Perhaps, no more ticket packages at all...you show up to the gate and they swipe until they reach the magic number.
When I was a freshman in 2009, the ticket policy involved 4 options:Can't they just pass the cost back onto students who don't use their tickets to a game? Put it on their bill - only bill them for FACE VALUE. I venture to say that would stop the nonsense.
I don't know anything about whether such a solution is feasible because I don't know how it works. But I didn't get to go to UA even though I was accepted. I would have committed a weekly murder to get to go to Tide football games at my college age (I'm being facetious, but you get the point).
yeah, one of my best memories is one of the tennessee games in the late 80's. the stadium was pretty packed (at least student sections) a couple hours before kickoff and the place was rocking the entire time before the game. good times. of course, in those days i had the stamina/tolerance to make it through, now, i would be asleep in the first quarter if i tried to do thatSome of my best game memories as a student revolve around getting to BDS or Legion Field ~3 hrs early to get a non-reserved seat in the student section. This was especially fun @ the Iron Bowl when the Aub students & us were opposite each in Legion Field. Good times!
I, too, don't have a solution. Oh well...on to ATL to teach the Bulldogs to behave.
They are probably in class and getting ready for finals at the moment. I assume we will hear from them this evening.I'm hearin crickets from our student members who want to argue that they always fill it up....
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Two days after Thanksgiving.. Many students are from out of state and go home for it. Not that Im making excuses for them.Unbelievable that the Auburn game was the second-least attended game of the year. Disgraceful.
I'm not going to kill you... but I don't get why people complain about the upper deck. Most of my games (since I'm just some poor fool from Mobile) have been in the upper deck. It's a great view of the action and a lot of the time the people there are cheering more than below (perhaps because they are the ones there really want to be there).I know I'll get killed for this, but if my TP seats were in the upper deck I wouldn't use them either. I can see why the students wouldn't want to sit there. I don't think the students should have been broken up.
That's a good point. I wonder if the student demand would be higher if there were just one contiguous student section in the lower bowl. I can see how sitting in the upper deck and seemingly isolated would have a chilling effect on student demand.I think it is clear that the additional student seating outstripped demand from the students. The ceiling seems to be around 13k max and I think that is more or less what it was when I was an undergrad from 04-08. Some people are going to complain if they limit the student seating but the students have voted with their bodies at this point.