Is this game in danger of not being a sellout?
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As a member of the B1G each team receives $21mm for participating in the CFP. In addition each team will receive $4mm for every round of the playoff in which they are a participant.
To those complaining the cheapest parking for ND vs Indiana is $463
Yo, Nimrod: it's like saying a Maserati costs more than a Tesla. If I ain't buying either one, WTF do I care?
Had this been Bama those southerners would have been frozen white by the end of Q1.
You realize people determine what the value is to them and if they're willing to spend it. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and this type of expense at the holidays isn't something that their spouses are going to be happy with. That's reality. I don't think the price is crazy and have obligations that night which prevent me from going but it's still SMU and that's not worth the cold, the drive or anything else when you can watch at home. If they take care of business I'll be at the semis.
Ride a bike then if you can’t afford the Chevy Bolt and park downtown.
I think the problem for a lot of people is that you didn’t plan ahead and look for a room until our spot in the playoff was official. Not sure what people expected with hotel prices. I booked mine months ago.
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Park at the Hills shopping center and take the bus in. It is extremely convenient and will cost you less than five dollars.
I’m going to the Orange and obviously the Championship if we were to make it.
Why? That's the last game I'd go to. Worst opponent and traveling to State College in the winter. Spent enough winters there.
You’re not a PSU fan. I’m talking about PSU fans
You think most Penn State fans would rather see a home game against SMU than say Georgia or Ohio State/Oregon/Texas somewhere warm?
Is there a place I’d rather watch PSU in a playoff game than at Beaver Stadium? Tf u think?
Are parking passes transferable and if so will they cut that feature off at what time Saturday am for those fans who end up with an extra pass.
tOSU/Tenn game in the same situation. I was told that a cheat code allowing VIPs to buy early leaked and vast amount of tickets went to brokers for all games. NCAA still figuring this playoff stuff out especially in venues never used before.
That always makes me angry. Try to get a ticket to a top event but you can't because they're sold out. Then you look at the stadium/arena and see lots of empty seats. Brokers bought them but couldn't unload them.
I'd rather go to a game at the home field. The colder the better. It's football weather!
The National Championship game in Atlanta? Yuck. Domed pro stadium in a city I never want to go to again. Pass.
Game outdoors at Beaver Stadium in the cold and snow? Hell yeah.
Best to buy them the night before or morning of.
I was at a tech company in Silicon Valley and they had four interns who were from Stanford and were uber-sharp kids. I went back a year later and asked what happened to those kids. After they graduated, they started a ticket broker company. They hired a bunch of people in a room full of workstations and bought worldwide sports event tickets (Wimbledon, French Open, World Cup, etc.). They targeted events of worldwide interest but weren't on the radar of USA residents when tickets went on sale. They then marketed them to US residents. For example, go to a World Cup event in Qatar. He told me that their niche was to find underappreciated international events in the USA at time of first offering and then resale them. And these tickets were almost always primo seats (over $1000 each). They'd schedule a team in the first hour of tickets on sale and pound the web site with BOTs until they go in and then buy whatever they could.
Regardless that, I go to about six sites and grab the best deals: Tickpick, RateMySeat, SeatGurus, Vivid Seats, StubHub, etc.
Also fair--people should attend the game they want
20 years ago--even 10--I would have agreed with you. Too old for that now--I want to be comfortable
It always makes me wonder how their business model works. Are they able to make enough profit off of the tix that they purchase and resell that they can afford to eat those unsold seats?
Are these brokers the beneficiaries of a tax rightoff if this is their declared business / side hustle?
I know that the primary sellers analyze the aftermarket sales in determining the appropriate market price moving forward.
Having a home playoff game in college football
Thank you. Just beyond insane to me that people would rather watch PSU somewhere warm than In Beaver Stadium.
On what planet is $106 to park your car reasonable? George Jetson doesn’t even pay that. I pay $15 to park at Ravens games in the city of Baltimore.
Steeler game $50 parking scam(link)
".....Alphonso Rattliff, 30, on Sunday charged 23 drivers headed to see the Steelers play at Acrisure Stadium $50 apiece to park in a North Side lot.....
The problem, police said: Rattliff doesn’t own the lot on Fulton Avenue.
Rattliff, who lives in the city’s Manchester neighborhood two blocks from the lot, came prepared Sunday, according to police. They said he sported an orange parking-attendant vest and stood near a professionally printed folding sign.
He kept a Terrible Towel tucked in his back pocket and even accepted electronic payments via Apple Pay, the complaint said.
Pittsburgh police estimate he made $1,150....."
I used to park in a private lot 2 blocks from this location for free up until 2011.
These vendors would not charge what people are unwilling to pay.
Supply and demand is the best way to determine the 'market' price.
The problem is the generation and distribution of currency that was created without corresponding value. And here we are....
I heard a few songs from a newer band the other night. Looked up tickets. Sold out, but for the resell opportunists. They want $300-$700 a piece. For a band I had never heard of and I'm fairly sure isn't extremely popular yet.
That's just f'n insane. And if you are paying these prices, you might be insane too.
To park near the stadium for this week's Ravens/Steelers game will cost you between $143 and $395.
I'm sure you can park in the city for less than that. You can also park in State College for less than that (or for free if you know what you are doing).
The only real reason to park near the stadium is if you are hosting a tailgate. Which is great! But then you obviously spending way more than that on food and beverage so what's another $100.
wait until Musk's driverless cars get delivered to Uber and Lyft. They'll drop you off and go away. You can request them to come back when the game is over. I went to the Stones concert in CLE. The driver dropped me off for $30 and I gave him $60 cash to pick me up at 11:00. He was thrilled to get the cash (tax-free!). I didn't give him the money until he picked me up.
So, you want me to imagine Pitt is 11-1 and visiting us for R1?
Imagine if ND were visiting.
