Tickets on Stubhub @ Utah start at $120
USC @ UW start at $72 with good lower level seats @ $100, *no donation required
Buffalo Bills @ Seattle, section 309, standing room only start at $197
I blame Jen, the President and UW Board of Regents for fucking this up
The UW athletic department is a steaming pile of shit, no doubt. But I see this issue as a Janet Rheano type thing, with a lot of factors in play and many of them being inter-related. Pussy-ass scarftard fanbase, generation of losing, terrible marketing, the idea of not wanting to waste your entire day when literally every P5 team is on TV every Saturday, shit scheduling, being located in a major city with unlimited entertainment options as opposed to a school like Nebraska, the Seahawks have been good for most of the past 13 or so years while we? were in the gutter, etc.
And I may be wrong on this, but I really think the biggest factor is fucking ridiculous ticket prices, especially in THIS economy!!11!!!1! The stock market has never been higher but thanks to Obubba (and aided by Bush), real wages are down and the average family has less disposable income than any time since I've been alive. And with at-home viewing providing a better experience than ever, I think there's the 10-15k fans that used to provide a packed house can't/won't/refuse to pay the extremely expensive ticket prices. I'm mainly talking season tickets here because that is your base group, you can't count on variable individual game sales from week-to-week. I'm not taking into account shitty east endzone seats either. So if you just want a GA season ticket, you're shelling out over $70/game. And with Rutgers, the annual FCS team, Idaho and the Beavs, you're wasting $275 MINIMUM this year on games you don't care about and won't be fun or won't even go to. And if you and your wife (or preferably your kid's other dad) want tickets, you're wasting over $550 this year on shit games. Plus with demand being fairly low, there is no reason to spend that extra money when you can easily just cherry pick the few games you want to go to. So as a fucking general admission season ticket holder of 1 seat, you're essentially paying $166 per somewhat-meaningful game. That's just outrageous and especially at a time where people are having to budget their money, I see no scenario where this is not hurting ticket sales. And I don't blame people for saying 'fuck this' and not getting season tickets.
Oh...and if you want something other than GA, add a minimum of $250 per seat to that. And say you want your son to have memories of crisp Fall Saturday afternoons at the stadium with his 2 dads while not having to get to the stadium 3 hours early to squat on a seat, you're shelling out $2200+/yr. Plus parking, food, all that shit. But all kidding aside, it's hard for families to come up with that kind of money annually to see Pool Boy/Jen/Sark's genius C-C-C scheduling model in action.
