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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 2, 1987
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Tickets
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included in next year's all-sports package.
The price is right for valued all-sports ticket
All-sports sales boosted sagging football ticket revenues this year.
Konzem said that only 272 student football tickets were purchased separately this year.
Three years ago, when we went to the program, that wasn't necessarily true.
Many students said the all-sports ticket price was fair, although they bought the ticket solely for basketball season.
"I'll probably end up using only one of my football tickets," said Steve Choice, Iowa City, Iowa, sophomore.
Missouri sells its all-sports package, including all non-revenue sports.
Konzem said that the 7,500 student tickets filled 45 percent of the seats in Allen Field House. Basketball-crazed North Carolina sells just 7,000 student seats in the 21,444-capacity Smith Center.
This year, the cost of season basketball tickets for the general public also increased. The cost increased by $15.
All-sports ticket prices have risen each of the last three years. Konzem said the addition of 400 new student seats in Allen Field House made the increase from $45 to $50 in 1986-87 necessary. The cost of the tickets was increased to $60 this year.
Konzem said that no more student seats could be appropriated at Allen Field House. However, he estimated that the jackets and tickets could be sold if space permitted.
"The thing is, it's so hard for us to determine whether or not we'd actually sell 15,000." Konzem said.
One way to accommodate more students would be to sell two sets of basketball tickets. Konzem said that when KU played at Hoch Auditorium in the 1950s, a crimson set and a blue set were issued. With two sets, students would be able to purchase tickets to just half the home games.
"We want to talk it over with the students and find out if it's feasible." Konzem said. "I don't know if they'd even support that."
Craig Compton, Shawnee seni- said, "That doesn't sound like a bad idea. But the change would make a lot of people mad."
Most students interviewed without season tickets were confident they could get unused tickets from friends.
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John Clason, Burlington senior, is one of several students who purchased an all-sports ticket through a classified advertisement. Clason paid $80 for his ticket.
Students scramble to find a seat inside Allen Field House
Guy Clark is, by his own description, a die-hard basketball fan.
By KATY MONK Special to the Kansan
So when the Athletic Department ticket office sent back his application for an all-sports ticket because they were ineligible, Clark refused to accept defeat.
"They told me to try again next
week, but I wouldn't 'no' for an
answer."
As hot an item as the tickets are, it's a buyer's market for all-sports tickets this year. Clark's ad elicited so many responses that the calls became a nuisance, he said. He bought a ticket the second day the ad ran. And he paid $60 — face value.
Instead of taking a chance on buying one of about 35 tickets that were uncollected as of 4 p.m. yesterday, Clark took a surer route. He placed an advertisement in the Kansan.
Tickets sold out this year by the end of the second day of fee payment, said Burke Beeler, ticket office employee. First issued in 1984, the tickets sold out that year and have been renewed since the office issues 7,500 all-sports tickets a year, available only to current KU students. The limit is one per student.
The ads that have run in the Kansan since the end of August don't reflect the state of the market for the tickets. "Wanted — All Sports Ticket. Will pay generously," one reads. "Make some money — sell your All-
Sports Ticket. Will pay big bucks," another savs.
Clark said several of the offers he turned down asked for much more than the amount he paid. "I had one guy say that he wanted $220 for all his basketball tickets," he said. "I told that guy to get lost."
I had one guy say that he wanted $220 for just his basketball tickets. I told that guy to get lost.'
Guy Clark Mission senior
Another basketball fan who bought a ticket through an advertisement predicted that prices would rise as basketball season approached.
John Clason, Burlington senior,
paid $80 for an all-sports ticket but
said he had been prepared to pay as
much as $120.
Clason received a large response to his advertisement. He bought a ticket the first day the ad appeared in the paper, and received about 20 calls a day while it ran.
Clason said that in past years, he had bought a ticket during enrollment, but this year they were sold out.
This year's tickets went on sale May 1. Students could buy the tickets any time after that, but could not pick them up until they had paid fees for the fall semester. The office also sent out application forms during the summer to all students enrolled at the University.
Some students, such as Jenni Holder, sent in their applications too late. Holder, Council Bluffs, Iowa, freshman, placed an ad in the Kansan and bought a ticket for $80 the first morning the ad ran. She later received a better offer, so she bought a second ticket and sold one to a friend.
Holder speculated that many people were willing to sell their tickets because they needed money. Most of the people who responded to her ad asked about $100 for a ticket, she said.
At least one person, however, was not out to make money by selling her ticket. Kim Allen, Stafford sophomore, bought a ticket at face value from a woman who responded to her request and that right to sell one for more than she paid for it." Allen said. "I guess I got a good deal."
Band members will get in basketball games free
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
At the suggestion of Bob Foster, director of bands, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation decided this year to add the band to the pass list that all University athletes are on, said Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director and director of the Williams Fund. Anyone on the pass list may attend any athletic event for free.
Konzem said that last year, the NCAA went back to old rules that allowed athletes to receive free tickets to other athletic events. The band was on the pass list under the old NCAA rules also, he said.
In recent years, when the NCAA banned the free tickets, band members were allowed to purchase just the basketball portion of an all-sports game. But band was put on the pass list because of the organization promoted athletics.
"In many ways, they're just like another one of the athletic teams," he said. "They practice every day and do it all for free, just because they want to do it and they love it."
Foster said the decision to put the band on the pass list was KUAC's way of saying thank you for marching band members' work.
"We're basically talking about a group of students who put in a large amount of time related to football and athletics," he said.
But some members of the University orchestra have expressed resentment about the band being on the pass list.
Orchestra member Chris Burtner. Wichita sophomore, said the band's getting tickets had upset him and some other orchestra members.
Burtner said that other music groups, such as the orchestra, also
put in long hours to prepare for entertaining audiences, and didn't receive compensation for it.
He also said he didn't see why the band member's playing at football games qualified them to go see basketball games.
But Foster said the band's connections to the athletic program made it just as deserving as any other athlete that gets free admittance to games.
He also said the band's function, unlike the concert bands or orchestra, was to entertain at athletic events, which also justified the marching band's getting on the pass list.
Marching band and orchestra member Diane Burton, Topeka sophomore, said she was happy about being able to go to the games. She said band members deserved the passes.
But as an orchestra member, she said she understood why other orchestra members might be upset.
"I'd hate for marching band not to get the tickets," she said, but "I wish there was something better for the band." The real answer really get the raw end of the deal.
Kansan reporter Mike Considine contributed information to this story.
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