I’ve been considering (Razorback) season tickets, but from what I can tell all it gets you is a price hike, “donation” requirements, parking access, and the seats that don’t move.
To be clear, their website advertises season tickets are about $250 per game for upper level and $450 for lower level. But lower level, 50 yard-line tickets are $250 for the best games and under $100 for the cheap games. And that’s not even taking into consideration the donation requirements. Am I missing something?
Prior to 2018, the “donation” was 80% tax-deductible, but since the tax code got revised there’s not much financial incentive.
If your school regularly plays huge non-con opponents, you could re-sell those single game tickets to recoup most or all of your investment, and then enjoy the rest of the season at a huge discout. For Texas, I think 2019 LSU and 2022 Alabama tickets were going for about $400 per seat at the cheapest and for most of the stadium much more. But that only works every other year at most (2018 USC tickets were vastly cheaper, for example). And I think that’s kind of a shitty thing to do if you really are a fan of your school. I was at the 2019 LSU game to cheer us on against the fighting Joe Burrows and that was an amazing experience even though we lost.
Personally, I wouldn’t do it. Texas offers young alumni season tickets at a discount and I still didn’t bite on those when I was living in Austin after graduating. I prefer decent seats for one game a year than tickets to all games in the nosebleeds on the visitor side.
Wow, so the “donations” part was really just a tax loophole to get a tax break from part of your ticket price. That makes A LOT of sense, especially with some of the higher donation requirements being 10k-20k. For the rich who could use a 20k tax break, that means almost nothing.