Southlake Carroll Season Ticket Sales
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There has been a waiting list for SLC season tickets for over 20 years (the list isn't 20 years long, but they've had one for over 20 years). Demand for SLC season tickets has always been very, very high.
Why???
You would think it's because SLC has a great football team. That's NOT the main reason. It's mostly because parents support their kids. On game nights there are over 650 students in some kind of uniform on the field. On many nights there are over 1,000. Parents and families come to the games. The whole community comes.
The "family" statistics in Southlake are very, very strong.
For population 15 years and over in Southlake.
Never married: 16.7%
Now married: 78.4%
Separated: 0.3%
Widowed: 1.3%
Divorced: 3.3%
Bordertown
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What does it cost to get one season ticket including the License fee. Please explain how the license fee works.
The license fee is $50 per ticket for a 1-year license or $90 per ticket for a 3-year license. That doesn't cover the cost of the ticket itself. Tickets are $15 per game.
Some of the statements in the article aren't accurate. There are 5 home games not 4. The $660 amount quoted is accurate, and would be calculated as follows:
$15 per ticket x 5 games = $75
3-year license fee = $90
Total per ticket = $165
4 season tickets is 4 x $165 = $660 (which the article quoted).
In this case no license fee would be charged in years 2 and 3.
Total cost per ticket over a 3-year period is $75 x 3 = $225 plus the license fee of $90 = $315. That's $21 per ticket per game for a 3 year license.
If a person only bought a 1-year license, the cost would be $25 per ticket per game.
Parking is $3. (Parking revenue goes to the band. The band booster parents direct the parking.)
This year 92 season tickets opened up.
Bordertown
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Who get the money from the "License Fee" - Booster Club. Is this like making a donation to the Athletic Department for the right to buy season tickets at D1 schools?
The stadium hold 11,000 and it appears 2,500 to 3,000 are on the visitior's side. The remaining 8,000 seats are between the 15s. Has there been talk of expand the home side. It appears you could add 3,000 to 5,000 seats. Might be counter productive as folks wouldn't pay the license fee.
The stadium hold 11,000 and it appears 2,500 to 3,000 are on the visitior's side. The remaining 8,000 seats are between the 15s. Has there been talk of expand the home side. It appears you could add 3,000 to 5,000 seats. Might be counter productive as folks wouldn't pay the license fee.
One thing to keep in mind for these attendance/capacity debates are the bands/drill teams. Most of the time, they take up a sizable chunk of "available" seats for both home and visitor sides.
I know at Dragon Stadium the band is in the end zone, and not certain how those seats count in the available attendance.
The license fee and the ticket sales go to the school operating budgets. The Booster Club doesn't get any of the money. The Booster Club holds fund raisers (a golf tournament is the biggie) to raise money for the coach's "wish lists" each year.
Most SLC fans would love to see the stadium expanded but I don't know of any proposal to do it. It took 3 bond attempts to get the stadium built and it's only 7 years old.
By the way, the prices quoted on this thread are for chair back reserved seat season tickets.
General admission tickets are $8 at the gate and $7 adults/$4 students if you purchase in advance at the schools. The challenge with general admission tickets is that you have to arrive at least 1 hour early to get a seat on the home side unless you are a student. The lower section between the 30s is reserved for students.
Bordertown
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I think that is an exception. Texas High is $10 reserved, $7 general admission, $6 in advance. I would think that is closer to the norm.
The license seems to be a way to reduce the gate receipts and therefore pay the officials less. If the gate is $100,000, an official will make $420 for a nights work.
The license seems to be a way to reduce the gate receipts and therefore pay the officials less. If the gate is $100,000, an official will make $420 for a nights work.
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You really believe the the license fee is an attempt to pay the officials less? Come on.
No doubt the officials love to come to SLC home games because they earn MORE than almost every other location in Texas.
Bordertown
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What is the purpose of a "license fee". It sounds like to me it is a prepaid ticket fee.
It's a way to charge more for the tickets.
Think back to Econ 101. When demand outpaces supply the price goes up.
Bordertown
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Correct. So if SLC sells 4,000 season tickets and everyone buys the 3 year license that would equate to 24,000 revenue a game. The official would make $100 a game more each. That probably saves the athletic budget $2,500 to 3,000 a year in officials fees.
I smell an Enron scandel with TASO. The license fee is nothing more than a prepaid gate receipt that should be matched to the game in question. Accounting 301.
I smell an Enron scandel with TASO. The license fee is nothing more than a prepaid gate receipt that should be matched to the game in question. Accounting 301.
I'm wondering how you know how much SLC plays the officials? Frankly, you don't know what you are talking about.
Based on what I know about ticket prices and game attendance, I'd guess that SLC pays it's officials more than pretty much any school in Texas.
Bordertown
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The UIL Football Manual has a section on Officials. In Texas, officials are paid a base rate. The scale slides as the gate increases. Above a gate of $20,500 each official is paid $20 for each $5,000 in gate receipts.
http://www.uil.utexas.edu/athletics/manuals/football/pg39_42officials.pdf?content_id=203
http://www.uil.utexas.edu/athletics/manuals/football/pg39_42officials.pdf?content_id=203
I know this. What is your point?
Our secret is out.
By the way, I attend most SLC games for free so I feel it is my personal responsibility to grease the palms of the officials to make up for the gate receipts that I'm taking away from them. Please don't tell anyone.
Bordertown
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Not at all, the schools cannot pay more than the UIL scale. If they did they would probably forfeit every game.
The point is the opposite, SLC may be understating their gate receipts and underpaying officials. I do not know. But I suspect when SLC fills out their game report they do not include the "license fees" which using the duck test are "gate receipts".
But now that the secret is out, the officials will "screw" SLC just like they are doing to the officials. lol
The point is the opposite, SLC may be understating their gate receipts and underpaying officials. I do not know. But I suspect when SLC fills out their game report they do not include the "license fees" which using the duck test are "gate receipts".
But now that the secret is out, the officials will "screw" SLC just like they are doing to the officials. lol
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