(12-13-2015 12:02 AM)JOwl Wrote:  Can't you just accomplish the same thing yourself? Buy the tickets, make a donation on top of that cost, deduct the donation?

Indeed! But be careful: while there are many contexts in which that principle holds true, people usually don't like hearing it.

(12-12-2015 03:48 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Sounds like a great funding method to use at Rice for all sports. I hope they try it.

When [they] built the rectangular roofed stadium next to the round one, the [Team Name] was selling seat licenses for the privilege of purchasing season tickets. The MOB looked into ridiculing this practice in a show. In our usual, largely unnecessary, quest for logical accuracy, we researched the history of seat licenses, and discovered that Rice did the same thing for the shiny new seats in the just-built Rice Stadium, back in [1950?]. We were sad to find that we weren't (secularly) "holier-than-thou".