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No increase in football ticket prices for ’13
Iowa's prices remain flat for the first time in five years
Kinnick Stadium on the University of Iowa campus Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Iowa City, Iowa. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette-KCRG)
For the first time in five years, the cost for Iowa football tickets will not increase, the UI announced Tuesday.
The cost of a season ticket for 2013 will be $388 for the general public, $318 for UI faculty and staff, and $175 for current UI students. General public or UI faculty/staff season ticket buyers from last season can place their 2013 season ticket order online beginning today by visiting the online ticket office inside hawkeyesports.com.
Iowa football tickets increased four consecutive years, rising $3 in 2009 and 2010 and $2 in 2011 and 2012. The last year Iowa tickets remained static was the 2008 season.
Iowa’s premium-ticket games for 2013 are Wisconsin and Michigan, with single-game tickets, if available, set at $70 apiece. Single-game tickets for Northern Illinois, Michigan State and Northwestern at set at $65. Western Michigan is $60; Missouri State, an FCS school, is set at $55.
A $25 youth ticket will also be available on a limited basis for the games against Northern Illinois, Western Michigan and Missouri State.
If available, single-game tickets will go on sale in early July.
The Hawkeyes’ home schedule includes five teams that participated in 2012 bowl games: Northern Illinois, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Michigan.
Game-day parking fees for the 2013 football season will be the same as in 2012: $20 per car, $50 per recreation vehicle and $100 for over-the-road buses. Fans will also continue to have the option to park their vehicle in nearby Coralville and ride the Hawkeye Express to and from Kinnick. The cost of Hawkeye Express tickets will remain at $12 for adults and free for boys and girls 12-years-old and younger.
The $70 single-game ticket is pretty much standard operating procedure in the Big Ten. Michigan has the most expensive tickets in the Big Ten with a range from $85 to $70. Michigan State is next with tickets going from $80 to $50. Then, six schools have single-game rates that start at $70. Minnesota’s range drops to $35 a ticket. Ohio State and Penn State are fixed at $70 with no drop.
In 2011, Iowa’s general public football tickets were priced fifth in the Big Ten.
Iowa’s $175 student season ticket is the fourth most expensive in the conference.
A Kinnick reseating is on the horizon in 2014.
Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said last spring that Kinnick again will be reseated in 2014. The stadium was reseated after a $90 million renovation project in 2006. Barta then told Iowa fans then that the process would happen again in five years.
The 2014 reseating should be less jarring than in 2006, when seniority seating was replaced by a points system based on donation. Then, Iowa introduced a priority seating system that ran on “points,” accumulated for everything from the yearly $7,500 donation for membership in the Kinnick Society worth 50 points to the 10 points ticketholders receive for being an Iowa graduate.
Barta said last spring that a reseating would give Iowa a chance to increase revenue — “find more contributors” — and, potentially, give fans a shot at a better seat.
“It becomes an opportunity to grow our fan base and donor base, but it’s also about fairness,” Barta said. “If people are sitting in a seat and they want to improve it and they’ve had ‘X’ number of years as a season-ticket purchaser and they’ve been contributing, they want to see their seats improve.”
In 2006, 15,000 fans bought their way into the “priority seating system.” When Iowa put together that priority seating, school officials researched what other Big Ten schools did and took what they thought fit at Iowa, Barta said.
IOWA FOOTBALL 2013
Aug. 31 Northern Illinois
Sept. 7 Missouri State
Sept. 14 at Iowa State (Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series)
Sept. 21 Western Michigan
Sept. 28 at Minnesota
Oct. 5 Michigan State (Homecoming)
Oct. 12 Bye
Oct. 19 at Ohio State
Oct. 26 Northwestern
Nov. 2 Wisconsin
Nov. 9 at Purdue
Nov. 16 Bye
Nov. 23 Michigan
Nov. 29/30 at Nebraska (Hy-Vee Heroes Game)
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Gosh, thanks, Iowa, for not raising prices after a 4 – 8 season. That’s so nice of you.
The reality of BCS football is there are bills to pay.
I expect the reseating to raise the stakes for a seat at Kinnick.
Could someone explain to me how the re-seating works? I’ve had season tickets the last 2 years, and I wasn’t around the last time they did a re-seat, so I’m curious how this will affect my tickets.
I’ll post something here in a few minutes.
Given the product last year, they ought to be cutting prices.
Steve and Paul;
Can you two guys imagine not having U of Iowa football, what would you complain about.
Tom:
Could you imagine not having other posters to rip on. What difference does it make to you if they are down on a team on the brink of falling off the face of the planet????
No ISU + No NEB + (4-8) should = lower prices and an apoligy.
New Year’s Rez: No ripping on people for being optimistic or pessimistic.
4-8 was 4-8. It’s in the records as a stinkbomb.
On to more constructive thoughts.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s over. I think we can all agree that 4-8 is a terrible season and Iowa has issues for 2013.
But I’m willing to watch and see what happens. Maybe they’ll surprise.
Anyway, I think it’s probably a pretty good PR move to not raise ticket prices.
I won’t argue that I love Iowa football. I want it to be better. But, can you imagine the backlash if they would’ve raised prices after the year we just had?
Maybe Mr. Ferentz should shovel some of those millions he keeps collecting toward the ticket office to help keep prices down. Iowa fans already have learned, when it comes to Hawkeye football, you don’t often get what you’ve paid for. And it wasn’t just 4-8 last season, as has been well documented, it’s a program in free fall. Even 4-8 could be acceptable if it were at least entertaining. But no, it was one of the ugliest, most boring 4-8 seasons ever.
The Hawkeyes have a hold on millions of Iowans, but that hold may be loosening.
Sanji.. if you dont like it…you don’t have to come to the games, you don’t have to watch on TV.
Then again, people like Paul, Steve and yourself always seem to think you that you know how to coach a football team better than Ferentz.
So, go take your season tickets, ask for your refund and let some other real Hawkeye fans have the opportunity to enjoy Gameday in Iowa City.