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Originally Posted by Spaz
There's various levels of donor-ship. The bottom levels are yearly contributions, the highest being $1,000, for which you can get up to 6 seats.
Above that are the Legacy levels, which require a one-time contribution along with yearly donations.
Check out the details here.
I don't think $95 for season tickets in the end-zone is expensive at all.
You can take your family out to a game for under $100 easily (depending on size of family and frugality of concessions purchases). I've never found the ticket-price whiners to be all that compelling.
Additionally, I find the people who bring kids to athletic events, and then let the kids screw off on the bleachers, to be exceptionally annoying. I won't take my kid to a game until they can sit through an entire game on TV at home. |
What Spaz says is true. The only caveat is that both the Marriott Center and LES have what are commonly termed "stadium donors". These stadium donors coughed up money for the construction/expansion of facilities. One benefit they receive is the right to purchase season tickets for specific seats each year for the duration of their lifetime as well as the duration of their children's lifetimes without any further donation or contribution. They only need renew their tickets every other year in order to maintain this right.
The problem with the stadium donor program is that it was a spectacularly shortsighted thing for BYU to do. Now, BYU struggles to reward high-priced donors with good seats because many of the best seats are basically "owned" by stadium donors that don't make any ongoing contribution to the program other than buying their tickets each year. Big-shot Cougar Club guys who donate $5K or more each year sometimes can't get as good of seats as the stadium donor who donated $5K one time back in 1981. Basically, BYU sacrificed long-term valuable seat real estate in order for short-term gain to defray the cost of construction. A colossally short-sighted and overly-fiscally-conservative decision.
I don't begrudge those who are stadium donors the rights they have. They knew a good deal when they saw it. I sure wish my old man would have donated back in the early 80s when the stadium was expanded. However, I think the stadium donors should be paying what the tickets are really worth. Thus, I say jack the price up. $450 for a prime west-stands chair seat on the 50 yard line is still very cheap. That's only $75 a game. BYU should double those ticket prices.