This is just price segmentation, pure and simple, in an effort to raise total revenues. More money is the #1 objective. Fan loyalty or attendance or experience seems a priority for the AD only insofar as it serves objective #1. I have just come not to expect more.
What is most frustrating about this is that we fans do not manage our support of Stanford athletics purely from a monetary perspective, so the relationship is asymmetric. For example, I always buy and donate tickets to our away lesser bowl games as a gesture of support for the team and the program. Pretty dumb from a financial standpoint.
What is most frustrating about this is that we fans do not manage our support of Stanford athletics purely from a monetary perspective, so the relationship is asymmetric. For example, I always buy and donate tickets to our away lesser bowl games as a gesture of support for the team and the program. Pretty dumb from a financial standpoint.