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Sapakoff: Clemson can afford to keep giving students free football tickets

Father Guido Sarducci, the Don Novello character in his classic Saturday Night Live skit, theorized that higher education was best boiled down to a “Five-Minute University” with one line spent on each subject.

“Economics?” Sarducci said. “Supply and demand.”

Not surprisingly, Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich picked the April following the Tigers’ College Football Playoff national championship game appearance to officially suggest students should pay for football tickets they have traditionally received free. The plan to sell 9,000 season tickets for The Hill or lower deck at $225 apiece would net approximately $2 million — for a school that last fall christened a new $55 million, 140,000-square foot football building complete with a mini-version of The Hill.