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Vanderbilt Lowers Prices For 2005 Football Season Tickets 4/5/2005 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Season ticket prices for the upcoming Vanderbilt football season are being sliced by university officials hoping to broaden the Commodores’ appeal to more Middle Tennessee residents. Season tickets will start as low as $65 for end zone seats. Sideline seats for the Commodores’ six-game home schedule will be $120, a $20 reduction from 2004 prices. The price for every category of Commodore season tickets will drop with the new rate structure, Vanderbilt athletic marketing director Eric Nichols said. Past season ticket holders will learn of the new prices through a mailing expected to reach homes by Thursday. “All of us with Vanderbilt athletics are excited about the most substantial reduction in season ticket prices in many years,” Nichols said. “We have created an attractive price point for both past and future followers of the Commodores.” The $65 pricetag for Vanderbilt’s end zone ticket is believed to be the least expensive in the Southeastern Conference. Season ticket prices for the approaching football season follows, along with the corresponding rate from the 2004 season.
The Commodores open the 2005 season with road games at Wake Forest (Thursday, Sept. 1) and Arkansas (Saturday, Sept. 10) before playing their first game in Vanderbilt Stadium against traditional SEC Western Division rival Ole Miss on Saturday, Sept. 17. The Commodore-Rebel encounter is the first of five consecutive home games for Vanderbilt. Other home games in the streak include Richmond on Sept. 24, Middle Tennessee on Oct. 1, LSU on Oct. 8 and homecoming versus Georgia on Oct. 15. The Commodores’ final home game is Nov. 12, when the Kentucky Wildcats visit Vanderbilt Stadium. “It’s a superb schedule for Commodore fans and college football fans in general. This will mark the first visit by LSU to Nashville in several years. When you combine them with Georgia, Ole Miss and Kentucky, that’s an outstanding home conference schedule. Our non-conference schedule is headlined by the Vanderbilt-Middle Tennesse game, which of course has a lot of increased interest in the region,” Nichols said. Vanderbilt Head Coach Bobby Johnson, entering his fourth year at the helm of Commodore football, welcomes the news of lower season tickets. “More than anything, I think it says a lot about the (university) administration and their support of what we are trying to do with this program. It sends an important message to the community that our administration is committed to doing everything possible to get Commodore fans in the stadium supporting our team. Without question, having larger crowds in our stadium cheering for Vanderbilt will have a positive impact on our team,” Johnson said. |
