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re: Why does this section of fans never show up?
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:22 pm to TheDoc
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:22 pm to TheDoc
I guess none of you have ever worked in a ticket office or for a stadium/team before....
Those tickets are blocked off for students. Obviously students all try and cram down as close as they can and fit twice as many people on a row than they should.
The ticket office has to make a decision a week or so before game time, "will the students fill the section". On big games like this they generally give them the benefit of the doubt, they aren't in the business of predicting weather. That being said, if there are 30,000 student tickets allocated it is likely for most games they will only actually have 20,000-25,000 seats allocated for them and they will cram into them.
They actually do sell those tickets up there for a lot of games when they don't think the students will use them but three things happen.
1. Nobody buys them: If students aren't willing to use their pre paid $12 ticket to sit there what makes you think people are going to pay $40+ to sit there?
2. People buy those tickets just to get in and go sit with their friends: Very common, buy an extra ticket for a kid or a friend ect... Just walk in and go sit with everyone else that you know
3. People don't know they're available: Happens a lot actually, not enough people think to even check with the ticket office for seats because they assume it's sold out
Those tickets are blocked off for students. Obviously students all try and cram down as close as they can and fit twice as many people on a row than they should.
The ticket office has to make a decision a week or so before game time, "will the students fill the section". On big games like this they generally give them the benefit of the doubt, they aren't in the business of predicting weather. That being said, if there are 30,000 student tickets allocated it is likely for most games they will only actually have 20,000-25,000 seats allocated for them and they will cram into them.
They actually do sell those tickets up there for a lot of games when they don't think the students will use them but three things happen.
1. Nobody buys them: If students aren't willing to use their pre paid $12 ticket to sit there what makes you think people are going to pay $40+ to sit there?
2. People buy those tickets just to get in and go sit with their friends: Very common, buy an extra ticket for a kid or a friend ect... Just walk in and go sit with everyone else that you know
3. People don't know they're available: Happens a lot actually, not enough people think to even check with the ticket office for seats because they assume it's sold out
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:25 pm to Tiger1242
quote:
Nobody buys them:
I promise you if they offered them to current season ticket holders they would be sold.
Other schools don't have this issue that is reoccurring.
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:25 pm to Tiger1242
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what makes you think people are going to pay $40+ to sit there?
I would.
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:27 pm to TheDoc
Maybe if they offered them for the whole season, but that's not what he's saying.
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:27 pm to TheDoc
quote:
I promise you if they offered them to current season ticket holders they would be sold.
They offer them to anyone, and nobody buys them. I don't know if that happened for this game, it probably didn't
But I am 100% positive it happens
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:28 pm to DC4LSU
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if I am not mistaken that is the section designated for the law school students
you are mistaken
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:29 pm to UpToPar
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Maybe if they offered them for the whole season, but that's not what he's saying.
Right, they make a decision based on the game, the season, ect... Sometime they may just allow more Student guest tickets, sometimes they sell them to the public, and often nobody buys them.
But it's just for individual games
This post was edited on 11/23/13 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:31 pm to Tiger1242
I promise you people would have bought them as some were trying to price gauge for hundreds of dollars.
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:39 pm to TheDoc
I'm with Doc, this is not a one or two game problem. In the last two seasons, that section has been bare for all but one game, the Bama game last year.
Somebody gets paid good money to figure out a solution for this problem. If they can't solve it, they should be fired.
Somebody gets paid good money to figure out a solution for this problem. If they can't solve it, they should be fired.
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:40 pm to TheDoc
Yea well they most likely didn't offer many if any this game. And if they did offer some people probably bought them and didn't sit there
Posted on 11/23/13 at 10:53 pm to Tiger1242
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Yea well they most likely didn't offer many if any this game.
Clearly a bad decision.
quote:
And if they did offer some people probably bought them and didn't sit there
Perhaps. But its literally every game.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 12:32 am to TheDoc
Look how dense the student section is compared to the rest of the stadium. They could easily spread out and fill those seats and still look better than the rest of the stadium.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 12:40 am to TheDoc
Do high school coaches still get in on their LHSAA card, and if so where are their seats? Seems like from year ago, that looks pretty close to where those seats were located - north end zone beneath the scoreboard...
Posted on 11/24/13 at 12:41 am to AtlantaLSUfan
quote:Great news--the students are fine with it. Case: closed.
Looks like shite.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 12:46 am to Turkey_Creek_Tiger
quote:It's not that we aren't showing up and thereby not filling that section; it's that we all want to be closer to the action, so we all pack the lower sections like sardines rather than sitting all the way up there.
The number of student tickets needs to be reduced.
Posted on 11/24/13 at 12:51 am to tigerfan in bamaland
quote:You're welcome to do so, actually. Pony up.
I would sit there. I may even pay a few bucks.
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