It sure must cost a lot to fly...

[DanMcQ]

...all those Athletic Dept Administrators down to Tobacco Road from Chesnut Hill Community College:

BC introduces a new ACC Basketball Perk: Donor-Based Seating™

For the best seats, a long-time ticket holder offered this calculation (on the eagleaction discussion board) for his privilege of close-up viewing of the likes of Shawnee State, Drake, Sacred Heart, and Stony Brook:

I've had my 4 seats in section A since the Roberts Center days. Over a five year period, the cost for the 4 will have gone from $714 (approximately $10 per seat per game) to $5932 (approximately $90 per seat per game).

Greed ascends to new Heights yet again.

[SFHoya99]

$5932?

What's that? Roughly equivalent to thirty pieces of silver?

[DanMcQ]

Big jump in BC hoop tickets
Premium seats up by $1,000
By Michael Vega, Boston Globe Staff | March 22, 2006


Ka-ching

I think Vega is understimating the number of season ticket holders this affects since there are price stickups for ALL of the lower bowl except the 4 end zone sections for students (I've heard from people in the corners who are being told they have to donate $500 a seat and the sections next to the middle ones are being held up for $750 a seat). Since the place holds 8600 that's more like 3500 season ticketholders than 600. Diamond Gene D. makes nice in the article by saying that they'll kick people who do not want to donate upstairs, but those seats are pretty much all sold so people who have had season tickets for 15+ years will be asked to sit in the last few rows. Nice to see the move to the ACC has brought the program into the 21st century.