Rick Brown piece on why students should get free season tickets:
"Tuition increase or not, I've got just the way to make regular students at the University of Iowa feel like someone cares about them, too. The athletic department should give them free admission to football games.
At last check, approximately 4,500 student season football tickets have been sold for 2015. That number comes from Rick Klatt, Iowa's associate athletic director for external affairs. Student-ticket sales exceeded 10,000 in seven of eight seasons between 2005 and 2012, but have taken a nosedive since. They dropped to 7,382 in 2013 and 6,440 last season.
This spring, the athletic department reduced the cost of a season ticket to $125 for incumbent students if they purchased them before May 15. New students had until July 31 to take advantage of the bargain. After the deadlines, the cost went up to $175.
Let's be optimistic and say that 6,000 student tickets are sold. As of June 29, new students had purchased 2,444 season tickets. There's $305,500. Let's say the rest were purchased at $175. That means a total of $927,800 in revenue from student-ticket sales.
Iowa's self-sustaining athletic department projects $93.56 million in revenue for fiscal year 2016. So $927,800? That's nothing..."
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...udent-tickets-iowa-board-of-regents/31386987/
"Tuition increase or not, I've got just the way to make regular students at the University of Iowa feel like someone cares about them, too. The athletic department should give them free admission to football games.
At last check, approximately 4,500 student season football tickets have been sold for 2015. That number comes from Rick Klatt, Iowa's associate athletic director for external affairs. Student-ticket sales exceeded 10,000 in seven of eight seasons between 2005 and 2012, but have taken a nosedive since. They dropped to 7,382 in 2013 and 6,440 last season.
This spring, the athletic department reduced the cost of a season ticket to $125 for incumbent students if they purchased them before May 15. New students had until July 31 to take advantage of the bargain. After the deadlines, the cost went up to $175.
Let's be optimistic and say that 6,000 student tickets are sold. As of June 29, new students had purchased 2,444 season tickets. There's $305,500. Let's say the rest were purchased at $175. That means a total of $927,800 in revenue from student-ticket sales.
Iowa's self-sustaining athletic department projects $93.56 million in revenue for fiscal year 2016. So $927,800? That's nothing..."
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...udent-tickets-iowa-board-of-regents/31386987/
