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I've never been a football STH. I've gone to (single ticket) non-conference games over the years and enjoyed myself, and last year had pretty much convinced my wife we should pick up season tickets and try to work some games into our fall schedule. But the sticker shock killed that.

I had enough trouble seeing my basketball tickets go from $500 in the 100s to almost $2000 in the 200s, but I decided to stick with it. After all, we're getting close to 20 games a year for that price, and even in the 200s I got seats I was satisfied with location-wise, and we keep falling for the spirit of the kids on the teams.

But the cost of the lakeside tickets and the seating available, all for maybe five to seven games? un-fricking-believeable.

We'll stick to our men's and women's basketball season tickets, and continue buying a non-con football game here and there if the prices seem worth the product. NU has completely priced us, and I'll bet a surprising number of other fans, out of the stands.
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CMcCat said:
25 season. I got an email yesterday. Cheapest ticket is north end zone at $500 each. I had 2 tix in section 110 for 25+ years, the last of which I paid ~$750. Equivalent location this fall for two tickets is…$2,629. It appears to me they may have restructured the pricing to lower the ticket cost and increase the required donation level compared to last year.
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And that is for only 5 games. My tickets are about the 15-20 and they are $1100 each for 5 games.
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Northwestern offers hometown 2027 WR Justin Johnson

Northwestern offered WR Justin Johnson, a 2027 prospect in their backyard at Evanston Township High School.
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Northwestern offered ETHS WR Justin Johnson in the Class of 2027 on his visit to Northwestern last week. I talked to Johnson about the offer, the hometown connection and his recruitment.
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Northwestern offers hometown 2027 WR Justin Johnson

Northwestern offered WR Justin Johnson, a 2027 prospect in their backyard at Evanston Township High School.
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Northwestern offered ETHS WR Justin Johnson in the Class of 2027 on his visit to Northwestern last week. I talked to Johnson about the offer, the hometown connection and his recruitment.
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CMcCat said:
And that is my solution. It will result in my transformation from being a 25-year season ticket holder and loyal fan to a casual observer who attends one or two games a year. Who exactly is going to replace guys like me? Winnetka concertgoers?

Recognize what NU is doing. It has committed to an elite entertainment complex (not a football stadium as it would be utterly nuts to build what they are building for football alone or even as a main aspect). Luxury boxes are central to the new plan. Major (and minor) concerts and other events geared to upper income patrons are at its core.

Longer term, this is entirely working against the goal of building a Chicago-area fan base of significant size. With the new Ryan Field, NU has junked the Chicago’s Big Ten Team plan for an aspiration to be The North Shore’s Entertainment Mecca.
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With all due respect, no one has been replacing you even with the VERY cheap pricing in the past. We have to be honest here, NU football just isn’t a hot ticket with locals. The University gets terrible press locally and if the team isn’t winning there is no reason for locals to invest a weekend day of their time to be surrounded by obnoxious opposing fans. It is a complete fallacy to believe cheaper prices means more loyal NU fans ( at least enough to make any difference experience wise). Being a STH, I would think your would see the experience for a die hard NU fan actually sucks at our home games. Pricing isn’t the reason why.
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CMcCat said:
And that is my solution. It will result in my transformation from being a 25-year season ticket holder and loyal fan to a casual observer who attends one or two games a year. Who exactly is going to replace guys like me? Winnetka concertgoers?

Recognize what NU is doing. It has committed to an elite entertainment complex (not a football stadium as it would be utterly nuts to build what they are building for football alone or even as a main aspect). Luxury boxes are central to the new plan. Major (and minor) concerts and other events geared to upper income patrons are at its core.

Longer term, this is entirely working against the goal of building a Chicago-area fan base of significant size. With the new Ryan Field, NU has junked the Chicago’s Big Ten Team plan for an aspiration to be The North Shore’s Entertainment Mecca.
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If you choose to not buy tickets that is your decision but I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself unless you're one of unfortunately too many NU fans that are simply looking for an excuse NOT to buy tickets. Without question NU really jacked up the prices for Lakeside this year but NU has also made it very clear that existing STHs won't lose any type of seniority in the new stadium if they opt out of Lakeside seats. As far as the new stadium goes we already have the existing NU example of Welsh-Ryan where there are large numbers of fantastic seats that require no donation. I'm quite confident the new stadium will be the same and you (as a 25 year STH) will be fairly high up in the pecking order.

Of course if you're that upset at the increased costs of attending NU games you can always shift to Cubs, Bears, or Hawks for cheaper options....
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CMcCat
Purple Pile Driver said:
There is an easy solution. Don’t buy tickets.

Before I get jumped, what percentage of the stands are NU fans with the cheap prices? I haven’t been able to give away tickets in football unless I give them to opposing fans, which I refuse to do. Everyone bitched about BB pricing , yet you could attend the USC game for $2 and it was still less than full. Do you think if Jackson lowered tickets to $20 a game the stadium would be packed with Purple? No, the sales would go to money whore brokers and fair weathered fans looking to make a buck on Hawkeye fans.

I have said this plenty of times, the way to increase NU fans is to improve the experience for NU fans not lower the prices. Lowering prices will at best have minimal impact of NU fan support. How embarrassing is it for us STH’s to bring a friend for the first time and have 70% of the fans around you wearing candy striped red bib overhauls and chanted “go to the library nerd” in your own stadium? These drunk opposing fans aren’t paying $5 to be obnoxious. The school might as well make the money off these clowns and invest it in activities that actually improve the experience for NU Fans!
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And that is my solution. It will result in my transformation from being a 25-year season ticket holder and loyal fan to a casual observer who attends one or two games a year. Who exactly is going to replace guys like me? Winnetka concertgoers?

Recognize what NU is doing. It has committed to an elite entertainment complex (not a football stadium as it would be utterly nuts to build what they are building for football alone or even as a main aspect). Luxury boxes are central to the new plan. Major (and minor) concerts and other events geared to upper income patrons are at its core.

Longer term, this is entirely working against the goal of building a Chicago-area fan base of significant size. With the new Ryan Field, NU has junked the Chicago’s Big Ten Team plan for an aspiration to be The North Shore’s Entertainment Mecca.
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