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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 1477804, member: 860"]
That's true, there are lower level seats for under $151.  But the problem isn't that there are no reasonably priced tickets.  It's that there is no demand for the expensive ones.

We have the only stadium I've ever seen where the end zones and corners have more people than the lower sidelines.  That tells me the prices for those seats are too high, or that there are too many seats at that price point.  The solution is to either lower the price or reduce the supply.

I think the best solution is to collapse the preferred seating to include only seats inside the 25 yard lines.  Make the current D preferred a standard season ticket.  Make the current C the new D, and so on.  Collapse A to the 15 seats either side of the 50.  People can decide whether to keep their current seats at the lower price point, or keep making their donation and upgrade to better seats for the same price point.  There should be no upper level preferred seating at all.  Quite frankly, the dabate about pricing of single game preferred seems off to me.  If you have much single game availability of preferred seats, then you have too many preferred seats.

We need to get the sidelines full.  That's what shows on TV.  That's what gets us ridiculed in national media.  And to the casual fan sitting at home watching on tv, that's what makes them think "Why would I go to a game in that mausoleum?"  Perception becomes reality.

It would be better for perception if the 30k that we are currently selling were all grouped on the sidelines, so the camera angles on TV gave the perception of a decent crowd.  That perception might draw a few that watch on TV, if only a few, to come out to a game.  Make their gameday experience fun.  They come back.  Lather, rinse, repeat.
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