(12-05-2021 07:36 PM)jmu98 Wrote: (12-05-2021 07:13 PM)JMU1987UVA1998 Wrote: Not to sidetrack this thread but tickets should be free for students based upon the amount of student fees that are allocated towards athletics. Granted I'm a old-timer aka a 1987 graduate that's got a stepson who got his undergrad degree in December 2020 and is finishing up his masters so he can teach high school history/civics which my 1990 undergrad wife didn't have to do.
Regular season has always been free, but NCAA charges for tickets. As you note JMU does the right thing and covers the costs for students.
And to continue on the tangent, I think most FBS schools charge for student tickets and/or they get much worse seating options than JMU (thinking UVA students on the hill, which I believe is free)
Texas A&M
charges students $290 and has a
sells out the student section of 36,000 so that's ~$10M coming from students that isn't counted as a "fee" and somehow gets a pass in discussion about student athletic fees (Yes I understand the difference between charging all students, versus those that want to go. No that doesn't change the fact that $10M is coming from students versus other revenue and donation sources).
VT charges $150 for season tickets so that's a few million that they aren't having to report as "student fees." UVA doesn't charge (to my knowledge), but there athletic fee is $637 per student, and I guess they have
gotten some heat for being the highest amongst P5. However, considering the all-in cost at VT is over $500 when you consider athletic fee ($330), football tickets ($150), minimum donation required to buy tickets ($25), basketball tickets ($???); UVA's doesn't seem bad as as they carry 25 sports to VT's 20.
I guess my point is, looking at ticket price or student fee or whatever else in isolation, isn't the full picture and any of it can be skewed to make a school look better or worse.