Zipmeister

let me say this was the easiest to read post of yours ever. Thank you. And i agree yes it's brutal watching the zips, let alone paying to watch it. I think the double spacing helped.

ain't gonna happen +1 (we don't have the mineral deposits)

I have felt the same way for a long time. In fact, when I'm searching for direction in any aspect of my life I review your posts to guide me in my decisions.

Cause 12K will show up at the UD Arena to watch a girl's game between two teams from Idaho.

Nominated for the "Ironic Statement of the Month" Award.

I'm going with the Zips by 13, no make that 14 points after 3 quarters.

I believe the football team did poorly enough on their own Capt. No need for you to take a point away from them. "Week #1 saw the soccer team outscore the football team 5-2."

Why no JMU?

They can laugh all they want. Anything less than $18 is selling at a loss, and won't be made up through concessions or merchandise. They're killing themselves financially (even more than usual) in an attempt to keep within the NCAA attendance rules. huh? By your logic, selling at $54 will be 3x less of a loss! It really doesn't make sense if demand isn't there to sell at $54, and the same is true for $18. Example of reducing price to make more money below. It's called optimizing volume versus price. 4000 tickets at $18 yields $72,000 6500 tickets at $12 yields $78,000 By lowering prices significantly, you drew more fans and offset price with volume. Not only could you make more money, but you create a real event experience which increases future demand. You assume a demand for tickets. What if there are no more people who wanted to go to the game Saturday than those who showed up? Exactly. No more fans would have shown up even if we lowered the price to $5 a ticket. And Can't's pricing structure simply lowers the value of their product. If people pay $5 to see them, they see that it's worth less than a high school game, and so must not be as important as one or as exciting, or worth the trip. I fully disagree...I know six people personally who planned to attend then changed their mind when they saw the price...SIX! If I know that many alone, imagine how many total. Then they really did not want to go and were looking for an excuse for not going. Akron can't build its future on this fan. Yes. If $20/person is too much to see a local team and a BCS team play in the nicest stadium in the state, they didn't really want to be there. I bet they would gladly pay per person at OSU what it would cost the entire group at Akron to watch a game. Under your scenario, I don't think the $20 ticket price would have as big an impact on demand as the drive to Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati.

OK, so far we know that Zach believes the demand function for UA football tickets is perfectly inelastic while bobbyach refuses to specify a demand function. The rest of you appear to believe some degree of elasticity exists in the demand function, but also fail to specify the model. What is the optimal price? Your solution does not have to be Pareto optimal (but it wouldn't hurt).

Probably the last thing most posters on this board should do is criticize the spelling, grammar or punctuation employed by others.

Agreed. I had my three teenage boys waiting for me in the car, when I found out not only were tickets going to be $20 a piece, but I was also going to be charged for parking. That's $70 before we got in the door (I'm a student). Who do they think they are, the New England Patriots? $10 is not too much to charge to attend a college football game. If you want to park for free, drive up and down the side streets looking for a spot in front of a house. $20 is a reasonable price to pay to attend a college football game and watch a BCS team play. When is the last time you paid to attend an NFL game? GA seats at the Big Dialer are similar to a club level seat at an NFL stadium. Those run in excess of $100ea plus parking. You saved around $400 by going to the Zips game. Like I've said here many times now..... We are a I-AA school for many reasons. Fan attitudes about what prices should be paid to watch a D-1A game are strange at best. When I see a fan say $70 is too much to watch a D-1A football game with four other humans, I know we can never make it in D-1A. While you enjoy paying your D-1A prices with only 3000-5000 people to watch a Zips game, our friends in Can't will be paying $5 with over 16,000 others to watch the Golden Flushes. They'll be laughing at us all year. Being a D1-A program should have nothing to do with ticket prices. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Prices need to reflect demand. The demand isn't high enough to charge the prices UA is charging and they'll make less money overall unless they drop the prices to bring in more people. 15,000 people paying $10 a ticket and $5 to park will bring in more money than 5,000 people paying $20 a ticket and $10 to park. It doesn't matter if it's D1-A or D1-AA, prices need to reflect demand!! At last, someone talking economic sense. What is your best estimate of the demand function? I'm thinking it may not really be very elastic. Any thoughts on using a reverse Dutch auction to price tickets?

Meister stop pulling our leg! I can tell you for a fact that it hit the crossbar. It took off a piece of paint about the size of Darlington Nagbe's big toe! I always appreciate it when I get my game report triple checked. GO ZIPS

UAzipsman Did the shot actually hit the cross bar?

You are dead on my friend. Well said.

Two questions: 1. (item 23) How are parking prices related to the point spread? 2. (item 25) Was Dreal in his kangaroo suit as promised?

Party on Garth!

Most of you have failed to recognize the brilliance of the new AD. By discouraging attendance with lack of marketing and (insert your own pet peeve here) he was able to limit the number of people who personally witnessed how much improvement needs to occur for the Zips to be competitive. Several posters were predicting that an additional 10,000 or so folks would today be bemoaning their decision to attend this debacle. But, with the strategy employed by TW, they are still out there ready to be sheered like sheep when they show up next week to watch the Zips take on the Gardening Weebers.

+1

I hope you guys with your 24K+ predictions are correct, but I am fearful that the new Center for the History of Psychology will be open during the game and draw some of the football crowd away. I especially enjoyed the shock box exhibit. I have warned Center officials to keep dreal away from "the inflatable "Bobo" doll. GO ZIPS

Your using politicians to make a point about lack of intelligence in the world? I agree with all your reasoning as to why our attendance should be over 20k tomorrow. I'll guess 22,222. I'll go with 15,968

I think it is critical that we keep Adam Steiner healthy. Otherwise Zac is going to have to do the long snaps and he may be winded from starting at right guard and backing up at left guard.

I'll just sit back and let Zipmeister conjure up something good for this. Cruz ALWAYS had the talent. I'm sure he'd love to play well against the Zips. Here's three possibilities: Ironic that Gulley would be penciled in as the kick returner. At 5'9" and 17 pounds He should be nicknamed "The Pencil." One pound less and they could also call him the bowling ball. Bet his body fat percentage is the lowest on the team.

Interesting interpretation. I always thought one of the little @ signs meant an away game. If that is still the case, I believe you have the location of the games bass ackwards.

OK so you are a big fan of watching lawn grow. Well more people watch golf than watch lawn grow. I think we should get rid of watching lawn grow because it is irrelevant. Plus you could watch the lawn grow on the course the golfers are playing. I don't care what you say watching lawn growing will always lag golf in attendance. Go Zips