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Gators return UT tickets
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This, right here. If we want to make the game day experience what it was, the UAA is going to have to realize there is a market clearing price and they are way above it. Have premium pricing for the boxes, but you are going to have to dramatically lower ticket prices (along with dramatically reducing the student ticket allotment) to get the stands packed again. The experience of the game in person is worth something - but not what they want to charge, at least not for most people.
Before my son started football we'd go to a few a year, but a lot of his friends and their parents even then weren't wanting to shell out the money to go with us. I don't blame them either. They need to price the majority of seats based on the median household income of the surrounding 50 miles. That's going to mean a steep drop in prices - but the TV revenue more than makes up for it. If you don't, even the TV experience will suffer eventually when there is no roaring crowd on big plays.
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Just keep the lights off and it wont matter.
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I know I'm probably committing sacrilege here but I'm not all that enamored with the Petty song and could do without it. Yeah, I probably sound like the old man yelling "get off my lawn" here but the tradition end of third quarter "We are the boys..." should stand alone. I get the cool visual of cell phone lights [my 12 year old daughter absolutely loves it] but it just doesn't do a thing for me.
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Besides happening to grow up in Gainesville, Petty didn’t seem to have much of an affinity for Gainesville or UF. He was a groundskeeper at UF for a time. I still don’t get the end-of-the-third-quarter tribute myself.
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As bad as UT has been over the last few years, the VOLS average ticket price in 2016 was $89, 2nd in the SEC.
ALA..........$113
TN................89
GA............... 78
AU................69
FL.................69
LSU..............68
LOWEST IN SEC............MISSOU............$27
ALA..........$113
TN................89
GA............... 78
AU................69
FL.................69
LSU..............68
LOWEST IN SEC............MISSOU............$27
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I really don't care. I do understand wanting to tribute to a home grown famous musician like him or not. Just not sure it needed to become a regular tradition.
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I've railed against it in other threads, so you and I are on the same page. We are the Boys is a longstanding tradition. Watering it down with something that is completely corny(outside of perhaps the first game following his death of completely natural causes) has zero place in our gameday experience. Zero. It's horrendous.
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People have to make decisions about what it is worth spending their money on.
Trip to Knoxville, hotel, tickets, etc... that isn't cheap. Is it worth spending that $$ to watch your team play bad and have a bad experience...?
Trip to Knoxville, hotel, tickets, etc... that isn't cheap. Is it worth spending that $$ to watch your team play bad and have a bad experience...?
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Agreed. I pondered going up but after ciphering the maths, I can pert near do an Amsterdam outNback inclusive the much mo’ bettah trimmings in lieu thereof.
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Good post. Now I know with 7 kids I'm not the "typical" Gator, but I think my story is a microcosm of where we are. I went to UF during the Spurrier heyday, then a brief Zook break then Urban. I honestly believed we were basically ALWAYS destined to be a great exciting team. During the Urban years I didn't mind spending money on 1-2 games a year for a roadtrip, no matter where in the US I was stationed. That has been on slow decline ever since 2010. I actually have a couple of my "diehard" Gator friends mad at me because I decided to not go to CSU game last week. I mean I'm sorry, but after that UK performance, driving a 6 hour roundtrip (live in Melbourne), heat, expense, an entire Saturday away from family, etc. Uhh sorry. My friends go to every game and basically say it's our "duty" as Gators. I disagree. I am an alum and a passionate fan since birth. But my primary responsibility is to my family. And I can't spend good $$$ to see a team like what I saw against UK. They were just whipped and that has NEVER happened that I can remember.
And I have done the UT road trip several times, lost and won there. Had good times, but also had a close call or two with trouble (drunk UT fans and I used to be mouthy lol). I'm a year from retirement, I'm not taking any chances of some drunk idiot punching me or some junk. Nope. That's why I won't go to FSU anymore.
I'm hoping either later this year or probably next year they will start to show some excitement and toughness that Mullen preaches. But, even if they do, if I have to move out of state for post retirement work, I don't see spending $$$ on flights, hotels, etc. I'd probably just try to go watch game with a local Gator club.
It's lots of things...........HDTV, every game on basically, team looking bad since 2010, it has taken the wind out of my sails and it seems for a lot of you too. My friends live in Jax and will go to every home game no matter what, good on them. I just can't justify it. I hope someday to be able to again.
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I like Petty and like change, but where is his relationship to UF? I see as a fad and I’m not keen on fads.
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yep, be cooler for day-games if we had better solar fans.
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Don't get me wrong. I fully understand why we briefly had an affinity for this look. But it too should've ended by the close of October, 2017.
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He's Gainesville baby!
