I'm around 3500 on AT priority, and my time ticket for seat selection is in the morning of 9/1. Hopefully they've distributed all of the folks who said they want tickets evenly through the 8/26 to 9/9 selection window, in which case being toward the middle of the overall window makes me somewhat optimistic.
I imagine that a) a lot of season ticket holders opted out (we only sell like 25K season tickets anyway, right?), b) they factored in the number of people who opted in when they were setting the capacity, and c) some of the highest AT donors are probably older/more likely to opt out. On the downside, I would guess that some of the highest AT donors also have bigger blocks of tickets than my pair. It's going to be interesting to see how things go.
I thought it was interesting that they're going ahead with beer sales (maybe not altogether conducive to rule-following and making good decisions, but it is a way to make some extra money). Also thought it was interesting that they're allocating 400 seats to visitors. I'll be kind of pissed if I miss getting in, and yet there are some Duke fans or whatever in the stands. I also wonder which other ACC schools will follow suit and what the process might be for getting those tix. I hate to miss games, but it's going to be tough to avoid this fall.
JRjr