2025-26 Seat Repricing

[JayMob]

Email from Marcus Blossom:

Fellow Bluejays –

As we prepare for another eventful March and postseason men’s basketball, I wanted to provide an update to my letter sent February 4, 2025. One initiative presented in support of increased costs incurred by the athletic department, is a seat repricing at CHI Health Center Omaha for men’s basketball games. Our analysis concluded that a reprice, rather than a total reseat, was the best course of action for us. After reviewing data from our BIG EAST peers, third-party ticket partners, and feedback from groups of season ticket holders, I am assured this repricing will not only generate additional revenue in support of rising costs but will also create an equitable seating model for all season ticket holders.

Please follow the link below to see the new pricing structure and other changes for the 2025-26 men’s basketball season:

2025-26 Men’s Basketball Information

Marcus Blossom
McCormick Endowed Athletic Director
Creighton University

Link goes here: https://gocreighton.com/news/2025/3/4/a ... nformation

Creighton University will be repricing men's basketball season tickets at CHI Health Center Omaha for the 2025-26 season. This repricing will create an equitable seating model for season ticket holders as well as increase athletic department revenue to support increased operating costs including but not limited to travel, personnel, and future revenue sharing with student-athletes. Increasing ticket sales, corporate sponsorships, private donations, and other athletic generated revenues are critical to supporting a premier men's basketball program. Please view the updated ticket prices, changes to benefits levels, information on how we will prioritize the allocation of benefits, and our season ticket sales timeline below:

[JayMob]

For me personally, sitting up in the boonies, I'm not surprised given the circumstances (slash car crash) that college athletics is in. But it is going to get increasingly hard to justify the cost when it's increased ~50% in 3 or 4 years.

[skinzfan23]

I don't think it has gone up that much, but for the cheapest seats they are going up 16% from $250 each to $290 each. I was getting one at a youth price so if you count that, it is a huge jump in the past 2 years.

Last year it was only $350 for 2 tickets, this year $500 and next year $580.

[NYC-bluejay]

Email from Marcus Blossom:

Fellow Bluejays –

As we prepare for another eventful March and postseason men’s basketball, I wanted to provide an update to my letter sent February 4, 2025. One initiative presented in support of increased costs incurred by the athletic department, is a seat repricing at CHI Health Center Omaha for men’s basketball games. Our analysis concluded that a reprice, rather than a total reseat, was the best course of action for us. After reviewing data from our BIG EAST peers, third-party ticket partners, and feedback from groups of season ticket holders, I am assured this repricing will not only generate additional revenue in support of rising costs but will also create an equitable seating model for all season ticket holders.

Please follow the link below to see the new pricing structure and other changes for the 2025-26 men’s basketball season:

2025-26 Men’s Basketball Information

Marcus Blossom
McCormick Endowed Athletic Director
Creighton University

Link goes here: https://gocreighton.com/news/2025/3/4/a ... nformation

Creighton University will be repricing men's basketball season tickets at CHI Health Center Omaha for the 2025-26 season. This repricing will create an equitable seating model for season ticket holders as well as increase athletic department revenue to support increased operating costs including but not limited to travel, personnel, and future revenue sharing with student-athletes. Increasing ticket sales, corporate sponsorships, private donations, and other athletic generated revenues are critical to supporting a premier men's basketball program. Please view the updated ticket prices, changes to benefits levels, information on how we will prioritize the allocation of benefits, and our season ticket sales timeline below:

What does this exactly mean? Are they finally going to raise the donation cost for grandfathered in folks paying a few hundred bucks a year for prime seats? Or is this just for new season ticket holders?

[Sec121Jay]

Email from Marcus Blossom:

Fellow Bluejays –

As we prepare for another eventful March and postseason men’s basketball, I wanted to provide an update to my letter sent February 4, 2025. One initiative presented in support of increased costs incurred by the athletic department, is a seat repricing at CHI Health Center Omaha for men’s basketball games. Our analysis concluded that a reprice, rather than a total reseat, was the best course of action for us. After reviewing data from our BIG EAST peers, third-party ticket partners, and feedback from groups of season ticket holders, I am assured this repricing will not only generate additional revenue in support of rising costs but will also create an equitable seating model for all season ticket holders.

Please follow the link below to see the new pricing structure and other changes for the 2025-26 men’s basketball season:

2025-26 Men’s Basketball Information

Marcus Blossom
McCormick Endowed Athletic Director
Creighton University

Link goes here: https://gocreighton.com/news/2025/3/4/a ... nformation

Creighton University will be repricing men's basketball season tickets at CHI Health Center Omaha for the 2025-26 season. This repricing will create an equitable seating model for season ticket holders as well as increase athletic department revenue to support increased operating costs including but not limited to travel, personnel, and future revenue sharing with student-athletes. Increasing ticket sales, corporate sponsorships, private donations, and other athletic generated revenues are critical to supporting a premier men's basketball program. Please view the updated ticket prices, changes to benefits levels, information on how we will prioritize the allocation of benefits, and our season ticket sales timeline below:

What does this exactly mean? Are they finally going to raise the donation cost for grandfathered in folks paying a few hundred bucks a year for prime seats? Or is this just for new season ticket holders?

The way I read this no grandfathering. Probably how they avoid a complete reseat.

Jaybacker Levels will consist of the sum of any Per Seat Jaybacker donation and Jaybacker+ donation. There will no longer be a Jaybacker range associated with a given section where season ticket holders in like sections may have differing total costs associated with their seats. Instead, each seat in a section will have an equivalent Per Seat Jaybacker that will be required to maintain their seat location.

[jays69]

I got row 5 lower bowl season tickets in the green section of the pricing chart 4 years ago. I had to donate $6k to get 2 tickets on top of the $500/ticket cost. I had never donated nor had season tickets. This new repricing doesn't seem get grandfathered season ticket holders up to the current cost of getting into decent seats from scratch. Personally, I was hoping for a bigger increase so I could improve my chances of upgrading deat location or adding a couple extra seats, but I don't think this small of an increase will deter fans from renewing.

[drbluejay]

I bought season tickets back in the late 70's at only $50 ($25 each for the wife and I) for my entire family as students under 12 were free back then. These were general admission seats but almost every game, We could sit in section 49, front row on the aisle. Just a few years later, those same 4 seats were $420.
This years increase is nothing compared to the early 80's increase.

[T-bone]

I got row 5 lower bowl season tickets in the green section of the pricing chart 4 years ago. I had to donate $6k to get 2 tickets on top of the $500/ticket cost. I had never donated nor had season tickets. This new repricing doesn't seem get grandfathered season ticket holders up to the current cost of getting into decent seats from scratch. Personally, I was hoping for a bigger increase so I could improve my chances of upgrading deat location or adding a couple extra seats, but I don't think this small of an increase will deter fans from renewing.

I have a buddy who decided not to renew after seeing this. There were other factors, but this pushed him over the edge. It is an interesting question. I am betting they have a guess of how many won't renew and have factored that into any increase.

[#RollJays]

I just hope the lower bowl isn’t all corporate seats. I understand we have to raise prices to keep up in the NIL arms race if we want to stay a top 25 program.

[Duke1Agn]

The description of this model on the CU website could not be written in a more confusing manner.