Boycott $40 DePaul game in Rosemont

[chuck]

Boycott the Marquette at DePaul game in Rosemont, please! DePaul has designated this game (along with the N.D. game in Rosemont) a "premium" game and has jacked up all the tickets to $40 each! It's one blanket price. You can't get into the arena for less than $40 -- even if you're up in the rafters. BOYCOTT! I am. I have gone every year for many many seasons, but not this time, not for $40!

[The Lens]

Winning is a choice, a choice that DePaul athletics has not yet made.  This is not good business, this is a short-cut solution that they read about in the Sports Business Journal from the Cubs.  Has a original thought ever come out of Lincoln Park? 

I will look forward to getting in for $20 on the day of.  They won't let seats go unsold, prices will come down. You don't go from have near floor seats available in 2007 to having $40 tix sold out in 2009, doesn't happen.

Some (Digger) have described DePaul as a sleeping giant...well maybe that sleep is the byproduct of a case of Old Style and 10 Lunestras...or maybe they're like Andre the Giant, dead.

[4everwarriors]

Everybody now together---Take It To The Streets




Don't they realize the economy sucks?

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

I agree that this is a bush league plan by DePaul.

However, it's a pricing structure that might end up getting used by a lot of schools.

Hell, people on this board complain that they pay $25 for Savannah St.

Well, an easy way to balance that out is to make the Savannah St. game only $15 and try to sell it out (due to the good price) and mark up the UW and Georgetown tickets for $40. (Not saying that it will work, just saying it's an idea)

Supply and demand. High supply of crappy game tickets = low price. Low supply of good game tickets = high price.

Not saying it's right... just saying it might become the "norm" in the coming years.

[chapman]

The thing is, this will probably detract more DePaul fans than MU fans from attending.  I'd expect the proportion of MU fans to be even more than usual from the price increase; the willingness to pay comes with wanting to see a good team play, and DePaul fans won't want to pay more.

[RJax55]

The thing is, this will probably detract more DePaul fans than MU fans from attending.  I'd expect the proportion of MU fans to be even more than usual from the price increase; the willingness to pay comes with wanting to see a good team play, and DePaul fans won't want to pay more.

+1

I would like to meet the genius who came up with this idea ... $40 a ticket, no matter the location, unbelievable.  I understand teams having a preferred game ticket rate, but that's not what DePaul is doing here. 

[esotericmindguy]

Dust off the wallet and lay down the 40, its worth it...it seems to be the new trend in both professional and collegiate sports.  Not sure if you are a depaul fan, but the reason they do it is because the stadium fills with out of towners. 

[Phi Iota Gamma 84]

Winning is a choice, a choice that DePaul athletics has not yet made.  This is not good business, this is a short-cut solution that they read about in the Sports Business Journal from the Cubs.  Has a original thought ever come out of Lincoln Park? 

I will look forward to getting in for $20 on the day of.   They won't let seats go unsold, prices will come down. You don't go from have near floor seats available in 2007 to having $40 tix sold out in 2009, doesn't happen.

Some (Digger) have described DePaul as a sleeping giant...well maybe that sleep is the byproduct of a case of Old Style and 10 Lunestras...or maybe they're like Andre the Giant, dead.

+1 or less

[Bob "Big Daddy" Wild]

Winning is a choice, a choice that DePaul athletics has not yet made.  This is not good business, this is a short-cut solution that they read about in the Sports Business Journal from the Cubs.  Has a original thought ever come out of Lincoln Park? 

I will look forward to getting in for $20 on the day of.  They won't let seats go unsold, prices will come down. You don't go from have near floor seats available in 2007 to having $40 tix sold out in 2009, doesn't happen.

Some (Digger) have described DePaul as a sleeping giant...well maybe that sleep is the byproduct of a case of Old Style and 10 Lunestras...or maybe they're like Andre the Giant, dead.

DePaul is definitely a sleeping giant.  If they ever get some decent leadership and a coach/recruiter over there it could be scary.  Great location for a college in the heart of one of the top talent pipelines in the country.  I was very young at the time, but when they had Aguire I think they had a decent following in Chicago - can anyone confirm or talk about that?  (I was like 7 years old).  My dad took me to some of their games back then, but I don't think I've heard him speak of DePaul since.

Unfortunately they have no alumni support and we all know the fiasco that is Allstate Arena.

[ecompt]

just to put things in perspective, the best tickets for a Yankees-Royals game at the new Yankee Stadium next year are $2,500 each.

[chuck]

Dust off the wallet and lay down the 40, its worth it...it seems to be the new trend in both professional and collegiate sports.  Not sure if you are a depaul fan, but the reason they do it is because the stadium fills with out of towners. 

No, I'm not a DePaul fan. I'm a Chicagoan who went to Marquette, and who has been attending the Rosemont MU-DP game since the '80s. I'm not rich, not going to suddenly double what I normally pay to see MU play in Rosemont. I don't want to encourage DePaul with their extortion and pay that ridiculously high price. With all due respect, in regard to the DePaul-Marquette game, the stadium doesn't fill up with out-of-towners, it fills up with people like me and my friends who normally attend this game: Chicagoans who went to Marquette, and their families. There are 14,000-plus MU alums living in the Chicago area, more than N.D. alums living in the Chicago area, by the way (yes, I've checked the figures with the respective alumni offices). Sure, there are a good number who come down from Milwaukee, but there are boatloads of MU fans who live in Chicago.

[MUCam]

I've never been to a MU game at DePaul, but I have heard that equal numbers, if not higher numbers, of MU fans attend the games.

If that is the case, then why not charge $40. If you are getting mainly opposing team fans, might as well hike up the price and make an extra penny or two.

[jce]

No, I'm not a DePaul fan. I'm a Chicagoan who went to Marquette, and who has been attending the Rosemont MU-DP game since the '80s. I'm not rich, not going to suddenly double what I normally pay to see MU play in Rosemont. I don't want to encourage DePaul with their extortion and pay that ridiculously high price. With all due respect, in regard to the DePaul-Marquette game, the stadium doesn't fill up with out-of-towners, it fills up with people like me and my friends who normally attend this game: Chicagoans who went to Marquette, and their families. There are 14,000-plus MU alums living in the Chicago area, more than N.D. alums living in the Chicago area, by the way (yes, I've checked the figures with the respective alumni offices). Sure, there are a good number who come down from Milwaukee, but there are boatloads of MU fans who live in Chicago.

Right...which means that if you choose not to go, there are hundreds of people waiting.  DePaul knows that.

[jce]

DePaul is definitely a sleeping giant.  If they ever get some decent leadership and a coach/recruiter over there it could be scary.  Great location for a college in the heart of one of the top talent pipelines in the country.  

I don't know about that.  The first thing they need to do is get a better place to play, closer to campus.  Furthermore, they have a lot of commuter students which takes away from the passion of the entire atmosphere.  I remember when Quinton Richardson decided to stay in Chicago and play there...there were talks of "revival" and "rebirth."

But then he went pro and they fired the coach.  So life goes for DePaul.

[Hards Alumni]

I've never been to a MU game at DePaul, but I have heard that equal numbers, if not higher numbers, of MU fans attend the games.

If that is the case, then why not charge $40. If you are getting mainly opposing team fans, might as well hike up the price and make an extra penny or two.

I agree... it is a business move that effectively doubles the income for that game... and it is a break even if they only fill halfway.  And my guess is that they will probably fill it at least halfway.

Boycott if you want, someone will buy the tickets... DP will make its money.

[chuck]

Right...which means that if you choose not to go, there are hundreds of people waiting.  DePaul knows that.

You're missing the point: If I, and the group of eight or 10 who usually attend with me, don't go, DePaul loses that money. The game won't sell out, so, no, there are not hundreds of people waiting. DePaul loses our money because we've decided it's too expensive. This is not the Cubs or Notre Dame football or the Chicago Bears, where there is a huge pool of hungry, ticket-less fans waiting for the opportunity to snag a ticket. Those teams can get away with jacking up the prices (to a degree), but DePaul cannot. There are not eight or 10 other fans who couldn't have gone before, and now, because we choose not to attend, now have that opportunity. That other "group" can go regardless of what my group does because, as I've said and is my point, the game never sells out. DePaul is not going to gain any new fans; they are only going to lose fans.

[chuck]

I agree... it is a business move that effectively doubles the income for that game... and it is a break even if they only fill halfway.  And my guess is that they will probably fill it at least halfway.

Boycott if you want, someone will buy the tickets... DP will make its money.

Please see my reply to "there are hundreds of people waiting."

I agree with you that DePaul will sell tickets to the game. My guess, however, is that they will not make as much money than if they had kept the previous pricing structure. I had a group of eight to 10 people ready to go, and then we saw the jacked-up ticket price and said "forget it." I argue DePaul won't get four or five people in our place. But of course, we'll know after the game when the attendance is reported.

[reinko]

You're missing the point: If I, and the group of eight or 10 who usually attend with me, don't go, DePaul loses that money. The game won't sell out, so, no, there are not hundreds of people waiting. DePaul loses our money because we've decided it's too expensive. This is not the Cubs or Notre Dame football or the Chicago Bears, where there is a huge pool of hungry, ticket-less fans waiting for the opportunity to snag a ticket. Those teams can get away with jacking up the prices (to a degree), but DePaul cannot. There are not eight or 10 other fans who couldn't have gone before, and now, because we choose not to attend, now have that opportunity. That other "group" can go regardless of what my group does because, as I've said and is my point, the game never sells out. DePaul is not going to gain any new fans; they are only going to lose fans.

No, we get it.  It's an extremely popular model in ticketing.  It's not a boycott if you and 10 friends don't go.  Are thousands of MU fans not gonna go to one of only 2 Big East games inside a 6 hour drive because of $15?  

[jce]

De Paul knows what it is doing.  They will make more money on the game by doing this, and I think the crowd will have more MU fans than they have in years past.  No offense, but if I am an MU alum in the Chicago area and used to dropping $40 per ticket, doubling that really isn't that big a deal if it is the one game I go to a year.

[chuck]

De Paul knows what it is doing.  They will make more money on the game by doing this, and I think the crowd will have more MU fans than they have in years past.  No offense, but if I am an MU alum in the Chicago area and used to dropping $40 per ticket, doubling that really isn't that big a deal if it is the one game I go to a year.

My group (MU Chicagoans living near Rosemont) is the model (the target market) that DePaul is trying to exploit, and they've lost us. I haven't seen any posts here from anyone else saying that they're going to this game despite the doubling of ticket prices. Several of you have said people will go anyway. Well, my group is the audience DePaul is trying to lure, and we're telling DePaul to go shove it. Of course, we'll find out come Feb. 3.

[🏀]

I'm willing to bet that the game still draws very well. $40 is quite the increase, but not enough to keep that many people away.

If anything this will hurt the casual DePaul fan wanting to see a marquee matchup for the usual very affordable price. I don't think alienating the casual fanbase will help in the long run.

[rocky_warrior]

$40 to see MU in person?  What a steal.  Sh1t - for me it starts with a couple hundred for a plane ride, then another hundred for a hotel, another hundred (or more) for food and drink.

Oh yeah - and then a measly $40 to see the team play.

I understand - it's not "fair", but you've got it good.  Trust me.

[spartan3186]

I also just went and looked as of now (530 on Friday Oct 31) you can get lower level seats, row J for 40 bucks... thats not bad at all

[Marquette84]

The thing is, this will probably detract more DePaul fans than MU fans from attending.  I'd expect the proportion of MU fans to be even more than usual from the price increase; the willingness to pay comes with wanting to see a good team play, and DePaul fans won't want to pay more.

I suspect both DePaul fans will still go to the game.

[The Lens]

$40 to see MU in person?  What a steal.  Sh1t - for me it starts with a couple hundred for a plane ride, then another hundred for a hotel, another hundred (or more) for food and drink.

Oh yeah - and then a measly $40 to see the team play.

I understand - it's not "fair", but you've got it good.  Trust me.

It's not about the cost, it's about an inept organization over playing their hand.  I'll pay triple to see Cub-Sox or Brewers-Cubs but this will blow up on them.  They should treat their MU buyers like gods...wine us, dine us, show us how Big East basketball is available and affordable in Chicago.  Make the MU game the best hand out, improve the game presentation, don't gouge us once, get us buying repeatedly.  Offer 1/2 off any other game tiks.  Get us and our wallets back in the building.  Their approach is very short sighted and emblematic of a rudderless ship.