Student Ticket Policy

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Does anyone know what the new student ticket policy is going to be or where I can find the information?

I was studying abroad over the spring so all I got was secondhand information. Thank you in advance.
 
This breaks my heart.

The weekend tradition of overeager football fans and fraternity pledges will come to an end this Fall Semester.
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God forbid we reward those who actually have dedication to following the football team and who cheer the loudest and show the most support. It's just not right that they had a better chance at goin to big games than the students who didn't go to a single game all year. Fortunately now these hardcore fans will have little chance of actually going to the big games legitimately. And we will get rid of one more part of that pesky thing we call tradition!

Having one person exchange 100 vouchers was a problem, but you know how you fix that? Four vouchers per buzzcard. Wow. That was hard.
 
gth816f said:
This breaks my heart.

God forbid we reward those who actually have dedication to following the football team and who cheer the loudest and show the most support. It's just not right that they had a better chance at goin to big games than the students who didn't go to a single game all year. Fortunately now these hardcore fans will have little chance of actually going to the big games legitimately. And we will get rid of one more part of that pesky thing we call tradition!

Having one person exchange 100 vouchers was a problem, but you know how you fix that? Four vouchers per buzzcard. Wow. That was hard.
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What? Why will they have "little chance"? There are 2,900 season ticket seats, more than enough I bet. Having been screwed multiple times by jerkoffs like CCF turning in 600 vouchers, it's about goddamn time they fixed it. It's simply not feasible to require people to physically turn in vouchers and not let one person turn in a large number. There just isn't enough room for a couple thousand people to camp out.
 
gth860h said:
What? Why will they have "little chance"? There are 2,900 season ticket seats, more than enough I bet. Having been screwed multiple times by jerkoffs like CCF turning in 600 vouchers, it's about goddamn time they fixed it. It's simply not feasible to require people to physically turn in vouchers and not let one person turn in a large number. There just isn't enough room for a couple thousand people to camp out.
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We'll see. I have a feeling those season tickets are going to sell out really quickly, and then come the U[sic]GA game you're going to have everyone on campus applying for a ticket and there will only be 7k to give out.
 
gth816f said:
We'll see. I have a feeling those season tickets are going to sell out really quickly, and then come the U[sic]GA game you're going to have everyone on campus applying for a ticket and there will only be 7k to give out.
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How will that be different than any other year? The last UGA game at BDS I camped out for 2 days. My group was roughly 15th in line. They ran out of tickets a few people ahead of us. That's what tradition is about?
 
gth860h said:
How will that be different than any other year? The last UGA game at BDS I camped out for 2 days. My group was roughly 15th in line. They ran out of tickets a few people ahead of us. That's what tradition is about?
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Well that's because they're idiots and they let one person exchange 100 vouchers. Their solution to fix it was to do away with camping, one of the time-honored traditions of college sports. That's what always gets on TV. That's what shows the world the passion students have for their school. That is a bonding experience you just don't get anywhere else. Some of the most fun I had in college was camping out for U[sic]GA tickets...just a blast with everyone there, music, games, drinking, and plenty of "TO HELL WITH GEORGIA" cheers.
 
I have fond memories of camping out for tickets to the late nineties UGAg games, obviously they are better memories when we won.

Eliminating camping out for tickets is a bad idea, as is keeping students from tearing down goal posts and criminalizing stealing the T. Hopefully this will not result in a bunch of grad school tools getting tickets and either not going or sitting at the game like a bump on a log. Not that there is anything wrong with going to grad school at Tech, but if you are a normal grad school student that gives a crap about football you are in the minority.
 
The problem with the camping is that you can't limit the # of tickets per person turned in too much because it is completely infeasible for 1 person to camp out for the time required for most of the games. You need to do it in shifts. Say you start at 8 pm Sunday and you need to go to 9 pm monday. Well at one hour per person (and two people out at once, because if you only got one guy out there and he has to take a piss then someone is screwed) thats 13 people for one out and 26 for two. Not sure when/if you were last a student here but do you know how hard it can be to get even half a dozen people to sit out at times like 2 am to 3 am? If you go to any normal game (not a big time game, which is most of em) and start from the beginning of the line and ask "What frat/sorority/organization are you camping for?" you will be around the corner before you get more than 3 that answer none.

You have to collect a hundred vouchers to find enough people who are willing to camp out. If you're a die hard fan who doesn't know a good number of other die hard fans who are willing to sit outside in the early morning of a monday then its to the back of the line with you and sorry you got stuck in that part of the student section in the nose bleeds of the east upper deck.
 
Camping can be a very fun thing but it can also be a huge drama and a pain in the ass. In my first year my group of dorm friends had a real good organization set up for this. Problem was it was partly run by a person who couldn't say no to people, so when we got 2nd/3rd in the line for the UGA game we found out there were a lot more vouchers we were suppose to turn in because that person said yes to too many people. Now we're scrambling to fill the wholes in the camp out schedule left by people who are waiting farther back in the line to help this person trying to get more of those vouchers turned in and it was huge pain in the ass.

An isolated incident? Perhaps. But if not then thats my point.
 
GTLiebs said:
An isolated incident? Perhaps. But if not then thats my point.
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Sounds like a problem with your friends. I never had that issue. Besides, if we're going by that logic, we should probably eliminate group projects from classes...can't tell you how many times I was burned by having someone in my group who didn't pull their end of the deal.
 
Don't deny that. However I feel that this new method will benefit the fans who have difficulty getting a camp out set up. I mean my football group is me and 4 or 5 friends. We don't often get good seats because we can't really camp out earlier than 5 am the day the vouchers get turned in and if one of us has a test that morning then there's even more difficulty.

I don't think there will be a problem with getting more lackadaisical fans than serious fans unless the tickets are given out randomly to all who sign up. My impression of the information is that at a certain time you start applying for the 1 game tickets and ones however many people have applied that they have seats for then its done with. So while the fans you don't want in are waiting till a convenient time to apply the likes of you and mean are sitting on the computer at midnight hitting refresh till the thing opens. (hypothetically)
 
I don't think the article contains enough details to bash the policy for anything other than doing away with camping. It is a technique article. And the first line tells you it has an agenda.

Based on my time at Tech, you should be glad you were able to keep camping up this long. It nearly went away in 2001-02, and the liabilities associated with it are very high.

An online system has had very, very, significant student support since the early part of this decade. I opposed it and found very few allies in principle, only those who didn't want to pay for it. Congrats to those who figured out how to make it go forward, I'm sure it took a lot of work.
 
I'm not convinced that the online system is the way to go. I do believe that camping out is the way to go. I think a little something will be lost in the atmosphere by going online. I always felt that seeing the line of campers over the weekend was a point of excitement and that is when getting ready for the game began.
 
Not that this is a huge issue, but I hate sitting in the north end zone. I much prefer the south (shade, right next to opposing band/fans, you get to see and hear our band - to me its a far better experience). My only other concern is whether 2900 will be enough...Im sure they know the numbers for that, but if I don't get tickets I'm going to be livid. I've never missed a game and I never will.
 
D Rad has said that they will adjust the 2900 if need be. It's just a ballpark guesstimate for now.
 
This is a real shame. I loved camping out. It was among my favorite things to do at Tech. I hated when they got rid of camping out for basketball games. I remember camping out for 4 days for the Duke game. Chinese Buddah delivered to me at the curb about 5 times during that span.

I hate the idea of making this crap computerized. I hated the basketball system. I don't understand the obsession with getting rid of the old ways.

I agree with gth that there were better ways they could have solved the problems that they had with camping out.

The problem that arose with the Ugag game 2 years ago was total BS. Our campout was just barely around the corner (really close to the front of the line for those of you not familiar with camping out) and we (and several of the groups IN FRONT of us) didn't get tickets. It was all due to 1 group turning in a million tickets that they collected from people. I remember there were a TON of students trying to sell their tickets which is against school policy and it became a big ordeal. That was a one time incident as far as I know though. As long as you could get out there Sunday at some point, you could usually get your tickets.

People who aren't in fraternities or other groups are the people who seem to hate the system. They think that its unfair, but its pretty much the definition of fair. Everybody knows how to get tickets. How you use that information is up to you. If you don't want to camp out, then that is your fault. Hell it doesn't take much to ask a fraternity or group to turn in your ticket for you. I know we did this several times. Big games are a little different, because of the high demand, but there are so many better ways to fix the system than to get rid of it.

Maybe they should have taken up the numbers of the groups at the beginning of the year and said you cannot exceed those numbers for the year. The idea of only being able to turn in so per person probably wouldn't change much because people who didn't camp out with the rest of the group would probably just come up there in time to turn the vouchers in with the rest of the group.

Students are going to miss out on a great experience now. Its really sad to me. It is just another case of this school bashing the people who passionate about it.

The first line of that Technique article really bothers me. First of all it just plays into the non greeks opinion of the greek system. While it is usually suggested that pledges do go out there to experience camping out, they are not made to go out there, at least they werent by mine or several of my friends fraternities. Most of the older guys actually went out there. I went out there most campouts over my 5 year span at Tech. It also seems to bash "overeager football fans" or the non greek people out there.

This whole issue is just really upsetting to me. I'm just glad it is starting the season after I graduated.
 
I think I've heard about Maryland having a system in place that rewards people for going to games (so if you go to Jax St./GW/Duke, you have a better chance of going to the UGA, Clemson, Miami games). Also, the tickets have bar codes on them, so if you ever get a ticket and end up not going to the game, you get severely penalized. As for changing the camping out due to security, an easy solution would be to let people camp out indoors. Not hard.
 
I camped out 3 times during the 2006 year as a grad student, and I am not talking about taking shifts, I am talking about going there and sleeping the night. All of those were fun and great, painful with the weather sometimes but still great.

With all that said, when can I order my season ticket? Is it up and running yet?
 
I agree with most of what LamdaChi is saying, except for the part about non-greeks hating the system. I enjoyed it, but being enrolled during the heart of the Chan Gailey era, camping out wasn't nearly as much of a problem. It's ridiculous that the school is shelling out $150,000 for a system that will a pain in the ass. The basketball system sure was when it started. It started around the time I was getting ready to get out, and it was the reason I gave up on the basketball games. I camped out a few times, nearly caught pneumonia doing it in 2003 and my only regret is that we didn't win.

The only way this is a good idea is if the season tickets require you to show up for every game. You miss a game, you lose your seat. If not, you're going to get large sections of the North Endzone empty when we play some of our games.
 
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