FB Ticket prices

[Maximus Miner]

You know looking at the seating chart and the overall ticket prices I can see how this can be a major turn off for the casual fans. The End Zone/ nosebleed seats or the cheap tickets are 12 or 14 bucks. I really don’t have a problem with that but holy crap there are individual ones going for 60 to 70 a piece for the front rows along the 50 yard line on both sides of the Sun Bowl. I get that their field level seats and all but can’t seriously think people are going spend that much for a football game. There’s a lot of 20 to 40 plus too and I think they need to dramatically lower them because nothing else is working. If UTEP wins their next game they have got to do everything in their power to draw in 20 to 30K For La Tech.

 

[unihorn]

@NoNCAAWinsSince1992

 

[JCorona]

UTSA has a nice promotion for their next game. 50% off all tickets since they're 5-0.

If we beat USM, we should do 51% off to celebrate 5-1. That would help get us to 51% capacity.

 

[develman]

 

[shyminer81]

I noticed that as well. While $70 really isn’t too bad. For a program like UTEP they are fooling themselves if they think people are going to spend that much. I also don’t agree with all the negativity about El Paso and 11k. While it is horrible, so has the program for a long damn time. When was the last time someone like Will Hernandez, stepped up and donated some tickets? It’s easy to complain and I’m sure he meant well. It still makes El Paso look bad. It’s more of UTEP to blame than anything. Their marketing is complete trash, and they need to get real creative for the next home game. $10 tickets for upper levels and $20 for lower levels… 11k ain’t paying the bills anyways… Could 20k at $10 and $20 move the needle more? Why aren’t they reaching out to rural communities, and leaving tickets at the school to purchase on discount? People will open up their pockets more, when they feel they are going to have a good time… such as the monster trucks or a movie. Watching UTEP get blown away year after year, isn’t something people want to do. At least not anymore…. It goes both ways, UTEP. Both ways.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

Been trying to tell you guys for years now. Single game tickets for basketball come out tomorrow. I bet we’re in for a treat!

 

[MinerInWisconsin]

They gotta get fans back in the stands. 35,000 empty seats aren't doing UTEP any good. For the rest of this season offer 20k or so seats for $5 and let's see if that and an improved team will get 30k plus in the Sun Bowl.

 

[Minerforlife]

It's all about revenue. If you have five dollar tickets and get 25,000 fans you make the same or less revenue as they did with 11,000 fans. That's smoke and mirrors and doesn't improve anything.

Keep winning keep ticket prices where they are. Don't give in to the " minor league city" mentality" El Paso has.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

It's all about revenue. If you have five dollar tickets and get 25,000 fans you make the same or less revenue as they did with 11,000 fans. That's smoke and mirrors and doesn't improve anything.

Keep winning keep ticket prices where they are. Don't give in to the " minor league city" mentality" El Paso has.

That’s way wrong. You have 14,000 more people buying parking spaces and concessions. You also have 14,000 more people looking at your product. “Most” of them will come back another time. Some will become season ticket holders, and so on.

Very short sighted to not have a promotion for a game or two because you will “makes less money”.

 

[Minerforlife]

That’s way wrong. You have 14,000 more people buying parking spaces and concessions. You also have 14,000 more people looking at your product. “Most” of them will come back another time. Some will become season ticket holders, and so on.

Very short sighted to not have a promotion for a game or two because you will “makes less money”.

This isn't minor league sports. You can't run a d1 program on discounted tickets. You have to acclimate them to higher ticket prices.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

This isn't minor league sports. You can't run a d1 program on discounted tickets. You have to acclimate them to higher ticket prices.

This isn’t Ohio St or Alabama. UTSA is running a promotion for their next home game. Same conference, bigger city, similar school. Guess that’s different though and they are dumb for trying it?

 

[Minerforlife]

This isn’t Ohio St or Alabama. UTSA is running a promotion for their next home game. Same conference, bigger city, similar school. Guess that’s different though and they are dumb for trying it?

I don't know how many corporate sponsors they have. I assume they have more than we do. That gives them the leeway to do a promotion. Plus there are 100 times more things to do in Dan Antonio and it's immediate vicinity than there is in El Paso.

The people you are trying to cater to in El Paso will bitch and moan as soon as they don't get cheap tickets. They will also sneak snacks in. They aren't going to float the program. Cheap tickets aren't a solution.

 

[JCorona]

This isn’t Ohio St or Alabama. UTSA is running a promotion for their next home game. Same conference, bigger city, similar school. Guess that’s different though and they are dumb for trying it?

Cheapest tickets right now are 5.50. Most expensive are 60 and 100.

 

[TxRdKiller]

I don't know how many corporate sponsors they have. I assume they have more than we do. That gives them the leeway to do a promotion. Plus there are 100 times more things to do in Dan Antonio and it's immediate vicinity than there is in El Paso.

The people you are trying to cater to in El Paso will bitch and moan as soon as they don't get cheap tickets. They will also sneak snacks in. They aren't going to float the program. Cheap tickets aren't a solution.

I agree with you to some extent. People need to get accustomed to paying a little more for tickets.

That said, I also think it would do wonders to have a promotion or two to draw people back in. The fans are gone. GONE. UTEP needs to pull them back in and like someone suggested earlier in the thread, a 51% off promotion for the La. Tech game -- assuming we beat USM -- would bring lots more people in. NoWins mentioned it would also fill up parking spots and sell more beer and snacks -- even with some cheapos sneaking in their own -- sell a few jerseys, etc.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

I don't know how many corporate sponsors they have. I assume they have more than we do. That gives them the leeway to do a promotion. Plus there are 100 times more things to do in Dan Antonio and it's immediate vicinity than there is in El Paso.

The people you are trying to cater to in El Paso will bitch and moan as soon as they don't get cheap tickets. They will also sneak snacks in. They aren't going to float the program. Cheap tickets aren't a solution.

Cheap tickets aren’t a long term solution, doesn’t mean they can’t be sprinkled in once or twice a season. The only long term solution is winning and beating bad teams. You can’t expect people to start showing up after countless bad years because they beat the worst in D1.

 

[picks up]

UTEP may have dropped the ball on the first home game. They should have had the cheap tickets promotion back then to get people to possibly come back for the rest of the season. We did something similar a couple years ago and got about 30k for an FCS opponent I believe... but then the season went to crap. Maybe Senter was banking on us going 4-1 and gradually building up crowds as we start winning? Clearly that hasn't happened. Seems like it's going to take more than squeaking by these bad teams to get the fans back. Casual fans see close scores against bad teams and aren't convinced yet. In the end, bad attendance could be another byproduct of Dimel's ultra conservative offense. Ooooor people are just tired of being burned for over a decade and need to see more consistent winning before they come back.

 

[JCorona]

If UTEP beats USM they need to market the LT game. I don't care if you have to do $5.1 tickets. We need 20-30k people to help us become bowl eligible and secure at least a .500 regular season. Senter can't sit back and expect the record will be enough to draw the crowds in. It's hasn't been enough up to now and it won't be enough.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

If UTEP beats USM they need to market the LT game. I don't care if you have to do $5.1 tickets. We need 20-30k people to help us become bowl eligible and secure at least a .500 regular season. Senter can't sit back and expect the record will be enough to draw the crowds in. It's hasn't been enough up to now and it won't be enough.

You need to be marketing the game now! On the main athletics and football Twitter accounts there is no mention of the next game or the next home game. If you’re not even hyping your next home game, you aren’t really trying.

It takes 1 ****ing minute to type out “Join us for LaTech on Saturday October 16th at 7pm. Speaking rock will be giving away money! $1000 for each TD and $500 for each FG. Here’s the link to buy tickets and here’s the phone number for tickets.”

It’s that easy.

 

[DBminer]

It's all about revenue. If you have five dollar tickets and get 25,000 fans you make the same or less revenue as they did with 11,000 fans. That's smoke and mirrors and doesn't improve anything.

Keep winning keep ticket prices where they are. Don't give in to the " minor league city" mentality" El Paso has.

What you don’t factor in is that’s 14000 more fans hitting the horribly over priced concession stands which would be bound to rake in money or do they not make money off of that?

 

[DBminer]

I don't know how many corporate sponsors they have. I assume they have more than we do. That gives them the leeway to do a promotion. Plus there are 100 times more things to do in Dan Antonio and it's immediate vicinity than there is in El Paso.

The people you are trying to cater to in El Paso will bitch and moan as soon as they don't get cheap tickets. They will also sneak snacks in. They aren't going to float the program. Cheap tickets aren't a solution.

Cheap tickets could build a fan base though don’t you think ? Get some people used to going to games then slightly increase …

 

[JCorona]

Back in 1967 tickets on the east side of the stadium cost $5. Coincidentally that's the last time we won a bowl game. Let's drop prices like we're back in the 60's.

 

[shyminer81]

Giving away 1k at the game didn’t work… Use that money to purchase tickets and give them away to schools or other organizations like the YMCA. You can’t rebuild the fan base overnight, you can find a way to put butts in the seats though.

 

[UTEPDefense]

It would have been better to use that $1k($4k total) for some NIL endorsement money to try and keep some of our high producing Sophomores happy. Almost all of our high producing young guys still have their one-time transfer available to use.

 

[OsoFromELP]

Back in 1967 tickets on the east side of the stadium cost $5. Coincidentally that's the last time we won a bowl game. Let's drop prices like we're back in the 60's.

The irony is, adjusting for inflation, that $5 ticket from 1967 would cost you almost $41 today. I guess that means today's ticket prices are pretty much on par.

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[UTEPDefense]

During a radio interview last week, Kappy mentioned to Cowing "how great" it is that every time he scores, somebody is going to get paid.

It has been reported via numerous stories that he has a young child. I am sure that he really loves the idea that when he scores a TD that other people get paid for his many hours of hard work. If Cowing gets no NIL money and UTEP loses him at the end of this year, then I certainly can't blame him for trying to go somewhere else where he can make some NIL money to take care of his family.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

During a radio interview last week, Kappy mentioned to Cowing "how great" it is that every time he scores, somebody is going to get paid.

It has been reported via numerous stories that he has a young child. I am sure that he really loves the idea that when he scores a TD that other people get paid for his many hours of hard work. If Cowing gets no NIL money and UTEP loses him at the end of this year, then I certainly can't blame him for trying to go somewhere else where he can make some NIL money to take care of his family.

He’s getting a free education that if he chooses to use it later in life, is worth more than any NIL money he might be getting.

Why should we sympathize with him more, than over a player without a kid?

 

[JCorona]

During a radio interview last week, Kappy mentioned to Cowing "how great" it is that every time he scores, somebody is going to get paid.

It has been reported via numerous stories that he has a young child. I am sure that he really loves the idea that when he scores a TD that other people get paid for his many hours of hard work. If Cowing gets no NIL money and UTEP loses him at the end of this year, then I certainly can't blame him for trying to go somewhere else where he can make some NIL money to take care of his family.

He's probably gone after this season. He has the talent to play at the P5 level and eventually on Sundays.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

Giving away 1k at the game didn’t work… Use that money to purchase tickets and give them away to schools or other organizations like the YMCA. You can’t rebuild the fan base overnight, you can find a way to put butts in the seats though.

It was a hastily thrown together promo on late Tuesday afternoon. And not really a “wow” in most people’s book. 1/11,000 chance isn’t great. Again, that is a bonus to go. Insanely small chance of winning money. It’s not a reason to pluck down $80 to take the family.

 

[JCorona]

He’s getting a free education that if he chooses to use it later in life, is worth more than any NIL money he might be getting.

Why should we sympathize with him more, than over a player without a kid?

Imagine playing for a school/city where you can get both. Free education and NIL money. He would be stupid to turn it down.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

The irony is, adjusting for inflation, that $5 ticket from 1967 would cost you almost $41 today. I guess that means today's ticket prices are pretty much on par.

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In 1967, the Miners were coming off a 6-4 season and they were 8-3 the season before that. They blew out UCSB by 36, beat BYU by 30, beat NMSU by 22, and Colorado St 17-0. Their 2 conference loses we’re at Arizona St (8-2) by 1 point and at home to Wyoming (10-1) by 2 points.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

Imagine playing for a school/city where you can get both. Free education and NIL money. He would be stupid to turn it down.

Yes, but he would also have to move cities and change coaching staffs. Maybe Georgia Southern pays him 5k a touchdown, doesn’t mean that he will be more successful or become a better player.

I really doubt the majority of these players are doing “smart” things with their NIL money anyway. Wait until the taxes are due.

 

[JCorona]

Yes, but he would also have to move cities and change coaching staffs. Maybe Georgia Southern pays him 5k a touchdown, doesn’t mean that he will be more successful or become a better player.

I really doubt the majority of these players are doing “smart” things with their NIL money anyway. Wait until the taxes are due.

Lol he's going to a P5 school.

It's different when you have a baby momma and child that need diapers and food. Your entire mentality changes. I doubt he'll be at the strip club acting like a baller.

 

[picks up]

Is Oscar Arrieta on here? If not have someone call him and tell him to pay Cowing. Just kidding... kind of

 

[JCorona]

Is Oscar Arrieta on here? If not have someone call him and tell him to pay Cowing. Just kidding... kind of

A business really should step up and work out a deal with him. Even something small like 100 a td or 100 every time he gets 100 yard receiving. Anything.



I don't really understand this chart but it shows him at the top.

 

[UTEPDefense]

Technically it is still not legal to pay directly based on performance, so money per TD would not work, but definitely someone needs to get proactive and start offering guys like Cowing, Praise, Hankins, Stewart, etc. NIL money.

Also, you have to view these things from the eyes of a 19/20 year old, who is trying to hit-up family members for diaper money each month. Yet someone else is getting $1,000 every time they score a TD, while they are barely getting by. Cowing might not make the NFL, these are possibly the only years that he will have an opportunity to make some money playing football, he needs to capitalize on that.

 

[MineroFanatico]

He’s getting a free education that if he chooses to use it later in life, is worth more than any NIL money he might be getting.

Why should we sympathize with him more, than over a player without a kid?

It’s not so much sympathize with him, but more of an awareness that he produces week in and week out and he would probably be able to go somewhere else to get his next year if he so chooses.

 

[NoNCAAWinsSince1992]

It’s not so much sympathize with him, but more of an awareness that he produces week in and week out and he would probably be able to go somewhere else to get his next year if he so chooses.

Paying him 10k for the season isn’t necessarily going to keep him here if Oklahoma St comes calling. If he has dreams and aspirations of something bigger than UTEP he will leave anyway. That’s who UTEP is.

 

[JCorona]

Cool that you upgraded him to the big 12 from the SB.

 

[OsoFromELP]

UTEP Football Has a Winning Record and a Big Attendance Problem

The UTEP football team is off to a 4-1 start, their best record in 11 years. However Sun Bowl attendance has not mirrored the Miners success on the field.

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[TxRdKiller]

He’s getting a free education that if he chooses to use it later in life, is worth more than any NIL money he might be getting.

Why should we sympathize with him more, than over a player without a kid?

I don't sympathize with him at all. I would just like to see our best WR stick with us. Get someone to pay the kid some NIL money for Mother Earth's sake.