<p>It is official. Bill Martin (Michigan's Athletic director) has announced that football ticket prices will decline from slightly over $53.5/game to eaxctly $50/game. </p>
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<p>Hold up a second! it says season pass is 400$ for 2009?? I paid $195 last year! what the hell?</p>
<p>no
we got the student discount</p>
<p>The article says:</p>
<p>"The student season ticket price for 2009 will be $200, down an average of $1.43 per game from 2008 season."</p>
<p>So if the student price last year was $195, it will go up by $5? What did I miss?</p>
<p>7 home games last year, versus 8 home games next year.</p>
<p>And 3 of those 8 games will be Notre Dame, Penn State and Ohio State! $200 for 8 games including those three is a major bargain!</p>
<p>Michigan really needs to rework their schedule. Every other year it's great. Last year it was awful. They tried to switch it up with ND, but ND wouldn't change because they don't want their two biggest games away from home every other year. I hope when Michigan and PSU take their next break, they reconfigure this one. That probably means Michigan will have to play PSU at their place two times in a row.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree. I think Michigan should add another heavy hitter in its non-conference schedule each year. Teams like Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Alabama, Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, etc...and have that game alternate with Notre Dame as the big non-conference home game each year. </p>
<p>If we can do that, we are good to go. In conference play, we have PSU and OSU one year and MSU and Wisconsin the next. Obviously, nothing replaces the OSU game, but Wisconsin and MSU are becoming significant games of interest.</p>
<p>Do student ticket packages at UM include away tickets? For $200, I would hope so.</p>
<p>^
of course not</p>
<p>That's pretty high for student tickets. I go to Alabama, where the demand for football tickets is comparable to that at Michigan, I'm sure. Our student tickets are $50, though.</p>
<p>The fact that they don't/can't charge as much as us would seem to indicate there's not really as much demand. We charge 4 times as much as them, and we still have more people buying tickets than we can fit in the student section.</p>
<p>feenotype, alumni are on HUGE waiting lists for season tickets. I am talking over 5 years. And Michigan stadium is on the large side, so it is not like seats are lacking.</p>
<p>Michigan stadium is more than JUST on the large side, it's the biggest stadium in college football!</p>
<p>Yeah, I know that, but I was aiming for subtle! hehe!</p>
<p>lol I knew you would know, that was more for anyone who didn't catch the quiet sarcasm and would have gone away with the wrong impression</p>
<p>We have huge waiting lists for alumni, too, and our 15,000 student tickets sell out in an hour. $200 is a bit excessive for students tickets - just my two cents.</p>
<p>Well at Alabama they don't ever have to worry about paying for snow removal in the stands for games in November. Overhead is lower.</p>
<p>^
huh</p>
<p>supply and demand justifies the high price for student tickets imo.
alabama could be making more money lol.</p>
<p>They honestly could charge much more than they do and there still would be an insatiable demand (our stadium down here, for example, is preparing for yet another expansion - it'll have a capacity above 100K afterwards).</p>
<p>Obviously, some other force (or, doubtfully, the benevolence of the University) the student ticket prices down to a nominal amount.</p>