our luxury suites cant come fast enough. that revenue generation!

suites start at $14k and there are 40 of them. I’m sure the ones near midfield are much higher. And the are almost sold out for season tickets!

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

yeah I don’t doubt that when rocko announces our suite expansion project that they will sell quickly. Plenty of local companies and ag alum who would love to say they have a suite

This has always been a pet peeve of mine. I think Montana always has more home games than away games every regular season, and I think UC Davis never has more home games than away games in the regular season.

This has enormous playoff consequences.

Well, when you can rack up close to $1M in suite sales and probably twice our game ticket revenue, it takes away the need for a FBS payoff game. If we have 3 OOC games, one will be FBS (away), and more than likely one home/one away - unless you can pay off a team to come here on a one-off game. No D2 games in our future

Those guys have been asked for years and have passed. Many of them have kings box seats or suites. The only way this works is if it’s pushed hard by May and he really leans on Health and the university’s major partners. The economics on suites are not great most places (Montana is not most places).

My limited experience with private boxes was in SF at the then AT&T Park in the AT&T suite which AT&T used to entertain corporate clients. The value of that type of suite depends on how much the average client of the suite purchaser values a ticket, so to get the level of rent they get in Montana means that a large portion of the community, who aren’t alums, want to see a Davis game,

Montana is just a different dynamic. Demand from paying customers well exceeds supply. Then factor in weather and the lack of competition for sports entertainment and you have a recipe for success with premium seating. Davis has more supply than demand and as Fugawe astutely points out, the capex associated with traditional suites does not present a compelling economic opportunity. What a lot of schools are doing now is building a club experience in one of the end zones. This provides a differentiated experience (aka an expensive bar) that generally pencils from year 1.

I agree. The Dakota schools bring a ton for their suites also, but I just don’t see that many corps/donors willing to pay $10k or so for 5 home games in the Davis metroplex. We’d have definitely less suites, also, if the first phase is west side only. If you could generate $200-300k (big if) that would be a significant boast in ticket revenue. That would be, rough estimate, like selling 2000 more seats per game.

There is a press release on the ucdavisaggies site that Davis will have three games broadcast on “linear” networks, in other words non streaming. Mercer game on ESPN, Washington on the Big10 network and Montana State, undetermined. Last year I was pleasantly surprised that the Montana game, was available on both ESPN2 and ESPN+, something that wasn’t the case in prior instances of games on ESPN2.