Student Fee for football

[Policarp]

My son will be a Sr at Plano Senior this year.........There is a required Student fee at a public high school to attend football games. Without this pass you pay the same $15 per game for GA to get into games.....There are several "fees" I have just paid for year, this is one. On campus parking pass was $75 for year. This student fee covers the 5 home games. It doesn't cover the road game against Plano West which is played in same stadium as most home games. Plano has two 18k capacity stadiums to be shared by the 3 High Schools.

Plano Senior High School
Student Season Football Tickets - for students only
$28.00

If High Schools can get $28 per student for football pass........thinking UL should easily be doing the same. Plano Sr has about 6k students so this student fee is a key part of the HS athletics budget.

Allen HS has over 15k season tickets sold. There 7k+ Students all have "season tickets" makes for a great head start in tickets sold base. UL should have a 19k base head start in season tickets sold. It's not a stretch to simply add these value added student benefits into cost of tuition vs a separate fee so it doesn't require any student vote. Freaking high schools do it without ever voting for it.

[ULvictory]

We are used to getting stuff for free around here. Remember a few years ago when there was push back from folks who complained that the athletic department required a parking pass to park inside of Cajun Field? We are now seeing it with the new rule of paid parking. It's the same with the tuition. There's a misunderstanding that nice buildings that we are building both in academics and athletics aren't free.

[Frenchie35]

Have a $225 student fee for all home sporting events. That's $4.3M/year. Now they have the ticket to attend the football, baseball, softball and all the other events. If they attend or not will that count towards the attendance? That's somewhere around $3/event for the three major events. I will pretend I'm a student again and take that any time.

[CajunEXPRESS]

So you're going to charge 19K people a ticket. What happens when they all show up at baseball, basketball. Breech of contract IMO. At least in football they probably get into the stadium.

[cajun_lannister]

So you’re going to charge 19K people a ticket. What happens when they all show up at baseball, basketball. Breech if contract IMO. At least in football they probably get into the stadium.

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[CajunAmos]

So you’re going to charge 19K people a ticket. What happens when they all show up at baseball, basketball. Breech if contract IMO. At least in football they probably get into the stadium.

The fee wouldn't be a per ticket per game, I would give you access to one of the allotment of student tickets set aside per home game for each sport. If the amount for baseball is 200, they you go by the ticket office, present your ID, and get an actual ticket for the game. Once they are gone, they are gone. You could have 2000 for basketball, and 5000 for football. If those don't get used, allow students to pick up two tickets (one for you and one for a date).

[Frenchie35]

So you’re going to charge 19K people a ticket. What happens when they all show up at baseball, basketball. Breech if contract IMO. At least in football they probably get into the stadium.

Have you ever heard of students camping out to get into events that they have paid for at some larger universities? First come first enter........At Cajun field, if it's sold out do we have enough sections for the 19000 students, if they so wish to attend, to sit?

[Policarp]

Have you ever heard of students camping out to get into events that they have paid for at some larger universities? First come first enter........At Cajun field, if it's sold out do we have enough sections for the 19000 students, if they so wish to attend, to sit?

When half the students show up consistently.....is when one needs to plan for all 19000 showing up. Students dont come close to filling up the spaces they have now for football et basketball.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Have you ever heard of students camping out to get into events that they have paid for at some larger universities? First come first enter........At Cajun field, if it's sold out do we have enough sections for the 19000 students, if they so wish to attend, to sit?

Sorry, I only read the part about the tickets. So your innovative solution is actually an athletic fee of several hundred dollars a year. Gee I could have sworn that fees of this nature needed to be presented, voted, and approved by the so far unwilling students. Got it.

[Policarp]

Student Tickets needs to be added into tuition costs......no fee.

[Cajun Monkee]

So you're going to charge 19K people a ticket. What happens when they all show up at baseball, basketball. Breech of contract IMO. At least in football they probably get into the stadium.

Never thought of it from this perspective.

And for that matter, is there student seating for baseball and softball? It would kind of suck to force students to buy tickets to games they don't have access to.

Maybe a cafeteria plan, $value based per game, that is assessed on an individual basis..

6 football tickets = $60
15 basketball tickets = $75
20 baseball tickets = $100
30 softball tickets = $150

Or a single assessment for all sports of $300.

If you can get at least 5000 students to participate, at least you're talking $300,000.

[Policarp]

Simple do exactly like all others where demand > supply.....its1st come , 1st serve.......when student quota is used, no soup for you. Valuable life lesson......snooze, you lose. Get your arse out of bed and arrive early. Need to get rid of any/all of the entitlements mentality. If you knew $500 a year was specifically part of your tuition costs to attend games where a fair number (5-15% of capacity depending on venue) but clearly a fixed limited number of student seats are available......your focus to show up timely gets much higher.