(01-29-2016 12:28 AM)uldn Wrote: (01-28-2016 11:39 PM)JRsec Wrote: (01-28-2016 11:30 PM)CardinalJim Wrote: (01-28-2016 10:54 PM)JRsec Wrote: And you would be shocked. At the average contribution level of 1000 to 1500 dollars you get the privilege of buying (depending on whether it is 1000 or 1500) two season tickets for almost $1100 more to be seated either in the end zones or the goal line to the 20's in the upper decks. All other seats require higher donation levels.
I don't know about in Blacksburg but down here in Alabama not too many T shirt fans can afford those kinds of prices.
Alabama has 85 luxury suites in Bryant Denny and 47 in Coleman Coliseum. That's 132 luxury suites.
Louisville has 63 luxury suites at Papa Johns (with a pending expansion to add more) and 71 in The Yum Center. That's 134 luxury suites.
I'm not sure about Alabama but Louisville has required donations for seats between the 20's for football and for most, if not all, seats for basketball.
For what it's worth, Louisville has has luxury boxes for basketball since 1984. The first college program to have them.
Bottom line Louisville fans know about premium seats.
CJ
The contributions to which I refer are for Upper Deck & End Zone for a stadium at Auburn that seats almost 87,000. What are your prices for end zone tickets and goal line in the upper deck?
For example end zone seats at Miami (Fla.) go for about $8 bucks a piece in the season book. At an SEC site FCS will be $55, G5 will be $65, and P5 will be $75 and up. And again the minimum contribution for the right to purchase a pair of season books is around 1000 for the end zones. That's where the difference really exists in revenue.
That said the ACC was fortunate that you guys came along because your AD revenue numbers are excellent for the size of your facilities in football.
You do realize that Louisville pulls in more money than any other school for Basketball -- by quite a lot. Actually, based mainly on our enormous basketball revenue, but combined with the football has ranked Louisville in the TOP 20 of all schools yearly -- that's combining both sources -- we are the ONLY school that is considered basketball first that has made that kind of money -- more than most schools even with big football.
Also, the vast majority of our facilities, which are almost all new (within the last 15 years at least) are mainly paid for by the FANS -- without any help from the state. They tend to give all the state money to UK for their expenses -- we need or want new stuff we donate and raise it ourselves since they refuse it to us (always have). We were a small private school until the late 60s with no state support and when we became state we still got little because it was controlled by big UK supporters in the state capitol.
I would say a large amount of Louisville supporters are either former UL students, UL employees, or their family attended there. They are also one of the largest employers in the city between the school, the hospital and medical and dental facilities.
The vast majority of UK fans could NOT tell you how to get there other than it's in Lexington (somewhere).
"The University of Louisville traces its roots to a charter granted in 1798 by the Kentucky General Assembly to establish a school of higher learning in the newly founded town of Louisville. It ordered the sale of 6,000 acres (24 km²) of South Central Kentucky land to underwrite construction, joined on April 3, 1798 by eight community leaders who began local fund raising for what was then known as the Jefferson Seminary ... Despite the school's early success, pressure from newly established public schools would force its closure in 1829."
"...in 1837, the Louisville City council established the Louisville Medical Institute ... In 1840, the Louisville Collegiate institute, a rival medical school, was established after an LMI faculty dispute. In 1846 the Kentucky legislature combined the Louisville Medical Institute, the Louisville Collegiate Institution, and a newly created law school into the University of Louisville."
"Talk of U of L joining the public university system of Kentucky began in the 1960s. As a municipally funded school (meaning funding only came from the city of Louisville), the movement of people to the suburbs of Louisville created budget shortfalls for the school and forced tuition prices to levels unaffordable for most students ... After several years of heated debate, the university joined the state system in 1970..."
FWIW: "Louis D. Brandeis School of Law began in 1846 as the Law Department of the University of Louisville."
As per Wikipedia, it looks like Louisville was never private. You were a municipally funded school until 1970, but aside from some grey area from the late 1700's to the early 1800's, you were definitely never private.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Louisville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University...ool_of_Law
For Laughs:
"Criticism from what became The Courier-Journal also aided the closing, with its editor,
Shadrach Penn, Jr., who editorialized that the school 'was elitist and didn't give Louisville's school children a practical education.'"
-I guess UL does belong in the ACC.