Blue White kickoff 3:00!!!
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I'm taking the money line on Blue (-110).
I'm sure there will be a bunch of cool prop bets too.
450-1 that it won't go to overtime.
I'm sure there will be a bunch of cool prop bets too.
450-1 that it won't go to overtime.
I just checked on stubhub, and they are completely sold out.
Its gonna be huuuge!
Its gonna be huuuge!
really?? what costs so much?? the officials?? How on earth does it cost $half a million bucks to put on the Blue White game???
The parking fee will help offset some of the more than $500,000 in expenses Penn State Athletics annually incurs in the operations for the Blue-White Game. More information on parking is outlined below
The parking fee will help offset some of the more than $500,000 in expenses Penn State Athletics annually incurs in the operations for the Blue-White Game. More information on parking is outlined below
Whichever O lineman start the game for the blue team will start the season. It's a rule and a Franklin tradition. Whatshisphvck said so.
Stadium ushers, staffing in concessions and merchandise, security, hiring state troopers and paying police, parking attendants, cleaning crews for the lots and stadium, the physical costs to operate the stadium for a game...
And that's a half a million dollars!! For the spring game??? What's it for a real game??
Why not have the men's cross country team go some of that and pay them?? Women's field hockey as well???
Physical costs to operate the stadium?? What would they be?? Turning the lights on for a day game?
Guessing increased security and metal detectors etc are growing costs that were not as steep many moons ago.
Everyone wants their fun BW day to be safe.
My wife and I do not not remember having a BW parking pass enclosed with our 2016 season parking package.
Penn State announced Wednesday, parking information for the culmination of Penn State football's spring practice - the Blue-White Game presented by Xfinity.
The contest is set for Saturday, April 22 at 3 p.m. in Beaver Stadium and is the centerpiece for a weekend of Penn State activities from April 21-23.
As in previous years, admission will be free for the Blue-White Game. Season ticket and season parking holders from the 2016 season received a white 2017 Blue-White Game parking permit with their 2016 tickets and parking permit sheet last summer. Season ticket holders planning to attend the Blue-White Game are asked to hang their permit as they approach Beaver Stadium.
Previously issued Blue-White Game parking permits that are lost will not be replaced.
As announced last June, fans attending the Blue-White Game who did not have 2016 season tickets and a season parking permit will be charged for parking for the intrasquad scrimmage. During Blue-White Weekend, there will be a $20 charge (cash only) for game day RVs and cars and a $60 charge (cash only) for the overnight RV lot (for all fans that arrive on Friday with an RV). Buses also will be charged $60 (cash only).
The parking fee will help offset some of the more than $500,000 in expenses Penn State Athletics annually incurs in the operations for the Blue-White Game. More information on parking is outlined below.
In anticipation of another Blue-White Game crowd above 60,000, fans are encouraged to purchase Blue-White Game car and RV parking permits in advance. Season ticket holders with a white permit and patrons with pre-purchased permits will be able to park in the lots closest to Beaver Stadium. Fans purchasing parking permits on game day will be parked in lots further from the stadium.
Starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 21, fans can purchase Blue-White Game parking permits for $20 by calling 1-800-NITTANY (weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.), by logging onto their Account Manager or creating an account at GoPSUsports.com/tickets. Advance parking purchases by phone and online will end at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 7. Patrons should call 1-800-NITTANY for assistance.
Starting on Wednesday, March 22, fans also can purchase Blue-White Game car and RV parking permits in person at the Bryce Jordan Center Ticket Office (weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.). In person sales will end at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 21.
Blue-White Game parking - April 21-22, lots open at 8 a.m.
As in previous years at the Blue-White Game, cars will be loaded into parking lots in arrival sequence, starting with lots closest to the stadium.
-Fans with white parking permits and those needing ADA parking will be in the closest lots until those lots are filled;
-Patrons who pre-purchased permits will be in the next closest lots;
-Fans purchasing permits on game day will be parked in lots further from the stadium.
Friday, April 21 – Overnight RV lot opens at 8 a.m.
Overnight RV - $60 (cash only) for all fans wishing to park in the Overnight RV lot, arriving on Friday. RVs will only be permitted to park in the Overnight RV lot during Blue-White Weekend.
Saturday, April 22 – Game day lots open at 8 a.m.
2016 season ticket and season parking holders - Able to park in Beaver Stadium preferred lots and Overnight RV lot on game day in car or RV (Overnight RV lot only) with the Blue-White parking permit received with 2016 season tickets. RVs will only be permitted to park in the Overnight RV lot during Blue-White Weekend.
All fans who did not have 2016 season tickets or season parking – $20 (cash only) to park in Beaver Stadium outer lots and the Overnight RV lot on game day. RVs will only be permitted to park in the Overnight RV lot during Blue-White Weekend.
Buses - $60 (cash only) to park near the Bryce Jordan Center.
The Blue-White Game is the university's unofficial annual spring reunion. During the past 10 years, attendance at the Blue-White Game has surged, with eight estimated crowds of 55,000 or more, including four throngs above 70,000. At least 65,000 fans have attended each of the three Blue-White tilts since James Franklin became the Nittany Lions’ head coach in 2014.
The Blue-White Game presented by Xfinity will air live on BTN, the Penn State Sports Network and GoPSUsports.com. More details on the Blue-White Weekend will be announced in the coming weeks.
Among the slate of athletics events for Blue-White Weekend presented by Xfinity are: women’s tennis vs. Purdue (Friday, 4 p.m.) and Indiana (Sunday, 11 a.m.), softball vs. Rutgers (Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.), baseball (Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.) and men’s lacrosse vs. Rutgers (Sunday, 7 p.m.). Times are subject to change.
More information about the 2017 Blue-White Game and related events will be distributed. Fans with questions about parking for the Blue-White Game can call 1-800-NITTANY (weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m) or ask questions via email at golions@psu.edu.
The 2017 Penn State season ticket renewal and Nittany Lion Club membership renewal deadlines were February 1. There were no increases in the price of Penn State football season tickets for the 2017 season.
More than 3,500 new season tickets have been sold for the home schedule for the 2016 Big Ten Champions. For information on joining the Nittany Lion Club and purchasing new 2017 season tickets, the Recent Graduate program (35 percent discount on season tickets), as well as club seating in Beaver Stadium, fans can visit www.PSUnrivaled.com, call 1-800-NITTANY weekdays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or visit the Bryce Jordan Center ticket office weekdays from 10 a.m-6 p.m.
Penn State announced Wednesday, parking information for the culmination of Penn State football's spring practice - the Blue-White Game presented by Xfinity.
The contest is set for Saturday, April 22 at 3 p.m. in Beaver Stadium and is the centerpiece for a weekend of Penn State activities from April 21-23.
As in previous years, admission will be free for the Blue-White Game. Season ticket and season parking holders from the 2016 season received a white 2017 Blue-White Game parking permit with their 2016 tickets and parking permit sheet last summer. Season ticket holders planning to attend the Blue-White Game are asked to hang their permit as they approach Beaver Stadium.
Previously issued Blue-White Game parking permits that are lost will not be replaced.
As announced last June, fans attending the Blue-White Game who did not have 2016 season tickets and a season parking permit will be charged for parking for the intrasquad scrimmage. During Blue-White Weekend, there will be a $20 charge (cash only) for game day RVs and cars and a $60 charge (cash only) for the overnight RV lot (for all fans that arrive on Friday with an RV). Buses also will be charged $60 (cash only).
The parking fee will help offset some of the more than $500,000 in expenses Penn State Athletics annually incurs in the operations for the Blue-White Game. More information on parking is outlined below.
In anticipation of another Blue-White Game crowd above 60,000, fans are encouraged to purchase Blue-White Game car and RV parking permits in advance. Season ticket holders with a white permit and patrons with pre-purchased permits will be able to park in the lots closest to Beaver Stadium. Fans purchasing parking permits on game day will be parked in lots further from the stadium.
Starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 21, fans can purchase Blue-White Game parking permits for $20 by calling 1-800-NITTANY (weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.), by logging onto their Account Manager or creating an account at GoPSUsports.com/tickets. Advance parking purchases by phone and online will end at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 7. Patrons should call 1-800-NITTANY for assistance.
Starting on Wednesday, March 22, fans also can purchase Blue-White Game car and RV parking permits in person at the Bryce Jordan Center Ticket Office (weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.). In person sales will end at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 21.
Blue-White Game parking - April 21-22, lots open at 8 a.m.
As in previous years at the Blue-White Game, cars will be loaded into parking lots in arrival sequence, starting with lots closest to the stadium.
-Fans with white parking permits and those needing ADA parking will be in the closest lots until those lots are filled;
-Patrons who pre-purchased permits will be in the next closest lots;
-Fans purchasing permits on game day will be parked in lots further from the stadium.
Friday, April 21 – Overnight RV lot opens at 8 a.m.
Overnight RV - $60 (cash only) for all fans wishing to park in the Overnight RV lot, arriving on Friday. RVs will only be permitted to park in the Overnight RV lot during Blue-White Weekend.
Saturday, April 22 – Game day lots open at 8 a.m.
2016 season ticket and season parking holders - Able to park in Beaver Stadium preferred lots and Overnight RV lot on game day in car or RV (Overnight RV lot only) with the Blue-White parking permit received with 2016 season tickets. RVs will only be permitted to park in the Overnight RV lot during Blue-White Weekend.
All fans who did not have 2016 season tickets or season parking – $20 (cash only) to park in Beaver Stadium outer lots and the Overnight RV lot on game day. RVs will only be permitted to park in the Overnight RV lot during Blue-White Weekend.
Buses - $60 (cash only) to park near the Bryce Jordan Center.
The Blue-White Game is the university's unofficial annual spring reunion. During the past 10 years, attendance at the Blue-White Game has surged, with eight estimated crowds of 55,000 or more, including four throngs above 70,000. At least 65,000 fans have attended each of the three Blue-White tilts since James Franklin became the Nittany Lions’ head coach in 2014.
The Blue-White Game presented by Xfinity will air live on BTN, the Penn State Sports Network and GoPSUsports.com. More details on the Blue-White Weekend will be announced in the coming weeks.
Among the slate of athletics events for Blue-White Weekend presented by Xfinity are: women’s tennis vs. Purdue (Friday, 4 p.m.) and Indiana (Sunday, 11 a.m.), softball vs. Rutgers (Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.), baseball (Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 6 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.) and men’s lacrosse vs. Rutgers (Sunday, 7 p.m.). Times are subject to change.
More information about the 2017 Blue-White Game and related events will be distributed. Fans with questions about parking for the Blue-White Game can call 1-800-NITTANY (weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m) or ask questions via email at golions@psu.edu.
The 2017 Penn State season ticket renewal and Nittany Lion Club membership renewal deadlines were February 1. There were no increases in the price of Penn State football season tickets for the 2017 season.
More than 3,500 new season tickets have been sold for the home schedule for the 2016 Big Ten Champions. For information on joining the Nittany Lion Club and purchasing new 2017 season tickets, the Recent Graduate program (35 percent discount on season tickets), as well as club seating in Beaver Stadium, fans can visit www.PSUnrivaled.com, call 1-800-NITTANY weekdays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or visit the Bryce Jordan Center ticket office weekdays from 10 a.m-6 p.m.
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Well let's see. They pay for the parking lot workers, security in the stadium, ushers, stadium utilities.
The blue white game parking pass was the white pass attached as the 8th parking pass on your parking pass sheet.
Step - FWIW, the pass is white, and has 2017 Blue White game, etc. on it. So we purchase yellow lot parking, and the packet had one additional white pass with the other 7 yellow passes
and that's a half a million dollars???
lets say utilities are $100,000 which I doubt, but I don't know, that leaves $400,000 to pay those guys. It's a spring game so if we pay them $20 per hour (which translated over a 2000 hr yr (50 wks 40 hrs per week, ) is $40,000 per year, so $20 per hour, imo is reasonable. so now I just bought us 20,000 man hours!!! or 2000 people working a 10 hr day. If there are 60,000 people there, that is 1 worker per 30 people, for 10 hrs. Doesn't something seem off?? I don't have any skin in this game, so I don't care, but $500,000 for a spring game seems high.
Thank you all, must have thrown the pass away with the other remaining parking stickers, since I missed the last three home games due to some health issues.
State police troopers working overtime security for the game, for example, are making far more than $20/hr. As far as I know, staffing-wise the BW game isn't too much different than a regular home game. There might be lower attendance so not as many concession stands, etc need to be staffed, but there's still a baseline that needs to be maintained whether a game has 60,000 attendees or 100,000. I think there's a lot more folks required to put on a PSU game than you might think, and they cost money - the press release from the university indicates 650 people staffing the event and a $70,000 cost just to clean up the stadium and lots after the game.
There's also all the ancillary and support events that occur during the weekend. Portable toilets for the tailgating lots need to be rented, EMS equipment needs to be present, opening and staffing the museum and other facilities like the BJC open during the day, and whatever it costs to rent the equipment for the Fan Fest that typically gets set up on the east side of the stadium.
again it does not matter to me, just seems high. Why not take the $70,000 paid to clean up the stadium and lots, and pay say the soccer teams, field hockey teams, etc to do that, so they can have some extra's in their budgets? I know a lot of teams back it in the day did it that way.
BTW why would there be a need for PSP? Wouldn't the University Police do this job? Just asking. I know at Marshall, there are a few State Police, but mostly it is University Police and even more rent a cops.
So even at $70,000 to clean up, $100,000 for utilities (guess) leaves $320,000 to pay 650 people which is approximately $500 for the day, or about $125,000 per year annualized.
Whatever.
Gotta pay BIG BUCKS to our friendly Big 10(14) officials so they don't call Offensive holding or Defensive pass interference on every play!
Something tells me that Erica Walsh isn't out on the recruiting trail telling high school kids "PSU is the place for you, we have great academics, we won the national title two years ago, we win the Big Ten seemingly every year, oh, and you'll get the opportunity to clean the football stadium after games, something that Stanford and UNC won't give you the opportunity to do".
It was attached to your other parking passes. It was the 8th ticket on the set. It used to be a season schedule, this time it was a parking pass.
Ah, I see that this has already been address. Well, they are on ebay for cheaper than $20. Gonna go that route.
as mentioned I know 'back in the day' they did this at UNC. The years back in the 80's when UNC was winning national championships in Men's Lacrosse, they cleaned out the football stadium after the game Sunday AM. If you wanted to be on the the LAX team, you were there to clean, no exceptions. All Americans like Mole Man (Michael Burnett) etc were all there.
Of course I know things have probably changed.
But for $72,000 I am thinking of bringing up a crew from WV, I figure I'd make some money!!!
I must have missed the comprehensive list of INCOME that is derived during B/W Weekend:
Concessions / Leasing of Locations to Vendors / Advertising (both inside and outside the stadium) etc etc
I guess they just forgot to mention that stuff
For some reason - back on the "Pre-Bidet Years" - they must not have incurred expenses
It's a Brave New World
Ah, well - it is what it is
