FYI-Reserve rights to buy 2017 National Championship tickets

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Re: FYI-Reserve rights to buy 2017 National Championship tickets

Aug 11, 2017, 9:09 AM

I know I may be in the minority here, but it is stuff like this that is ruining college football. These ticket prices are beyond ridiculous for an amateur sport and are such that an average middle class family can't afford them. The idea that one would have to pay an "RSVP" fee for the chance to purchase a football game ticket at face value is nothing but CFP sponsored scalping - after all you are not really buying a ticket at face value are you. Nope, you are essentially paying a fee on a gamble that your team makes it to the championship game and that the overall price of your ticket (face value + RSVP fee) will be lower than the cost of a ticket through the ticket lottery or secondary market. In my mind this raises two questions:

1. Is there any group or individuals that are able to buy a ticket at face value without paying the RSVP fee?

2. Where does all the money collected from these RSVP fees go?

The money generated from this scheme is filling someone's pockets and I have a feeling that not one cent of this RSVP money ever sees a college campus or benefits a college athlete in any way.

Quite frankly, the whole college bowl system is a rigged money generation tool for which the participating schools receive a mere pittance of the overall money generated. If I remember correctly, Clemson ended up in red from our participation in the 2016 National Championship Game. After the sponsors, bowl system, and the conference office's took their cuts, Clemson actually didn't get enough money to reimburse our expenses of having the team and the band participate in the playoffs and Championship game. How in the world does a Championship participating team end up losing money in a college bowl system that rakes in over a half billion dollars - doesn't this seem absurd to most folks?

I don't mind giving money to IPTAY in order to guarantee a chance to purchase season tickets. I know where the IPTAY money is going and it is most definitely going directly to Clemson athletics and to pay for Clemson student athlete scholarships. The same can't be said for this CFP RSVP scalping scheme as I would rather watch the Championship game on TV than give my money to these people.