Want Some ND Tickets?

Hey, if you think just because Notre Dame has, in effect, its own TV network (NBC), gets ABC announcer Brent Musburger and his secret-revealing ways more than the law should allow, even gets a crack on CBS (Navy game) and something called CSTV (Air Force game), and doesn’t have to share bowl money with anybody, that the Irish are rolling in dough, well, you’re right.

OK, school officials aren’t rolling because there’s always something else to pay for and this time it’s 76-year-old Notre Dame Stadium. Yes, officials completed a major renovation to the house that Knute built in the late 1990s, but now that there’s $40 million in repairs do, it’s time to dig deep and help.

Thus, school officials are making 5,000 season tickets available to help pay for it. Each ticket will cost $413, plus an annual fee of $2,000 per ticket for sideline seats, $1,500 for corner seats and $1,250 for end zone seats.

Tickets will be offered first to alumni, donors and those named Regis Philbin. Sorry, it’s really alumni, donors and those affiliated with the university. After that, it’s the general public.

So on Saturday, when you’re watching Notre Dame host Purdue, check out the stadium and look for the defects your money will help repair.

If you want more information, check out this Indianapolis Star story.