LHF: OU Cutoff Probably $1200-$1300

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Talked to someone in LHF who said that the new North end donations have dramatically raised the OU cutoff to somewhere in between $1,200 and $1,300. That is a HUGE increase for one year. I guess we should have seen it coming with the new club donations coming in.
 
They said it would be $1000 last year and it turned out to be around $650. I wonder what it will really be this year.
 
You guys have it better than you think. I have been annually "donating" $1500 for years for my TN season tickets, and we are in the upper deck. Getting tickets in the lower level or guaranteed tickets to the big road games requires an annual donation in excess of $5000. The only road games I have successfully gotten tickets through the university were for Cal last year (halfway across the country) and for the Sweet 16 in SA last year.
 
Vol -

That's pretty much the same as Texas. Cut-offs for true road games are much higher than $1200. ($5000 for a big game sounds about right - although I'm not positive - I don't even try to get road game tickets - there's no way). And I give $1500/yr and my seats are in the upper deck. 40 rows up and in the far end of the upper deck, as a matter of fact.
 
I believe you about the road games, but you are getting severely ripped off for your donation. I have two very close friends here in Austin, who I have gone to many Longhorn games with, who got season tickets to Texas around the same time I got season tickets to Tennessee. One of them donates $500/year, and has four tickets together on the west side lower level on the 10 yard line. The other donates nothing and has four together around the same spot, but in the upper deck. You should demand better seats.

*$1500 is the minimum donation for a pair of season tickets at Tennessee. To get four together, the minimum donation is $5000.
 
I find it very hard to believe that OU cutoff is $1200.

The MNC was only around $1000. And true, it was $800 last year for OU, so they would not jack it up that high.

If you donate the $1200 you would get as many tickets up to the amount of season tickets that you have.

I have donated right below $1200 since '02 and I have four tickets on the 5yrd Lower West side. $500 for 10 yrd is a steal. Of course we had 20 yrd line at the MNC. That's the only reason to donate. It was worth it all to have those tickets. And it will be next time as well.
 
I donate $150 a year(the minimum), and have 6, noth endzone seats, 12 rows up from the field. (I've had them for 8 years)
I chose to start donating $150 two years ago, as I figured I should secure my spot longterm. Many people around me don't donate at all.

I use the several hundred dollars i don't give to the LHF, to buy decent OU tix in the open market. It's worked out every year.

(Yes, I know we can argue all day about endzone vs. high up in the upperdeck sidelines, but that's not what this thread is about. Just wanted to state my donation and OU strategy.)
 
Yeah I would be amused to hear the Longhorn Foundation's reaction if I "demanded" better seats. I graduated in '06 - great time to have been in school - not so great time to be purchasing season tickets for the first time.

Question:
If $1500 is the minimum donation to get a pair of tickets anywhere in the Tennessee stadium, then why does the season ticket request form look like this?
The Link

(See bottom)

Tennessee and Texas both have very good fan bases and tickets are hard to get at both places. No need to argue about who's more popular.
 
My family has been part of the Foundation and have had 3 season tickets for almost 30 years. We pay around 300.00 annually and used to have 4 seats together on the lower level west side 20 yard line. The person that got our 4th seat has to donate 3 grand annually just to have the right to buy the season ticket for the seat. Unreal. I figure it's pointless to up my annual donation to the level I'd need to receive OU tix, b/c I can just use that extra money for scalping $$ for that game or any other. I'm screwed once my folks pass away, because I refuse to pay that amount of money for the seat. I think it's unfair, but it is what it is I reckon.
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To correct some previous postings, the cutoff for the MNC was $650, according to what the LHF told me. Last year, my $650 LHF donation got me 2 OU tickets.
 
just scalp, it will probably end up being cheaper assuming ~$200/ticket and maybe ~$500/ticket for the big games. Compare that to a $5,000+ donation AND the price of the season tickets.

that being said, i donate way too much to the foundation and might be leaning toward doing what I just mentioned in the next few years, especially with rug rats coming on the scene.
 
astrovol's inferiority complex around here gets old sometimes. he mutes it really well, but if you've been around a few years you notice it.
 
Just typical of the whole SEC. Spent the last year in Atlanta and it is disgusting how much they think they are superior to the rest of the world of college football. And stretch all sorts of $ and exagerations about everything.

They spend some cash on football....i will give them that....but they also have NOTHING else to do in much of the SEC. NASCAR and the SEC....whoopytydo!
 
Tennessee's stadium seats 102K and change. Their student population is just under 26,000. Even if all the students got free seats that still leaves 76,000 paying fans. I think it's closer to 80K, but I didn't find the exact number.

In 2006 the Tennessee football program brought in almost 53 million. That comes to $697 per paying seat. Take away $300 for tickets and concessions, and I'm being conservative on the concessions.

That leaves an average per seat revenue of less than $400. And, if you figure the top 2000 donors donate $5000 on average or 10 million total (once again probably conservative), the remaining more average fans donated or contributed to other revenue streams about $250 each.
 
Raydog, I don't know what you're trying to prove with those calculations, but it's all nonsense. I do not have any idea how much of Tennessee's stadium is filled with people who donate at a 1930's donation level, or maybe a lot of them don't donate at all. The rules have changed over the years.

The only statement I have made or qualified this entire thread is that a new donor who wants season tickets to Tennessee football in the past few years has been forced to donate $1500 annually. Spin that however you'd like.
 
AstroVol> I think the source of the criticism is the fact that you didn't mention anything about the $1,500 only being for new ticketholders anywhere in your first two posts.
 
You need to donate $5000+ to get road tickets to big UT games too. A&M, Nebraska and Ohio State.

OU is another story b/c rather than us getting ~5000 seats including the band, we get ~30,000 seats.
 
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