A low quality product, consumers with income uncertainty (if not lower incomes) and a high price:
With several thousand tickets to Saturday night’s rivalry game between the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky football teams still unsold, John “Ticketmaster” Calipari took to Twitter on Thursday afternoon to rally the troops.
“Big Blue Nation, if you are not real sick or going to church on Saturday night, then there’s no excuse for not filling up our stadium!” the UK men’s basketball coach tweeted.
Actually, I heard a few excuses beyond “sick” and “praying” from folks not planning to attend.
No. 1 on the list was “broke.” All right, maybe not broke, but at $75 a ticket you don’t have to be hurting financially to take a pass.
UK and U of L make their annual matchup a “premium” game. That’s a marketing guy’s way of saying “jack up the ticket price.” The economy has been making a dent in sports attendance for a while now. ...
As the Southeastern Conference schedule inches toward expanding to nine games, expect debate to heat up as to whether UK should discontinue this series, or at least not renew it every season.
Why would UK discontinue the UofL series? In order to replace it with another Sun Belt or MAC game? Let's see, we should replace a game against an in-state rival from a BCS conference with a meaningless opponent so that there is a greater chance of winning so that we can just barely get the 6 wins necessary to go to a minor bowl game, all the while scraping the bottom of the SEC.
Is there anything not irritating (and here) about major college sports these days?