Saint3333 wrote:You're messing with me right, you did the math yourself at 14K with an average ticket price of $25 for 6 games would be $2.1 million. There is no AP source, just simple math. You know that ASU average 25K per game and no more than 10K of those tickets are students or other free tickets.
The suites and club seats (just for the seat purchase not donation to the Yosef club for the right to purchase tickets or seats) bring in $700+K a year.
For the $2.1 million to include the box and clubseat ticket revenue that would mean ASU would only average ~9K paying fans in attendance at an average price of $25 a piece. To hopefully avoid further confusion and help you with the math that would be $1.4 million ($2.1M less the 700K from above) divided by 6 games divided by $25. Now if you truely believe that that is what ASU brings in that is fine. I believe we've both beat this into the ground and I will continue to be skeptical of your figures your "sources" have been provided (which isn't clear on what revenue is and is not included) and you will continue to ignore a logical calculation of ticket revenue.
I've done further research. App St doesn't average $25 per revenue seat. There's a special $2 assessment per ticket. There's the cost of the ticket printing and ticket selling. Kids tickets are $17. There are reduced ticket prices for seniors and faculty. In addition, I just don't believe that "seating" on the grass and standing room seats are $27.
Where's your source for saying App St has at least 14,000 of revenue seats?
It is just not true that the suites and club seats bring in $700,000 per year--beyond donations to the Yosef fund.
If you look on the App St website, you will see that 80% of the payments beyond the actual costs of the tickets, parking passes, etc. are tax deductible, and presumably payments to the App St foundation. This is an IRS rule. This deduction would include most of the cost of the suites.
Again, below is what App St reported to the federal government under Football Revenue. Where do you think they "hid" any other football revenue? (Of course, the Yosef and other tax deductible revenues are not considered to be football revenues, as I assume no school would include donations to such funds and foundations to be either ticket or football revenue.) I just don't know why you question the figures supplied by App St and its athletic department.
"Football Revenue includes $507,946 directly related to the NCAA Playoff games; ticket revenue of $1,947,004; game guarantees of $550,000 and concessions and programs revenues of $228,163"
