2A - Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com A A &IM A )W DOES THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT DETERMINE SEA A team huddle Clhe Ifidhigan DAMl 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com GARY GRACA ELAINA BUGLI Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 graca@michigandaily.com bugli@michigandailycam WAITING IN VAIN When Athletic Director Bill Martin announced that patrons would see a drop in football sea- son ticket prices this year, he cited the tough economy as the reason. However, more goes into deter- mining season ticket prices than just the economic climate. Associate Athletic Director for TicketingandMarketing,MartyBod- nar, said athletic department officials meet every year to weigh various fac- tors in orderto come up with the right price for seasontickets. "Before the season starts for the respective sports we just kind of huddle up amongst ourselves internally," he said. "We consider anticipated demand, the past his- tory of the ticket prices, what our peers or competitors charge, spe- cifically the Big Ten, the state of the economy and the state of the program that we're making the decision for." BodnarsaidtheAthleticD ment has always offered s tickets for sports that studen more familiar with like fo men's basketball and hocke this season was the second s department officials sold s tickets for Olympic sports lik leyball, wrestling and gymna "We just wanted to start that, we felt it was some we hadn't done in the pas we wanted to start offerini to our fans who had done sports," he said. Bodnar added that the baseball and softball faci which opened last season, motivated department off to start offering season tick those sports. "We had opened up new ties for baseball and softba season and with opening newt epart- facilities we decided it would be a eason nice touch," he said.a its are But the Athletic Department otball, sometimes gets generous. Sea- y, but son tickets for Olympic sports, eason baseball and softball are free for eason students. And this season, the e vol- Athletic Department even offered astics. free tickets for men's basketball doing games. thing "We had excess inventory and t and we just wanted to expose as many w g that students to Michigan basketball those as possible," he said. But Bodnar added that students new shouldn't get used to having a free lities, seat at a men's basketball game. also "We don't necessarily antici- ficials pate doing that, but we'll evaluate ets to going into the next seasons," he said. 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