Sept. 12 Hawaii $65* (2014 Cost $79)
Sept. 19 Northern Illinois $79
Sept. 26 Western Michigan $65* (2014 Cost $79)
Oct. 10 Maryland $79
Oct. 17 Penn State $125**
Nov. 7 Minnesota $79
Nov. 21 Michigan State $150**
Total- $642, only $13 cheaper than 2014.
Student ticket prices remain at $34 per game.
**Premier games
Source: Jerry Emig @BuckeyeNotes
Edit: Format.
Posted Jan 31, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC
glad they are at least looking at lower prices for non marquee games. no one should ever have to pay full price for a ticket to a game against western michigan
:-( I wanted to head down for that game too, but I'm getting married the next Friday and will probably be insanely busy.
Simple,you can call off the wedding.
or against Hawaii. pffft
Western Michigan is actually good now.
$34 per home game? UGA student tix for all home games were like 56 dollars. Then it was like $60-75 if you were awarded tix to an away game.
Part of the disparity is that UGA has an athletic fee built into tuition, so it's automatically collecting $106 from every single student every year to go towards athletics. Ohio State on the other hand has no such fee and isn't forcibly making students subsidize athletics, so the result is that the students who actually want to go see games pay more for the privilege because the rest of the student body who isn't going isn't pitching anything in to help out.
That's what I figured. For people like us, it's obviously preferable (and selfish) to have every student pay an athletic fee because students who go to the games benefit from it.
Especially considering how hostile half of the students here are towards football.
Does the $80 "activities fee" still exists? That's what they used to legitimize getting in free for every other sports besides football an men's basketball. Me thinks they just know they can get away with it.
Not a dime of tuition goes towards the athletic department at Ohio State.
The activity fee at Ohio State is for...
53.20% campus-wide programming administered by Ohio Union Activities Board (OUAB). Think concerts, movie showings, comedians, cooking classes etc etc.
13.30% Discount Ticket Program (D-Tix). This does include sports, but the sports this includes are things like Columbus Clippers games. It's not for Ohio State sports and events, it's for Columbus area things like pro baseball.
12.75% student organization funding - This is for the clubs
8.65% student government funding
6.45% Signature Events funding
5.20% Buck-I-SERV
0.45% Pay It Forward (local service initiatives)
We also have a rec fee that pays for "sports" and rec facilities. But the sports it pays for are intramurals like flag football and the rec facilities it pays for are the ones meant for and open to all students. The varsity athlete limited rec facilities and equipment don't see funding from this fee.
Are you part of the athletic department in some way?
At Nebraska we play $23 per game for student tickets.
EDIT: I misread. I thought you said $56 per game. You pay $56 total. We also don't have the athletic fee built into our student fees, though.
God fucking damn. Tickets are that cheap?
That's on top of a minimum $2000 donation to become eligible for season tickets.
wat
In order to even be able to get onto the season ticket wait list, much less purchase season ticket, you must be a member of either the President's Club (general academic support fund) or the Buckeye Club (athletic boosters). Each requires a minimum annual donation of $2,000 to be members. So the true cost of season tickets for us is $2,642.
What's a wait list?
There's some caveats.
Ohio State's public ticket allotment is practically nothing. They sell out online in fractions of a second. So generally speaking the only way to have a decent shot at face value tickets is to be an alumni, which opens up another set of issues.
To start with you need your dues paid($75). The way alumni tickets work is a lottery system, basically you don't get to pick your game, if you even get a game. And most of the basic alumni allotment is focused in the shitty games. More often than not you're getting Purdue or Buffalo games as opposed to Penn State and Michigan State games.
If you want to actually pick your game and pay face value you need to donate significant amounts of money for the privilege(or be a former Varsity Ohio State player).
We have to deal with all of that stuff too, plus face value tickets are way more expensive.
I'm so lucky my dad bought his season tickets a long time ago before there was like a ten year waiting list.
It will be interesting to see how this pricing plays out. Like, what if Michigan State has key injuries in the season and is coming into the Shoe unranked in November? Will they lower prices or will there be empty seats?
Most of those games will sell out long before they're played
On the secondary market that will be an issue, but these tickets will be all sold before the season.
I'd be really surprised if we weren't at least rounding out the bottom of the top 25 unless Cook has a season ending injury and his backups are shit.
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Well...
At least we ain't the cheapest team.
Kinda sad we had a close game and yet we are equal with Maryland in pricing.
Pooooo, my maroon&gold feelings are hurt
Keep in mind, acknowledging that our home schedule isn't that great this year, season ticket prices actually went down a little.
As a student I would love it if they made it cheaper for me too so I won't feel so bad about buying the out of conference package then getting too drunk to go to any of those crappy games
How do I get away game tickets? I want to see the Rutgers game next year. (I suspect that's going to be a hot ticket)
Unless you are a student or a significant booster(annual donation of $3000+), you don't. At least as far as buying directly from the university goes. Away game tickets are extremely limited and the school mostly gives them to major boosters and allots a tiny, tiny amount for students.
For Rutgers you'll just have to buy tickets secondhand online.
Hope to be at the Maryland game!
Don't forget you have to at least donate $1500 to the Buckeye Club for the right to by 2 season tickets.
Wow. I can't imagine paying for student tickets.
Don't worry, you do. OSU just doesn't charge athletics fees.
What about other sports? Surely they can't charge that much for things like volleyball or tennis.
Those are free, it's just Football and Men's basketball we have to pay for
OK. That's not as bad. We pay athletic fees but that also covers our huge campus recreational center.
Yeah I don't care
Didn't realize I was subbed to the OSU subreddit.
This always comes up whenever someone posts a team-specific thread on r/CFB (usually OSU, Bama, Mich, A&M, UT, etc...). The thing is, you're going to get better conversation among fans on this sub than a team-specific sub. This post on OSUs football sub might get 10-20 comments, compared to about 50 here. If it bothers you so much don't read it, just like I don't have to read the constant UT recruiting posts.
cool
get this man a trophy
I can't tell the difference