Indiana State's game Feb. 2 against Drake will be a sell-out

[Da Coach]

An Indiana State booster purchased all available tickets (approximately 10,000 tickets at $1 apiece) for the Feb. 2 game against Drake, and plan to give them away

http://www.tribstar.com/collegesports/local_story_011235144.html

[Big Mike]

I guess I do not understand how you sell tickets for a $1 each.....is it a promo or did they cut this guy a deal?

[tornado]

I don't understand this?

If they want to give $10,000 to the school, then just give the money....no strings attached.
But by buying up all the available tickets for $1 each....nearly a month ahead of the game, then they are certainly costing Indiana State a lot of money from what could be significant late ticket sales between now and then.
At the going price of a ticket (usually $10 or more), they'd only have sell 1000 of them between now and 2/02 (500 at each the mens and womens games) to get the $10,000 in sales.
Personally, I think the folks who bought the tickets outsmarted the school, and got a ton of tax deductable "free" publicity, with the newspapers publishing their names and the names of their businesses, and even giving them some free promotion.
It would have cost them $10,000 to get this much advertising and mention in the paper anyway!

[isufan]

the tickets purchased were for both the men's AND women's games against Drake that day, that is where the difference lies.

ISU would not draw 5000+ fans for the men's or women's games that day, this person bought the remaining tickets for BOTH games.

that should make some sense out of this article then.

[Big Mike]

Thanks for the input INS fan!