Bull94 Posted February 16 Group: Member Topic Count: 22 Content Count: 8,722 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 23 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted February 16 2 minutes ago, USFBulls12 said: We're not talking about $5 tickets here. We're talking reasonable $20-$30 seats. If all of a sudden, demand outweighs supply in our football OCS, I guarantee you the fans on this forum will be outraged that tickets are $80-$100+ with $25-$30 parking and high concession stand prices. They'll be saying it's not worth taking their 2 kids and wife to the game when it'll cost them $300+. Because of that, that fan and his family won't get to experience USF football in person. USF doesn't have a TON of fans relative to big time programs. Those "fans" don't stick around when the team isn't great. We'll be struggling to fill up the smaller sized stadium when the team isn't in 1st place. It's a chicken or the egg scenario in creating a fanbase. The fans need to be introduced with acceptable pricing levels while the demand is low enough and that's not going to be possible if the casual fan is immediately squeezed out from instant demand with limited supply when the glory fades. Not saying we need 60k seats but if we average say 35,000-38,000 and all of a sudden we're great and we want to welcome in new fans to an additional 4500-7000 seats, prices are going to skyrocket for the casual fan looking to see the Bulls. None of you will like that. That's also going to shoot up your season precious ticket prices as well many of those on this forum complain about when pricing changes or they can't pick their favorite seat for some reason. smaller stadiums are done for economic reasons. they make more money. they don't care about casual fans that won't pay a sufficient price to cover the cost of the expansion. just back of the envelope math says that a 350M stadium with 35,000 seats costs 10k per seat to build. a $20 ticket for 6 home games generates $120 per year. That's $2,400 over 20 years. Doesn't come close to covering the cost of expansion. I know the math isn't exact but there is a cost/benefit to consider. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flsportsfan83 Posted February 16 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 1,750 Content Count: 17,508 Reputation: 1,262 Days Won: 13 Joined: 08/16/2004 Share Posted February 16 3 minutes ago, Bull94 said: smaller stadiums are done for economic reasons. they make more money. they don't care about casual fans that won't pay a sufficient price to cover the cost of the expansion. just back of the envelope math says that a 350M stadium with 35,000 seats costs 10k per seat to build. a $20 ticket for 6 home games generates $120 per year. That's $2,400 over 20 years. Doesn't come close to covering the cost of expansion. I know the math isn't exact but there is a cost/benefit to consider. very solid breakdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Style Posted February 16 Group: Member Topic Count: 109 Content Count: 21,137 Reputation: 4,642 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted February 16 I wish I could be there, but I will honor with epic snacks and food. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted February 16 Group: Member Topic Count: 56 Content Count: 4,432 Reputation: 711 Days Won: 19 Joined: 03/16/2013 Share Posted February 16 I am confused how a thread on a sellout OCS Men's basketball game... turned into a topic on how an OCS football stadium is a detriment!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBulls84 Posted February 16 Group: Member Topic Count: 43 Content Count: 3,899 Reputation: 871 Days Won: 8 Joined: 12/10/2006 Share Posted February 16 13 minutes ago, Bear said: I am confused how a thread on a sellout OCS Men's basketball game... turned into a topic on how an OCS football stadium is a detriment!? Heeey, hi there. You new around these parts? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jeremyttt Posted February 16 Group: Member Topic Count: 0 Content Count: 20 Reputation: 20 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/01/2024 Popular Post Share Posted February 16 Without getting into the weeds of the discussion on the OCS stadium. I have enjoyed so much brining my son to the basketball games this year on campus. Yes, winning is huge, but he drives by "daddy's school" multiple times per week. Going on campus is special for him. It starts the foundation of being a bull at an early age that will stick outside of winning and losing. Bringing him to his first basketball game this year and having him see photo/banner of me at the sun dome durning my time at USF is priceless. We are looking forward to a few baseball games this season as well, which I promise him I wouldn't heckle at 2 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted February 16 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,615 Content Count: 74,732 Reputation: 10,959 Days Won: 425 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted February 16 On 2/13/2024 at 1:21 PM, jg233 said: What is considered a sellout? Cuse in 2013 was over 10k. On 2/13/2024 at 1:26 PM, Triple B said: The 2001 UF game was an attendance record and it was pre-renovation. That Cuse game was in the YC and I’m assuming the capacity went down a bit with reno so it could well have been a sellout, just not a record. That Cuse game was 10,024 but the article didn't mention it being a sell out so capacity may still be the 10,411 it was before renovations and is still listed as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted February 17 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,332 Content Count: 97,087 Reputation: 10,858 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted February 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinRicky Posted February 17 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 583 Content Count: 22,721 Reputation: 5,862 Days Won: 109 Joined: 09/13/2007 Share Posted February 17 Rumor that max capacity is around 9,000 since the renovation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Matrix Posted February 17 Group: Member Topic Count: 604 Content Count: 16,501 Reputation: 2,951 Days Won: 43 Joined: 01/04/2003 Author Share Posted February 17 21 minutes ago, Brad said: $117 for one of the highest views lol. Wow! I do believe CAAR should get an incentive for any sellouts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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