Golden Elephant
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In light of our AD's decision to try to gouge the crap out of us, I was very curious to see what other B1G schools pried out of their fans' hands. Now clearly, other schools can and probably will raise their current donation levels, but here's what I was able to find so far (you can copy & paste links if they don't show up as links, sorry about that if it doesn't work. Also, some data may be a year or two out of date) Ranking them roughly from high to low (and leaving us out of it for now):
Ohio State: $500/2, $1500/2, , , up to $25K/4 http://buckeyeclub.org/tickets-and-parking/football-information.php http://buckeyeclub.org/annual-giving/giving-levels.php though they do appear to grandfather ticket-buyers who have bought since the 80's to get seats with no donation. http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/tickets/faq-m-footbl.html
Nebraska: $0, 150, 250, 500, 750, , , , 2500 http://ev9.evenue.net/evenue/linkID=huskers/images/maps/FB_Market_Value_2014.pdf
Michigan: (no zero-level?) $75, 200, 350, 475, 600 http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/121012aaa.html
Penn State: (no zero), $100, 200, 400, 600, (tiny $2000 sections) http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...df?camefrom=EMCL_416053_18725848target=_blank
Michigan State: $0, 25, 50, 100, 300, 400, 600 http://www.msuspartans.com/facilities/spartan-stadium-section-map.html
Iowa: $0, $50, 200, 400, 600 http://www.hawkeyesports.com/tickets/iowa-priority-points.html
Wisconsin: $0, $100, 200, 300, 400 http://supportthebadgers.athletics.wisc.edu/tickets/fbnewtickets.aspx
Maryland: $0, $135 divided by up to 4, $650 div / up to 4, $2200 div / up to 8 http://terrapinclub.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014_ByrdStadiumDiagram_2.31.jpg
Rutgers: $25, 50, 150, 250, 350 http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/rutu/graphics/F15-Seating-Chart-Final.jpg
Purdue: $0, $100, 250 http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/purdue_university/football/#/level_1/
Illinois: $0???? http://www.fightingillini.com/tickets/football-seasontickets.html Premium seating is for suites, etc. Can't find anything about required donations. BTW, you can get public season tickets for $99 in the end zone.
Northwestern: $0???? http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...f?hq_e=el&hq_m=618789&hq_l=14&hq_v=4689499691
Indiana: Couldn't find a map - they have some kind of priority points that looks like it's a sliding scale and they move you around every year. http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/c-varsityclub/spec-rel/priority-points.html
So, you can see we'd probably be moving close to the current top 4, perhaps even current top 2. But here's why maybe don't worry too much just yet about this. Look at what happened at Nebraska - yes Nebraska - when apparently seat licenses got too high:
http://www.cornnation.com/2013/8/6/...eason-ticket-minimum-donation-levels-collapse
They came down in 2013 and down further in 2014. Here's the 2012 map:
https://admin.xosn.com/pdf8/847450.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=100
Teague backed off the combined hockey/football season ticket idea, hopefully he'll back off this bad idea too.
Ohio State: $500/2, $1500/2, , , up to $25K/4 http://buckeyeclub.org/tickets-and-parking/football-information.php http://buckeyeclub.org/annual-giving/giving-levels.php though they do appear to grandfather ticket-buyers who have bought since the 80's to get seats with no donation. http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/tickets/faq-m-footbl.html
Nebraska: $0, 150, 250, 500, 750, , , , 2500 http://ev9.evenue.net/evenue/linkID=huskers/images/maps/FB_Market_Value_2014.pdf
Michigan: (no zero-level?) $75, 200, 350, 475, 600 http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/121012aaa.html
Penn State: (no zero), $100, 200, 400, 600, (tiny $2000 sections) http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...df?camefrom=EMCL_416053_18725848target=_blank
Michigan State: $0, 25, 50, 100, 300, 400, 600 http://www.msuspartans.com/facilities/spartan-stadium-section-map.html
Iowa: $0, $50, 200, 400, 600 http://www.hawkeyesports.com/tickets/iowa-priority-points.html
Wisconsin: $0, $100, 200, 300, 400 http://supportthebadgers.athletics.wisc.edu/tickets/fbnewtickets.aspx
Maryland: $0, $135 divided by up to 4, $650 div / up to 4, $2200 div / up to 8 http://terrapinclub.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014_ByrdStadiumDiagram_2.31.jpg
Rutgers: $25, 50, 150, 250, 350 http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/rutu/graphics/F15-Seating-Chart-Final.jpg
Purdue: $0, $100, 250 http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/purdue_university/football/#/level_1/
Illinois: $0???? http://www.fightingillini.com/tickets/football-seasontickets.html Premium seating is for suites, etc. Can't find anything about required donations. BTW, you can get public season tickets for $99 in the end zone.
Northwestern: $0???? http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...f?hq_e=el&hq_m=618789&hq_l=14&hq_v=4689499691
Indiana: Couldn't find a map - they have some kind of priority points that looks like it's a sliding scale and they move you around every year. http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/c-varsityclub/spec-rel/priority-points.html
So, you can see we'd probably be moving close to the current top 4, perhaps even current top 2. But here's why maybe don't worry too much just yet about this. Look at what happened at Nebraska - yes Nebraska - when apparently seat licenses got too high:
http://www.cornnation.com/2013/8/6/...eason-ticket-minimum-donation-levels-collapse
They came down in 2013 and down further in 2014. Here's the 2012 map:
https://admin.xosn.com/pdf8/847450.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=100
Teague backed off the combined hockey/football season ticket idea, hopefully he'll back off this bad idea too.
