50 for student guest? A bit steep no?
I would think so. $30 would have been about as high as I would go.
How much are Longhorn student guest tickets?
Seriously, hopefully they can add more students to the crowd and if they want to bring a guest, they can shell out $50 which is a discount to the secondary market.
It is student guests, my guess is 20 to 30 is the appropriate price point.
I think the highest percentage is the foreign born students from Asia, Middle East and South America that have little to no representation on the field and grow up in cultures that do not follow American football. Unless they end up in fraternities or sororities that support sports, itâs hard to blame those students if they never develop an interest in UH sports.
Harvey is not helping so with a couple of days to go it is up to our marketing department to step up. We have had more than two weeks to think about this. This is where High School students attendance can become a big plus for us. If it is a matter of letâs say two thousands seats we have to look at a combination of students and HS students. It will benefit us in the long term. $50 is way to high. We have sponsors that can also help us. I am sure that this has been brought up but the ticket office and marketing need to do a better job. We gotta sell out.
50 for a student guest, no bueno âŠseems like gouging to me after a hurricane,
Itâs $50 for a guest ticket. Does that mean a student who already has a ticket plus their friend? Essentially 2 tickets for $25?
Or because youâre a student you get a free ticket plus $50 for another ticket? And theyâll sit you together in the 300s in the east or west corner?
This one
Houston Athletics will have student guest tickets for select home game played at TDECU Stadium for $20 each, based on availability and students may purchase guest tickets on game day.
Student guest tickets will NOT be for the Student Section.These tickets will be for a reserved seat in the 300 level. Students wishing to sit with their guests, must purchase a reserved ticket for $20.
Students may purchase up to two (2) student guest tickets per game.
Seeing as that is for the $20 games, it wouldnât be a reach to say they are paying $50 for a reserved ticket to sit with guests which is unbelievably wrong.
Nobody adheres to this rule. It is funny that they think someone would buy a guest ticket and then not sit with them.
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Wtf? So theyâre reserved prior to them being available for students. If theyâre not sold prior to game day, then they make it available to students under this âdeal.â So that means there could be zero available game day?
On top of that, theyâre increasing the price because itâs TT?
But are they losing money? If each ticket was originally $65, but for students two tickets are guaranteed for $50, how does that make sense?
Am I getting something wrong??
Ok your point helps clarify my confusion.
But again, who the F would want that??
Probably true since they donât do the guest tickets for games that look like a sellout so plenty of open seats in the 300s to sit together.
Update since @FortWorthCoog updated on Wednesday:
Total left: 4,420 (-523)
200 East: 428 (-56)
200 West: 50 (-76)
300 South: 2,663 (-390)
300 North: 1,279 (-1)
We may not sell out, but weâll get a good number out of it. Iâd bet there will be a bunch of tickets that go between now and gametime.
Wouldnât mind seeing another 1K-2K given to the students to help the atmosphere a bit.
The original price of tickets to the game should have been $50 while student guest tickets should have been $30.
Thatâs what I would have done anyway.
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With the pricing it would seem you are indirectly being pushed into a mini plan because you get more bang for your buck.
Directly* That may have been their intention all along, I actually heard at the beginning of the season that they wouldnât offer Single game tickets for tech but the interest wasnât there I guess.
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Right, theyâve already backtracked off the âno single ticketâ policy. I presume they know the demand for single tickets is from Tech fans. In hindsight, I think the pricing is fine but the execution has been lacking. Of course, you know the demand in hindsight.
This reminds me that SMU charged $90 per ticket for A&M about three years ago (johnnyâs second year). They built endzone stands in the south side to accommodate the influx of fans that didnât show up. A few sat there and it probably maximized revenue but not attendance which is what fans want.
The name of the game is maximizing revenue. The Astros would sell out Wednesday day games if they charged $1 per seat but they know 40,000 seats at $1 isnât as lucrative as 18,000 seats sold at higher price points.
At the end of the day, I think youâll see quite a few walk up sales today and tomorrow morning. There are already non-UH fans at my office discussing going.
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