if GTAA raise tix prices .....

[mm42]

The reality is that we are at heart a bunch of CHEAP engineers. (Not pointing fingers - I am one of the worst.) Their are many notable exceptions (I salute you all), but in the main we are not willing to pay as much for football tickets as our competition.

Plenty of my co-workers on the faculty who bought season tickets this year (with the 20% faculty discount) were more than happy to turn around and sell their Notre Dame tickets so they could sit home and watch the game on TV with cash in their pockets. They do the same thing for the UGAg game. (I am not quite that bad - I will only sell/give to Tech fans, and never at more than face value.)

I hope I am wrong and there are plenty of Tech fans out there willing to pay this much for their tickets.

 

[Buzz Bomb]

The reality is that we are at heart a bunch of CHEAP engineers.

I prefer the terms SMART and FRUGAL. It's UGA fans that spend all of their available funds on football and then drive home to their double-wides when the game is over. :laugher:

 

[JonnyGT]

The reality is that we are at heart a bunch of CHEAP engineers. (Not pointing fingers - I am one of the worst.) Their are many notable exceptions (I salute you all), but in the main we are not willing to pay as much for football tickets as our competition.

Plenty of my co-workers on the faculty who bought season tickets this year (with the 20% faculty discount) were more than happy to turn around and sell their Notre Dame tickets so they could sit home and watch the game on TV with cash in their pockets. They do the same thing for the UGAg game. (I am not quite that bad - I will only sell/give to Tech fans, and never at more than face value.)

I hope I am wrong and there are plenty of Tech fans out there willing to pay this much for their tickets.

No offense to you, but it sounds like getting rid of that faculty discount is something else DRad needs to do.

Does the same thing happen for basketball tickets? I sit up high in one of the corners, and it's guaranteed that there will be a dozen or so fans of the visitors around me for most games. It really ruins the atmosphere so I'm all for a seat "tax" for basketball especially if it means I can get better seats too. Of course, only having 2 basketball seats versus 4 football seats makes a difference.

 

[midatlantech]

mm42, I think you read the Vent too much. Tech is the #1 giving public university by population. Tech's gifts dwarf UGA's even though they are substantially larger. Don't buy into that baloney, we are a very giving school. We were just small for a long time AND many of us graduates had to leave the state because of a lack of jobs.

 

[mm42]

No offense to you, but it sounds like getting rid of that faculty discount is something else DRad needs to do.

Hey, it used to be 50%!!!!

But I agree, when the AA is in trouble financially and people are paying PSL to buy tickets, then faculty should pay the same as everyone else.

Does the same thing happen for basketball tickets?

YES!

 

[mm42]

mm42, I think you read the Vent too much.

I don't read the Vent at all. I don't even know what you are talking about.

Tech is the #1 giving public university by population.

Okay, we are cheap when it comes to football tickets and generous when it comes to donations to Ma Tech.

 

[clapper]

What Radakovich does know now is that CCG really put a damper on his money raising plans by losing the last three critical games and then flirting with the pros, hardly events that would make existing supporters want to open up their wallets and hardly conducive to attracting new season ticket buyers either.

Hewitt didn't exactly help with last year's season either.

I don't have a problem with the faculty discount. It's basically a perk. It would make sense for the school to pick up that expense though.

And I don't think the boards are down on DRad. I think they don't know him. He's solid. And he is a football guy at heart. He just has the unenviable position of being the messenger. I also think he likes Chan and really wants him to succeed, but understands the alumni split. That might be the one factor which could lead to scraping up enough money in the budget for an established OC. Even when you don't have money you have to spend money to make money. You just have to spend it better than you did before.