Originally Posted by
RhinoDawg
If you sit on a bench in E or EE you should pay just a little less than those sitting in permanent chairbacks in those same sections. It's real estate - location, location, location - that's all that matters. If you have the privilege to sit on or near the 50 in a Division I (or whatever they call us nowadays) stadium you should be happy to be there and be willing to pay a premium to do so. If you sit in that section there is no way you should pay the same as someone in C or CC or G or GG. You should pay more and like it. Same goes for benches in D, DD, F and FF, but a slight discount to the benches in E and EE would be justified, but it should still be more than the A's, B's, C's, G's, H's and I's.
That should be done immediately to be effective in 2016. Give current seatholders in those sections the ability to "lock in" their current seat rate if they pay now in advance for the next 5 years, nonrefundable under all circumstances, up to and including death of the seatholder, with the understanding and ironclad contractual agreement that at the expiration of that term they will pay the going rate for their seats, even if, especially if, they have been converted to chairbacks. Tech could then use the money from the 5 year contracts to pay for the upgrades from benches to chairbacks in year 3 or 4, giving everyone in those sections plenty of time to think about where they are going to sit. Of course if you didn't pay for a 5 year contract when it was available, you would pay the market chair back rate the year your seat gets upgraded if you want to keep sitting there - after paying a premium for your seats between the 35's over the last few years.
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