Citrus Bowl Win Would Take Sting Out of Ticket Price Increase
Twitter, Facebook and all social media platforms were abuzz last week when the University of Minnesota Football program announced steep price hikes for season tickets from 2015-2017. At face value, the hikes are huge. In TCF Bank Stadium their are six types of seating delineation. Up to now, the chairback season ticket holders were required to donate money to the university in varying amounts as a requirement of purchasing a season ticket. Bench seaters, no donation. Until now. Some of the cheap seats will also require a donation. In my case, my two seats in Section 142, Row 15, seats 3-4 (30-yard line home side) would go from $1,000 for the pair this season to $2,080 in 2017, a whopping 100-percent-plus increase. I voiced concern to the athletic department and fed off the rage on social media. But the Unversity ticket folks amicably reached out to me to explain the move. First, Gopher football has not had a season ticket increase since 2009, the first se...
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