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A few things of note for upcoming reseating...Any price increase will be confined to the lower bowl.With the Fan Advisory Committee input, a loyalty card program has been added, the "We Are Marquette Club". Most of the advantages were already available to STHs, but some nice new benies: One free ticket for each season ticket to an OOC game (excluding UW), attendance to a private practice, a raffle for dinner with Wojo. Also included is a Spirit Shop discount for entire season, BBQ half price, other sponsor discounts and giveaways, and a "special" gift for those with a ticket scanned for EVERY game. MU will host a Gavitt game at the BC which makes the free ticket offer above a nice reward.Reseating runs June 1-7.The Coors Light Corner remains for alums of the past five years.All STHs will get a 20%-50% discount on single ticket purchases, including UW.
That Gavitt Games game is for the 2017-18 season per the reseating package not the 16-17 season . That's the final season in the BC.
Good catch...my bad. Still if we have a decent home and home series, with next season being MU's home, the complimentary ticket deal is nice.
This reseating-every-year crap is getting old. I feel like I just went thru this process.
It does suck, but it takes what 10 minutes on your computer.
Unfortunately there's no other option. State law made this mandatory.
But if its just for the tax deductibility of donations in WI, that's just a pain in the arse for the relative $$ benefit on a state tax return.
You're looking at it from the wrong side. Yes, it's an inconvenience for us as individual fans. But for Marquette to continue attaching tax free donations to this, they have to reseat every year. It might only be a few hundred for you, but I have to think the donations Marquette takes in are well north of $1M tax free.For Marquette to allow you to pick the same seats yearly and not take a major financial hit they'd have to increase ticket prices significantly. The current system, despite the inconvenience, keeps ticket prices low while maximizing what the university can get back in return.
I don't know that donations are going to suffer because STH's are going to lose a few bucks, on a basis relative to the individual donor, in state tax benefits. People are going to come because they want to come.
If ticket prices go up by 50%, the attendance will drop like a rock. That's what it would take at minimum to do away with the current system.
You're thinking about this incorrectly The bill to the purchaser stays the same, but a few hundred $$ are no longer tax deductible. The university gets the same amount of $$ either way.
Then Marquette is as well. It was made pretty clear ticket prices would go up significantly when I talked to Marquette Athletics about this after the initial change. Also, a couple hundred for someone like me in the cheaper ($120/per) seats might mean less, but the higher ticket seats ($7800/per) would be a more significant write off, and that's for the higher value donors.
Then Marquette is as well. It was made pretty clear ticket prices would go up significantly when I talked to Marquette Athletics about this after the initial change. Also, a couple hundred for someone like me in the cheaper ($120/per) seats might mean less, but the higher ticket seats ($7800/per) would be a more significant write off, and that's for the higher value donors.EDIT: The reason it wouldn't be revenue neutral for the university is that when it's a donation, they can accept it tax free. If it were converted to part of the standard fee, that money would be considered income and thus subject to taxes. If the bill to the purchaser stayed the same, we'd lose the write-off and they'd retain less of the money because it would be taxed.