At 10:30 a.m., Athletic Director Eric Hyman will take the podium and start speaking to the Board of Trustee’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee.
This article – HERE – touches on the topic of the meeting….a possible fee being imposed for certain seats (if not all) at Williams Brice Stadium beginning in 2009.
If approved, the plan would require season-ticket holders to pay a personal seat-license fee for the right to purchase their football tickets beginning next season. The board approved a similar plan for the Gamecocks’ new baseball stadium in June.
Cut through the BS and the main take away is this — USC fans must pay more money to watch the Gamecocks play football. This is most likely to pass the only question is how much? Hyman is expected to gain approval of an annual seat licensing plan that could require USC fans to pay upwards of $500.00 per seat or more per season to keep their tickets.
USC is about to get richer…. USC has about 60,000 season tickets. If you speculate that the average PSL will cost $450.00 per year, that would raise $24 million per year.
So USC is poised to be flush with cash all in the name name of competing in the SEC. And with our neighbors to the north as Clemson did the same recently but held the fee down at a minimum. And down forget the cost of the gamecock club has gone up and tickets are increasing and in ’10 USC will get parking rights at the old farmers market so I am sure the cost to park increases…..wow….this will surely separate the fans along the lines of – haves and have nots. Have is basically you got the money to dish out to watch college football and have nots are those who love the game but can not pay the cost to watch up close.
USC has already called for a 1 p.m. press conference in these terms: “To explain the next steps the Athletics Department will take towards strategically building an athletics program that will consistently battle for championships in all sports.”
So watch for more on this later…..
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