PRICE TO WATCH AL GROH VERSUS CHAN GAILEY: FORTY BUCKS.

You can probably get a ticket for around 5 bucks from one of the many Notre Dame fans who bought their ticket to that game in a 3-game bundle from GT.

Well, hey, My Name is Earl and The Office are on tonight. So it’t not a total loss.

$40. That’s the same price many of us in Raleigh will pay, face value, to watch NC State vs. Boston College this weekend. Face was $50 for last year’s Va Tech opener. What, are you guys spoiled in Gainsville? How cheap are your conference tickets?

Forty bucks is also face for upper deck Tigers’ tickets for the first round of the playoffs. Car burnings are extra, though.

$40 will also get you admission to the Pony and a lap dance

I’m like you, my home team’s away this weekend so I’m going tonight just for the hell of it….you can find cheaper than $40 each…just got 3 for $50 and i’m probably still paying too much.

But hey how’s this for value?….GT is going in their 70’s retro uniforms…also they’re charging 70s prices on concessions so there’s $1 popcorn, etc.

Here’s what Gator tickets still available are going for:

10/28 Vs. GEORGIA Jacksonville, FL $32
10/28 Vs. GEORGIA (Club Seats) (Bull Gators, Scholarship Club only) Jacksonville, FL $60
11/4 @ Vanderbilt Nashville, TN $40

I do not grok why Vandy is more expensive.

I have to admit those tickets don’t sound all that outrageous compared to what we have to fork out out here at USC.

The $40 tickets for fricking Washington were sold out almost 4 months ago, and $40 tickets aren’t getting you anywhere near the 50 yard line.

The program now requires you to make a $5000 donation to the Cardinal and Gold Foundation just to buy season tickets anywhere near the 50 yard line.

In LA $40 won’t even get you parking spot within walking distance of the coliseum for a USC game

I’m headed to the eye doctor in 45 minutes. I think the aesthetics of tonight’s game might be improved through dilated pupils. I’ll report back tomorrow.

DFIG will be there, but only because the tickets are free and I already live here. Gladys Knight’s is definitely the postgame meal, the Midnight Train and an Uptown, please.

Jason, forget the Pony, the Cheetah’s where it’s at.

Could be worse- Sparty jacked the price of the ND and tOSU games to $70 (I looked it up, and the rest were 46, I believe)… bastages.

PSU tickets (for every game) are $46 for a bench seat (most of the stadium) and over $50 for chair backs (in the upper decks of the south end zone – I guess the proximity to God justifies the extra cost)

They have the donation system for getting the “privilege” to purchase season tickets as well – it’s a racket; I know.

Do y’all have any clue how many PBR’s at the Clermont lounge 40 bucks could buy…

Shit…watching the cans get destroyed by an over-weight, middle aged stripper is worth 40 bucks alone.

I’m not sure the last time a ticket to a UMich game was $40. I think face for my Vandy ticket was $54, though I paid nothing thanks to a generous friend.

PSUGirl- you want to talk about a racket, ND has a hell of a thing going…

200 bucks gets you an application for tickets. 1500 gets you a better application for tickets.(I think those are the new levels, last year and the ~20 preceding, it was 100 and 1000). You pick the games you want to go to, and send in your 59 bucks a head in mid may, plus another 15 dollar handling charge. Then you wait three months and get a check back with a refund for the tickets you didn’t get, which, if you are one of the peions who gave 100/200 bucks, is going to be all of them, in all likelihood. If you gave the 1000/1500, it used to be you’d get most, but this year it seemed like half. this year, there were almost 12 million dollars in refunds of people who paid their money and got no tickets. If they put that in some sort of interest bearing vehicle for that time… there’s a solid quarter million bucks they made off of tickets they didn’t even give to people.

Bastages. (FWIW, I got 2 tickets to UM and a 550 dollar refund this year)

$40 won’t even buy you a ticket for Texas vs. 1-AA Sam Houston State in 1 week…

what kind of welfare system do you guys have over there?

The price is not the point: it’s the value.

GAILEY VERSUS GROH!!!!

Do we hear $3.65?

$40 a stub has been the face value for VT tickets for at least the past five years or so. What’s funny is when you call Wake Forest and get the recording that tickets for UVA-Wake are $20 but VT-Wake will be $40, because they know Tech fans have a disease and the only cure is more cowbell (Hokie Football).

If value is the issue, I’m owed about 400 bucks for that craptastic performance last weekend that I paid 59 bucks a ticket for… (and ~50 bucks in gas, 120 for a hotel….)

$40 to watch Yech? They’d have to pay me way more than that.

If you HAVE to go, I’m sure you can get them 3 for $5 about 20 minutes before kickoff. I remember getting a handful of tickets to “lovely” Grunt Field for the Tech-GA game one year. I had extra tickets so I could leave at halftime, run to the liquor store, load up on “supplies” and had another ticket to get back in.

Yeah…since it’s Thursday night, you probably could’ve strolled around the tailgates and found someone with extras…

I think the tickets will be something like the Harry Caray Hot Dog Skit on SNL “GT UVA tickets will become the new currencey, it would be 20 tickets to a nickel.”

Ohio State gets $59 per game/ per seat no matter the opposition. A level playing field no matter whether its Cincinnati, BG or UM. If they went to tiered pricing, the YSU game next year would be free, but a UM or USC game in 2008 would be $200. So all in all its OK.

$40? Quit your belly-aching. I had to fork over $46 to see Penn State play Youngstown State last weekend. THAT is getting hosed.

Yep – $59 per ticket per game at South Bend. But the real racket is how the ticket recipients are determined (crazy tom explained it perfectly).

The other way to get ND tix is to be in the Monagram Club (i.e. lettered in any varsity sport as a student). Monagram Club members get season tix for life. Which is why they had to add 20,000 seats 9 years ago – none of the Monagram Club old farts were dying, and they were running out of seats for the non-Sorin Society (i.e. 10 grand annual contributors) contributing alum (like me).

Yep – I got stiffed this year. Got a big part of that $11 million refund.

You almost had me with the Renova link. It looked like a completey legitimate article until near the bottom, when they slipped in the phrase “trendsetting Canada.”

To see A&M play Citadel, Louisiana-Lafayette, or Lousiana Tech costs $53 per ticket per game, or $159 for those three games.
 Texas Tech, Nebraska, or Oklahoma are going at $83 each. Missouri can be viewed for “only” $73.
 Season tickets are $375, without the donation (if you want decent seats, you make a donation).
 It actually costs more to get single game tickets now, b/c they want to encourage more people to fork over the money for season tickets.
 What do we get for all this money we spend? The privelige fo watching a Dennis Franchione-coached team underachieve. Now that’s “value”.

 I have a feeling the 2007 A%M-texas game @ Kyle Field will go for $95 a ticket, face value.

How did this turn into everyone bragging about their ticket prices?
NOBODY CARES

I had the best value then. I got a free (to me) ticket to Michigan’s beatdown of Notre Dame and stayed for free at a friend’s place. All I had to do was chip in for gas and buy some beers. And make a freakin’ SANDWICH!

(I know I’m insufferable, but I’ll probably be talking about that game still when I’m 90. “Gather round, young’uns, and let me tell you the Story of the Beatdown…”)

Dave… your time will come. Just wait til next ye^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H 2008.

$38 dollars to see the best College Football player in the nation tear up Virginia is well worth it. Calvin Johnson is worth every dollar, just imagine if he played at USC, he would be worth at least $100,000.

As a fellow Gator…I took in my first GaTech game last night and had a good time

Got two free tickets and found plenty of bourbon inside

I would venture to say that Tech tickets are about as hard to come by as FSU or Miami ducketts