tcumaniac
Full Member
Wanted to address a few of the points you made.I read and was curious if I drunkenly wrote that. Turns out I have someone living the same life with the same dilemma. Houston fan who loves supporting the program, two young kids, and regularly gives tickets away to keep Frogs butts in the seats. It is getting harder and harder for me to justify paying for my tickets, but with two young boys I am afraid of giving them away too early and losing my priority spot, which as some have mentioned means next to nothing with competing with BMDs. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I married into a bunch of Cajuns and that product down in Baton Rouge is becoming much more fun to be involved with.
I truly do not know where the fix is, aside from TCU just conceding to minimal revenue. I come here and the other TCU sites and can't even sell my tickets for higher profile games for face or less. The only time people take them is when I give them away, which is often. I have said this on other threads but I truly believe it is much more of the obvious numbers and demographic issues. We don't have the alumni base when compared to our stadium size. The easiest fix to me is adding seats to the west side lower bowl, but I do not believe there are thousands of TCU fans who would jump at season tickets if some of the BMD's seats were relinquished and available, unless of course they are next to free.
"I come here and the other TCU sites and can't even sell my tickets for higher profile games for face or less."
- I get the impression that you are implying a lack of demand even for higher profile games. This is similar to the Froglaw saga at the beginning of the season who listed his extra season tickets for face value on here and received essentially no interest. There is far more demand than you realize. However, you're not going to find it on TCU message boards where the audience consists of diehard TCU fans that most likely already have their own tickets.
- I think this assumption is largely inaccurate. I am quite confident the demand for premium seats will always outweigh the supply. It's been nearly a decade since the the stadium redesign, and most of the premium seats controlled by big money donors have never become available. If unused premium seats were finally released by BMDs and made available to season ticket holders during the upgrade process, or if more premium seats were created in the west side lower bowl, I think you would be shocked by how much demand there was for them, and how quickly they would be eaten up.