ticket and face value of $40 each stacks up reasonably well vs. Florida, Tennessee, Auburn, LSU and Alabama.
We have lower face value tickets than most of those guys, and our contributions required for seats like mine are a little lower than other schools. The donor requirements for tickets like mine range from $390-$500 in most cases; however, UT charges $1000 for basically the same ticket.
Ultra premium seats at UGA on the 50 yard line are a good deal vs. our peers, however, we don't have a premium chair back section in that area like some other schools. Mediocre seats at UGA which cost $325 or so per ticket in contributions seem to be priced competitively or a little higher than our peers.
Separately, I've got no idea where they got that outrageous UF stat. I'm sitting here looking at the Gators 2008 Football Ticket Prices, and I'm pretty sure there is no minimum $4,200 donation for existing givers/ticket holders. If he's talking about "intro" fees for first time givers, then UGA may blow that stat out of the water this year.
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