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    Eight Bison football players charged

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    According to the USA Today, overall athletic department 2012 finances:

    Ticket sales Contributions

    NDSU $2,915,196 $2,632,918

    UND $3,889,681 $3,108,472

    Out of curiosity, how are you getting those numbers? By my count, UND hockey brings in about 18% more than NDSU football when you combine ticket sales with seat fees.

    Math:

    (my NDSU numbers are pretty solid, but my UND numbers may be off by a bit since I estimated the size of your student section)

    NDSU season tickets cost $125(end zone) and $175(sideline); single games are $25/$35. I estimate season tickets are split 75/25 in favor of sideline, and single games are about 50/50. I'm running with 12,100 season tickets sold, and about 1500 single game tickets per game. Those are conservative numbers since they only total up to 17,600 when you include the 4000 students while the capacity is actually around 19,000. That's 1400 missing tickets. But I'll stick with those numbers because I'm not sure how suite money is handled and how many tickets are reserved for family and recruits. Here's the equation:

    [($125 x .25) + ($175 x .75) x 12100] + ($30 x 1500 x 6) = $2,236,250 or about $2.25M

    For UND M hockey, I used a simpler system since I'm not as familiar with it. Regular season tickets are $390 and student season tickets are $140. I'm going to assume UND holds some tickets back for families, recruits and promotional reasons and use 11,000 as the total number of seats. I'm going to use a conservative figure of 2000 student seats(looks like more than that on the seat map), and I'm not going to separate out single game tickets since I couldn't find a current price chart. So this equation looks like:

    ($390 x 9000) + ($140 x 2000) = $3,790,000 or about $3.75M.

    Adding together we get:

    NDSU: $2.25M + $2.8M = $5.05M

    UND: $3.75M + $2.2M = $5.95M

    If I've made any major mistakes let me know, but those numbers don't look anything close to 50%.

    A silly computation using these numbers is to figure out what the average seat is worth. You take the total amount raised between tickets and seat fees and you divide that by the number of total seats multiplied by the number of home games. Using that method, an NDSU FB seat generates $44.30 per game, while a UND hockey seat generates $25.76 per game. Just a little silly fun with numbers.

    2010 Census

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    The numbers quoted in this article are estimates--the official count will be released by April 1. The annual estimates have been consistently wrong. Not to say GF county will see significantly less growth than Cass and Burleigh, but just pointing out those are not official counts.

    Whats up Grand Forks County? Ten years and it gains 200 people! :lol:

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