TSSAA has long forgotten to care about the students in the schools which it governs. however, there are two ways to lower ticket prices:
A) raise the amount of money each school pays on the front end.
tell darth vador and his house of horrors to drop their lawsuit.
The cost of tickets and parking is crazy. Student rates are insane. But, T$$AA has to survive somehow.
I think we need to look at the cause of the ridiculous ticket costs and not just the result of higher prices. If you eliminate the cause, you eliminate the need.
First, BA can form its own league with McCallie and Baylor. That will eliminate 90% of the problem right there.
Second, well, the cost of catastrophic insurance is probably high. They could set it up to where each school covers itself. This would not be popular.
Third, have a T$$AA fee per player to play. Such as each player on every T$$AA sport pays 5 bucks for the season. This would also not be popular. In fact, I am not sure this would cover their ticket revenue, but it might allow them not to charge such a crazy price.
Last, people could not go to the events. This is also not popular. I think attendance was hurt this year in the region and district tournaments. Such a ridiculous price.
Think of teachers:
3 district games: $15
3 region game: $18
State games plus parking: $25
How is a teacher supposed to go support their kids? take out a loan.