Comments on: Attention bargain shoppers: Women’s basketball tickets are cheap (and that’s a problem)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:33:25 +0000

Actually, when UNC women’s soccer games were free admission, they drew an average of 1500 fans. When the department started charging for tickets, attendance increased to around 2500 fans per game.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:30:38 +0000

Going to a college basketball game, whether men’s or women’s, isn’t about seeing the best of the best, that’s what the pro’s are for, but rather to see athletes competing at a very high level, far better than the average person or athlete could do. It’s about competition for the athletes, entertainment for the crowd and hopefully inspiration for the kids. To say that one (men’s or women’s) is necessarily better than the other, or that ticket prices should be different, is the historic custom but has no basis in necessity other than what “society” has wrongfully taught us. The prices should be equal and the enjoyment should be the same, despite the fact that the games are somewhat different in the speed, the dunking, etc. If people could just get past the idea that because it’s men it must be better, they might actually give women’s sports another look, enjoy it just as much, and be willing to pay the same amount to see them. If the thinking changed, the attendance and the prices would follow.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:39:45 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with the general mood of the comments for this article. With all due respect for the hard working people who make up womens basketball, but it’s time for the author to smell the proverbial roses. It’s pretty easy to understand why prices are what they are.
Show me I should pay more. Give me basketball at the level of the men’s. A duck is still a duck…

By: sumosama

sumosama — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:10:11 +0000

You, ma’am, are an idiot!

Perhaps you have heard of the recent news flash called SUPLLY AND DEMAND???

UCONN and TN being the exceptions, there is very little demand for woman’s bball tix. Check out the stands at the WNBA. Sad but true.

PhD – Pile Higher and Deeper!

By: ESB

ESB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:52:24 +0000

Have any of you actually watched a game, on TV or in person? These women are incredible athletes and as much fun to watch as the men. We may not be ready to raise the price of tickets yet, but with articles like this, awareness will be raised. Kudos to the author for standing up for an important issue and bringing it to our attention. Let’s have some more like it!

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:22:01 +0000

Agree with most of the people posting here, if you raise the prices no one would go the games, barely anyone even watches it on TV. Don’t want to be mean, but the writer deserves some truth. Like Karl up there said, it’s all about demand, maybe they should charge me $500.00 to go see a pinpong game…or $800.00 to go see the elderly play nursing home games. This article is just letting us know ticket prices, other than that, there’s really not much substance to it.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:38:53 +0000

Yeah, I like men’s basketball (UCONN Fan) better than women’s, so will pay more to see more to see Thabeet swat a ball into the stands or Adrian slam a dunk home. But, having daughters,(and now living in TN) I am stoked that I can take them to see riveting women’s basketball. (And last time out dropped north of $120 for 4 tickets, parking and drinks).

I agree the idea of trying to equalize ticket prices is not a good one. But I don’t understand how this is an opportunity to slam women’s basketball.

It doesn’t bother me to pay discounted rate to see women’s basketball, but I’d be more than willing to pay the full rate to see Gordon, Shaun, jd, Kevin, and Rick embarrass themselves against UCONN women’s starting five.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:10:02 +0000

Gee, I guess free markets count for nothing. This author is so blinded by her own agenda that she can’t figure out that people are only willing to pay for what they value. The perfect solution? Have the schools up the prices for the women’s games so that they exceed the prices for men’s games. Then the author can whine again about discrimination when nobody goes to those games. Whining is the object here, isn’t it?

By: Gordon Hill

Gordon Hill — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:40:49 +0000

What kind of insanity are the women at Wellesley learning?

By: kevin jarrett

kevin jarrett — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:52:23 +0000

You sound like one of Obama’s economic advisors. We have a product that won’t sell so lets raise the price. What an idiot ! The travesty is that by law there has to be an equal number of womens and mens sports on college campuses. There are only a handful of womens sports teams that even come close to making a profit. So go ahead and raise the ticket prices for the Womens Final Four and attendance will drop even more and guess what happens then? They will have to raise the prices to the men’s tourney to pay for it.