1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 30th, 3:25pm - Student ticket prices

Episode Date: December 1, 2021

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought to you by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to what I want. I've thrown my script out the door, out the window. I bawled it up and curled up, which is usually the case. It happens far more than you would expect.

Oh, yeah. But a couple of things. So, one, I can speak to when I was in school, then I can speak to some students that I mentor and what they pay. But so at Texas Tech, you pay 50 bucks and can get into any sporting event, period. For the entire season, that's it. And it's intuition. Is there anybody that actually knows the breakdown of tuition?

So what you, because Nick thinks he got a breakdown, but he's not sure. Well, what was in it? It's different for me because, like, right now it's just, I just pay for classes. Okay, but even in your But when I was a freshman But even in your hourly courses, do you know how much you know what you pay per credit hour? Yes.

Do you know what that covers? It just covers the class and any materials. Okay. Have you done the math of how many people take that class? Honestly, I have not. Okay. I just look at what I pay. What I want to do on each month?

So, right. In the SEC, so my nephew is at All right, Alabama. And he just texted and he says he pays $249 and that gets him in every game. Oh, okay. Like they could put it in, they could put it in your tuition. Zero students are paying attention to what they charge you for in the tuition. As a fact, it usually goes to a student loan or goes through a grant. You never see it and don't know what it is, right?

And when you're spending that much money, if you paid an extra $100, you wouldn't notice. Right. I mean, well, but just in peace of mind knowing that in paying tuition, a part of that not only allows me, but it encourages me to be a fan of the teams that that university has. And then it also creates some urgency for you if, let's say, the magic numbers, 5,000 students, the first 5,000 students,

Think Shoshavsky Bill Duke, right? That you create interest in that and it becomes a great thing. Now, it becomes slightly embarrassing if nobody shows up, but it's free and it didn't cost you anything. You've already collected the money. It's not a big deal. But imagine the inclusion. Imagine the person that because it's free can go to a game

and becomes a fan of the game, a fan of the team, and is willing to support that. So when somebody says, hey, let's go to. a game. It's inclusive. Wow. Wow. There's a couple of things with the student section areas and how they run it that I would change and push back on a little bit. Scott says this. Some people don't want to pay for sports.

Okay, so let me ask the question. If there's anybody out there that can answer this question differently than how I think you're going to answer it, please do. How many people are going to the University of Nebraska not to attend football games? right right i mean how simple is that is there somebody going to nebraska who doesn't want like the whole purpose at at the top of the list of why they want to go to nebraska is to go to football games in in a lot of cases it's above the degree like whatever degree you're doing right so why would you not make it simple and make it inclusive and consider everybody now again there's some eliteism to it.

There's some eliteism to it that people want to feel like, well, geez, I have money so I should have first right of refusal. But then you're not creating fans. You're creating people who are there for a social agenda rather than people who are there to cheer like crazy for the Huskers. Right?

I mean, Nick, you've been in the student section when there are people there who are far more busy taking pictures and hanging out with their buddies than they are watching the game. It's a social event. Right? So why not allow fans? people who actually want to make Memorial Stadium loud, people who want to make PBA loud.

Like even the nerds are coming to Nebraska. Look, if you're a nerd and you're not here to be a part of Nebraska athletics, you're going to go somewhere else anyway, because you know it's high on the list of priority and function. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Drumstick says this. Oh, crime. The university should just pay the bill.

They're charging these students, order them amounts of money for tuition anyway. And again, if they just added $400 $400 to tuition to it and said because of that, one, it simplifies their operation, right? Because you don't have to handle and distribute and remanage and forward tickets and all that stuff. Nope, there would be a single barcode for each student.

And it would allow the university to track who's going to the game, who's using the app, who's using the tickets, who's attending, and who's not. It also helps you market. It also helps you figure out these kids aren't coming to the game. But if you make it simple for people to come to games, that's what people do.

That's remarkable. And so in the student section, not only are you paying for those tickets, but it's you can't as a student, you can, if mom and dad want to go write the big check, you can go move to a different place. Yeah.

Yep. So there's zero motivation to be in the student section in a bad seat or a less than bad seat. They make this difficult on themselves, don't they? Oh, yeah. Okay, all right, let's go. Jack's in the Honda Lincoln Hotline.

Jack, what's up, Jack? Hey, how are you guys doing? We're good, we're good. What's on your mind? Good, good to hear. Hey, coming from a unique perspective, I had the opportunity to attend both U of A and Arizona State and U.N.L,

All three of which charge for ticketing outside of, for their primary sports, particularly men's basketball and football. I think it's interesting, though, my grandfather was a former administrator for the University of Nebraska, and I believe the athletic department is discly independent of the academic portion of the university, so the academic tuition does not contribute to facilities, salaries, things of that nature, in regards to the athletic department, and because of that, they are able to sell tickets to the students, but then independently of that, the comment about students being there as a result of, you know,

primarily wanting to go to football games as a student that was working full-time, that's just not a feasibility for a large portion. But you make my point for me, Jack, because you were working, because you were working, because you did not have those resources, wouldn't it have been the real move for the university to allow you, a working student, free access to those games? You know, yeah, it would have been nice to have been able to attend

a couple football games, but at the same time, it's also their prime dollar earner that allows them to fund other sports that don't have the interest. whether it's cross-country or track or, you know, women's bowling and things like that, you know, big, big competitive stuff, but you got to get the revenue where you can. Well, don't you think if, Jack, and thanks for staying on the line, if they, again, make it a really positive fun event where students are attending in high volume, don't you think more sponsors would then come to the table to advertise and market to those students? Yeah, I think you're right in that regard.

Like if you look at Arizona State and what they do for the basketball program there or even U of A, I mean, two powerhouse basketball programs are historically, you know, very competitive. They have large, large student sections that are truly disruptive. And you're right, absolutely in advertisers. there's, you know, kind of candy there. And then on the football side, even though U of A sucks, the Zona Zoo is effectively the entire eastern half of the lower concourse for students. So it's fairly sizable.

So I definitely get your point there. Jack, thank you for adding to. Appreciate you. Yeah, I mean, right. I mean, and so Brian says this on the Texan. He says, I went to the University of Idaho, and they included all sports for free. in their tuition, even though they sucked.

There was always a blast attending games. Right? So, and then Ben makes too many blue hairs at Husker football games. Nothing worse than standing up to cheer and get loud on a crucial third down and having a blue hair yell at you to sit down. And that's everywhere. But that's everything. But here's the thing.

When I keep talking about collegiate athletics, I always go back to this. What's the priority? and if the priority is for that these games are for rich people to pay and control, or is it for the students of the current active student body of that university? Because if you don't take care of the current student body, they don't become check writing boosters. They don't because their experience is bad. Right?

The experience is bad. Now, it does build some resentment towards university. It also builds some distance because people will say, well, look, I'm giving you all this money. I expect more and more and more. Well, the reality is you have to remember why you're, like if you went to school at the University of Nebraska, at some point you were a student here, you understand the energy that you walk into a building with or should walk into the building with. And it's no slight. I'm just slightless because I know that there are universities that include the tuition.

It's some unknown mystical number that you add into student activities fees. And everybody understands that you're covering a basic desire to be included. You're going to pay the difference between you paying 3,400 and 3,000 or 6,000 and 6,000, it's still the same amount of work. And if it's electronic and done the way that it's been done in the past, the student really isn't effective by it. You're giving the students freedom to be included and to participate. So then the university has to ask the question.

Who do you want to participate more? Check writers or their active student body. That's a whole conversation for another question. That's a whole other conversation. Because I keep telling you, look, the GPS of the athletic program That one just went deep. We'll tell you, well, here's the thing. Everything that is going on in Nebraska's athletic department

or the athletic department of any major university in the country, the decisions are based on that priority and that function. So if you keep asking your university, whatever university that is, is not Nebraska specific, but if you ask your university, why are the illogical things being done, the answer is probably one of two things. One, because the money people said so, or two, we do not have a focus and priority.

That's it. Like, we have smart listeners. That's part of why I love doing radio with you guys, because you guys get it, but you also will ask yourself the question. Why is this without direction? what's the urgency, what's the focus? If the student athletes are the focus, say so.

If the students are the focus, say so. If it's the checkwriters who make things posh and fun, they're going to lie to you and say it's student athletes. They're not going to tell you the truth. But that's, all right. I mean, I think that's kind of the length. Okay. Again, good conversation.

Thank you guys for adding to it. We'll finish up one-on-one. We've come back on 93-7 the ticket. Watch live on Facebook. YouTube or Twitch, you're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.