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Originally posted by JcWildcat
Originally posted by ntemans

Originally posted by O-Town


uh, I have NEVER paid $25 for stadium parking. if you park at a nearby private lot, they may charge you $25 to park...but I highly doubt the team sees any of that money.

stadium parking, the actual parking spaces at the stadium itself, prices are usually to just cover employee costs and such to handle directing cars. jmho.

here in az, the cardinals actually have a free shuttle service from a nearby school with free parking. I'm sure its a wash with the cost of parking prices at the stadium itself.

where they get you is the game tickets and concessions.

Have you ever looked up the price for parking at a New England Pats game? Its anywhere from $35-$75 for Parking alone.

I know some colleges charge for parking, and the closer the lot is to the field the higher the cost.

Some stadiums don't have parking lots though. The Vikings play in downtown Minneapolis, no room for a big parking lot. If you want to park, you have to find a privately owned lot. Perhaps the parking lot could be something you add-on to the stadium, much like stadium sections.

+1

Originally posted by sois
What's next? Republican National Convention?

Thanks for stealing my idea.

Originally posted by dook1e
Cool, another person who can't manage their finances adequately.

While I agree that part of the financial structure is flawed, if you can't make it work you shouldn't be an owner. Besides, once the stadium is completely built, won't you be bored? I know I will be.

Then why not generate more for owners to do with parking, concerts in the off-season (plus parking revenue, since stadiums do host concerts), I could even MAYBE see sales for pre-season but it would have to be like 1/2 expected for those (kind of like away teams for playoffs). For pre-season (just like away teams in the playoffs) I don't think concessions should come into play though, fans can bring their own for those.

I think parking and concerts is a perfectly reasonable addition though.

Originally posted by dook1e
Getting money for away playoff games is plenty of "extra" income, imo.

Reward success (making playoff). Not basically give people money because they can't keep up with their finances. It just seems like a cop-out to me.

Concessions for pre-season and concessions for away team jumbotron game would seem like a copout.

Parking for season and playoff (home) games seems perfectly reasonable since colleges even charge for parking for athletic events. Wouldn't charge parking for pre-season though.

Concerts might be stretching it, if concerts were implemented it would need to be a bidding war type thing, and that's getting too far away from football.

Originally posted by dook1e
I wasn't saying I agree with the current jumbotron sales. I personally think it's stupid. I'm just trying to make the point that if you can't keep your team in the black, you're doing it all wrong. Now I'm sure you're not struggling that bad, but the current system doesn't need to be tweaked, owners should learn how to manage their money better.

I'm not struggling. I'm speaking from the experience of receiving a team in an uncapped league with the same stadium and cash as expansion teams. I've not struggled b/c I figure I was smart a few seasons ago when recruiting for the reset cpu team.
And for the record, I've always disagreed with these type of suggestions for the simple fact that if I could manage, others could.

However, this season I found out that not ALL teams are reset as mine was when in an uncapped league, some brand new owners (not GM's of the team) receive the team with full stadium + millions of dough. Upon finding this out, yes I believe parking should be implemented even though I (and other owners receiving teams in the manner I did) have managed just fine.

Originally posted by O-Town
uh, I have NEVER paid $25 for stadium parking. if you park at a nearby private lot, they may charge you $25 to park...but I highly doubt the team sees any of that money.

stadium parking, the actual parking spaces at the stadium itself, prices are usually to just cover employee costs and such to handle directing cars. jmho.

here in az, the cardinals actually have a free shuttle service from a nearby school with free parking. I'm sure its a wash with the cost of parking prices at the stadium itself.

where they get you is the game tickets and concessions.

The parking would come from the high income fans. College athletics see money from paid parking (at least football and mens bball).

I still love the idea of parking income.

Originally posted by ntemans
Originally posted by O-Town

uh, I have NEVER paid $25 for stadium parking. if you park at a nearby private lot, they may charge you $25 to park...but I highly doubt the team sees any of that money.

stadium parking, the actual parking spaces at the stadium itself, prices are usually to just cover employee costs and such to handle directing cars. jmho.

here in az, the cardinals actually have a free shuttle service from a nearby school with free parking. I'm sure its a wash with the cost of parking prices at the stadium itself.

where they get you is the game tickets and concessions.

Have you ever looked up the price for parking at a New England Pats game? Its anywhere from $35-$75 for Parking alone.

I know some colleges charge for parking, and the closer the lot is to the field the higher the cost.

Originally posted by 99
If you'd add my ideas to your thread, that'd be good Moebuis

May be able to merge the two. Also, I'm still unsure about the concerts, but parking would be a definite plus one from me.

Originally posted by O-Town

-1 to parking profits in general. do teams really profit from that?


hell yeah! have you ever been to a game? its like $25 dollars!

you'd have to pay for the parking lot maybe?

maybe like 50% off ticket prices for scrimms or preseason games

+1 Would help alot!



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Merge seems to still be broke...goddamn. Time to complain again.