Seat renewal out

[I35]

Normally it's April or May when renewals go out. It's Feb and are already doing it. Wonder why they are doing it so early this year? Maybe trying to get an early gauge on the coaching move by renewals?

 

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[seb44]

They were do the same time last year.

 

[pluckeye]

Um, let me see here, thinking hard… perhaps it has something to do with $$$'s?

 

[IvanDiabloHorn]

They did the same thing last year. It is a smart move to allow an earlier and longer renewal time with email reminders.

 

[I35]

I didn't remember it being this early last year.

 

[tejas77]

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[huisache]

same day last year; it is earlier than it was ten or twenty years ago

 

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[BevoJoe]

We have until April to renew. I am interested to see the new regime's team...BYU and UCLA should provide a pretty good indicator.

 

[marley]

It's the same motivation as $8 regular beer and $9 Shiner Bock now sold at UT sporting events.

In other words, it's about unbelievable greed by the University of Texas athletic department.

A six-pack that costs $6 at HEB costs $50 at the stadium.

All because they have a captive audience.

Totally pathetic.

And the applications going out earlier than a few years ago is based on the same motivation. Plonsky figures it's a way to have more time to sell overpriced football tickets to a fan base that at $65 o $90 per ticket isn't automatically filling DKR anymore.

We will be at all the football games, home, away and bowl games again this year, like we have been for about the last 16 years (I have all my hotel, rental car and airline reservations made now for the 2104 schedule), but this thing is getting totally out-of-hand. I don't know how much longer we'll buy into this overpriced BS.

And for us it's not about the money. We can certainly easily afford it. It's about the attitude of UT athletics that we're a taken-for-granted bottomless pit.

At some point, if Steve and Chris keep this up, staying at home for many/most UT sports and watching on LHN will seem like the better option.

This from a guy who was at the Disch Friday evening for the UT/Hawaii baseball game. Baseball has got to be the best deal still left in UT sports. And I wonder for how much longer . . . .

 

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[Golden Steer]

Look, if Texas could build a dome stadium and charge you for air, they would.

Like all businesses, they charge what the market will bear. There's an optimal point for prices - it's why there are no 10 cent burgers (no profit) nor 50 dollar burgers (no sales).

As long as people buy it, they'll sell 8 or 18 dollar beers, and when as you say you've been to every home game for 16 years and have the entirety of next season booked already, well you sound like Ned Flanders when the Movementarians took Homer back "I'm obliged to serve you a beer but's it's going to be mostly head."