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LaSalleAve · Apr 25, 2012

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...mined-as-the-ncaa-mulls-a-playoff-system.html

Two tickets for the school president to the BCS title game? That's $700. Four for the chancellor? That's $1,400. Les Miles' family? Three-fifty a pop. On and on it goes.
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One of the dirty secrets of many bowl games is that almost nothing is cheap. The industry, in this case represented by Sugar Bowl Inc., long ago learned how to squeeze every last penny out of college football. That includes charging even the stars of the show exorbitant prices for tickets.
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How about a couple of free ones for the players to give to their parents or girlfriends or high school coaches? Please. The Sugar Bowl instead charged LSU $350 a seat, full price, for every last player request. Total cost: $254,800 on the players alone.
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Oh, and the Tiger Marching Band, the one that is contractually obligated to attend bowl week and provide halftime entertainment? With bowls, not even the band gets in free. LSU had to buy tickets for every clarinetist, flutist, tuba player and majorette. Some of the seats, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate, just held the tuba.
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That added up to 529 tickets, almost all full price. The bill for the student band to sit was $182,830.
That's $182,830 to get into a venue and give a free show to all the other paying customers.
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Death to the BCS, they are rapists.

b_leblanc · Apr 25, 2012

Umm...I'm pretty sure that $182,000 doesn't translate to 182,000 fans.

182,000 fans in one sitting...hmm...that's one big ass venue.

b_leblanc · Apr 25, 2012

LaSalleAve said: ↑

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...mined-as-the-ncaa-mulls-a-playoff-system.html

Death to the BCS, they are rapists.
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Yes, they are. Gluttonous rapists. Those phuckers would eat their own young for a few extra million bucks.

TBTrumpet · Apr 25, 2012

bengaltgr said: ↑

You are right. It was 529 tickets. Still leave half at home.
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-1!!!

If anyone should have been left at home, it should have been Jordan Jefferson.

b_leblanc · Apr 25, 2012

bengaltgr said: ↑

You are right. It was 529 tickets. Still leave half at home.
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Sorry, I'm a smartass.

b_leblanc · Apr 25, 2012

And the band gets louder than average fans anyways IMO.

Mezmorizor · Apr 25, 2012

bengaltgr said: ↑

I agree to a point but this was the BCS game. Once in a lifetime, if we would have won. I guess I am saying it would have been nice for more fans to get a chance for a ticket.
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The members of the band are fans too. You also severely underestimate how much worse the band would sound at half strength, not even mentioning how much harder the half time show would be to create.

b_leblanc · Apr 25, 2012

Mezmorizor said: ↑

The members of the band are fans too. You also severely underestimate how much worse the band would sound at half strength, not even mentioning how much harder the half time show would be to create.
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Exactly.

LaSalleAve · Apr 26, 2012

The problem I have with the band situation is the Sugar Bowl stating in the contract that the LSU band MUST perform at halftime, but they also have to pay for every ticket. That's like an employee paying an employer to work.

Mezmorizor · Apr 26, 2012

LaSalleAve said: ↑

The problem I have with the band situation is the Sugar Bowl stating in the contract that the LSU band MUST perform at halftime, but they also have to pay for every ticket. That's like an employee paying an employer to work.
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As crappy as it is, this happens all the time in the music world