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They are giving up a 6-10 million home gate to play a neutral site game knowing they are going to make more is my point. So the argument that NDSU is giving up an home gate and loss revenue is an argument that is offset with the ideal if done right you make more on a neutral site game. That is the point I am making.
They are giving up a 6-10 million home gate to play a neutral site game knowing they are going to make more is my point. So the argument that NDSU is giving up an home gate and loss revenue is an argument that is offset with the ideal if done right you make more on a neutral site game. That is the point I am making.
Pretty much everybody who is complaining has also said they would be there regardless of who the opponent is. That tells me ML is right. While we'd all rather see a strong opponent or rival, it's not going to matter much, at least not for the first game.
And of course Alabama isn't giving up money, as he mentioned that's his point. I'm pretty confident NDSU wouldn't either. You'll notice they didn't just jump in and agree to something on the spur of the moment. It needs to make sense, and they appear to be doing their due diligence.
How much to you think this was a trial balloon thrown out by the athletic department to get feedback? I would venture to guess the feedback directly to the university has been useful in determining whether to move forward with this and to gauge interest.
I just hope NDSU isn't overlooking they could alienate the core season ticket base for the sake of "expanding the brand". You tell a lot of the season ticket holders that you are going to double the cost of their season tickets...and in the same year start hinting that you're thinking about taking a home game away.
They are going to put the game in a venue that is 2x the size of the FargoDome. Every season ticket holder is going to get a seat (and probably the opportunity to be first in line to buy additional tickets) they'll get a great deal on a hotel package if they need one and they'll thrown them a huge fucking party in the ballroom at the Loews across from Target Center or some shit. No one is taking anything away from anyone.
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You can have it all at Target field. The suite level and clubs can handle all that.
Hey how about this. Give every season ticket holder a Free Seat at the game, still have 30k to sell.
The opportunities are endless to make this work.
Let's say you sell 5k tickets to Twin Cities folks that don't have much involvement with the university. You have to figure Simmers will get a handful of them drunk and get big checks out of them. Isn't that a win?
Not taking anything away? So in Herd Mentality's example said teammaker gets his cost doubled. One home game taken away for game at Target field. He is still paying the same amount, but one less home game. Does the price he paid include the ticket at Target field? No you say? Oh, so said Teammaker has to pay extra for that. Oh yeah, he also has to pay the great deal at the hotel, etc. Sounds like something is taken away to me.
Don't take me as somebody against the idea, though...just showing that you maybe didn't take everything into account. As far as being for or against...I'll wait and see what happens and decide later.
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I would assume that season ticket holders would get a Target Field game ticket as part of their package.
If the price of tickets is to high for some people, they're going to have to make a decision. That's not taking anything away from anyone.
It's been a while but we've had years with only 5 home dates before. No one died.
It's probably a long shot that this ever gets off the ground and even if it's a ripping success it's not going to be an annual or even semi-annual thing. In some crazy dream world where everyone falls in love with this game (clearly not the case) it's probably once every 5 years or something. Surely a hotel room in the cities twice a decade isn't going to break anyone who's got disposable income for season tickets. Also, if is too much money or to big a pain in the ass, you can sell your ticket (or not buy it in the event it isn't part of your package).
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We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie