Why UGA ticket prices increasing actually makes sense

Many Georgia Football fans weren’t happy when UGA announced that ticket prices were on the rise.

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UGA will raise ticket prices starting in 2017 for football games. Georgia fans aren’t happy about this revelation.

The price per ticket will go up by $5 in 2017, but the people it will affect most are season ticket holders. If you don’t know how the season ticketing process at UGA works, basically, any person that even wants the opportunity to purchase season tickets has to contribute to the Hartman Fund each year.

The amount that each season ticket holder has to pay has gone up by about 17.3 percent. That can’t make the people who foot the bill for this very happy.

But it makes sense. UGA athletic director Greg McGarity said that UGA still remains in the median of ticket prices in the SEC.

As it was clear to see in the G-Day game, UGA’s fanbase has rallied around Kirby Smart, and it seems like Georgia tickets are going to be harder to come by in the coming years.

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I can’t say I’m happy about it personally, but from a pure economic standpoint it makes total sense as aforementioned. The SEC has been known to have the best college football attendance as a conference in the nation. The demand is still there as SEC football is a way of life in the South.

It stinks for fans that ticket prices are going up even more, but until there is anything in place to limit prices or attendance drops, they are going to keep going up. After all, Georgia fans aren’t going to stop attending games anytime soon.