A yearly minimum donation to the Williams Fund of $100 is required to purchase season tickets. That will get you in the door at the Tier 3 level so you're looking at a minimum of $1025 per seat for tuco's seats.
Seats are then allocated yearly in order based on total accumulated points (each year there is a select-a-seat event where you choose where you want to sit, certain levels of giving have the option to automatically renew their current seats).
Points are accumulated in a number of ways (buying tickets in other sports, years of giving, alumni, letter winners ect.) but for the most part it really comes down to money donated. For every $100 donated you get one point. For any new money (first time giver or increased donation) you receive 2 points per $100.
So, to answer your question, if a new donor wants to sit lower level between the baselines, based on last year's requirements, he/she needs to make an initial donation of at least $118,800 to accumulate enough points to have the opportunity to buy two seats in section T behind the KU bench (that section has the smallest minimum points number of any lower level sideline section). However, there are no guarantees that that will be enough as he/she would be at the back of the line in choosing seats in that area. They may be gone by the time he/she gets to pick. So in all realities you probably need to donate more.
The average member increases their points at the rate of 9% per year, so our hypothetical donor would need to donate somewhere between $15-20,000/yr (depending other sports purchases) in order to maintain his current status and ability to buy those seats.
Reading the thread it looks like there is concern about a reseating at Hilton. KU went through one when Lew Perkins took over as AD that was very painful but definitely needed at the time. You had people who had prime seats that hadn't donated a drop in 20-30 years beyond the cost of the tickets basically freezing people willing to donate $100,000s out of the best seats. It was controversal at the time but ended up being one of the best things the AD has ever done. It turned AFH into the cash cow that it is.
