TU returning 3,000 unsold tickets to OSU
Published: 9/14/2010 4:50 PM
Last Modified: 9/14/2010 4:50 PM
For Saturday’s football game at Oklahoma State, the University of Tulsa was given an allotment of 5,000 tickets.
On Tuesday, it was learned that TU is returning 3,000 unsold tickets to OSU.
The game will not be televised. TU and OSU have played some very compelling football games. Only 73 miles separate the TU campus from the OSU campus. This should be a hot ticket and the game should be viewed by a crowd in the 55,000-57,000 range.
Instead, what it is – in the opinion, apparently, of a great many TU fans – is an overpriced ticket at $90. Saturday’s crowd will wind up being 50,000, give or take a few hundred.
TU also was given an allotment of tickets for its Oct. 30 date at Notre Dame. The cost of that ticket is $70.
For OSU’s Sept. 30 home meeting with Texas A&M and Nov. 6 match with Baylor, single-game tickets also are priced at $90. For the Oct. 23 homecoming clash with Nebraska – for what might be the Huskers’ final appearance in Stillwater – the single-game ticket is $100.
Except for the 5,000 tickets allotted to the University of Oklahoma, single-game tickets are not available for the Nov. 27 Bedlam contest at Boone Pickens Stadium. The tickets allotted to OU are priced at $125, reportedly making it is the most expensive single-game ticket in college football.
Bedlam has been designated by OSU as its 2010 “premium game,” with admission limited only to those OSU fans who have purchased a season ticket.
OSU athletic director Mike Holder catches a lot of grief for his pricing and “premium game” policy, but he has a clearly defined bottom line – to sell season tickets and funnel the revenue into the athletic department’s operating budget.
As of Monday, OSU had sold 41,774 season tickets – a figure second only to last year’s school-record total of 45,694.
-- Bill Haisten

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Bill Haisten
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