[Cactus Jack]

Agree with you on all accounts. Big time sports continues to price out the average fan. NCAA, NFL , World Series... Hell, even a weekend series at Great American Ball Park will run you several hundred, maybe a thousand bucks.  Most families can no longer afford sports entertainment. SAD!

This is going to sound crazy, but I've had much better success with professional tickets than college ones over the past ten or so years, especially on secondary markets.

The way the NCAA allots tickets for the tournament is terrible. Much better off if you wait and buy at the last minute (read: after anyone who bought in early's teams are beat out and they're dumping tickets).

Know that there's been at least one suit over how sales were handled in the past. Definitely had "bait and switch" practices online where you'd think you were buying one seat that either "expired" or was "sold" and then replaced with a more expensive ticket (with a worse view).

Anecdotal, but I've nabbed a pair of lower level NFL playoff tickets for ~$200 per for a Wild Card Weekend game and saw a Cy Young winner pitch from about 12-15 rows behind first base and the home team's dugout on a weekend for way less since that. I actually relisted the NFL tickets for something absurd hoping someone would buy them (spoiler: they didn't), but it shouldn't be significantly cheaper to see that level of a professional game.