I was in one of the suites at Montana last year and it was nothing special. Nice seats, fridge and bar counter. It was a bit small - very like the 6 or 8 of us standing in their pregame were a bit on top of each other. But. It was 30 degrees warmer in their compared to outside!

AgAlum can tell you some stories of an event he hosted on campus!

It seems like Central Campus has this idea that football fans are too rowdy and that they must be monitored at all times. Look how long it took for beer to be served in the stadium - and there hasn't seemed to be any mass riots since then! I'm curious what Brew Fest will look like. I heard something about limitations on the number of drinks per hour - not a bad idea......as long number isn't something ridiculous like 2 sips/hour. It feels like Mrak Hall talks a good game about wanting high-level teams, but constrains the athletic department from taking steps necessary to do it.

Is the idea that st Mary’s would be going to a multiple bid conference (even after the Pac12 departures) and that makes it a jump up?

just like in 2023!

Oh wait, that didn’t quite go as it should have.

I suspect all the seat fees (football and basketball) will go to a general fund that the department will use for revenue sharing. Just a guess but there had to be a reason to make seat fees more significant.

they stay with football if you designate it. Not sure how the seat fees are allocated.

their football payroll is $31M according to their coach.

This is a sad photo. Of course, Cal drew 35000 for Minnesota and Stanford may have gotten 20000 in their stadium vs BC (announced 25000). I think the conference shuffle is really hurting the California schools (of course, winning might help!)

neither soccer team seems to be off to great starts. Men are 0-3-3, women are 1-4-3.

I had kind of forgotten Lamb went there -> his SUU teams seemed to own us back during his regime. They certainly aren't the 2-22 Bears of his first two years.

SUU is a bit of a puzzle so far -> too big offensive outings sandwiched around a stinker vs a not-so-great San Diego team. I think our defense is good enough to stop them (their run game isn't what it was last year) and this might the chance for the offense to put on TWO good halves of football.

Mercer, surprisingly, might be the weak one in our preseason lineup. Utah Tech has been solid in their other two games.

see my post in the Washington thread with the Pac12 message. Poling on

Couldn’t have gotten on UCLA’s schedule this year? Dang.

If nothing else, the chancellor will get a bigger space in the building so we can get rid of the terrible ‘chancellor’s club’ tent on the north berm

my $10k is a low ball, hopefully it’s more in the $20k. That would be the equivalent to an increase of 2000-3000 tickets per game for a 6 game schedule. So I think we’d be comparing the cost of suites (and upgraded press and stadium room) with adding some 5000 seats if we thought we could add to our attendance.

Montana, I think, is the leader in the clubhouse in this area which explains their 8 home games and no FBS. They have 47 suites (sold out) that start at $14k. Add on the revenue from sold out season tickets and 24k capacity stadium, and their revenue dwarfs the others.

Imagine we had 20 and sold them for $10k.

Montana, I think, is the leader in the clubhouse in this area which explains their 8 home games and no FBS. They have 47 suites (sold out) that start at $14k. Add on the revenue from sold out season tickets and 24k capacity stadium, and their revenue dwarfs the others.

https://upwithmontana.com/seating/washington-grizzlies-stadium/

it sounded like the revenue that they brought in from the suites made the game day attendance irrelevant in terms of their ability to bid on playoff games (they drew 6000 that day). Got them thinking it was easier to bring in much more game day revenue than by increasing ticket sales by 5000 a game. I think that the mindset moving forward on seat fees for season tickets.

I imagine we’re up there just due to cost of a scholarship